Salmon Fishing

Salmon fishing has really been incredible. Fishing has been good both offshore and in protected water. The great thing is that you don’t have to get up early to have a good catch! Sorry to disappoint all you early birds! Southbank continues to be a place where you can go out and get doubleheaders all day. I attribute most of the great salmon fishing here to large amounts of Needlefish and Sand lance in the area. Most of the Chinook here are 5-15 pounds with the odd one over 20. 4-5 inch coyote spoons are working well here.

Barclay Sound has also been good and we have been doing very well about 15 mins from the harbour at Great Bear and Alley Rock. All of the fish pictured June 22 are from Great Bear. We are finding that there are bigger fish in close to shore. On the days we fish for halibut, we generally are getting smaller salmon, but the days in close to the rocks are producing some great size Chinook (Kings). If you are fishing inshore it is best to use smaller spoons (4-inch) and needlefish hutchies.




Halibut Fishing

Halibut fishing has been consistent—but not quite as fast as it can be. Most of the time we are getting our limits, but they are not biting every minute like can happen when fishing is good. Right now we are catching halibut mostly by trolling glow spoons or hutchies near the bottom. Big Bank is usually the place of choice.


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By Sam Vandervalk
Salmon Eye Charters
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