firelight
Active Member
Headed up to Winter Harbour on July 7th for a 4 day trip, none of us had ever been up there for fishing so we had some learning to do. I towed my boat and trailer to Coal Harbour to launch and park the truck and trailer, $30. for the 4 days. As 2 of us headed out from there the other guy had a bunch of our gear and drove out to Winter Harbour, to Dick's Last Resort where we were booked. The trip out was a pretty easy run out the inlet and when we arrived the truck arrived at the same time, it was blowing like 20 right into the dock so our landing probably could have been a you tube video for sure.
Headed up to the cabin to check out the place, this is the view from the kitchen table.
Seems the key to fishing up here is you can do what the wind will let you, so we got up at 4 each day to check if we could get offshore and lucky for us on all but the last day we did. Headed out and rigged up some big herring, found some likely humps in 200 or so feet of water and dropped the gear. It took a bit of trying to get the lines running nice between swell and current, but when we could get to the bottom we hooked up pretty quickly. We like to troll deep and see what we get, it's usually a mixed bag of species. Each morning we fished till about 10 am.
In the afternoon when the wind came up we could hide in behind Kain Island to fish springs.
We were able to fish all 4 days and we came home with 3 guys 2 days limits of small hali, nice springs, 4 were 22 to 25lbs and 15 of our 18 allowed lings also a half dozen rockfish bycatch.
We must have hit it pretty good cause everywhere we dropped our lines we hit fish, even on the way back we dropped at cliff point to try it and had 2 salmon on in less than 5 minutes. Then the motor started making a nasty knocking noise so we picked up and nursed it back to Coal Harbour and headed home. We'll see Monday what's up with that.
You could see down to the Brooks and up to the Scott Islands.
Headed up to the cabin to check out the place, this is the view from the kitchen table.
Seems the key to fishing up here is you can do what the wind will let you, so we got up at 4 each day to check if we could get offshore and lucky for us on all but the last day we did. Headed out and rigged up some big herring, found some likely humps in 200 or so feet of water and dropped the gear. It took a bit of trying to get the lines running nice between swell and current, but when we could get to the bottom we hooked up pretty quickly. We like to troll deep and see what we get, it's usually a mixed bag of species. Each morning we fished till about 10 am.
In the afternoon when the wind came up we could hide in behind Kain Island to fish springs.
We were able to fish all 4 days and we came home with 3 guys 2 days limits of small hali, nice springs, 4 were 22 to 25lbs and 15 of our 18 allowed lings also a half dozen rockfish bycatch.
We must have hit it pretty good cause everywhere we dropped our lines we hit fish, even on the way back we dropped at cliff point to try it and had 2 salmon on in less than 5 minutes. Then the motor started making a nasty knocking noise so we picked up and nursed it back to Coal Harbour and headed home. We'll see Monday what's up with that.
You could see down to the Brooks and up to the Scott Islands.
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