Returned from Bamfield on Sunday. Went for a quick weekend fishing trip that started with leaving skagit county on thursday evening to arrive in Bam town at 2am. Managed an hour or two of shuteye before heading out in the 14' Livingston to look for a bite. Started at Whittlestone and it didnt disappoint. Managed 4 springs in the 10-15 lb range and a nice coho buck at 10lbs in 2 hours. All fish were in the 25'-40' range. 3 were on purple haze herring hood, no flasher. 1 was on a green herring hood with red flasher, and the last on a 3.9" Old Goat2 in green and black, with a chili pepper moonjelly flasher. Too bad to limit so early with the bite on. Decided to troll back to grappler for coho and hooked up way out between Aguilar and Brady beach, a much heavier fish that fought and took line but in the end shook the hook, also on the OG2.
Friday we fished for 8 hours at Whittlestone without a touch, boats around us were hooking up with what looked like small springs, coho, and a few decent fish close to the rocks, though we did see a few fall to the seal. Tried changing everything up, anchovies, herring, leader length, flashers, no flasher, speed, depth -->NADA. Went home with our tails between our legs, napped, and went to Kirby for the evening where it was dead for an hour, so we ran to the wall and managed a nice 12lb coho that quite literally tried to jump into the boat and my pops managed to net it in midair, definitely a good story. Had one other fish on that slipped the hook and another drive by.
Sunday morning at the wall zero touches.
Road in was good especially with no other rigs on the road at midnight, and out it was a bit dusty but made Alberni in 1 hr 45 min.
RCMP has had no luck in locating our boat trailer or camper in Port Alberni, though they have apparently made an arrrest, so I hope they break the guys hands until he squeals. They found beer cans, crack pipe, and blood in our vehicle when it was found that led them to the suspect.
Always beautiful in Barkley Sound and am starting to think 3 day trips are close to worth it even though it is exhausting.
