I just got back from guiding at westview and fished sun. It was slow inside-I picked Up a spring at saltry and 1 at Rosa-most action was at inner pin-some coho ON blind and middle reef. Spot the birds!!!Believe me when I say -it is a bait play-you seem to get little on artificials. In short -disappointing compared to last year. Bottom fish including halibut are good.
Pretty much what we are seeing. Inlet is very slow, getting one inside is a good day. The odd spring, some coho off the reefs, inner black, pin, blind reef. Have been getting coho on small spoons, not just bait. Coho havent come in in numbers, or many big ones....yet. Have been seeing some schools of jumpers in the middle of the inlet, fished it running fast, 5mph with spoons and hootchies but no biters.
I doubt this is the case here-I guide at westview all summer and because of the restrictions I fished the near shore most of the summer and port eliza is correct-june and july was great at all the places he mentioned-I did well at Ferrer but got weeded out on numerous occasions. I thought the in-shore would light up in aug like last year but it didn`t. Last year the near shore was not as productive as this year but off-shore was gang-busters. I remember very late july this year at the potato(close to whales tail) saying to a guest that the water was blue. I also inadvertently hooked up to a 5 to 600 lb sunfish at blind reef which is very close inshore. (I think that`s called a Tahsis Sleigh Ride). Fortunately no harm done to gear or the fish!! Temperature has to be playing a part here. Also of note-no coho at the Whales Tail this year-last year they were a problem-this year was very rainy in Tahsis and Esperanza-certainly no fires this year--Nootka seemed better than the last 2 to 3 years- All I know is that we are not dealing with the same conditions as last year-I fished close to shore last year as well-it wasn`t the restrictions that caused this-it was the price of gas!! So after all of the above I have to finger water temp and so much rain during the summer-hope the coho show and check the spawning numbers at seasons end.
Well the whales tail has been the best but there have been days when it hasn`t been so good-on off days go to the 330 contour-has been hot at 240 on the rigger or better. Within the last 2 weeks the Potato has produced at about 240 on the rigger and I have heard the T has been good about 4 days ago but that is from a fellow guide-I haven`t done it. A suggestion is go for the halibut the drop a chovy as deep as you are comfortable with and I think you will surprise yourself then work an enlarging pattern till you find them. Good luck with the weather-I didn`t see any in the rivers on my slow crawl out the Tahsis road with the boat.
Yeah-Esperanza was like that in July as well-near shore.Nootka was on fire when we were there mid July.
Lighthouse and Hoise was best I've seen in yrs.
I have no info on Esperanza but by the looks of this, this guy is getting desperate, tried to get inside of pens for his fish
That has got to increase his cost of salmon per lb significantly!!LOL
