Just back from 4 days of fishing out of Alder Bay. This was our first trip up here and we had a great time. I had my wife and 2 boys with me and our goal was to try and get a Hali and a ling. we put in 6-8 hours each day at a few recommended spots but ended up striking out. A couple days it was too knarly on the back side of Malcolm island so we trolled for salmon in some protected bays and managed to troll up a couple coho ( one was 17.5lbs) the talk around the docks at both telegraph cove and alder bay is that salmon and bottom fishing is still slow (most fish cleaning tables were empty and boats with 4 guys after a full day were coming in with 1 or 2 fish if they were lucky).
My wife and sons favorite part of the trip was all the whales, dolphins and stellar sea lions everywhere so we spent an hour or two each day cruising around and checking them out. We also had a exciting/scary moment going to telegraph cove for lunch in the middle of a flood tide in weaton passage where we encountered two kayakers from Michigan caught in the current exhausted (father and son one was 80 and the other was in his late 40's), and scared for there life's. We tried to pull them along side the boat in there kayaks but couldent get enough speed to over come the current and almost dumped the older fellow. After that we decided to pull them both aboard and load there soaked and overloaded camping kayaks on my 20 foot boat and take them back to telegraph cove. Every one made it back safe and they were very thankful. We all had lunch together and a couple beers to celebrate there return to land. ( lesson learned for these two that the ocean is not to be taken lightly).