Just returned from 7 days in Winter Harbour. Weird year, outside was tough with no wide open highway bite that we could locate. Springs everywhere on the outside seemed spotty...the water was warm, over 58oF in places, with lots of blue sharks, ocean sunfish, and millions of these weird jellyfish that look like a small plastic bag with a single orange eye. We ran from Lawn Point to well past Topknot and found the jellys everywhere. The jellys would load up your line instantly, resulting in non-stop false releases and making fishing deep especially tough. Lots of complaing on 69 the last few days about the continued jellys.
We abandoned the outside after a couple days and concentrated at Cliff, Rowley reefs, and Kains. Plenty of coho, and seemed that a decent spring bite materialized for an hour or so on each tide cycle, with the fish generally really tight to the kelp. Most springs were in the 10-20# range, but we did manage a couple in the mid-20s, and one 36#. We fished hard and averaged probabably 5 springs per day. Some good halibut on the inside also this year, our biggest was 50#. Crowd was light, and even on a slow year like this, still an amazingly beautiful place to spend 7 days.