2019 Ucluelet Reports
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Ya I didn't make it out much further than that first green bouy outside of the ukee harbor. Not worth the hassle, as I was only with the wife and the wind and swells/waves were rough.
Headed to great bear rock and alley rock. Trolled alittle and caught a coho and Chinook. Black and chrome flashers with needle fish hoochie
Switched over to bottom fish in the loudon channel and fought with something in 200fow that ended up snapping my ugly stick hali rod. It was uge' whatever it was. Almost felt sharky. Limited out on ling and rock fish.
Came in to grab the traps and got a few red rock crab.
Tonight we feast like kings and Queens.
Northdogboy
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A few of us kayak fisherman want to try the west coast of the island. what's a good general area not to far from the boat launch for some guys on kayaks to paddle out to fish ?
Bamfield. 10 min kayak from launch can get you to some solid fishing grounds.
Northdogboy
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I'm building options. The road to bamfeald with a kayak on the roof ?? And do you get the outflow winds mid day in ukee like you do around bam?
UkeeDreamin
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Harbour inlet, beg island and the bay in behind it can all produce Chinook, coho and bottom fish. Only issue is those areas are busy w/ boat traffic so can be lumpy w/ wind waves mixed with wakes. On nice days shouldn’t be a problem if you’re experienced paddlers.
Cheers!
Ukee
Cheers!
Ukee
Dogbreath
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There's a video on Youtube taken by a Guy in a float tube-he paddled all the way out there and ended up sharing the place with a Humpback!
So you never know who you'll meet.
Yes on the Ukee side launching at Little beach and paddling out on a calm day would be my choice. It's a very short paddle to open waters and parking is a stones throw from the launch area. Lots of boats troll out in front of Little Beach all summer. Even a few reports of big fish caught inside the Little Beach bay.
UkeeDreamin
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Wow, that would be quite a kick even on a nice day! Yeah, not uncommon to find greys or humpbacks in that little bay. The bait that can stack up off of Beg, in the adjacent bay and/or around the shoal/kelp beds around the food islets just to the east not only attracts the whales but also attracts the rest of the food chain as well (salmon, Lings, rock fish).
As someone else mentioned, if the swell/wind waves aren’t too bad, you could definitely access the mouth of the bays and some of the rocky headlands/kelp beds by launching at Little Beach, as well as Terrace Beach and Big Beach. Would be a grunt hauling your yaks back up the stairs but Wreck Bay (Florencia) is very protected and can have some wide open squid bites in behind the island in quite shallow water!!
Cheers!
Ukee
UkeeDreamin
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Great photo! Good #s of squid spawning give the salmon a reason to come inshore off the banks!!! Wish I were heading over Soon!!
Cheers!
Ukee
Cheers!
Ukee
BigBadBrad
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How does one catch squid? I wanna try mooching live squid
RiverBoy
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Bonker43
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Fished Cree this morning but it was very rough. Trolled down to meares bluff. Caught 6 undersized spring, a 17 pounder and a decent clipped coho. All fish caught on anchovies between 55 and 100 feet. Water then got extremely rough and had to go back to salmon beach through 10 - 12 foot waves.
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silver surfer
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Purple Haze hoochie perhaps...
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