2023 Ucluelet Reports
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bigbruce
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It’s open now.
Yes, thank you for the info!
Just back from 4 days in UKEE, here goes.. First day light rain became monsoon... We started fishing outside little beach, using skinny g's and herring aid spoons.. Rods barely down to depth and fishing starts. Started at 60 ft then down to 90. Continually hits from coho's and most I saw were split 50/50 hatch vs wild. Got a couple mid teen chinooks, and 2 decent hatch cohos, and then quit in heavy rain. Next day fog and usual weather, fished same place .Went up to try Wya for tide change, only 6 boats there and no hits after 90 mins, so back to red can area. Same action, Boats all around catching fish, and coho everywhere. Most boats are back to dock around noon , done for the day. Friday, made trip to Rats Nose for hali's... Not too productive, jigging lost 2, switched to trolling, caught one chicken and several teenager springs all the while dragging bottom for halis at 160 ft. Coho plenty out there ...Weather flat calm and hot... Today, were only one short of limit springs, so back to the red can area... Fish are still there in umbers and size getting bigger. Quite a few guys at fish processors. To beat cohos , I switched to large green white squids and 5 inch turds..
In cleaning the springs, they were packed with needle fish.. coho had small herring.. There are massive bait balls on the screen in a lot of areas. Only saw one sammy the seal... no others around...
ice at AMYS is usual gone by dinner time.. thats 5 bins.... They are very busy..
Now the road...... road was closed tues just after we passed thru, till weds morning, then closed fri... I talked with commercial driver... if 10 mil of rain and or 15 knots of wind blow.... the road will close for the day... at 630 tonight, we were 10 from front of line, while west bound had 107 go thru before they switch... still at least another hun on west bound side to come in.
In cleaning the springs, they were packed with needle fish.. coho had small herring.. There are massive bait balls on the screen in a lot of areas. Only saw one sammy the seal... no others around...
ice at AMYS is usual gone by dinner time.. thats 5 bins.... They are very busy..
Now the road...... road was closed tues just after we passed thru, till weds morning, then closed fri... I talked with commercial driver... if 10 mil of rain and or 15 knots of wind blow.... the road will close for the day... at 630 tonight, we were 10 from front of line, while west bound had 107 go thru before they switch... still at least another hun on west bound side to come in.
Aces
Well-Known Member
Sounds like Nanaimo the last few days
Totally unexpected
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Better lay down on Saturday....
ChinWagger
New Member
Spent August 5-12 in Ucluelet. The absolute best consecutive days of fishing we've experienced, and we've had some good ones. Fish were there in big numbers and size was very good. 3 of us limited out on chinook over 20lbs with the biggest being 25 on day two. The fishing was steady throughout each day without any lull so we fished dawn to dusk as we were having so much fun. With it being a longer trip, we did a lot of catch and release for a few days before bonking a couple on the last day of our trip. I'll admit, tossing back 20lb salmon was definitely a first for me and I doubt we'll see a week of fishing like this for awhile but a guy can hope!
Picked up our share of coho with the majority being wild. No hali for us but did come home with a pile of ling. Highlight was a 10 minute stretch of 14, 15 and a 17lb. The rest were 8-12lb range.
Usual patterns and set-ups worked all week. We really didn't change things up too much. Cop car, maverick, kitchen sink, no bananas for spoons. Caught a few on some hand-crafted plugs by our captain's son as well as a white hoochie just to switch things up. Also grabbed one on a chovie day 1 but since the hardware was producing so well, we didn't throw another on all week. Chinooks were stuffed with needle fish and herring. This time last year, it was all squid.
Here's a video with a few of our clips from the week. Hope you enjoy.
Picked up our share of coho with the majority being wild. No hali for us but did come home with a pile of ling. Highlight was a 10 minute stretch of 14, 15 and a 17lb. The rest were 8-12lb range.
Usual patterns and set-ups worked all week. We really didn't change things up too much. Cop car, maverick, kitchen sink, no bananas for spoons. Caught a few on some hand-crafted plugs by our captain's son as well as a white hoochie just to switch things up. Also grabbed one on a chovie day 1 but since the hardware was producing so well, we didn't throw another on all week. Chinooks were stuffed with needle fish and herring. This time last year, it was all squid.
Here's a video with a few of our clips from the week. Hope you enjoy.
ChinWagger
New Member
Not this time, just 3 friends. My dad went to Nootka last month with same boat but I wasn't able to make that trip unfortunately. It's always a great time but it makes it that much better when it all comes together like that.
just came home last night, large swarm off coho showed up wya west into the bay heading towards flo is. Large amount of teenager or bigger springs off wya. Most boats that left early, were back done by 930. We were the last boat out as usual, got there around 10am, and we were done in 90 mins. 42 ft herring aid and small blue spoons... Sat very quiet at Wya, sunday hot hot...
kaelc
Crew Member
God you guys are killing me, wife almost gave me the green light for fishing tomorrow but I’m saving it to take one of the members Hali fishing. Nice to hear they are still bitin!
BC Coast Pilot
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Terrible week
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