What’s the tack in behind De courcy like? I like trying out little inside spots for when thrasher and entrance are blown out.
Honestly I had heard from a guy who's family has a waterfront cabin on the south west end that when he was a kid they used to just troll along that side and always pick something up. Probably 30+ years ago. I finally put a downrigger / prawn puller mount on our family shared Hurston with no kicker and first night we were at the cabin in August we went out just for an easy after dinner family fish. No sounder but followed about 100' contour along the island on navionics with the gear about 50-60' once we were out of the structure at the south end. In hindsight we were going to slow trolling on the main which I had been told would be too fast. (Learned that when a guide boat passed us at Thrasher the next day but we pulled in a coho beside them anyway.) About half way up we picked up a wicked bite, pealed line a few times and got away, one more bite not as good that got away. I hardly ever see boats out there trolling, maybe I never have, I don't recall any at least and we can see the water on that side from the road in front of our cabin. I've heard from another guy that had his boat in Boat Harbour years ago that they always used to just troll down towards Tent and do well (maybe he means Thetis?) but man, that's some cheap and easy fishing out of Boat Harbour especially when I'm 15 minutes drive to the marina and can probably have lines in the water in another 10 minutes. I just need to get home and finish up the work on the boat to get it moored!
You could be hitting lings. There's an RCA down at the bottom end you'd want to be aware of as well.
Maybe but at least one of them sure felt like a salmon. There is an RCA at Ruxton passage and a boundary from the North end of Decourcy to Boat Harbour too.
The grande down to entrance, inside gabe pass along the bluffs, west side of decourcy and harmac side of dodds can all be good for winters. Herring will start spawning in March and April. Jig up a bunch off decourcy for ling, crab and prawn bait
I’m not familiar with those names, where abouts is sharpe point?
That would sure be an easy one launching our of Ladysmith. Just check your charts around Coffin Point if you're not familiar. First time I went out of Ladysmith the person in the boat with me told me to go inside because his buddy had and my spidey senses tingled and went round the outside, round the outside. I learned a few things that trip over to start building our cabin.
Appreciate the tips! I’ll be moored at Ladysmith (now the Oyster Bay Marina) once the boat is in the water. After getting both knees replaced in March of 2022 and 2023 I’m looking forward to getting out while chinooks are still open. I mostly fish Entrance, The Grande and Thrasher with the odd time at Porlier so burning a couple of hours less gas is pretty appealing.
I once had a ling I swore was a big chinook going for a long run, but turned out to be a ling. It's not common though.
. Oh well, brighter days ahead, including the 2024 galiano salmon classic derby on May 25th out of montague Harbour. See post in derbies section for details. 
Beautiful day...
