Eden Island
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RCAs have closed a lot of the best spots for ling and halibut.
2024 Port McNeill, Telegragh Cove Reports
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sam_n_leo
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August can be good--and particularly last August--for getting chicken halibut while salmon fishing off the usual salmon spots and depths near Donegal. If only you could also get the odd lingcod doing that--then my kids wouldn't make me pull up the downriggers and tour a dozen rock piles for the back half of the morning.
Kids hate trolling. Kids love jigging. Can't say I blame them.
Mine were the same. Looking that way for my grandkids now as well.
Capt_Ed
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It must have something to do with your name because Sam_n_Leo will tell you the same thing about his kids
sam_n_leo
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If I'm understanding the chinook restrictions (that's a big if) for area 12 there aren't many nearby options for Telegraph Cove area before July 15. It looks like up Wells, Fife, and Knights have some open retention areas. I haven't salmon fished Knights before and would like to give it a shot. I took the family up to Glendale once to see the bears and it was 1) a really long haul and 2) pretty bouncy on the way back. Are the areas closer to the mouth worth a poke in June/July? It looks some of 12-26 is open and the areas between Village and Minstrel Island aren't too long a haul from the cove.
Eden Island
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I haven't fished the area before early July, but we've had decent chinook fishing in Wells and Fife.
sam_n_leo
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We finally got out fishing, but we struck out on the halibut. Weather was a bit of a limiting factor but we bounced enough jigs around Malcolm that I thought we should have had halibut as one of the fish fry flavours. Oh well, we had to hit the rock piles for a substitution. Below from left to right, there was P cod, quillback and lingcod. All delicious.
sam_n_leo
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We got out again on Saturday for a try at the halibut. Beautiful flat calm morning on the Strait. Full effort this time, busted out the old halibut anchor and put salmon, herring, octopus on the menu. Did a 4 hour anchor swing over a promising looking hump from 250 to 290 feet. A lot of fancy technique for the one chicken halibut that we caught, but hey we were happy enough for another TC fish fry that night.
Wow! I never get keeper crabs in there...
Good job!Got out this morning with a local guide. Put 3 chicken hali in the boat, largest mid 70's cm. Couple rock fish and released a ling that was 3cm short of legal. Crab trap with 5 keepers and only 1 too small. All males. Now headed down to the marina to get my own boat setup for the rest of the week, now that I've got some bearings.
Capt_Ed
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which guide were you with
North Island Fishing Adventures (Roland). Nice guy. He had donated a half day charter to the local rotary auction a few months back, and I was the winning bidder.
Northislandfisher
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Been doing really well for halibut this year out and around TC/Malcom!! Wife found a nice hootchie and bait combo the Hali can’t resist,so of course had to tie a few up!!
Haha, I kept him focused by pumping him for local intelligence and tactics. Ran into him in town again twice today. McNeill is not a very big place.
Capt_Ed
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Good job, did you get the crabs in front of the river, I thought the Otters cleaned them out of there
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