2024 Winter Harbour Reports
- Thread starter SFBC
- Start date
sly_karma
Crew Member
Just back from a very productive three days. We fished sat, sun mon with Qualicum Rivers lodge, and they did us proud as always. Filled our tickets on lings, springs, halibut and rockfish, all offshore. Took a couple passes inshore for one or two coho.
Chinooks all in the teens, largest was 21 lb. We elected to keep two oversize hali via the XRQ as our partners on the other boats had little success.
Weather was a mix, Saturday was grim with 15-20 kn NW, 2 m confused chop plus fog haze that removed visible horizon. Drift jigging for lings for a lot that day resulted in more or less all of with some degree of seasickness. Sunday had more swell/less chop and a horizon. Monday was a treat, virtually windless and oily smooth seas. Great hali day.
Chinooks all in the teens, largest was 21 lb. We elected to keep two oversize hali via the XRQ as our partners on the other boats had little success.
Weather was a mix, Saturday was grim with 15-20 kn NW, 2 m confused chop plus fog haze that removed visible horizon. Drift jigging for lings for a lot that day resulted in more or less all of with some degree of seasickness. Sunday had more swell/less chop and a horizon. Monday was a treat, virtually windless and oily smooth seas. Great hali day.
Attachments
Fished Cliffe on Monday with my brother and son. Ended up 2 coho short of our limit. Fished in tight down 30-40' for springs, out on the tidelines 35-60' for coho. Biggest spring was 21lbs, small spoons outfished bait. Only 3-4 boats around all day, looked to be a few more boats over at McAllister.
Alan Wilson
Member
Best day fishing ever Aug 17
Got 47 tuna on Saturday
South West of Brooks peninsula
Just west of the bowling pin
34 miles from the the lighthouse
Weather was a little hairy
8 ft waves with whitecaps
Left the dock at 4:00 got to try my new lights
Started dropping gear at 7:00 and got a hit before we got the next line in
It was 9:30 before we got 6 lines in the water
So I did not bother with the last two
Fished until 2:00 as we were out of ice and places to put tuna
Filed the live well two big coolers and one fish box
The trip in with 1000 lb of tuna and 500 lb of ice was a little rough but were able to plane at 17 mph with the extra weight
We were at the dock at 4:30 and finished cleaning and vacuum sealing 40 tuna by 10:00 pm
We froze 7 to take to St Jeans to get caned and smoked
Hope to get one more trip in early September
Got 47 tuna on Saturday
South West of Brooks peninsula
Just west of the bowling pin
34 miles from the the lighthouse
Weather was a little hairy
8 ft waves with whitecaps
Left the dock at 4:00 got to try my new lights
Started dropping gear at 7:00 and got a hit before we got the next line in
It was 9:30 before we got 6 lines in the water
So I did not bother with the last two
Fished until 2:00 as we were out of ice and places to put tuna
Filed the live well two big coolers and one fish box
The trip in with 1000 lb of tuna and 500 lb of ice was a little rough but were able to plane at 17 mph with the extra weight
We were at the dock at 4:30 and finished cleaning and vacuum sealing 40 tuna by 10:00 pm
We froze 7 to take to St Jeans to get caned and smoked
Hope to get one more trip in early September
Bottomfeeder1
Member
How big is your boat and did you need to bring extra gas. Thanks
Bottomfeeder1
Member
Alan Wilson
Member
My boat is a Hewescraft Alaskan 25 with 2 Yamaha 200 hp engines
It has a 300 mile range so no extra gas.
And my crew was a member of the coastguard.
Attachments
Last edited:
Bottomfeeder1
Member
Nice !!
Alan Wilson
Member
Looks like the warm water is even closer now
Les that 20 miles
Les that 20 miles
Similar threads
