2025 Bamfield and Barkley Sound Reports

[michael_reiber]

Love reading these reports. Heading up there Thursday thru Monday this week. We will be in a maroon, grey canvased Boulton. What are the "go"/"No Go" conditions for a run offshore to the Rats Nose? Is it mainly a matter of forecasted wind?
Looking forward to posting a great report at the end of our trip.

Mainly based off the forecasted wind. I would be watching the La Perouse Bouy mainly the wave periods. Anything below 8 seconds is usually my cut off depending on the wave height and the forecast.

Knowing your boat/captaining capabilities and comfort level being offshore is most important though. Its a long ways from the shoreline.

 

[chris73]

Very slow inside the sound right now. Water like a sewage lagoon. A few hits around Beale, that's it. If you can make it 20 miles offshore you'll fill your ticket. But conditions were rough today. Hoping for better conditions tomorrow!

 

[Islander91]

Very slow inside the sound right now. Water like a sewage lagoon. A few hits around Beale, that's it. If you can make it 20 miles offshore you'll fill your ticket. But conditions were rough today. Hoping for better conditions tomorrow!

You wonder how far down that bloom goes and if the fish are there and not feeding or still to come

 

[SpringVelocity]

Got a nice one at Whittlestone this morning. . Nice to be back here for next few days.

 

[Fishonjeff]

Well I haven’t been pounding the water as this trip for us is a family vacation but I did pick up a few fish this morning. I Started just outside of Beale and picked up two on hootchies this morning. I came back to the lodge as my boys were itching to hit the water as they’re done fishing off the docks but picked up one “21 pounder” at Sanford which my son reeled in at 40 feet and we lost another on a anchovy at 60 feet. We only did a few tacks until my kids start asking to go jig for some salmon.

So, overall from what I’ve seen in the day and a half that I’ve been here is that the fishing is definitely slower on the inside but they’re around.