2025 Port McNeill, Telegragh Cove Reports

[Admin]

Post your fishing reports here!

 

[Macdeep]

Anyone noticing any herring spawn activity around McNeill/Telegraph?

 

[blueugl]

Was in Beaver Cove and area last week there was nothing that I saw in the way of wildlife compared to last year when I counted 16 eagles a humpback and tons of herring.

 

[Hardy Guy]

The spawn is usually towards bever harbour but sometimes near mcneil. DFO does not monitor anymore in thar area.

 

[ChandlerLing]

Good spawn off of Cluxewe yesterday

 

[CTDCanuck]

Cormorant Passage had a spawn last week. Saw one up in Browning passage as well.

 

[BearCove]

Cormorant Passage had a spawn last week. Saw one up in Browning passage as well.

Browning Pass, that's fantastic news, so great to see them returning.

 

[sam_n_leo]

So I finally got the boat out of the shop and up to TC and out fishing with one of my sons. It didn't take very long to find some halibut jigging off Malcolm and with our possession limit of 2 fish we didn't need to put in a whole lot of time. Lost one in the 40 lb range that would have been oversized with the new regs. Fish fry flavours this trip were halibut and black rockfish, rockfish was the winner.

 

[Capt_Ed]

Great to see you at TC Blair and Leo, hopefully we have another productive season here .

 

[sam_n_leo]

Nice to see you too Ed. Looking to next be back up for June 7/8 and hopefully with both Sam and Leo (back to full crew and jig efficiency). Going to be a little bit of extra challenge for the TC folks with the big fire rebuild going on, but I'm confident in the resilience of Gordie and all the amazing folks there. They'll find a way to tie up every boat that needs a dock, run lunch and dinner service the old store building. Run the new store in the lodge, keep the bear watching and whale watching and kayaking running, all while the end of the boardwalk rebuilds. I think it'll be another fantastic season.

 

[BigFish51]

Sam, any idea what the fuel dock situation is at TC will be this summer? Hate to run all the way to Port McNeil to get fuel. Out of the way a little bit!

 

[sam_n_leo]

Yes unfortunately there is no fuel dock running in TC. As far as I know it could be that way all summer.

 

[sam_n_leo]

It seems there is still little fishing activity out of TC according to the creel survey fellow. But since I was fortunate to drag both my sons out for a weekend of fishing, here is a report.
We found halibut again in the easy fishing waters of Malcolm Island, a little more work than a few weeks ago. About 2 hours of fishing to get one 87cm and another similar size that shook off beside the boat.
We also spent a good amount of time chasing lingcod. On day 2 we pulled about 12 lingcod to the boat, 6 were legal size up, maybe 7 to 12 lbs, the rest undersized. We took one for the fish fry and the rest went back. We use mostly rubber swim jigs with pinched barbs and cover a lot of ground. I'm not going to admit to the total cost of tackle we left on the bottom in one day but worth it for a nice day of memories with my kids.
No pictures of the fish fry but lingcod won over halibut in a close contest.