2025 Port McNeill, Telegragh Cove Reports

[Macdeep]

Outfront of Naka Creek was the place to be up that way..all the way down to Deepwater Bay/separation head

That’s a decent run down Johnson cheers

 

[Capt_Ed]

Still lots of Sox around TC and more coming , top end of Malcolm was good today so we should get a few more days to get a few as long as you dont mind weeding thru the pinks

 

[Macdeep]

Ya the pinks were thick today from ledge to lady Ellen. A couple wild coho and one suspect but unlikely “not a pink” that I was hoping was a sock.

Will have to get to the backside or down Johnstone next time

 

[Eden Island]

Got into a nice bite at the afternoon tide change -- near the mouth of Fife. 90 minutes - 6 coho on - kept 2 wild, released 3 and 1 released itself at the boat. 1 took the bait right at the transom, Bonus 12 lb white spring. All on anchovy 40-60 feet.

 

[Samnjoe]

We used to fish Double Bay for Sox when ever they were open. Springs at Malcolm in the morning. Sox in the afternoon.

 

[Eden Island]

Another coho bite - an 8 and a 10#, released a 7# coho and a spring about the same. Near the bottom of Fife.

Edit: should have mentioned that these fish were all caught with 2 active birdballs within 100 yards, as many as 4 humpbacks in sight, and one repeatedly surfacing 15-20 yards away. Worth the price of admission.

 

[Eden Island]

2 coho in less than 15 minutes at the mouth of Wells this morning -- being already limited on wild coho, we released them, then quit and turned our attention to halibut. We found them, but unfortunately all 5 were infants - less than a pound. Returned to the mouth of Fife for the afternoon tide change and trolled up a mate to the white spring we caught the other day -11 pounds instead of 12.

Need to head for Hardy Buoys tomorrow to offload fish. May stay on the Malcolm Island side to try for sockeye.

 

[Macdeep]

Took some time off work, got the fam jam out chasing sockeye... and by sockeye, I mean more pinks than I ever care to catch again!

19th - blinkhorn on the VI side and 2-3 miles east, lots of small balls/schools on the sounder, son hooked 30+ pinks, broke off one good chinook. Buddy was out with us in another boat, only one sockeye and a f-tonne of pinks for him too. Commercial seiner did one set, then seemed like they opened the net at the end and let them all go - musta been all pinks.

22, 23, 24th - blinkhorn, CP, baronetts, double bay, and a full tour of Malcolm island... not a single sockeye. Did manage a pair of hatchery coho and a pair of wild coho where you can keep them... and Pinks pinks pinks everywhere we went. Didnt matter what was down or how fast/slow I was trolling. Wife and kids were stoked to get all that action, but after a while it gets old. Probably hooked over 150 pinks in 4 days.

I guess I'll wait another decade for the next sockeye opening...

And the chinook bite definitely has slowed down a lot at the usual spots.

Caught and released the saddest 55cm chinook at the orca gravel port on the 23rd... seal scars, messed up jaw, etc etc... it's still out there after being caught at least twice now.

But the freezer is getting full, and the wife says I'm only allowed to keep halibut now, so I guess I'll have to make her happy in the next few weeks here while the weather holds

 

[Capt_Ed]

Still decent amount of springs around, had 5 yesterday even with this guy sometimes as close as a boat length. We couldnt seem to get away from him.

 

[Eden Island]

Still decent amount of springs around, had 5 yesterday even with this guy sometimes as close as a boat length. We couldnt seem to get away from him.
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Fishing Malcolm or ??

 

[Fishing?]

Still decent amount of springs around, had 5 yesterday even with this guy sometimes as close as a boat length. We couldnt seem to get away from him.
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I had a similar thing happen but with a smaller juvenile, came up within 8 feet of the boat pretty much out of nowhere, 300 yds away and then right beside the boat. I have recorded but can't down load it to the forum, my late son yelling "Holy F***" about three times. First time he had seen a whale that close.

 

[Capt_Ed]

Fishing Malcolm or ??

Yup

 

[Eden Island]

Heading to QC Strait and the Broughtons for the last fish/cruise of the season - 10 days on the water. Anybody still fishing in the area?

 

[Capt_Ed]

Cramer was a bust on Friday, still a few in Fife. A buddy had 2 hatchery coho and an 84xcm spring Malcom yesterday

 

[salmonkiller01]

Cramer was a bust on Friday, still a few in Fife. A buddy had 2 hatchery coho and an 84xcm spring Malcom yesterday

How do you like the new boat compared to the trophy now you have had a full season on it?

 

[Capt_Ed]

Well i actually have 2 full seasons on it and for here, and to quote Charlton Heston "you would have to pry it from my cold dead hands"

 

[Capt_Ed]

Well we've had a great end to an awesome season here at TC. A 83cm white spring and 2 hatchery coho on Monday and battled 9 lings today in 45' of water pitching into some boulders on the beach kept 2 about 20#. What an awesome way to catch Lings , beats the hell out of dragging them up from 200'. Already anticipating next season.

 

[Eden Island]

Well we've had a great end to an awesome season here at TC. A 83cm white spring and 2 hatchery coho on Monday and battled 9 lings today in 45' of water pitching into some boulders on the beach kept 2 about 20#. What an awesome way to catch Lings , beats the hell out of dragging them up from 200'. Already anticipating next season.

Did you have to release many wild to get the 2 hatchery coho? 45' for lings - that's wild!

 

[Capt_Ed]

Just one wild, there was alot more clipped fish this year. Pit hing swim baits for ling should be a new thing, i hope we can find somemore spots to do the same

 

[Samnjoe]

We used to get lots of our lings in less than 50 feet with the spear.