2025 Tofino Reports
Srthomas75
Active Member
Not a fishing report but a question on parking at the ramp in town. It’s been quite a while since I’ve been to Tofino and even longer since I’ve launched a boat there. But looking at doing a boat trip from there this spring.
Can you park a truck/ trailer for a few days or what are the concerns there nowadays ?
Can you park a truck/ trailer for a few days or what are the concerns there nowadays ?
kaelc
Crew Member
I don’t believe you can park for an overnight. In the summer/spring break or overflow weekends then the school. Contact the principal for payment/donation, schools always need the money and principals to for drinking.
Gallivanter
Crew Member
TRM might let you park in their gravel lot for a fee. I’ve parked there before. If it was the summer they would say no, but being in the spring there’s a good chance of leaving it there.
Aces
Well-Known Member
The school is closer to the ramp
kaelc
Crew Member
Totally worth it. Lots of salmon traveling through that time of year. Either spot can be great that time and both have beautiful scenery and fishing spots. Good time of year to get both Hali and Salmon. I like hitting the Lennard lighthouse and then a few spots up the coast. @Charter Tofino can give more insight but if you are staying in Tofino I would definitely get a charter to see it from a different perspective.
seabeyond
Well-Known Member
Nice Ironwood
Charter Tofino
Well-Known Member
Our first wave of consistent Chinook usually show up around June 15-20th. Squid usually light up around the same time. It’s right on the cusp on prime time but definitely worth a trip. Almost all of the Tofino outfits run a quality program and are worth reaching out to see if they have availability.
Cutthroat
New Member
Thanks for the input guys. Looks like I'll have to get something booked.
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Poppa Reelie
Well-Known Member
Some old buddies came to visit the island so I did the tow out to Tofino and dropped in at Tofino resort marina. We got a day offshore Friday and hooked a couple Hali. Then it was miserable over the weekend and we got stuck searching for some inside spots. Shout out to “slim Grady” guide who shared some intel and we ended up with 2 salmon caught. Thank you! That was pretty sweet as only my second time boating that area. These guides got it dialed….. I do wish I had a bow thruster for that Marina , my parking skills with the wind and current really got tested, near pro now…..
kaelc
Crew Member
Got out with a buddy for a long day sat and a short morning Sunday. We went north west and managed to get into lots of springs. Early morning bite at the bottom was the best. Glow white hootchi, lighthouse spoon with an orange yellow inside and my 10 year old AP Sandlance got the only hog of the trip.
kaelc
Crew Member
Your intel and a Tofino texting buddy who is now a guide were on the same page. Lennard was Slow but steady slot size springs and lots of wild coho the two days I got out. Got most of my springs at 33 feet and 55. Lost my favourite AP sand lance to a double header line cross over. I hate running inline flashers and thats where it broke. Another AP sand lance and skinny G glow did pretty well. Switched to dummy flasher and loved the smashes, so much fun. Lost a beauty right at the boat who spit the hook. Swell was stupid big and close together. Made solo netting with my monster net a bit challenging. Thankful there was only a few boats fishing where I was more north of the light.
Got one Hali at 3 humps trolling a white hootchi with pink undies at the bottom.
Got 8 kids, 6 who weren’t turned off by gettting sick last year, all out on the boat on the inside and one od the oldest who really wanted to fish into a really nice coho.
Shore casting was a tease with clear water and watching coho swimming by with little interest in me. Couple guys caught a spring a 2 coho in the same spot as us. Funny how a guy teaching three kids to shore cast can’t catch a thing. My brand new Diawa casting rod broke, pretty disappointed as my shimanos have lasted for decades.
Always love cleaning down at the water. Had an eagle do a show for us swooping in for scraps in the water.
I’m cooked I need a vacation from this vacation now!
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