WCVI - Ukee Report

[tubber]

Sorry for the late pics taken last Saturday after a brief spell out with the crowd about 16-18 miles from Ukee.
7 inch tomic #50 with a plug version of IronNoggin's black felt pen spots.

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38" X 25" + 37" X 23.5" guessing 33 and 27lbs

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[Charter Tofino]

That plug looks deadly. Just like a pilchard. When we fished 7 mile the fish were feeding on only herring but would only hit our pilchard tomics. Go figure.

 

[tubber]

I find all plugs look deadly on the shelf so I collect them but haven't used them much since the trend on here is bait and coyotes mostly. This one was down 2 minutes before it hooked the first big spring. I jigged some pilchards the week before in Nootka, so I had a good image in my mind of what they looked like, so when I saw that one in Pacific Net I thought it would be worth a try even though it's not one of the popular numbers. Picked up another one and a #191 on the way home. The #191 also looks Pilchardy and the one I bought isn't as green as the photo.
http://www.tomiclures.com/lures/MostPopular/191.html
Going back next week and will try to compare how they work without spots. My partner only caught cohoes on his spoons above a green kone zone in the short time we were out.

 

[leftyodoul]

I just returned from a week long trip on WCVI. I fished the Highway and Six Mile outside of Esperanza. I used Anchovies (in helmets), Cut Plug Herring, Coyote Spoons, Hootchies, and Tomic Plugs. I caught several Springs (20 to 32 pounds)on the trip. All of the Springs except 2 were caught on the Tomic #500 6 inch plug. The only thing that I caught on the Anchovies were rather small wild Coho. I even managed to catch a couple of Chicken Halibut on the Tomic Plug. I can't explain it, just reporting the results.

 

[cheech]

I reconize that boat!

 

[Sculpin]

Well things for us has slowed down alot out on the banks off Ukee. We headed out this weekend looking for butts and only managed 3 total for the weekend. Pounded quite a few hours on them. We hit a dandy spring on Saturday, 1 hali, a teener spring, released a few wild coho, and caught some larger rock fish trolling for hali's. Jake puked his guts out this morning and proceeded to catch two decent hali's, I picked up a teener spring that looked like he had been to the river mouth and decided to go back out for one last feast!(was starting to turn color), and a few rock fish again looking for hali's. The interesting thing was today we must of released about 2 dozen juvenile ling cod while trolling for halibut. A good sign or just that time of year?

Here is a shot of the dandy spring my hunting partner caught.

"I'm not talkin bout pleasure boatin or day sailin......I'm talkin bout workin for a livin"- Captain Quint

 

[tubber]

Thanks for the report on the Barkley thread Millsy. Anyone have anything to add? Last trip of a fun summer this weekend. Ukee offshore is the plan.

 

[Humpy]

just got back from Ukee on Thursday......spoons on the bottom , got all out kings, and coho too............ and released many halibut as well