FISHING REPORTS

Fishing Reports 2025

Fishing report June 30 2025 – Springs Hot When Hooked!

Hi All This is going to be  quick report as we are in between guests and getting things ready. Fishing is very solid all over Barkley Sound right now. It has been a stellar June and all things look like it is going to continue to be amazing through the start of July. As I stated in my first report of the season the best and most consistent chinook fishing has been around the perimeter of the Sound. If the water …

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Fishing Reports 2025

Fishing report June 25 2025 – Here Comes The Sun!

Hi Everyone As the Beatles so aptly put it, ” It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter”. Here comes the sun baby!! and we are back! Harbourside is up and running. Hopefully you have all dusted off your rods and reels and are ready and eager to get at it! It’s happening on the west coast of Vancouver Island and Barkley Sound is alive with marine life and of course, fish! We moved the boat up the 2nd week of May …

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Fishing Reports 2024

Fishing Report August 16 2024

Hi All Well, we are right smack dab in the middle of prime time. Barkley Sound is pumping.  You can find limits of springs  at all the local hot spots. Kirby, Fleming, the Wall, Beale, Austin and Cree are all happening right now. Get up early and take advantage of the early morning bite. It is a virtual guarantee for multiple hookups first thing. Traditionally this is a bait fishery. Anchovies rolled on teaser heads 6 – 7 feet behind your …

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Fishing Reports 2024

Fishing Report August 11 2024

  Well I deserve it. I am getting so much flack from people.  ” I’ve got a bone to pick with you! your last report was July 17th!”  It’s true and I do deserve it. I have no defense. Just tired I guess.  This morning I am in between guests. Nat and Franco from Nat’s Pizza in Kitsilano just left yesterday  and I have a new group coming in this afternoon. My morning is sort of free, other than laundry, boat …

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Fishing Reports 2024

Fishing Report July 17 2024

Ok- first,  I am so sorry… I promised a fish report just a few days after my last one and it’s been two weeks. I have not forgotten all of you though I do deserve to be chastised! One thing that I suppose happens to all of us is it seems I am getting on. Damn I feel old! I have been flat out exhausted and I am only 3 weeks in! My hands are nicked and cut, my back is sore, my …

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Fishing Reports 2024

Fishing Report June 28 2024

Hi Everyone It’s straight out of the classroom and right onto the water for me! So great to be back at Harbourside in Bamfield for the summer! We are up and running and ready to roll! Ok, no one wants to hear my grandiose stories of last year’s high schooI basketball season. You are all waiting for some “fish” news. Ok then, let’s get to it! I have had a few chances to do some fishing recon this June before …

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