Barkley Adventure Station – Fishing Blog

Call Skipper Dave to Book your 2010 Salmon & Halibut Fishing Adventure 1-866-726-7727

Fishing ethics are important to us. Nile Creek Salmon Enhancement Society is working to restore Vancouver Island streams, and fortunately for all of us they’ve been quite successful.

The Nile Creek Salmon Enhancement Society has a  website of their own to raise awareness. In support their efforts, we’ve posted this video clip that Ken Kirkby and the group have produced.

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The “Winter Spring” fishing is excellent in Ucluelet right now. Limits if chinook salmon are being caught using 3.5 inch spoons at 75-125 ft green and silver or blue and silver right outside Ucluelet’s harbour.

Call today for a great winter rate to catch some of the big fish.
250 266 0151 ask for Skipper Dave

Everyone is fishing full tilt boogey off the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC. Ucluelet has been the hot destination for boat limits of Tyees! We are consistently coming in with between 4 and 6 30 lb plus chinook salmon for the past two weeks. The Southwest corner has absolutly been on fire. 6 inch spoons and 7 inch plugs in the top 100 feet has been producing like crazy. Anything with blue or green patterns.

Due to extremely good fishing, this popular package has been held over! Skipper Dave says it’s his best west coast salmon and halibut fishing vacation package yet:

Special Four Fishing Day Package for $1095.00 per person 10 Hour Trips

Guaranteed limits of fish (Halibut and Chinook Salmon) for a four day booking.

Spend Four days Salmon Fishing and Halibut Fishing aboard a 38 ft custom fishing yacht. Light meals are included; breakfast and lunch, and you are on the hook for your own dinner. The best part is your catch is guaranteed!

(restrictions do apply; based on weather and a minimum of four guests and a maximum of six persons for the boat, offshore trips)

Your catch will be processed, flash frozen and vacuum sealed for your trip home.

Cost is $1095 per person

*specials must be booked prior to Sept 1st, 2009 but can be scheduled for any available date this season…inquire

We have been lucky enough to catch limits of nice chinook salmon and boat limits of nice Halibut while fishing off Long Beach approx 12 miles west of Ucluelet Along Vancouver Islands West coast.

The Bait of Choice are 6 inch Tomic Plugs, 700 pattern, 252, and the 500 were all working quite well. And it kept the shakers to a minimum.

Work through the big tides and you will get your fish, both Salmon and Halibut.

Good Luck on your next fishing trip.

Skipper Dave

A man visiting Tofino was checking a crab pot, when a fisheries boat darted out from behind a small island.

“Let’s see some ID, and a valid fishing licence,” the officer called over as he pulled up to the man’s boat.

Startled the man replied “Oh – Thank goodness, you really scared me. I thought you were the guy who own’s this trap.”

The Salmon fishing off BC’s west coast is still on fire.
Anywhere on the inside banks, South Bank, Long Beach, Lighthouse Bank, and Portland Point are Great spots to catch your limit of Chinook Salmon withing an hour. You have to come try it, you won’t believe how great the fishing is!!!
6 and 7 inch spoons with no flasher are working great for 25-30 lb chinook salmon.

If you don’t believe me… grab your boat, or give me a call, and come fishing.

Don’t have a boat? Don’t worry , we have 2 fantastic 38′ yachts, book your fishing charter today.
Skipper Dave

The Salmon are here in Hoards and the Halibut has blown up!

The Salmon Fishing is still the best I have seen it off the west coast of ucluelet with south bank and Great bear producing limits of 15 thru 30 lb chinook.

Halibut Fishing is starting to get real hot at La Perouse Bank 18 miles south of the BC coast. The Rats nose and the Gullies are the hottest spots.

Green Pattern Hootchies in the Cuttle fish Size, (the bigger ones) for Halibut Trolled off the bottom are producing consistent catches, and Single 6-7 inch coyote spoons in the water with no flasher in the Green/Silver, and blue/silver as well as the watermelon pattern are the lures of choice for big chinook salmon.

Check back next week for another BC Salmon and Halibut Fishing Report

A man who was was stopped by a game-warden in Northern Algonquin Park recently with two buckets of fish leaving a lake well known for its fishing…
The game warden asked the man, “Do you have a license to catch those fish?”

The man replied to the game warden, “No, sir. These are my pet fish.”
“Pet fish?!” the warden replied.

“Yes, sir. Every night I take these here fish down to the lake and let them swim around for a while. I whistle and they jump back into their buckets, and I take em home.”
“That’s a bunch of hooey! Fish can’t do that!”

The man looked at the game warden for a moment, and then said, “Here, I’ll show you. It really works.”

“O.K. I’ve GOT to see this!” The game warden was curious.
The man poured the fish in to the river and stood and waited. After several minutes, the game warden turned to the man and said, “Well?”

“Well, what?” the man responded.
“When are you going to call them back?” the game warden prompted.
“Call who back?” the man asked.
“The FISH”
“What fish?” the man asked.

*This joke credited to www.whoppingfish.com

Ucluelet’s Own Barkley Adventure Station is currently ranked in the saltwater fishing catagory. We’ve been on the list since April – but we’re not gonna be satisfied until we’re #1

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