FISHING REPORT PORT ALBERNI INLET, BARKLEY SOUND, UCLUELET (WEST COAST) SOMASS-STAMP RIVER SYSTEM |
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Slivers Charters Salmon Sport Fishing Current Fishing The summer trend of migrating salmon swimming along the Vancouver Island shoreline has seemed to change. The various banks all the way out to the Big Bank seem to have a higher concentration of salmon. Inside water fishing locations near Ucluelet such as Mara Rock, The Lighthouse, and Beg Island do not have as many Coho and Chinook as there was only a week ago. The salmon in the area just outside the Ucluelet Harbor are not as numerous but there have been some very large fish. The surfline of Barkley Sound is feeling the same effect. Austin Island, Meares Bluff, Swale Rock, Edward King and Cape Beale are not as productive as they were only a week ago. However these areas will begin to pick up as returning fish into various Barkley Sound spawning grounds and the return of the Port Alberni Robertson Creek fish, will flood into many of the Sounds'most favored fishing areas. Port Alberni Inlet The Inlet has been very quiet all summer. Those June and July mornings with 600 or more boats scattered in the Cous Barkley Sound
Barkley Sound angling is expected to explode this August and September. Chinook and Coho returns to natural spawning grounds and to the Robertson Creek Hatchery near Port Alberni are forecast to be in very high numbers. The Chinook return will be predominately four and five year olds. Look out for some very nice sized Chinook. As we get closer to September the Coho, which are putting on a pound a week will be a fairly nice size also. Ucluelet (West Coast) The salmon and halibut fishing off of Ucluelet, has seen the concentration of salmon push out off the beach. The Big Bank Ucluelet halibut and salmon fishing should remain strong right through September and into October. Somass-Stamp River The river currently does not have any sport fishing although beginning in September the Chinook and Coho fishing will be very good. There will be huge surpluses of salmon for those avid sport fishermen. Port Alberni Salmon Fishing Derby This years derby promises to be very exciting. Some very large Chinok should weigh in as contenders for this years grand prize. Derby location is at Clutesi Haven Marina on River Road. Festivities begin on the Friday evening of the Labor Day Weekend and conclude between 3pm and 4pm on Labor Day Monday For More Information Contact Doug Lindores Slivers Charters Salmon Sport Fishing 250 724 2502 (home) 250 731 7389 (cell) |
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Creek, China Creek, and Nahmint areas fishing for sockeye never did materialize. Sockeye Salmon returns have been very low. This will all be quickly forgotten in August as big schools of Chinook and Coho are forecast to return into the Somass River system. There have been a few boats fishing Underwood, Lone Tree, and the Harbor with successful reports of a few Chinook being landed by avid fisher persons. One lucky sport fisherman camping in China Creek was awarded with two twenty-two pound Chinook in the Underwood area. The Inlet fishing is expected to be spectacular this August and September. Robertson Creek Hatchery is expecting returns of 120,000 Chinook into the Barkley Sound area with a good number of these fish moving into the Inlet. Coho returns of 90,000 are expected. With these hatchery fish and the return of wild Chinook and Coho into the various creeks and rivers, salmon fishing should be remarkable. Sport Fishermen planning to fish the inlet for Chinook should be prepared to fish a variety of lures. Over the past number of years it seems that Octopus red and pink hootchies have often out-fished any other lure. The O-15 (large pink) and the O-2, O-16 and 44 (large red) with a 42 inch leader behind a red, green, or plaid hotspot flasher have been very good. 
The Barkley Sound Fishing has not been quite as productive the last few days of July as it had been the rest of the month. (July was the type of month in Barkley Sound where the question “will we catch a fish” was never thought of. The question was “how many salmon do you think we will get.”) There certainly have been some much bigger Chinook and Coho as of late. Swale Rock and Entrance have been probably two of the best locations. Over the past few days fish into the low 30s have been landed. The ebb tide has been very productive. The ocean side of Swale has been very good although a few guides are finding some nice fish behind the rock and make a tack through the gut towards the back entrance to Gilbraltor. The best day to date we landed 7 Chinook from noon until 6 pm. In that six hour period we battled with 16 big fish. The fish landed weighed between 22 and 29 pounds. Anchovy in a Rhys Davis Tiger Prawn and Clear Teaser seem to be working very well. Army Truck in a
hootchie behind a red hotspot flasher in gold and 5 inch blue-nickel and green-nickel coyote spoons has been very productive. One guide has been doing very well on a four-inch cop car coyote spoon. There have been a few Coho in the Entrance to Swale Rock area. Most of the Coho still seem to be more toward the surfline. Meares Bluff, Austin Island and a half-mile off of Ship Island seem to be the best areas. One of the reason we have been fishing the Shorelines of Entrance and Swale is the water has been protected from the north-west wind. Edward King and the Kirby area at times have been difficult because of the strong gusts and the northwesterly swell. The back-side of Fleming Island has also been producing some nice Coho and Chinook. Diplock Island has several boats fishing daily. There has been a couple of big fish picked up. The fish are not in a high concentration. A 34 and 32 pound Chinook and Coho from 6 to 10 pounds have been reported. Pill Point is being fished hard with small fish being picked up. Most seem to be very small feeder springs and are in 70 to 90 feet of water. Pill Point will be very good soon. 
has had some great fishing. Some guides are bouncing glow hootchies off the bottom for halibut and at the mid-water are fishing for big chinook. Halibut in the 20 to 30 pound range are very common and chinook in the twenty to thirty pound range have been numerous. Spreader bars and jigs have also been popular for halibut. Coho and pinks are also in the mix. The Coho have been especially thick but have not been in the same area as the Chinook. This has helped many sport fishermen and guides get down to the Chinook, without lures being hammered constantly by Coho salmon. Southbank and The Wreck have also been very good. The areas close to the Ucluelet Harbor have not had the big concentrations of salmon but the biggest fish of the year for our guides have been picked up over the week. Chinook Salmon weighing forty-four and forty-two pounds were landed at the Lighthouse and Beg Island. There have also been fish in the mid to high thirties. Green-glow coyote and green-nickel coyote spoons have been very productive for these big fish, which have been in 50 to 80 feet of water. Guide Mike thinks they are some of the first of the Robertson Creek run, which will all be entering Barkley Sound and then into the Port Alberni Inlet and Harbor.