Winter Harbour - NW Vancouver Island

Had some of the customers in today after returning from a trip to Winter Harbour, located on the NW portion of Vancouver Island. The group did quite well up there catching a great number of Chinook and Coho during their stay. They came back with their limits of Chinook in the 24 - 35 pound range and the remainder in Coho in the 7 - 8 pound range. The weather was less than ideal and they came back beat up a bit. The most productive of their gear was a Hot Spot 11 inch flasher in the UV Jelly Crush (color 950) followed by a OAL 12 R Golden Bait Hoochie in the larger 45 size with a clear mylar twinkle skirt trailed 42 inches behind. They did best on the coho fishing a Hot Spot 11 inch flasher in the "Newer" 50 / 50 Mountain Dew (color 1961) trailing a smaller 35 size OAL 12 R hoochie with a shorter 32inch leader. They mentioned that there were greater numbers of wild coho 8 - 15 pounds that had to be released.

Needless to say they were in today stocking up for their next trip up north the weekend after next.

Hopefully the weather will be a little more conducive to getting in a little time on the halibut this next time. Weather was just a little too much to bear to be offshore this past trip.