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August 18th Report Posted 19 Aug 2010 IN: General BY QCL
 With sunrise coming a little later these days there is a certain urgency in the dining room at breakfast. The staff is hustling just to keep eggs in the pan! Everyone wants to be on the water as soon as possible to capitalize on an awesome morning bite. We are getting Chinooks just a little farther from shore this week, usually down about 40 feet in 140 feet of water. That is typical for this time of year and we expect that will continue in the coming weeks. But we are still getting some very impressive catches in around the kelp beds, particulalrly at Bird 2, Parker Point and in the tide rip up at Shag Rock. First timer Andrea Dietel and her husband Chris, fishing with guide Mike Borelli have had a great time catching Tyees - a 35 & 37 on Monday, 32 & 48 on Wednesday. Jeff Lund boated a beauty 40 pounder early in the week while Jessica Eussen, fishing with her dad Remy and guide Mike McLennan, landed and released an awesome 43 pounder off Parker Point. Well done Jessica! Burmah Martin has 3 big Tyees so far in her trip with 39, 40 and a 33 pounder which she chose to release. Lots of fish in the mid 30s are keeping the Tyee bell ringing every evening. The Coho are scattered throughout the grounds and we re seeing some big fish showing up now with Jeff Riedesel boating 15 and 17 pounders and Steve Stone found a 16. The average Coho is still around 12 pounds and we re seeing schools of Pinks coming and going all the time. The weather swung nicely from northwest to westerly by Wednesday which made the fishing grounds quite comfortable, especially east of Klashwun Point. The weekend forecast is calling for mainly light to moderate northwesterlies to continue with mixed skies and temperatures cooling off a bit to the mid teens. The tides calmed right down this week and will start to build again towards a peak late next week. |
