October 13/03 in Nootka Sound

Floyd, Fabien and myself spent Thanksgiving afternoon on the Conuma River spin casting for Coho. The weather was great and the river was holding a lot of fish. Although, not as many as I expected based on predictions from DFO. Anyways, Floyd of course got into Coho on the second or third cast or something like that and Fabien hooked up next. Took me the better part of the afternoon to hook up with a Coho, but I was using a fly rod in the beginning and didn't change over to a spin casting rod until Floyd was on his umpteenth fish. As soon as I switched over I caught a nice 7 pound female that at first I thought might be a summer Steelhead. She fought well and I was grinning when I watched her swim away. Shortly thereafter, I hooked into a huge male that burst out of the water like someone just stuck in the prod from an electric shocker! I watched him jump a few more times before he spit the hook. I caught and released five more Coho that afternoon and went home tired from doing something fun for a change.

Keep those rod tips up and tight lines!
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Paul
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October 02/03 in Nootka Sound

Boy what a day makes! Yesterday the water out front was flat calm and the skies clear, today the water was choppy and the fog was everywhere. We started out by heading towards Burdwood again and once we got there we saw the fog was high enough off of the water to see the Lighthouse. We headed there. Once we got there we headed for Maquinna Point, there we marked our position on the GPS so we had a reference for the trip home. From there we headed to Beano Creek where the fog lifted enough to see the breakers on Bajo Reef. I might add that along the way we would stop and fish a while with no luck. We started fishing the reef from the Beano Creek side and got into some Coho right off. We caught and released over ten fish within the space of one hour. But we were here looking for halibut and cod so we moved out to the red can and past it about a quarter of a mile. There we started trolling a green hootchie on one side and an anchovie on the other. We caught two Coho and one Chinook that we released before we started catching Ling Cod. We followed the 95-110 foot contour line. Our gear was just 2-5 feet off of the bottom and barely 10 feet out behind the boat. We couldn't keep the Ling Cod off of the lines. We caught and released over 20 fish and still kept our limit for the freezer. We never did catch any halibut, but the ling cod more than made up for it. On the way home at Burdwood we stopped and trolled for about forty minutes and picked up two more Coho. Quite a day even though Mother Nature didn't cooperate with the weather. For those of you who have never been to Bajo Reef an easy way to find it with a compass is to start off shore of the Lighthouse and head at 240 degrees on the compass for about twenty to twenty-five minutes until you can see (or hear) the red can bouy. To head home just head 60 degrees on the compass for the same amount of time.

Keep those tips up and tight lines!
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Paul
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October 01/03 in Nootka Sound

Went out to Burdwood Point today to try some fishing and had a great day. We caught and released four Coho over 12 pounds and kept a nice 22 pound Chinook. The watermellon coloured "Coyote" spoon on the center rod with a 4 oz weight 18 pulls behind the boat was the lucky rod. We also caught a Coho on an anchovie down 38 feet on the downrigger. Wildlife also was abundant, with a sea otter filling his face in the kelp bed beside the boat at one point. The porpoises were actively feeding while we were catching fish also. The water was like glass until about 2:30 pm. We're heading out to Bajo to do some bottom fishing tomorrow and I'll let you know how we do.

Keep those rod tips up and tight lines!
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Paul
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