VANCOUVER ISLAND , VICTORIA & THE GULF ISLANDS
world-class kite-boarding and wind- surfing at Nitinat Lake. On your way back to Victoria along Highway 14, Botanical Beach in Juan De Fuca Provincial Park is worth a stop at low tide to inspect the incredibly colourful marine life that teems in shallow tidal pools. Port Alberni, Bamfield, and
Ucluelet are the main points of access to the rugged, weathered beauty of Barkley Sound. This sound has year- round fishing for feeder chinook, with excellent chances to hook a fish between the entrance of Bamfield Harbour and Cape Beale. Diplock Island, Swale Rock, Sanford Island, Effingham Island, and Chrow Island are other nearby spots worth trying. Fish for mature chinook returning to the Robertson Creek hatchery and to the Stamp, Sproat, and Somass river systems throughout the summer. The fishery for trophy tyee (to 25 kilograms) peaks around August 15 throughout Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet. You are allowed some
limited retention of wild coho inside Barkley Sound, but stay clear of the sound’s Rockfish Conservation Areas in the Broken Group, and summer spot-closures in places like San Mateo or Nahmint bays. Be sure to enter the renowned Port Alberni Salmon Festival Derby that is held each Labour Day weekend. While the Stamp River is popular for its superb winter steelhead fishery, it is also gaining quite a following for an excellent summer steelhead run that enters the river along with mature coho and chinook salmon. You’ll find only light fishing pressure on good populations of steelhead, resident rainbow, and cutthroat trout in Nahmint, Henderson, Great Central, Sproat, and Nitinat lakes — all easily accessed from Port Alberni. Flies, bait, and hardware work well in all these waters.
Depending upon whether there is an opening, Alberni Inlet offers dynamite early-summer sockeye
fishing. Lasting from only late June into early July, this short, sport fishery is so popular that local campgrounds and marinas have long waiting lists for reservations. Starting out from marinas
and resorts in both Ucluelet and Bamfield, fish the offshore banks (La Perouse, South, Hayason, and Big) at hotspots with local nicknames like “Starfish,” “Southwest Corner,” “Gullies,” and “Stinky’s Hole.” Trolling or drift-jigging close to the sandy bottom in depths around 25 fathoms are good ways to catch halibut and other bottomfish (like Pacific yelloweye rockfish or sablefish), as well as feeder chinook. Beginning in late July, anglers can find mature chinook higher in the water column – between eight and 20 fathoms – but use big spoons, or seven-inch plugs, to dissuade wild coho that swarm into these waters and cannot be retained. From late July until late August, big chinook lurk along inshore
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