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AUGUST
When August rolls around, excitement
is in the air as the “smilies,” or large trophy
chinook, start to arrive home. Ucluelet is in the perfect
location to intercept these local runs of Robertson Creek
and Nitnat River chinook which return in the thousands
every year.
Your chances are very high in hooking
several large chinooks this time of the year. Average
chinook in August are between 20 to 35 pounds, with many
fish taken over 40 pounds and the odd one recorded over
50+ pounds. This trophy chinook fishery, over the years,
has been concentrated inshore close to the rocks.
Offshore fishing continues to be
on fire for chinook, coho and halibut. Generally, offshore
chinook, this time of the year are made up of feeders
and mature adults. Therefore, you can experience
a real mix bag of fish ranging from 10 to 40+ pounds.
Coho pack on the pounds feeding heavily on herring, pilchards
and krill. This is the time of year you bring out the
fly rods, bucktails and spoons
and surface troll for these surface feeders.
Coho average 7 to 15 + pounds and at
times large schools can be seen finning for miles on the
surface. There are times when you cannot get your second
rod in the water! Halibut fishing is still consistent with
the majority of the halibut being “chickens.”
Limits are 2 chinook, 2 coho(1wild,1 fin clipped inshore,2
fin clipped offshore) and 2 halibut per person a day, with
a 2 day possession of 4 chinook,4 coho and 3 halibut.
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