March and April 2008 - Fishing Report Ucluelet Area

Fishing for Chinook salmon has been fair to excellent in the Ucluelet area. Chinook from 5 to 15 pounds have been caught in the regular locations such as the Red Can, Great Bear and Alley Rock, Sail Rock, swale rock and Vernon Bay. Fishing can be somewhat like the weather in that it changes every day. We have had extremely hot fishing on some days and real scratchy fishing on other days. Lots of needlefish and herring have been found in the bellies of these beautiful bright fish. Spoons, hootchies and bait have been the gear of choice.

Halibut, lingcod and rockfish have also been very consistent, with most of the fishing been done around the inshore/offshore reefs and rock piles. This time of the year we catch quite a variety of bottomfish. The crabbing and prawning has also been excellent this early spring.