Sport Fishing
Alberni Inlet and West Coast Vancouver Island, Barkley Sound
Doug Lindores
Slivers Charters Salmon Sport fishing
July 15th 2021
The Sport Fishing in this Pacific Rim area has continued to be very good. The Alberni Inlet continues to be a great spot for those wishing to fish for Sockeye Salmon. The retention per day continues to be four with a two day limit of eight. The weather conditions in the area are very dry and very warm. The salmon have moved to deeper water and are now found in big schools at the sixty-five to eighty-five foot level. Most anglers continue to use the Pink and black and the pink and blue mp hootchies. A few people are using black hooks in a tandem or using a very large black hook behind a flasher. Sockeye are attracted to the boat by color. Having six to eight different flashers behind the boat is not uncommon. The best fishing has been from Lone Tree Point out to the narrows with Cous Creek and Underwood being excellent locations to fish Sockeye.
Barkley Sound salmon fishing for Chinook and Coho has been excellent over the past week. There have been Chinook from fifteen to twenty-two pounds in many areas. Holford, Link Island, Diplock, Swale Rock, and Austin-Cree have been good for not only Chinook but also Coho. The Coho are rather shallow from thirty to sixty feet and are hitting a variety of green, white and green-blue hootchies. The Chinook are hitting Skinny G spoons and coyote spoons in the two-and-a-half to four inch in terms of spoon size. Blue-Green hootchies and the AORL 12 and spatter back hootchies have been great for Chinook salmon that are in water from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet.
We are hoping the Sockeye sport fishing will continue until the end of July. Chinook numbers in Barkley Sound will increase as many West Coast Vancouver Island fish will begin to show later in July and of course will peak in August. Chinook salmon fishing in the Alberni Inlet historically gets underway by the twelfth of August and are followed by Coho salmon.
In 2021 we are expecting some world-class salmon fishing in this area as returning numbers are relatively high.
Tight lines
Doug Lindores
Slivers Charters Salmon Sport fishing
1 888 214 7206
dlindy@shaw.ca
www.catchsalmon-ca.com
