Captain
Al Campbell

Member since July 2024 Ucluelet, Canada
Background
I have been fishing Salmon on the West Coast for 20 years now and operating boats my entire life. I am a certified Butcher and treat your catch with the respect it deserves! I am an avid fisherman and most days I'm not working, I am on the water fishing anyways because it's exactly where I want to be. Come join the adventure.
Techniques
On our tours we generally troll for Salmon, anchor for Halibut and troll or jig for bottom fish but we do enjoy the odd days where we can try some other less used techniques like cut plugging, fly fishing or using live bait. Be sure to let us know if there's something that you really want to try.

Hey, I'm Captain Al Campbell

Ucluelet, Canada
Background
I have been fishing Salmon on the West Coast for 20 years now and operating boats my entire life. I am a certified Butcher and treat your catch with the respect it deserves! I am an avid fisherman and most days I'm not working, I am on the water fishing anyways because it's exactly where I want to be. Come join the adventure.
Techniques
On our tours we generally troll for Salmon, anchor for Halibut and troll or jig for bottom fish but we do enjoy the odd days where we can try some other less used techniques like cut plugging, fly fishing or using live bait. Be sure to let us know if there's something that you really want to try.

My Charter Listings

Excellent
5.0 / 5
(2 reviews)
Ucluelet
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Trips from US $457
Excellent
4.8 / 5
(17 reviews)
West Vancouver
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Trips from US $571

Fishing Reports

Monster Lingcod and slamin' Salmon!
Monster Lingcod and slamin' Salmon!
May 17, 2025 West Vancouver
With Lincod season opening May 1st, we've been working hard to stack some of the best bottomfish fillets for our guests and today certainly didnt disappoint. We set out traps and headed accross the Strait to one of our favorite Lincod spots to hunt for these oceanic dragons. Within 30 seconds of dropping our first line, we hooked into an early beautiful coho, a great sign for the upcoming opening on June 1st. Having not even set both of our lines we were already high fiving and having a good laugh. Soon we got our gear deployed and trolled on bottom and within 5 minutes had our first legal sized Lingcod. For the next hour or so, the action would remain steady with many ling cod coming up to take a look at the boat before being released, we were looking for something just a touch bigger. Then it happened.... I saw the rod bend and i knew we were in to another but then the rod suddenly buried itself in the water. This must be a big one! As the fish came to the surface, it was difficult to tell what we had hooked, it was a strange shape and didnt swim normally. Pulling it in closer to the boat we realised that we had a regular sized Ling on the gook which an absolute monster Ling had partially swallowed and was not willing to let go of so i netted them both and brought them aboard. After a few pictures with the beast, we released it as the larger Lingcod are the major breeders and not as nice to eat as 10-20 lb fish. Once we had our Lingcod limit, we moved over to Salmon fishing. White hoochies and bait busters were quite successful in getting us into 13 Chinook of various sizes with a few really nice fish in the mix. Finally when we pulled up our crab and prawn traps, we were pleasantly rewarded with 121 prawns and 4 big dungeoness crabs to finish a fantastic day on the water. If this sounds like the type of day for you, reachnout and lets go fishing. Thanks everyone. Capt' Al.
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Customer reviews

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Excellent
4.9 / 5
out of 5 stars from 19 reviews
Boat
Excellent
4.9 / 5
Crew
Excellent
4.8 / 5
Experience
Excellent
4.8 / 5
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Amazing and very funny captain \ud83d\ude04
Absolutely amazing experience!
Absolutely amazing experience!
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Ian K.
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Absolutely Fantastic Experience

VERIFIED   10 Hour Trip โ€“ Salmon on September 27, 2024
Everyone needs a trip with Al on their bucket list! Friendly, flexible and a lot of fun on the boat. The fishing was great!...
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Kevin S.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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AM Salmon Fishing trip

VERIFIED   5 Hour Trip โ€“ Salmon (Sept- Oct) on September 22, 2024
Had a great time with Captain Al. You can really tell he is passionate about fishing and making sure everyone is having a good...
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Bruce R.
Excellent
5.0 / 5
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5.0 / 5
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5.0 / 5
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Awesome Fish Day

VERIFIED   8 Hour Trip โ€“ Salmon (Sept-Oct) on October 6, 2024
Awesome guide. Was very helpful and patient with my friend that was challenged to get salmon back to the boat. lol.ย  Got 2...
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Matthew K.
Excellent
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Perfect Trip

VERIFIED   5 Hour Trip โ€“ Salmon (Sept- Oct) on September 9, 2024
We had a great time. The captain was awesome, he was very personable and knowledgeable. We caught so many fish we lost count....
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Jerome B.
Excellent
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Lots of fun and fish

VERIFIED   5 Hour Trip โ€“ Salmon (Sept- Oct) on October 12, 2024
Capt. Al is very knowledgeable when it comes to fishing and very cool to hang out with.
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