Fresh Quadra Island Fishing Reports

The morning fishing trips have been exciting with a lot of Humpback Whales. There have been sighting of them just swimming and floating on the surface to actual breaches by very large humpbacks putting on a show. The fishing has has been good with some larger fish caught. There has been large fish lost but hey that’s fishing. Lots of pink salmon this year so easy to keep the kids busy reeling in pinks. They are a smaller salmon weighing around 4 lbs for a big one. More reports coming. ??

Its been two years and people are starting to travel again both locally and from abroad. I have had people from the United States, Europe and Canada. Lots of smiles. The fishing has been awesome again this year. We see some nice yachts also so no lack of things to look at while on the water. July flew by. August is booking up fast. I have had a busy July with half day and full day charters more for August. Tight lines everyone.

It’s been a busy last few days on the water. Our Chinook fishery is in full swing with retention beginning close to town. Five hour trips are possible now. The bite has been on only one slow day but the fish are here. A lot of locals are getting out as well. I counted about 70 boats the one day. It’s good to see when the bite is on multiple hook ups on different boats you know it’s only a matter of time before your rods go off. More charters coming this week. Hopefully ge5 some video to post. Captain. Mike???

It’s official the 2022 season is on. Fishing over towards the mainland is open. Retention of Chinook salmon is allowed. We had a great day on the water. The fishing grounds had calm water. Getting there and back was a little rough but not bad. The Kingfisher handled the water no problem. The bite was on for a while with several fish caught and released. The scenery was amazing lots of snow on the mountains so there were water falls everywhere. Cannot wait to get out again.

I had my last clients for the season on Oct 1. The water was flat we saw two humpback whales pass within a few hundred yards of the boat. I just wanted to thank everyone who came out to fish with me this year it was a great summer from the bachelor party guys trip from Ontario to the father son bonding trip and everyone in between. Again thank you ! All those big smiles were awesome. There was a lot of laughing going on aboard my boat Double Header. Ooops ! almost forgot we had a few double headers too. There were some big fish caught and lost but that’s fishing. My boat is out of the water now until around May 15 2022. Stay tuned fishing opportunities next spring early are possibility. I will be posting updates then I would also take this time to thank fishingbooker for a great website.????

The fishing continues to be good. With more fish coming we are catching multiple species Chinook, Coho, Pinks. We are catching large Northern Coho. They are headed for the U.S. so we have to release them but they are scrappy fish. I had clients out today and it took me 7 tries before I could net the fish. We landed three nice coho. A nice 13 pound chinook was caught with another long distance released. My clients arms could not hold the fish. She tried as hard as she could. As soon as it stopped peeling line out she would reel and get some line back then the fish would take off again. To bad we never got that one. We did see killer whales today in the narrows. Our Chum salmon fishery will start soon with more fish coming later this month. There will be some Coho around also.Non retention for the coho but there fun to catch. Stay tuned ????????????