Saturday, November 10, 2007

What a Great, but Strange Fishing Season!




Well, the summer fishing season is over and I finally have some time to reflect on what happened this year.

We caught lots of fish, but what a strange year it was for those of us on the West Coast of Vancouver Island!

Normally, we go out and catch Salmon, Halibut, and various bottomfish. This year, we were out chasing Tuna! We also had many reports of people hooking large Humbolt Squid, and one local Tahsis Guide hooked a 147 pound Opah, or Moonfish. Normally these fish are caught in Hawaii. This one took 3 people and 2 hours to land!

There were lots of small "Chicken" Halibut around. We were catching them while trolling for Salmon at 100' in 180' of water - 80' off of the bottom! This is a good sign for the future - there should be lots of bigger Halibut here in coming years.