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Nootka sound fishing report12/9/2023 ![]() Early season forecasts have 98,000 to 140,000 Chinook returning to West Coast Vancouver Island. Coho returning to streams and rivers in this area begin to show in August and peak later in the month into September. West Coast Vancouver Island Chinook have started to show near the end of July and will peak in numbers from mid August to the first week of September. There are so many wonderful places for anglers to fish for salmon in this beautiful Pacific Rim area during the month of August. When the water is good, you better go – do the work and you’ll get some fish:) – Rod. We will see how the rest of the year goes. I feel like the water is really warm all over this year so the fish don’t seem to be in huge schools, but more spread out. Fish were varied – a couple of peanuts, some in the high teens, and seven fish in the 24-28lb range – all in all it was a great day on beautiful water, not wide open yet. Two hours and twenty minutes later we were crossing the bar at WP. By the end of the day (4pm) we had connected with 15 fish and decided it was time to head home on a beautiful rolling sea. We repeated this for several hours until we finally got a dead bait stop going and picked up a few. We stopped at the first chlorophyll break about 45 miles out and trolled for a bit with no results, so we moved on SSW, stopped a couple more times at 55 and 65 miles with no luck, at around 75 miles out we started trolling around, several boats in the area, hooked up on the troll (they were hitting plain cedar plugs way back) but couldn’t get a bait stop going, swing back through and pick up another fish. Three of us went out Saturday on the FV-HappyHours, swung by the bait dock at 0500, still no live bait, so we bought a block of frozen chovies and headed out to find tuna, south southwest. Tuna fishing Westport – Get ready to run, Scratchy No report this week Marine Area 2 (Westport) ![]()
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