FISHING REPORT ALBERNI INLET AND BARKLEY SOUND
October 2nd 2024
The Sport Salmon Fishing is gradually slowing down in this Pacific Rim area. Barkley Sound has continued to have some good Coho fishing. There are still some good sized Chinook in various areas of the Sound. A beautiful thirty-two pound Chinook was landed along the Bamfield Wall close to the Bamfield Harbour mouth over the past weekend. However most of the Chinook landed have been in the mid to high teens. The Coho are getting bigger as they continue to gorge on the rich sources of bait fish. Wittlestone, The Wall, Sanford, Kirby, and Fleming Island have been the best spots to fish over the past few weeks in Barkley Sound. The salmon are in relatively shallow water from twenty-five to fifty feet. Some of the Coho are hitting lures right at the back of the boat on the surface. The AORL 12 continues to be a very good hoochie. Purple Haze, Army Truck and dark green Spider Back hoochies are also very good for Coho and Chinook. Some anglers (those who are still out and enjoying some very nice early fall weather) are still having some success using anchovy in a variety of teaser head colors behind a green gold or purple gold flasher with six to seven feet of leader. The fish are waiting to get into their natal streams and creeks and waiting on rain to make their final journey.
The Alberni Inlet has both Chinook and Coho but only Bells Bay, Mactush and the Franklin Wall to the fish boundary are the areas that most sport anglers are having any success. A variety of hoochies in shallow water are helping those anglers create any success. The AORL 12, Halloween, Purple Haze and White Glow hoochies are working. The fish are in depths of twenty to fifty feet.
The large return of Chinook salmon back to the Somass River is now downsized to approximately ninety thousand Chinook. Escapement up to the 26th of September has been minimal. A target for Robertson Creek Hatchery is twenty-one thousand pieces. Escapement through Stamp Falls has been as of September 26th just over fifteen thousand. Coho escapement through the Stamp and Sproat River has been thirteen thousand five hundred pieces. The Sockeye return and escapement into Great Central Lake and Sproat Lake has been terrific with approximately three hundred and seventy-five thousand Sockeye through the counters.
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Slivers Charters Salmon Sport Fishing
Doug Lindores
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250-731-7389
www.catchsalmon-ca.com
