First post...easy on me.

A mere weekend trip to Ucluelet, July 24-25 (first time fishing there). Friday afternoon: 8hrs travel time including ferry. Lodging/Moorage at Island West, arrived at 11:00pm.

Saturday morning: office opens at 5:00, purchased licenses, underway by 5:15am. Fished 10-12 mile offshore on SouthBank (took due south heading from Amphitrite Pt.). First king caught on blue/green Silver Horde plug at 65ft at 6:30, last (of 4) caught at 120ft at 10:00 on green/glow spatterback plug. All kings were 10-15 and all fishing done in 180ft of water. Had to abandon any lure other than plugs as the silvers were absolute pests. None of the 5-6 we caught were marked. Sea conditions: light chop, swells 2-3 meters, 8 seconds! Yah, it was lumpy.

Saturday afternoon: 2:00 pm, fished backside of Chrow Island trying to find some silvers (marked/unmarked are legal inside a line from Amphitrite to Benson Island light.) Trolling anchovy in helmet, apex alone and an Army Truck hoochie (only 18” leader) behind green hotspot flasher: all at about 65ft in 74 ft of water. Apex caught one silver, anchovy caught one, but the hoochie caught 2 silvers and 2 kings, 10 and 30lbs!

Sunday morning: Chrow Island again by 6:00am (offshore forecast was seas 3-3.5 meters! Even the charters were fishing inside.) Same as day before, Army truck hooch caught first silver (marked, the one and only out of 30 or so hooked) and 95% of the rest. Didn't matter if it was the top stack on rigger or bottom. Kept 5 of the biggest silvers 8-11lbs. Off the water by 10:30, pointed for Seattle by 11:00, in the driveway at 9:00.

May do it again in September when the big northerns roll in.

Any data I missed?

Photos! We (that's the collective "we" called Parker!) want photos! Some good old fashioned Grip N Grins!

Forget the fact that half the people on this board will whine at you for taking a photo of a fish, and god forbid it's out of the water and was released unharmed, but "we" want photos!

i only took video. We'll see if the fishing partners have anything.

Welcome

Whiskeyfish,
Thanks for the report....I'm heading to Uclulet Friday by boat, for a week. Good to know how and where fish are being caught.

I'll be there is two weeks! I hope to also find some silvers for the fly rod if our guide will let me. Don't worry Parker, I'll get photos!

edit: Great first post whiskyfish and welcome!

Jam Session:

Bigger fish, i saw a 42lb come in, all came from outside. Most of the charters were heading 22miles out. If you go to Island West, the office has a chart with names of the different banks marked.

For Parker:


A long thin 30lbr caught inside compared to the football shaped 14lbrs caught on offshore. Fascinating.

And here's some data I forgot: the fish offshore were feeding on pilchard BIG enough to fillet for dinner. the inside fish all had SMALL herring (2-3 inches) in their gullets.

Thats a beauty, nice fish.

Juncky15 if you are headed out with Island West and want to do some surface fishing with a fly rod try to get on Kenner Reite's boat or Dan Dowell's. Both are pretty flexible about what you want to do. And with Kenner you get Jimmy Buffet all day long. I also think the surface bite is a early morning affair before they move down deeper.

Whiskey did you get any white meat? Last year our 6 out of 8 kings were white meat bound for the Fraser.

Bro'chin, negative. no whites, and i expected some to be judging from other reports.

Hi whiskyfish:

I have a question. How do you post picture in this section? Please let me know.

Thank you.

Aya: just use the UBB code below "image" but first you have to post post/store the photo somewhere. i used the forum post section (?) of the PP home page.

Upload your picture here first. Make sure the pic is under 104k as shown:
http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/upform.html

Then use the img code to insert the image in your post. Instructions are found in the UBB help section
http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=ubb_code_page