Prince Rupert

Today and tomorrow I had the opportunity to head to Prince Rupert, BC. It was about a 7 hour drive with a mixed bag of weather, a bit of sun and a lot of rain. We checked in to a B&B and got an early night to make sure we got up in time to get out for some fishing. 

The weather started cloudy and a bit of rain but bybthe time we reached the fishing grounds the weather began to improve and by mid morning we had sun shine. A few humpback whales graced us with their oresence and to top it all off the water was calm and the fish were biting. It took all of 4 minutes before we were into our first coho of the day. One of many dime bright fish brought up from the depths. We fished water from 75 ft deep to nearly 500 ft deep with our bait averaging about 60 feet down. After filling our quota of salmon, all coho and one chinook, we took off to fish 200+ feet of water for halibut. It didnt take long there either and we hooked into a few and my first ever halibut. One keeper and the rest were let go. Jigging for them was fun but tiring. 

Crab traps on the way back gave us our limits of dungeness crab and we are back at it tomorrow for more salmon, halibut and maybe some ling cod.

Juvenile bows

Briefly fished the Nechako river today. Caught a couple juvenile rainbows and a 2 lb pikeminnow. 

Hot day. Clear water. Good fishing.

Fished Cobb Lake. Caught some brookies. 

Interestingly, the weeds were pretty low. They are usually more prolific at this time of year. The water temperature hit 70°F by mid afternoon, so I left. Too warm for the fish to be fighting on my line. My pup was pretty warn out by the time we were on our way back to the boat launch and lots of fish were marked at 20-25 feet down. I will wait for cooler weather before I head there again. It was a good day out.

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