Fishing Report May 29 – June 4 2016

Justin was casting a Gibbs/Delta Koho 65 Green Scale spoon.  For more details please see Kitimat River section below.

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Marc Girard a Pro Guide for Reliable Guide and Charters and his fishing partner, Erin Ziebart caught this beautiful bright Kitimat River Chinook.  They caught this 25lb beauty on a Metallic Pink Luhr Jensen 3/4 SE Mag Hot Shot.

It was a beautiful day and Erin had just remarked that drifting the Kitimat River was a peaceful serene experience that could only be described as a peace of heaven.  Then there was a violent tug on one of the rods followed by the rod doubling right over and line peeling off the reel.  Marc jumped up.  Set the hook and “Fish On”.   As we can all see in the photo, Marc and Erin can give praise to the Lord for the bounties of their efforts.  Congratulations Marc and Erin.  Well done and Amen!

Justin Lowes Pro Guide for Reliable Guide and Charters was fishing with his buddy Paul Johnson and doing some personal fishing when he caught this 24lb Kitimat River Chinook.  Justin was casting a Gibbs/Delta Koho 65 Green Scale spoon.

Justin hooked this chrome chinook on his third cast!  Wow!  Gotta love when that happens!   Congratulations Justin!  Well done!  Thank You to Paul for taking the picture and capturing the moment!

The Green Scale and Blue Scale Koho 65 Spoons are the most productive casting spoons for Chinook on the Kitimat River and has been for many years.  The proof is in the picture!

 

 “Steve Cook from Ontario gets a tyee Chinook on Saturday fishing with pro guide Chris Thompson of Nautical West Sport Fishing!”
Anyone wishing to book a Trip of a lifetime with Chris please contact Ron wakita@telus.net of call 250 632 1275

We are going through some big tides right now and we received some rain which bumped up the river height.  This caused a few Chinook to migrate into the Kitimat River to the delight of some very happy anglers.   As we progress through these big tides, more and more Chinook will move into the Kitimat River.  There is an excitement building amongst the Chinook anglers on the Kitimat River.

 

Brian and Ann Nelson reports “Fishing with Barkley Manderson we caught a 28lb and a12 lb Chinook in the Tidal portion of the Kitimat River”.  They were fishing with a Luhr Jensen Jet Diver with roe.
Congratulations!  Well done!  A Big Thank You to Brian for sharing his photo and the details of his fishing trip for the readers of this Fishing Report to enjoy.

 

Kevin Thorne reports, “Bottom fishing was some of the best I’ve seen. We released a few large yellow eye in the 20s and kept a few of the smaller ones. New regs on yellow eye and a pretty vulnerable species so we try to go easy on them. Had a blast with some ling COD in the 20-30 pound range, The rule on my boat is lingers over 30 lbs. go back as the bigger ones r usually the spawning females, same as Hallies.  My personal favourite bottom fish are ling COD. They r so aggressive and put up a great fight. basically stopped fishing because we had to save room for salmon and I don’t like being to greedy.  Chinook fishing was a little slow for the first couple days with a descent feeder here and there. On day 3 our last day we finally got into some mature Kitimat fish. We ended up getting 5 chinooks in the 20-25 pound range that all seemed to be destined for the “kitty”. Fingers crossed they start piling in now. It’s that time of year.  I had the kids out the week before and we had some excellent weather. We went out for 2 nights. Kids loved every minute of it. We got into some great chinook feeders in the 10-15 pound range but couldn’t find the big guys yet. We had some awesome Halli fishing. Once again sorry about the pics these r off the phone and most of my pictures r taken with my GoPro.”

A huge Thank You to Kevin for sharing the pictures and the details of his trips.  Congratulations for some amazing fishing.  I especially admire your rules to release the larger Ling Cod and Halibut.  It is refreshing to hear about your ethics and that you were rewarded for your respect of the resource with a bountiful catch.  Good for you!

Todd  Haynes of Naut West Sportfishing reports, “Guest from Dawson Creek enjoyed a fantastic day on the outside waters fishing for ground fish today! Plenty of rockfish, snapper, lingcod and halibut!” Well done!  Congratulation everyone! The pictures and smiles speak for themselves.

Todd Haynes of Nautical West Sport Fishing is pleased to announce their Fort McMurray Red Cross Relief Fund Promotion.

Nautical West Sportfishing has made the peak fishing dates of July 25,26,27 and 28th available for a multiple day Fishing Trip to be used in their promotion.

Nautical West Sportfishing will generously donate a portion of their profits from these trips to the Fort McMurray Red Cross Relief Fund.

Any anglers wishing to book any of these dates please contact Ron at wakita@telus.net or 250 632 1275.

You gotta Love this country where people willing to help people create a fishing trip of a lifetime and help some people who are in need at the same time.  Well done Todd & Nesia Haynes and honourable mention to Larry Wesolowsky and Chris Thompson and the entire Nautical West Sporting team!

Andreas Handl of Kingfish Adventures offers the proceeds of a one day Jetboat trip on the Tidal portion Kitimat River  to theFort McMurray Red Cross Relief Fund. The available dates for this promotion are June 9,13,14,16 and 24th.  Anyone interested in taking advantage of this promotion, please contact Ron wakita@telus.net or call 250 632 1275.

The outer waters of the Douglas Channel are starting to catch more larger Chinook.  Halibut and Bottomfishing remains very good.  There have been a few Coho reported to be caught in the outer waters as well.  The Kitimat Harbour fishery is still a bit spotty but will only get better with every tide.

I am uniquely positioned to access the catch rates of Chinook from the outer waters of the Douglas Channel,  the Kitimat Harbour fishery, the Lower Tidal portion of the Kitimat and the catch rates in the entire Kitimat River.   The readers who have been following this report will have observed that these catch rates follow the migration of the Kitimat River Chinook from the outer water of the Douglas Channel to the Spawning beds of the Kitimat River.  The Kitimat River Chinook are identified by the clipped adipose fin. We have observed over the years that the Kitimat Hatchery, timing, tides, weather and river conditions have major influences on the behaviour patterns of the Kitimat River Chinook.  As the Chinook stocks get closer and larger, there is an excitement building.  I Love Chinook season!

The Bounties of the Sea and the generosity of the human spirit.  We are indeed blessed to live in an area where we can enjoy the plentiful abundance fish stocks available to us.  I am very proud to post the offerings of the Charter operators who are willing to donate proceeds of their Guide/Charter trips to the unfortunate people of Fort McMurray.

Anyone wishing to Book a Driftboat Trip of a Lifetime on the Kitimat River, A Jetboat Trip to the Lower Tidal portion of the Kitimat or other coastal river, or Saltwater Charters on the Douglas Channel please contact Ron wakita@telus.net or call 250 632 1275

I hope you enjoyed this Fishing Report.

Good Health! and Good Fishing!

Sincerely

Ron Wakita

Reliable Guide and Charters
31 Raley St
Kitimat B.C
V8C 1G9
cell 250 632-1275
res 250 632-2866
wakita@telus.net
www.reliableguideandcharters.com

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