How to Catch Chinook Salmon - Ucluelet British Columbia
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Chinook Salmon Fishing is one of the most renowned of the well known Worldwide Sport Fisheries. This Pacific Salmon is known to be the largest salmon species on earth and comes with many names including Tyee, King, Tule, Spring salmon to name a few. They are magnificent predatory fish, very aggressive taking a variety of lures, baits and presentations. They also occupy various tidal water from the surf zone, through the kelp, down several hundred feet to many miles away from shore feeding on the offshore banks.
If you find them you can often figure out something to encourage them to bite. Usually any spoon, hootchie, plug or baitfish of similar size to the primary feed in the area will entice a bite. The feed during different phases of the tidal swings. You will notice that the bite will turn on and off during the day.
Typically there is an excellent morning bite for chinook. They can bite any time of day if you know where they are hiding during the tide changes. Some locations are better with a flood tide and others will fish better during an ebb tide. I am still working on those details in my own understanding, but slowly picking up the details I need to locate and catch fish.
When I started salmon fishing it took me a whole season and a lot of looking before I caught my first Chinook. My first one came trolling the surf near Ucluelet during my second season. Years later I am still enjoying amazing chinook fishing around Ucluelet. Every year my understanding of the area and where fish can be located grows. It really is fascinating, all the different types of fishing that are possible in the area.
In this video you will see my dad and I targeting chinook on the sand flats just off the rocky surf. As the ocean drops off towards deeper water there is a large shelf in the 120 to 160 feet of water where chinook salmon travel along the coastline and feed on needlefish as they go. The Ucluelet area is a prime zone to target these fish in the middle of July through the middle of August. The season is longer than this, but this is most likely prime time most often from year to year.
I hope you enjoy my adventure with dad and the information I have to share later in the video. It is always fun to get out with dad. He's getting better on the net and the rod. Have to keep on getting out and improving our skills every year.
Thank you for watching our videos and adventures.
We wish you the best of success on your own. If you have any questions and I can help you out in catching your first chinook, let me know in the comments below.
As always God Bless your Adventure and stay safe out there!
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Good to see ya back with some Chinook Dr. Happy holidays and much love to your beautiful family 👊
Thanks, Happy holidays to you as well. Thanks for watching.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures always. You guys are informative and those of us that care are very thankful for your insight to the beautiful Barkley Sound. What a Gem
@american_dane thanks. Yeah it's a smaller audience for sure. Not many anglers actually have boats to fish Barkley sound, so I don't always get the most viewers with these videos.... but I just love ocean fishing and the Barkley Sound. What a wonderful place for sure.
Great day on the water, great to spend it with your dad!
For sure... I'm a little short with him at times... but for the most part goes pretty well.
Fun day out with your old man doc. Great piece of content keep it up!
Thanks a ton! Editing more. Was looking back through the archives and have some fun stuff never edited.
Great video 😊
Thanks for watching!
Ok, like you say, have fun!
I'll never understand why Canadians use knuckle busters.
Us Washington boys have a hard time understanding the premise. 2 things to substantiate the bc knucklebuster. #1. 1:1 ratio man vs fish . #2 use really long rods and absorb the bite from 200’. #3 you never forget the monster that busted your knuckles while putting it in the net. Keep up you and your family’s solid work @spiltmilt
Haha, and I'll never understand Americans using heavy saltwater winches for salmon. Have you used mooching reels? I've used both. I have one set up with a level wind and 4 with mooching rods. I usually leave the level wind at home. I only take it along if someone is coming who isn't very good at reeling fast. In my opinion mooching reels are much more fun with the 1 to 1 ratio you feel way more intimately attached to the fish. You are the drill and you're the gears. I'm addicted to the sound and feel of drag peeling off the reel. Palming the reel on a running chinook. Plus it works better on the downriggers for me as well. I can understand using a level wind on a kayak or if you have a weight on the line. It is also cultural as well. Just like many of you Americans drift fish a float with a spinning reel. That's just bizzare to me why the Addicted fisherman and from what I hear many PNW people do. So I suspect it's a lot of learning from your neighbor going on and humans are creatures of habit. Canadian guides service a lot of American clients and they still use Islander mooching reels... guess the American tourists don't mind.
Just nice trip. …🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you! Appreciate the comment.
Not meaning negativity, sorry. 1,Never chase the fish with the net. Wait till he's too tired to resist, then pull him over a stationary net.
When first guy has a fish on, get the other line in asap.
But please have fun 👍
@NeilCarmichael-j8j I think it's a matter of style. Sometimes we even run 4 rods stacked. Most people leaves the rods down, leave the boat in gear a bit and angle the boat to keep the fish on one side. We've caught many double Headers that way. Save time and energy just leaving the lines down. So yeah we will net hotter fish cause they tend to come to boat faster if you leave the boat in gear and I'm not willing to have them swim where ever they want and get tangled around all the gear. I enjoy getting the net infront of a fighting fish. To me it's a matter of style rather than right or wrong. As long as you're having fun and success that's the goal. I'm not here to tell anyone they're right or wrong, but that there are numerous ways to get the job done.
Shows how good the fishing is. You can do everything wrong and still catch fish! 🤣
Everyone has their own, "right way of doing things". Most of the time it comes down to experience... might just be at a different part of the road than other anglers. That's something I'd never hang over a less experienced angler. This is a positive atmosphere hoping to encourage interest in fishing at any level of experience. You don't need to know everything to catch fish or have fun.
Hey Brandon
Hello, how are you. You better turn your heat down in alberta so the Ice is Ready When I get there later in December.
like as always
Thanks!
New one, hot of the press just played. Coho Slough fishing.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures I will get to it soon. my hunting trip put me back 2 weeks in videos. but I will get to it.
@@JustinHallowesOutdoors How was hunting?
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures 3 deer 🦌 and a bull moose.
it was great.
@@JustinHallowesOutdoors sounds excellent