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Topic: West Van Island Trip  (Read 1984 times)

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DBam

  • Rockfish
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  • Location: British Columbia
  • Date Registered: Mar 2016
  • Posts: 106
I finally got myself set up for a big salt trip and booked a week off work. Pedalled my boat 45km out around the outside of Nootka Island and after I made my beach landing bail I learned that my drysuit was no longer dry. Actually it had filled up to the knees in the time that I walked my boat in. My plans to stay and fish the reefs out there had to change. It was a heartbreaker, but I knew it wasn't workable anymore. So I stayed a day and a half out on that beautiful beach and then made my way back in.

A friend and I had made plans to meet at Critter Cove and fish and sleep off his boat for a few days after my solo out trip, but when I returned he wasn't there. A quick satellite call and he tells me he had mechanical issues while prepping his boat and was still at home in Nanaimo. So between my drysuit and his boat problems things really weren't working out. I fished my way out, no salmon and no one else catching any around me. Kept the biggest rockfish I hooked and headed home earlier than planned.

A big spring or ling will have to wait for a different trip. My trip was beautiful and weather was great the whole way. Was a little dicey getting around the reef and some of the rocky headlands on my way in with the wind and waves at my back. The GPS clocked the trip at 99.9km (60 miles) and I only fished a few hours total  :-\. I've got photos and videos to pull off my gopro but here's one off my phone of my camp for 2 nights.


Garrick

  • Herring
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  • Location: Vancouver, BC
  • Date Registered: Jun 2018
  • Posts: 31
Thanks for the report!
Sounds like you had a good trip despite the limited fishing.
Where about did you camp on nootka island? I hiked the Nootka trail  a couple of years and ended up being an impromptu fishing guide-- a couple of Germans tourists had paid to have an inflatable boat flown in to 3rd beach...

Look forward to seeing some more photos


alpalmer

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Albany, OR
  • Date Registered: Apr 2012
  • Posts: 504
Yeah,  lets hear more of the trip.   I haven't been up to Nootka in years.   Paddled out from Gold River one time.   Made a couple of trips out departing from Cougar Campground.  There is a really good camp on the southwest end of Bligh Island.  Nootka trail is a great hike as well.
"A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own,
and no obstacle should be placed in their path;
let them take risk, for God sake, let them get lost, sun burnt, stranded, drowned,
eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches -
that is the right and privilege of any free American."
--Edward Abbey--


 

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