Vancouver Island KIngs (springers to you!!)

Anybody have experience with kayak fishing for kings in the Sooke area, French  Beach, etc??  Is it feasible to put in at Ucluelet and fish near shore???
Tofino???   Nanaimo???  Port Alberni??  Telegraph Cove???

bottom fishin for sure. Just get a chart and watch the current atlas.

Pretty much interested in kings and silvers.

point roberts, wa is on the main highway for frasier river kings/silvers/pinks/sockeye

Anybody have experience with kayak fishing for kings in the Sooke area, French  Beach, etc??  Is it feasible to put in at Ucluelet and fish near shore???
Tofino???   Nanaimo???  Port Alberni??  Telegraph Cove???

I'm sure it must be possible to launch from shore there somewhere. A friend of mine, whom I haven't seen for ages, has a birding tour business in Ucluelet, and he says he launches his large touring canoe off the beach in some protected cove around there. He's not a fisherman, though! He's one of those loony birders!

 Yes to all of the above. The question that I have for you is what kind of services do you want or need? If you want hotel/motel accommodations and restaurant meals the fishing choices narrow. If you are willing to use camp grounds and cook your own food you have more choices.
 I like the Sooke to Pt Renfrew areas for straights fishing. Morning fishing as the afternoon winds/waves can be nasty, but the area can produce both numbers as well as size of salmon.
 In Alberni Inlet I prefer the Bamfield side to the Ucluelet side as the water conditions are better inshore. Particularly in yak sized craft.
 Nootka to the north has decent access but fewer accommodations available, and a lot of the small boat fishery is on dark Conuma river hatchery fish.
 Quatsino to the far north can be good from Winter Harbor but from there its about 6 miles to Kains Island. Beyond that is Japan.
 I used to fish the east side of the island a lot back in the 70's & early 80's even before the road was paved from Campbell River to Pt Hardy. We used to trailer 18'-20' boats to Pt Hardy and run to Rivers inlet with only a compass for navigation. We'd be fishing/eating/sleeping on the boats but the huge kings were worth the discomfort.
 The main advantage to the east side from Pt Hardy to Telegraph Cove is the availability of accommodations and the paved road access. Fishing is OK, not great, but OK. I wouldn't waste my gas money from Campbell River to the south end if catching fish were the prime objective.

Thanks for the replies!   I sleep in my truck, and carry grub-du-jour, so accommodation is not an issue.  Roadside cafes along the way are fine!

I fished the Broken Group from my Northwest Cadence 17' sea kayak in the 1980's before the crowds and the development---have not been there since about 1991 or so.  Have never fished the Sooke to Port Renfrew  area, any info on surf, launches, camping etc is welcome!  Fished in the Hobie last fall out of  Seiku, pink heaven!  Woiuld like info on Bamfield---where to park, launch, etc etc

   Got the scare of my life while halibut fishing outta Seiku in a 16foot rental skiff from Olson's, motor died in heavy fog and rising east wind and big waves----Yokohama harbor next stop!  Fortunately a 30 foot PB  was coming back from Swiftsure, and gave me a tow, about 5-6 miles back to Seiku.  My wife said I was pale as a sheet for 2 days afterward.

   Are there kings in Alberni Inlet, or just Sockeye?  Used to take the Lady Rose out the Broken Group and get dropped onto the dock , pics follow:

Hey Conehead----is your friend named George Bradd??? "Just Birding Tours"

Hey Conehead----is your friend named George Bradd??? "Just Birding Tours"

Yes. He's a really upbeat guy with a great sense of humor. Really knows his birds, too.  George leads tours all over the place (Central and South America during the winter), not just Vancouver Island.
His younger brother Glenn is one of my bros with whom I used to chase after waves and wahines, when I lived on Oahu. This was from the late 60's thru the late 70's. Sometimes George would visit and hang out with us, too, but he always headed back home to BC.

These guys don't know me as "the Conehead," though.

Cool---I
'll email him and ask about kayak launch in the Bamfield/Ucluelet area.

 The real draw for fishermen in Alberni Inlet is the king fishing. I've stayed at the campground and fished for kings out of Poett Nook on the Bamfield side. Easy water to fish as the waters usually flat. On the Ucluelet the closest king fishing is out front in the open ocean off the surge rocks at Wya Point. Fishings best at the offshore banks but I'm not going 5 to 10 miles out to them unless I'm in a 20'+ power boat with GPS and radar. There may be a launch in Grapefruit (Florencia) Bay, but most of the yaks that I've seen there launch in Ucluelet Bay at the seaplane base and thats a long way from the good fishing.
 The only advantage for Ucluelet over Bamfield, that I've ever found, is that its a paved road all the way to Ucluelet as opposed to the 40 mile stretch of gravel road into Bamfield.

point roberts, wa is on the main highway for frasier river kings/silvers/pinks/sockeye

Really?!  What do you think the shore fishing would be like off the actually east point?  There is a nice little Point Roberts grass airport whose south end is nearly on the beach at the east point.

the SW corner of Point Roberts is a park with camping and a boat launch...i have caught salmon in my PB right off the beach and i know that every year someone catches salmon while casting from the beach... am thinking about ditching the PB for a weekend and paddling instead

a few million salmon drive by on their way to the frasier river

the grass strip air port butts up to the county park

Wolverine---were you kayak fishing, or PB fishing out of Poett Nook?   Is "the Wall within reach of a SOT yak???  Decent camping???

 Kallitype,
 I've always powerboat fished out of there. Sometimes just turn left outside the bay and put the gear down. Or Bamfield is only about 10 minutes away (by boat). I'd guess that Whittlestone would be about an hour by yak. The Poett Nook campground is by far the beat on the inlet. I think they have about 130 camp sites, a very good launch, and usually have moorage. The only campground, that I know of, in Bamfield is run by the local tribe and isn't right on the water. The past 2-3 years the mid August to Labor Day king fishery for Robertson Creek hatchery kings has been nearly a bust inside. Most everyone has gone west or out into the broken group and fished on US, Nitnat, and Fraser bound fish. If the wind and waves cooperate (stay down) the fishing out at Cape Beale is usually lights out. If I were to go (still may if I get my Pro Angler rigged) it would be the last week of July or the first week of August.