Vancouver Island KIngs (springers to you!!)

Thanks for the quick reply----how far is the Wall?  Is that just outside the bay???   I assume you jig up herring and mooch??

 The "wall" at Whittlestone is on the ocean side of Bamfield. Not a lot of mooching there. It's mainly a trolling show. In on the kelp line there are always folks jigging metal and seem to catch their share of fish. The baitfish of choice in Barkley is anchovie rather than herring. If you turn right coming out of Bamfield there is another "wall" that some refer to.
 Here's a link to Poett Nook. Their website needs some work but the pictures give a good idea of the facility.
http://www.poettnook.com

Wow, that looks like a nice place. 40# springers, Halibut, crabs and shrimp...

Z

I am gonna try for Springers tomorrow of Albert Head in Victoria.  Drop off the crab traps first and then try my luck for salmon for the first time!

Kallitype--In Bamfield you can camp at Seabeam campground right in town in Grappler Inlet but it's kind of a pure fishing camp, not that great as a camping spot. The wall is right outside the harbour mouth to the right--very doable by kayak. Better spot for camping is Pachena Bay campground just out side of town a few minutes drive-- right on a nice beach--launchable for kayaks with good crabbing   in the bay and groundfish out at the entrance to the bay. The naked European girls frolicking in the surf after finishing the west coast trail are an added bonus.
T2

I looked up the Pachena campground, there were some rather scary reviews:

Pachena Bay is lovely. But this campground is a complete dump. The garbage is piled up 4 ft high outside of locked (!) dumpsters. The outhouses are over-flowing and they have no TP. The nice shower house photo the Huuayaht First Nations tribe uses on their website and literature was taken when it was new but now it too, is a dump. Broken showers and sinks. Water hydrants are mapped but not actually there for the southern half of the camp--it is about a 1500m walk for water if you are in the higher numbered tent sites. We were disgusted enough to turn tail and leave but the drive into this campground is so severe that we could not bring ourselves to turn right around and face it again. I don't understand--the West Coast Trail trailhead is only 100m away and yet they have clean outhouses, with TP, and the trash is removed regularly. Obviously Pachena campground is managed terribly. Stay on the beach and out of the campground or you will go nuts. Their stupid sign in the bathroom advises "No going to the washrooms in the bush--$200 fine if we catch you." I figure I owe them about six thousand dollars but those bathrooms are beyond gross. It doesn't have to become another crowded and over-run Tofino if it is sanitary! The effort to get all the way out there will keep that Disneyland bunch away. Very disappointing.


    This review from 2008....

I must admit I haven't been  there for 4 or 5 years--looks like things have gone downhill! Stay at Seabeam right in Bamfield then--the Wall is definitely more handy. The other place you might try is closer to where I live here in the Metchosin/Sooke area--Pedder Bay Marina and campground. You can launch at the marina, paddle out to the mouth of the bay where there are some spots for springs. There is several accessible spots within an easy drive, too. East Sooke Park (regional park) has a spot you can put in a kayak and be within paddling range of spring fishing.
T2

I must admit I haven't been  there for 4 or 5 years--looks like things have gone downhill! Stay at Seabeam right in Bamfield then--the Wall is definitely more handy. The other place you might try is closer to where I live here in the Metchosin/Sooke area--Pedder Bay Marina and campground. You can launch at the marina, paddle out to the mouth of the bay where there are some spots for springs. There is several accessible spots within an easy drive, too. East Sooke Park (regional park) has a spot you can put in a kayak and be within paddling range of spring fishing.
T2

You can also launch at Albert Head and Weirs beach in Metchosin.  Or you can launch from Wiffen Spit in Sooke.