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Sockeye are in at Port Alberni!

7/1/2014

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Took three days up Island to check out the fishing scene and scenery. So as luck would have it the weekend weather  in Ucluelet was almost as good in Prince Rupert last week but not as bad as my head cold.  Took three days up Island to check out the fishing scene and scenery. If you were a surfer the waves at Long Beach were fabulous but if you wanted to get out on the water the rain, fog and swells and 6 foot plus breakers made it quite miserable!  It was great on Monday morning as the weather cleared till about 11:00 and lots of boats made it out to the mouth of Barkely Sound but at 11:30 a fog bank rolled in and visibility died, though the seas were OK.
Beach coming was fun but if you wanted to catch fish you were stuck in the Alberni Inlet and there was narry a chinook to be found.  An early opening for First Nations showed that the Somass River Sockeye were indeed already all the way into Port Alberni and heading upriver.  There were lots of boats out and some were successful as the ice tubs at the Alberni Boat ramp were being loaded with fish.  A general 14 hour commercial fishery is now underway.

1.3 million sockeye are forecast for the Somass river and DFO has approved an experimental river sport fishery for Sockeye in the Somass River for July 1 to 18, so after the First Nation Fishery is closed and if you are in the Port Alberni area, try wetting your line for some fresh sockeye in the Somass River!

The Columbia River Chinook are predicted to be passing the Broken Island group in larger than normal numbers but, it seems like in Prince Rupert, they just haven't made it there yet.  The Chinook numbers entering the Fraser are relatively consistent and the total tally for the month of June test fishery is almost 10 times the same amount for the month of June last year, though not spectacular yet.

No news on what the Vedder is doing as today would be opening day.
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Here's hoping the Fraser Runs of Chinook and Sockeye materialize in about three weeks.  Off shore test fisheries will give an indication if the number of sockeye will exceed 25,000,000 fish.    Tight Lines!

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