Some nice fish were caught, too, with the largest being a 22lb. chinook, which Sandra Ingram landed with Cpn. Sam “Crazyman” Carlberg. David and Mary Peachin arrived late, but headed out with Jim”Wolfman’ Duddridge, and they were fast into a hot bite on big Fraser River pinks. David Peachin told Captain “Milt” Millar on the deck: “That was the best salmon bite I have ever been in!”. Jim ran some “Peruvian” flies, and followed the schools of the large pinks through Blackfish Sound, where it was non-stop action the whole time. The sun was shining and the fish were biting. We can’t ask for much more than that!

Our first time guests, Ken Sr. and Ken Jr. with friend Dan.

Ray Morgan caught a nice 14lb. chinook on Cpn. Teichert's boat.

Sandy got a real beauty when she hooked this 22lber right out of the shoot, on Cpn. Sammy's boat!

   Lots of pinks were landed and many lost. Also a few sockeye were out there, and many wild coho were released. There is a real shortage of hatchery coho this year, it seems. The real story, though, is the chinook bite that came on late in the day! Cpn. Spenny’s crew had a couple of great chances at chinook, but fortune wasn’t on their side this afternoon, and the fish won the battles today. Same goes for Cpn. Millar’s team, who had a couple of nice chinook on that found ways to elude them. Sammy’s crew was more fortunate, when they dropped down a little deeper off of the Wall, and started hitting the chinook there. Dennis was the luckiest bagging 2 teeners, and Mike also landing a teener. The  guys on Taylor “T-Bone” Logan’s  boat had an epic last hour, fishing at White Beach Pass, where suddenly, an awesome chinook bite came on. Manav, Sunny, and Dhiraj, were the lucky ones, when they first hooked and landed a 17lb chinook, then turned around and did another pass. That’s when Manav hooked a great big one, which he landed with some difficulty, as it was lunging around the boat like the big ones do. It weighed in at 32lbs! But they weren’t done there, as they turned and Taylor dropped 2 rigs down for another pass by the kelp patch, where they slammed a double header of chinook, 22lbs. and 15lbs. Not a bad first afternoon of fishing! Things are looking great for tomorrow,

Blake's team had fun catching a bunch of fish, including a bunch of wild coho!

Burger's guys.

Spenny's guys!

Looks like Tiny's crew had fun.

Millartime's team was a lot of fun today.

Millar and G. Pass!

Sam's crew was on fire this afternoon, with Dennis leading off with twin teeners.

T-Bone and his team were commercial fishing for them this afternoon! Manav will be selling his 2 chinook when he gets home!

Manav gets his first tyee!

Good times on the deck!

Chef Simon serves up one of his signature appies.

Manav Gulati joins the tyee club, today!

The 4 pack of Gary and Cecelia Dennis, and their friends, Sharon and Charlie Mills, had a great day of salmon fishing, catching 5 chinook up to 24 lbs. Pete Mathews, the youngest of six brothers, had the biggest chinook in the family, again. He weighed in a 19lb. chinook to take top honours. There may just be something to his theory afterall! Bud Carter and Rick Stephenson had a great day on the halibut grounds, getting into quite a bit of action at the Ranch with Cpn. Spencer “Speedy” Horning. Karen and Bob fished with Cpn. Jim Duddridge, and Karen had quite a fight with a beauty 22 lb. chinook, to top off their day of several salmon. Fun times were had by all, making for a very good day.

Young Pete with his chinook of 19lbs. The biggest of the Mathews crew, again! Wow, there may be something to his claims, afterall.

The Mathews boys with a big pile of fish!

Bud and Rick, with guide Spenny, and some dandy butts.

Karen Meyers with a 22lb. chinook. Nice one Karen!

Gary Dennis reluctantly takes the bigfish chair tonight with this 24lber.

The Dennis' and the Mills' with their 5 nice chinook. Way to get 'em!

Avery Sund calling the shots from her headquarters!

Kincaid Sund busily writing up the weekly food order.

Harper Sund sends off some last minute emails before writing up work schedules.

Another long day takes its toll!

After a sucessful blogging session, its time to take off the blogging glasses. Whew!

Cpn. Spenny’s boat was first off in the morning, and 2 minutes after they dropped the lines in at “Coho Pt.”, the “disciples”, Peter and John, were into a dandy 21lb chinook. That early bite tapered off by the time the other boats came out, though, but an hour and a half later it was on again. The high “slack” bite came on just as 3 of the Spiegel crew set gear, as they “slacked” off and slept in. Luckily for them, they showed up just in time, and banged off 3 nice chinook and a coho almost as soon as they arrived! Meanwhile, back in the bay, the Lucas’ and Pate’s were hitting into some great chinook, landing a 28 and 25 lber, and some other action. The pinks seem to be moving in as well. That same group had 3 pinks today. Peter and John, had  steady action on their boat through out the morning, hitting 2 more nice chinook, and a 10 lb. coho.

The Burger Boat rolled around at about 11:00 and after that the boats all headed out for halis. Some good action for some, produced nice halibut up to 41lbs. That one was caught by Worth Roberts on Burger’s boat at C’n'B. The team of Lucas’ and Pate’s went back to salmon, and had a bunch of action off of the west end of Malcolm Island in calm, sunny weather. What an awesome day weather wise we had today! It was a pleasure, after having some not so ideal stuff over the last couple of weeks.

The Disciples really knocked 'em with Cpn. Spenny!

The Roberts had a good day!

In the words of Gay Lucas, "Today was Something Else!".

Gay gets a 28!

The late birds get 'em!

Brian with a 25!

Big halibut of the day!

Zoomy tries to win at Puquana, but didn't, unfortunately.

The morning also started with another “interesting” surprise, wind! That didn’t stop em, though, as right around High Slack the bite turned on in Mitchell Bay, 5 minutes from the dock! Cpn. Jim Duds and Cpn. Millartime, both took their guests into the “Big Rock”, where Jim had a “hotspot” marked on his GPS. They circled the spot over and over, banging into several nice chinook each! There were a few bites spread out along the “backside” but the  best action was minutes from the lodge. Eventually it slowed off, so most of the boats pulled into Double Bay for the current slack, and to avoid the wind. There were several more nice chinook and coho taken, with Jim Duds hot crew of Darren and Cari Case continuing their magic run, nailing a real flukey 24 lb chinook on a sockeye fly out in the middle of the bay! They were “On” today, and nothing could get in their way.  James, from Team Texas, hit a deep-running chinook with Cpn. Spenny, which proved to be the big one of the day, a 25lb. beauty!

The boats anchored up in the cove in Ksuiliadas Islands, and Chef Simon and the crew whipped up an excellent Bistro, once again. After lunch, there were 2 boats going for bottomfish, and two for salmon. The going was tough for the halibut crews heading offshore. One of the boats turned around and headed back to a spot 2 minutes from our dock, where they hit into quite a thick patch of chicken and chick halibut, that kept the action steady all afternoon! What a nice surprise. Its great to see all these spots starting to produce more halibut, as they seem to be moving in in greater numbers, finally! The salmon crews each picked up another chinook per boat, with a last minute fish caught in Mitchell Bay, on Cpn. Burger’s Boat. All in all, a darn good day, in less than ideal conditions!

Anchored out at "the Cove".

Gathering aroung the "Crab Ampitheatre".

Maddie is thoroughly enjoying herself here!!

Case Closed!!

Matt knocks a couple!