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Vancouver Island Late Spring: Chinook, Coho, and Halibut on the Morning Flood

Vancouver Island Late Spring: Chinook, Coho, and Halibut on the Morning Flood

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This is Artificial Lure with your Vancouver Island fishing report. We’re sitting on a mellow late‑spring pattern now: cool mornings, mild afternoons, and mostly light onshore winds. Environment Canada is calling for partly cloudy skies along the east coast of the Island with highs in the mid‑teens to low 20s, and afternoon sea breezes building to 10–15 knots in the more exposed channels. Sunrise is right around 5 a.m., with sunset close to 9:30 p.m., so you’ve got long light windows to work the tides. Tides on the Strait of Georgia side are running moderate today, with a solid morning flood and an evening ebb. That morning push has been the ticket for chinook and coho off Nanaimo, French Creek, and down toward Nanoose. Local guides are reporting decent numbers of feeder chinook in the 8–15 pound range, with a few larger teens mixed in, plus increasing coho showing up just off structure and bait balls in 120–200 feet of water. Best producers have been classic Island gear: - For salmon, 3–3.5 inch spoons in green‑glow, Irish Cream, and Herring Aid, run behind UV or glow flashers. Anchovy in teaser heads, especially chartreuse or bloody nose, is still outfishing everything when the water’s a bit off‑colour. - If you’re running hootchies, white glow, army truck, and purple haze patterns have been steady. Shorten your leaders for a bit more action in that slower morning current. Bottom fishing has been strong when the weather lets you get out. Off the south end and along the outside of Barkley and Nootka, boats are finding good numbers of legal halibut plus consistent lingcod on the rocky edges. Large herring, salmon bellies, and octopus are the go‑to baits, with 16–24 ounce leads needed when the tide picks up. For lings, big soft‑plastic swimbaits in motor‑oil or root‑beer colours bounced tight to the rocks are putting a lot of fish in the box. Inshore, the trout and bass scene is quietly excellent. Island lakes like Cowichan, Quennell, and Elk are seeing active rainbows and cutthroat early and late in the day. Small spoons, wedding bands with a bit of worm, and 3‑inch stickbaits in natural baitfish patterns are working well. For smallmouth, focus on rocky points and shoals with Ned rigs, finesse worms, and small crankbaits in craw and perch colours. Two hotspots to circle on the chart right now: - The hump off Nanaimo and the structure off Five Fingers Island for chinook and coho on that morning flood. Work 90–160 feet down over 200–300 feet of water, following the bait. - The reefs and gravel patches outside Ucluelet and into Barkley Sound for a mixed bag of halibut, lingcod, and rockfish when the swell is manageable. Time your drifts around the slack or the softer parts of the tide. Overall fish activity has been best at first light and again on the evening tide changes. Midday can still produce if you drop deeper, slow down, and lean on glow gear and bait. That’s your Island report from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a tide. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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