Ucluelet Fishing
Reel Reports

Regular visitors to OBMG websites will have noticed an addition to the resort pages...Pedder Bay RV Resort & Marina in Metchosin, 35 minutes from Victoria. Last summer, OBMG opened a brand new, 78 site RV park to compliment the full-service marina and boat rentals. This year, we added a Coffee House to make the Resort & Marina a hotspot for RVers, campers, anglers and boaters.

Shaw TV (the local cable company) visited the resort last week to shoot a short video on the property. Have a look and we hope to see you soon at Pedder Bay!

For more information, visit www.pedderbay.com.

A special thanks to Darrol Bemis for this photo. Here's what he had to say:

This picture was taken from the deck of the Longbeach Princess on the morning of Aug 13, 2010 as we were going out fishing.  The trip was a great success for us, limits of Halibut and Springs both days.  This is the best crew I have seen in 25  years coming to the Canadian Princess Resort.

David Sampson's 33.4 lb. Chinook. Click for more photos

August fishing on the west coast means bigger fish. We would like to welcome Samantha Coughlin and David Sampson to our Captian's Club both catching 30 plus pound Chinook.
Jack Mattice  is still holding our season record with a 35 lb. 14oz Chinook.

The coho’s are late coming in this year just starting to show up now several have been caught in this last week with the biggest being 20lbs.

Dan Grenier is still holding top spot for our season halibut catch with a 79.5 lb. Halibut are a little slower this year than last year.

As the weather has been good this year, we are doing a lot of afternoon fishing with our new 5 hr afternoon salmon trip  (2pm-7pm) and our 4hr rock fishing trips(2:30pm-6:30pm). Our guest are taking a lot of fish home with these trips this year.

Stay tuned!

~Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager
Canadian Princess Resort
 

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Here are some recent fishing photos from Canadian Princess Resort in Ucluelet. The Salmon Ladder derby has brought a lot of excitement to the area, but as you can see in these photos, there are plenty of halibut out there too!

Great News...as of August 5th, guests fishing at Painter's Lodge, April Point Resort & Spa or Canadian Princess Resort will be able to retain a daily limit of 4 Sockeye salmon.

Get the nets ready!

Ian Hoag with a nice Chinook. Click for more photos

You know how you put things off, intending to do something special, yet never getting around to it? That’s how it was with our Father-Son fishing trip until last month we finally pulled it off.
From our first day at The Canadian Princess Resort in Ucluelet my son Ian and I were treated to friendly courteous attention by all the staff, from the reception office to the boats we fished from. We got our limit bottom-fishing one afternoon and the next morning Ian caught his first Spring Chinook and I got my first halibut...16 pounds. On both trips we saw hump-back whales and Dall’s porpoises fishing out there with us. No world records (this time) but we’ll be back in the Fall to re-live the experience of a life-time.

Thanks,

Brian Hoag

Congratulations to Canadian Princess Resort guest Jack Mattice who is currently in the lead for the largest salmon of the month of August in the Ucluelet Salmon Ladder Derby.  Jack caught this 35 lb. 13 oz Chinook in late July, the 6th largest fish caught last month among the thousands of entrants. Although just missing out on 5th place in July by 15 ounces, he springs to the top of the list for July. Let's hope he soon has some company from other Canadian Princess Resort guests.

Good luck Jack!

Remember, the Derby fish-off takes place September 11 and 12 featuring the anglers with the top 50 catches throughout the season.

After reading about all the fish being caught at our resorts in British Columbia, I thought it was time we show everyone how it’s done in the Bahamas.

Bert guided these lucky guests into this 70 lb. Wahoo, what a fight!

Congratulations to the Donahue group on their spectacular day of deepsea fishing at the beginning of May. The Belich group enjoyed the same success on their weekend getaway.

Congratulations to Wendy on catching her first bonefish, Happy Hour just hasn’t been the same since that day.

Bert introduced Brett to bonefishing and he is hooked! Pound for pound the hardest fighting fish in the world! Catch more photos from Brett’s trip on Tripadvisor.

Whether you’re fishing the reef, in pursuit bonefish, or going deep sea in search of trophy sized Mahi Mahi, our head guide Bert Adderley (also known as Lover Boy) will show you how to “rip some lips” in the Bahamas.

For more information on fishing at Cape Santa Maria, speak to your reservation coordinator or email the resort at resort@capesantamaria.com.

~ Brook “Island Boy” Castelsky
General Manager, Cape Santa Maria Beach Resort

This is the years of the kids catching the big ones.

Last month we had a 10 year old Emma Turner with a 36.1 lb ling cod. This month we have another young lady, Kelly Hebner from Ontario, with a 23.4 pound Chinook. And another big ling cod of 34.4 pounds was caught By Jacopo Sandona.

The Cohos are starting to show up off the west coast now and should last till early September. Halibut in the last week have been averaging 25 lbs., with some well into the 30s. Hali numbers are picking up. Chinook sizes are also climbing upward as the season progresses.

The Ucluelet Salmon Ladder Derby has a 35 lb. 2 oz. Spring currently in the lead, caught by Dale Knoll.

All in all a great time to come fishing.

~ Dave Martin
Marine Operation Manager, Canadian Princess Resort

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The latest batch of photos from the Canadian Princess have just made it down here to Victoria.  Check out some of the recent action from Vancouver Island's west coast.