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Wesley Behan and friends
Canadian Princess Resort - October 15, 2009Canadian Princess guest Wesley Behan and 21 of his friends spent some time at the Canadian Princess this summer.
He kindly sent in a link to the video they shot during their fishing trip. Looks like it was an awesome time!
Thanks, Wesley!
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Canadian Princess Resort - September 14, 2009Wow!
Looking back over the 2009 season, we saw more salmon in one month than we had seen all last year. The season started off with boats limiting on salmon in the first hour of fishing and anglers were able to grab both their salmon and halibut limits in a single trip.
As the season progressed we saw some of the best fishing on the west coast in at least 5 years. This season found us fishing for both salmon and halibut on the same trip. Chinook this year averaged 18 - 25 lbs with a few very large ones coming in.
Our season record was a 45 lb. Chinook (King/Tyee/Spring). This monster was landed on the Ucluelet Princess by Brian Francis of Port Alberni, BC. We had a lot of Coho this year, the biggest being an 18 lb. hatchery fish.
Halibut were a little slower this year than in the past. We did catch some large halibut nonetheless, with the biggest being 106 lbs. caught by Lance McConnell on the Salmon Princess.
Fishing this year was fantastic all summer with very few days where we couldn’t go offshore. We hope to see all again next year.
Fish on and tight lines,
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager, Canadian Princess Resort
Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island Fishing Update
Canadian Princess Resort - August 13, 2009Fishing on the west coast hasn’t been this great in a number of years.
We have been limiting out on halibuts when we make it off shore, and there are lots of salmon coming in, too.
The Cohos this year are abundant and we had a 16 ½ pounder caught last week.
Chinooks are bigger, too: we have had lots in the 20-30 pound range.
Weather is improving this week for the weekend which means fishing will be even more enjoyable.
Fish on and tight lines,Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager, Canadian Princess Resort
Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
14 year old nabs a beauty
Canadian Princess Resort - August 2, 200914 year old Jordy Neil of Kamloops thought he'd try his first salmon fishing trip at Canadian Princess Resort. Is it beginner's luck or the magic touch? Either way, he nabbed this beautiful 41 lb. Chinook to become a member of the Oak Bay Marine Group's Captain's Club! Congratulations!
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Ukee Days
Canadian Princess Resort - July 27, 2009Our small town on the west coast holds an annual fishing derby in the Ukee Days festival. Thanks to all the guest who participated. The winner this year was a 45 pound chinook caught by Terry Touchie. Other honourable mentions include the second place 41 lb chinook and third place 39 pounder.
Chinook fishing has been great and the sizes are getting bigger as we move through August. Halibut fishing has been a little bit slow all year but the few that are coming in are larger between 20-70 lbs.
So fish on and tight lines!
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager
Canadian Princess Resort
Brian Francis' 45 lb. Chinook
Canadian Princess Resort - July 27, 2009Congratulations to Brian Francis who napped this beautiful 45 lb. Chinook to set the new record at Canadian Princess Resort.
Fishing still strong at CP
Canadian Princess Resort - July 23, 2009Over at the Canadian Princess, we've seen some very large halibuts come in over the last week. We've seen on at 77 lbs and several around the 50 pound mark. Salmon fishing continues to be strong with with the aveage weight at 20lbs. In 4 weeks this year our guests have caught twice as many salmon as they had in the whole season last year. We're still not seeing many ling cod, but they should be around soon.
Fish On and Tight Lines
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager
Canadian Princess Resort.
New halibut record!
Canadian Princess Resort - July 17, 2009Lance McConnell from BC set a new season-record for halibut this morning with this giant 106 pounder!
Nice!
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager, Canadian Princess Resort
Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
Big fish and lots of them
Canadian Princess Resort - July 16, 2009The majority of the Chinooks coming in now are 20 lbs. plus with a new season record of 34.5 lbs set by Scott Stewart.
No one has beat the halibut record yet, but it probably won't stand for long as we have had severall 50 lbs. plus coming in. One day last week we had 2 halibut weigh in at 66 lbs. each.
Ling cod have been slower this year, but we had a monster 32 pounder come in earlier.
Weather has been great this year, which has helped all our bottom fishing trips catch their limits. Guests are going home with lots for fish tails this year.
So fish on and tight lines,
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager, Canadian Princess Resort
Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
Fishing, and catching
Canadian Princess Resort - July 7, 2009Wow, what a year!
We are still seeing lots fish coming in. We had a 66 lb halibut and a 29 lb Chinook for the catch of the day and, despite a thunder storm, are guests are undaunted and the fishing is still very productive.
Here are some photos from the last few days so you can see for yourself!
Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager, Canadian Princess Resort
Ucluelet, Vancouver Island
