Canadian Princess Resort Reel Reports

Sunrise

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-08-20

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.

Mid August Update

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-08-19

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

Photos from Canadian Princess

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-08-10

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!

Brian and Ian Hoag

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-08-04

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

Princess guests leads Salmon Derby for August

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-08-03

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.

Kids Rock the Docks

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-07-21

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

A few pics

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-07-20

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.

Big salmon, great hali and a huge Ling

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-07-12

Salmon fishing is still going strong at the Canadian Princess Resort, with the average weight of Chinook salmon anywhere from 18 to 25 pounds. Halibut fishing is picking up with some bigger halibut in July we are seeing some 25-40 pound range.

But ask 10 yr old Emma Turner and she will say our bottom fishing is the best. She netted this 36.1 lb. ling cod a few days back. Nice fish, Emma!

The sun has been shining on the west coast with highs of 27°C.

Cheers and tight lines,

~ Dave Martin
Marine Operation Manager, Canadian Princess Resort

Strong Chinook runs - nice way to end June.

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-07-01

Fishing this year at the Canadian Princess Resort started off great with boat coming in with there limit of Chinook and halibut.Halibut has slowed in the past week and we are seeing fewer than the first week of fishing on the west coast But the salmon are still going strong and are larger than pervious years at this time. We do expect that the halibut fishing will pick up as the summer progresses. Afternoon rock fishing boats are limiting on rock fish and all guest are enjoying these trips.

Our biggest salmon this year was a 32 lb. Chinook caught by Al Moore of Port Alberni British Columbia. And our biggest Halibut was a 79.5 lb. caught by Dan Grenier of Chemanius British Columbia.

Weather for the up coming week calls for sun shine and no winds Hi’s of 18 – 20.

Fish On and Tight lines
~Dave Martin
Marine Operations Manager
Canadian Princess Resort

Weekend Update

Canadian Princess Resort - Oak Bay Marine Group — 2010-06-21

It's our second weekend of the season and more fish keep finding their way onto our hooks than on each day passed. In fact Sundays tours brought in so many fish, we had to have our general manager Brian Clarkson down to the docks to help unload the haul. Several of our boats last weekend caught there Salmon limit, and so moved on to fishing for Halibut and bottom fish and still continued to haul 'em up like they were saving their lives.

Our chartered flights are now operating between Vancouver and Tofino, and we returned our first flight to the airport with almost 800 lbs of fish between 26 people! We are all making friends with our guests from throughout Canada. Some as far east as Ontario, others as far south as Arizona and Texas and still others from just around the corner! It has been a pleasure to play host to such an array of terrific people. I've met people at the airport, coming off the boats, and relaxing in our lounge or out on our patio, and i've really enjoyed the stories of where everyone is from, and their days out fishing.

Hope you manage to find your way out here, as all our hopes for a bumper season seem to be rapidly coming to fruition! Until then - happy travels.

Cheers from the Princess - MB