The ClubHouse Reports

July 25 - August 7, 2007

Calm seas and warm sunny weather , a very nice week at Langara . A monster fish caught and released on July 26th ,so here is the story on this incredible fish. Thursday night Joe Delahouyasse, fishing with the Screamer hooked into a 65 lb Hippa at McPherson Point and successfully landed it after 45 minutes on a extremely corked mooching rod! What a heck of a battle. 15 pulls on a back rod with a 8 ounce banana weight and a fresh cut plug was the weapon of choice. Those back rods do nail the odd monster! We hooked it at 6:15 pm and knew right away it was a monster “something” - Joe saw it and said it was brown , like maybe a big hali. I was thinking what the heck? We were in a 180 feet of water but stranger things have happened up here. I thought maybe a shark the way it was peeling out line and running along the point, deep into the bay, then back out to the tide line .The fish never showed for 25 minutes, boiled and I almost got sick, wow. The rod looked like it was going to snap for sure with the max pressure being applied by Joe. I radioed over to Ken Tsang to stick around with his live tank and thanks to him and the Mac Realty group we had a audience and a official witness to measure the fish before release, 50 inches long with a girth just over 32 inches.. The chinook fought with all it had and was in net range three times, but would not roll or swim into this guides net, for another 20 minutes. Thanks to Kenny for helping me revive this monster and get beautiful pictures, I owe him for sure. His guests were awesome too and what a feeling for all of us to see that monster swim off, the huge tail powerfully propelling the chinook off on its trip to the spawning grounds. I have to say it was a tough job getting ones hands around the tail and also supporting the belly of the fish, so thank you Ken for the help again, a once in a lifetime situation and a incredible memory!

On the fishing front we are starting to find fish at Gunia Point and Boulder Bay. Nothing is super consistent depth wise or location wise. Tristan Hodge guiding Owen Lane Grabbed a 46 lber up at McPherson in about a 100 feet of water, this fish was released as well, great going guys. We are finding fish up there deep, like 110 feet on the rigger, as a lot of needlefish are hanging on the bottom. Some tyees are still shallow though, as Mike Throne and myself grabbed a 32 lber on a purple haze teaser head, 25 pulls out on a back rod. The whole herring tends to slow the pinks down which are here in large numbers now. I threw out a favourite 500 Tomic plug to get a break and had a tyee to the boat before the hook let go and flew at my face. Sergio had a great bucket fishing in Dibrell Bay , late this afternoon, a limit of chinook 19 to 23 lbs. Dan Ackerman had Brian Nixon down at Boulder Bay and snuck a 34 lber over the side fishing shallow. So there are some tyees around but we are working very hard to find them. The small fish keep you busy to, lots of releasing and bait changes.

we are looking forward to getting another surge of chinooks this week, the last few days have been a bit slower, which is not the norm. This time of year is usually a very busy time when it comes to the chinooks. The last two years the fish have been passing threw a bit later so we expect a extremely good August run, with big fishing right into September. The coho continue to stage in the area and any shallow rod will pick up these fish in large numbers with coho being hit right down to 140 feet on the riggers. Lots of fun and keeps everyone busy.

The hali fishing continues excellent with all boats doing well. The guides have the spots tagged on the GPS and with the calm seas they are having huge fishing with plenty of fish of all sizes. Guide Mike V helped Idaho’s Gaylen Harken bring in a 255 lber yesterday, with other guides such as Pierre , Korey, Dan and Bud demonstrating they know how to get any size fish you desire. I always like the 20 to 50 lb size myself, easier to deal with and package up for home use, really nice meat and nice to leave the monsters to spawn and keep our fishery going. Thanks to all who are continuing to release these incredible huge female halibut.

With the good weather forecast for the next few days look out, we are going to produce some great fish as we get into August. You can not beat these calm seas and the warm temperature is a welcome thing of beauty. We are fishing in tee shirts, wow, who would think that is possible? So get up here and start enjoying this fishery, we can not wait to get you on some fish and out on the water. See you all soon.

Screamer, Mike Tonnesen
Head Guide, The Clubhouse