With it being my tenth trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands I had high expectations, after all no one takes a five hour flight, a 2 and a half hour flight and a 30 minute helicopter ride to catch small fish. Unfortunately this was the case this year.
Small fish everywhere, out of a trip with 68 people on it, there were only two Tyees (salmon over 30 pounds) caught, one 31 pounds and the other 36 pounds. The first year I went out there about 60% of the fish caught were Tyees and those numbers have been going down every year.
There were lots of Coho’s caught, but even a small King was hard to come by at times. The fishery is definitely suffering, the halibut limits have also been dropped three, two years ago to currently two.
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