Checking Out Codville Lagoon

August 26th and 27th (Wednesday and Thursday)  

Wednesday was barge day and so we decided to have a stay at home day.  Since we need to be home when the barge comes in, and we never have much notice as to the time it will arrive, it made sense to combine the two.  We had a nice day.

On Thursday we were up early once again and planing our way out to our fishing grounds.  

After a day off from fishing our optimism was renewed and we were hopeful that the fish would be there and be hungry.  

We saw dolphins heading up the Dean Channel, and we stopped as we were crossing the channel to let them pass.  As we stopped and floated they altered their course and came over to us, surfacing all around us.  They had young ones with them that were swimming close beside their moms, and it was so neat to see them surfacing together.  All of the dolphins, but especially the young ones, seemed quite full of energy and many of the young ones were jumping and spinning in the air.  They seemed to want to play, but we were on our way to go fishing and the dolphins were not heading our way.  We let them pass us by, sorry that we would not get to play with them.  

Once they had passed we got up on plane again, and then suddenly there were two dolphins with us.  They porpoised along with us for a bit and then they each jumped once in front of us, splashing us as if to say, “Why wouldn’t you play with us?”  

We started fishing, but after several hours of no action we decided to try a different area.  Last year we had had so much luck down by the rock cliff out from Codville Lagoon that we headed down there.  We trolled there for a while, but still we had no bites and saw no fish; it was very disappointing.  

We went into Codville Lagoon, our old stomping grounds, and we saw the log where we had cleaned so many salmon last year.  We would have loved to have taken a quick hike up to Sagar lake to check on our amazing Chanterelle mushroom patch of last year, but the tide was ebbing so we could not leave Kiki on the shore.  There was also a sign at the trailhead, although not official looking at all, that read “Park Closed Do Not Enter”, apparently someone was worried that someone would give Covid-19 to the park.

We planed our way back up along the shoreline and then started trolling at an area where we saw a fish jump.  We trolled that area for a while and saw several fish jump, and we caught one fish.  Yay.  It was a nice sized one too, 27 inches long and quite thick.  Jason caught it and it put up a good fight, zipping from one side to the other, down under the boat, around back, and over to the other side.  Finally we got it into the boat.  Yay!  In total we trolled for nine hours of the day, and we only caught one fish, but at least we caught one fish.  

We have talked to other people here who are having similar luck to ours.  It seems that certain people have gotten lucky and have been in the right place at the right time and caught a few fish, but for the most part there has been very little action.  One local told us that it is the worst Coho fishing he has seen in his 20 years of being in Ocean Falls.  

Joey the seal is in the water waiting for her share of Jason's salmon.

 

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