Staying true to the rest of the season, Peregrine Lodge’s last trip for the 2010 season proved to be phenomenal in terms of weather and of course, fishing! Over the course of the trip almost all of the guests were able to hook into a Tyee. With multiple hats and pins being passed out each [...]

The first day of the trip was one for the Peregrine Lodge history. It started off with a bang when Micah Kerr hooked a mighty Chinook just off the Mazzaredo islands off the rigger. Guide, Dave Uzzell, was able to keep the boat between the fish and the kelp long enough for Micah to play [...]

According to the Seattle Times, the forecast for the fall chinook is greater than the 10-year average and much greater than the 2009 actual return.
Reference:
Seattle Times – Columbia River 2010 Fall Chinook Returns Look Good on Paper
Seattle Times – Big Spring Chinook Returns Predicted for Columbia Tributaries
Queen Charlottes chinook salmon fishing information >>
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This trip was the third annual Mercury Big Fish Challenge, hosted by Mark Pendlington of Sports Fishing B.C.and Peregrine Lodge. The Mercury Big Fish Challenge, the first two days of this trip were catch and release of Chinook , the first day saw 5 Chinook released and the second and last day of the derby [...]

Weather for this trip was your normal Charlotte weather for this time of year. Still lots of coho action on this a total of 130 to be exact and the halibut continue to be in abundance. The Chinooks are still here not in great amounts but still fairly productive. John Middlebro had the largest halibut [...]

Day one storm force winds shut down the fishery, on day two calmer conditions allowed all areas to be open.
Off shore coho’s at about 200ft of water between Green Point and Snake Rock, ling cod were also in the mix with the coho on the inshore of Green Point Tack.
Day three the Chinook showed up [...]

We had calm sea’s and big tides for this trip, the coho and Chinook were biting according to the tides, with good results in fairly small windows of time.
There was good coho fishing at Green Point, Snake Rock , Parker Point and Bird Rock. Chinook were a little more elusive but some nice ones were [...]

Good sea conditions allowed fishing from Wiah Point to Jalun River.
The west side had some consistency with numerous tyee’s taken between Bird Rock, Parker Point and Snake Rock, 5 Chinook over 40lbs were the highlights, Coho are continuing to show some great size, with a 16lb,15lb and a 14lb making our top ten board.
Bottom fishers [...]

The sea’s were calm for this trip, with some very large coho showing up. The lodge record a 22lb. coho that stood for 15 years was broken when Chris Weber landed a 24lb coho, what a great fish. Lots of coho in the 14lb to 16lb size are showing up.
Due to a wind change Chinook [...]