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Port Hardy Fishing
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Feb 5, 2025
4 days of fishing around the calm waters of Port Hardy. Epic wild beauty in and around the islands. Whales, birds, salmon and bottom fish. We caught quite a few chinook salmon and other types of fish on this trip.
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welcome to another edition of Pacific
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Northwest best life shot on location
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here in Port Hardy Bruce Columbia on
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Vancouver Island this this special trip
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involved myself and my good friend
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Robert atlas of a Phoenix carpet repair
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here we are at the beginning just fully
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loaded up getting ready to take off we
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started the we started the trip with a
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guided Charter with Codfather charters
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out of Port Hardy which turned out to be
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a really cool way to start and just be
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able to get into some fish right away
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and get some good Intel about fishing in
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the area Codfather charters has some
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great people work there some great boat
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captains that really know how to get you
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on fish and know what they're doing for
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a reasonable price so definitely
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recommend now here we are just getting
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started out of cape subtle I gotten yogi
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with my gear down here going here some
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salmon some halibut ling cod kind of
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first fish we put on the boat was this
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wild coho then million rockfish here
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keeper lingcod and ended the day on this
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awesome 27 pound king we got back at
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Daphne Point definitely the highlight of
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our fish box day two we didn't get any
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GoPro video but still an awesome day
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power mooching off the kelp beds point
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Daphne we lost a 30-plus pounder I
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jumped 5 feet in the air and spit the
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hook pretty awesome we were staying in
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bear Cove cottages which is around the
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east side of hardy Bay just incredible
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location
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they're weighed also incredible
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fisherman owns wicked salmon sport
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fishing charters and I was just a great
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great experience literally two minutes
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away from from the boat launch every
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morning place to park your boat just a
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great time this is actually shot from
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day three we were at castle point and
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the deserters Islands and we were out
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there way out there
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taking something over here that the
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whales and the birds are all really
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interested in a bunch of bait oh yeah
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throw Lu the marks on this drop off to
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oh there's that blow yeah yeah
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maybe that's the school
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well the they would be Sam would be
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attracted the same thing Lou that oh
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yeah
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the great wild dude look at all these
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birds
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kind of cooler way over there yeah oh
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yeah it's not a humpback well no I'm not
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sure what that is
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no not an orca doesn't have big enough
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in something else
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yeah that's awesome
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just all the whale over there now
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there is
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that is Phil he's taking off
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[Music]
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[Music]
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well I see bath
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okay I'm gonna turn around now that
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we're a hundred and five just try to
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repeat that same troll
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that's a nice sea bass get out of here
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[Music]
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I like this spoon
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start catching fish right when I put it
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on
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it's the same color as yours it's just a
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slightly different model same same maker
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it's just yours is the coho killer this
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is the silver horde
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they both catch it's dense ton of fish
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in that in that hearing aid finish I'm
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gonna turn around the gold all the way
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now and we'll see if we can run into
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that school again
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day three was really just incredible
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time on the water kept in salmon bottom
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fish lean Cod we were the deserters
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islands the Gordon's and then we
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finished finished the trip off with a
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nice king or second second spring of the
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day at Daphne point
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[Music]
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I ain't brother
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he wasn't that big but he was Buddha
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been one in the Box early shaking from
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the bacon
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sweet
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took that magnificent
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shot of Sun coming through
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that
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water
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this is where we've been hooking them
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we're waiting for the next hookup right
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here right in here
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Daphne point inside this reef
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waiting for hookup number three for
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three passes
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yeah yeah go for a fair recording he
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didn't get dude
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oh yeah
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good
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if you like catching big king salmon and
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epic scenery with the side of bottom
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fish and everything else thrown in Port
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Hardy is where you want to be
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