Prince Rupert!

We met Jaron Janas of Terrace Sportfishing Adventures at 7 am at the dock in Cow Bay. Jaron had his 33' Thunder Jet idling at the dock waiting for us. It didn't take long for us to load all our gear and soon Jaron let the throttles out on the twin 225 Yamaha's and the boat effortlessly lepton plane. We ran north for a little over an hour to the north end of Dundas Island and the floating lodge where we would spend the night. After storing our gear in our rooms we headed out to fish. The weather was still not cooperating. The rain and cold was no problem as the boat has a fully heated hard top with all the amenities. The Jaron could make the Thunder Jet stand up and do tricks, we went where ever we wanted in spite of the heavy seas we just couldn't fish for ground fish and halibut. None of these spots were sheltered and even though  we anchored up on a couple spots it was impossible to work the rigs effectively with the boat going up and down 10 feet. Jaron had plenty of great salmon spots and it never took us very long to catch a limit of springs, coho and pinks each day. Most of the boats were crowded along the lee shore near the lodge but we fished in complete comfort and seclusion on a spot several miles away. On the second day the wind hadn't let up at all, still it took only a couple hours to get the 12 fish limit  for Sandi Bill and I. I caught the largest a 28 pound spring and missed my Tyee by two pounds! Humpback whales fed around us on the giant bait ball we were fishing and then several pods of Killer whales, about 25 total came through. We were mesmerized by the frenzy of the Orca attacking the salmon even though it meant we had to move to another spot to fish after they chased all the salmon out! We picked up our crab traps on the way back into the dock and had our limit of huge Dungeness crabs to take home as well.
We tried one more day on the Skeena and Jaron took us on quite the tour in the jet boat but there was nothing we could do to compete with mother nature.
Our trip was fantastic, Jaron's knowledge and first class gear and boats more than made up for the atrocious weather and rather than being stuck on shore we never missed a minute of trying on our trip. Accommodations and food were also top shelf and we can't wait to go back!