Located 20 minutes south of Port Mcneill, Telegraph Cove is an absolute must visit destination on Vancouver Island. Telegraph Cove has great salmon and halibut fishing as well as whale watching opportunities. Being minutes from Robson Bight and the Broughton Archipelago (B.C’s largest marine park), Telegraph Cove is the perfect place to book a weekend (or a week) of seaside activities.

Leisure Suit Charters offers fully guided fishing trips out of Telegraph Cove. Not only a fishing charter service, our boats are fully equipped with a high output hydrophones, so if you choose to take a break from the fishing to find some whales; the choice is yours.

So if you are looking for a fishing destination with all the extra’s, Telegraph Cove is for you. Salmon and Halibut fishing, whale watching opportunities, great dining, a whale interpretative center, comforting accommodations and an full service RV park. Telegraph Cove has it all.

The ocean season is almost upon us. Have you booked your trip yet? Fishing out of Port Hardy, Port Mcneill and the West Coast of Vancouver Island we can offer you a fishing trip to the most productive spots Vancouver Island has to offer. Fishing for salmon, halibut and and all types of rock cod.
All in your typical day……

We usually leaving the dock at dusk and drive to the “hot spot.” Tides and yesterdays production make the choice of where we will start our day. Our guides fish everyday of prime season, so being the productive boat in the tack is not uncommon.

Putting the gear down (after getting the perfect roll) and snugging up tight to a rock face, trolling our choice bait through the water where the mature spring salmon lurk.

After reeling in your piece of B.C. chrome, I’ll snap a few pictures of you and your prize.

Approaching slack tide we can venture off to find some halibut. Jigging and trolling are the most popular methods of catching these beasts.

Prime dates book up fast, so I would recommend booking your fishing charter early to avoid disappointment. Hope to see you this summer!

*Remember Leisure Suit Charters is not a seasonal fishing company guiding with weekend fisherman. Our guides fish as their full-time occupation, and it shows!

The winter steelhead season is in full-swing. Having mild temperatures, great returns and good water levels are making this steelhead season one to remember!
I thought I would leave you with a few pictures of some decent fish (fish porn) to drool over.

Here is Mike holding his second steelhead ever! Catching this one at first light, it was the start of a good day. Guess you don’t need glow in the dark wool!

Vancouver Island definetly has some top notch steelhead fishing. One of these chrome beauties under your belt and your hooked for life. Leisure Suit Charters takes no responsibility for countless hours and dollars spent on fishing. Fish at your own discretion.

I was set up perfectly for this sequence after I ran my first cast through a piece of dark water at the tail out of a nice run, when a steelhead bolted out of a hole to look at what I was offering; then bolting back to where it was laying. I handed my friend the camera and said “Watch this!”.

After that fish revealed itself to me, I know exactly where to put my next cast. I stick it perfectly, upstream of where the chrome is lying.

The fish slams the float down and takes the wool. Fish on! Massive head shakes and quickly makes a run upstream, hoping to spit the hook (with no success).

After its run upstream, I work the fish closer to me which turned into a Mexican standoff, where we both catch out breath.

After the brief pause and a photo opp, the fish quickly turns its head, does a 180 and takes the current downstream. Giving resistance with my hand on the reel, keeping pressure on the hook, deciding whether the fish will turn around or if I’ll be chasing it downstream.

Having the fish take line, and not turning around I make a quick dash downstream to get back in control. This is where the fish takes me for a run.

The fish heads right towards a root bank. I have to give it the gears to keep its head out of the sticks; which would love to pull that hook out of the side of this fish’s mouth and leave me tangled, with only a glimpse.

Finally giving up, tired and defeated. The fish bow’s it’s head submitting.

Quickly tailing with one hand, lying the rod over your knees and pulling out the hook with the other before picking it up.

A quick picture with my prize, before it was released. 34 × 16 wild buck.

C.P.R- Catch, Picture and Released