Anchored in Whittacre Cove, just south of Hakai Lodge – an old-school summer fishing lodge with gray-shingled cottages on floats, owned by the same family for 30 years, and towed from Hakai Pass to River’s Inlet each fall. (Jeff and Heron will anchor here for three nights, while Kim and the boys return briefly to Seattle.)
For $100 we rent a 17-foot Boston Whaler, rods, reels, and bucket of herring. Lodge manager, Byron hands us a placemat-sized map of Hakai Marine Park’s rocky exposed shoreline, points out where the Coho are running, and turns us loose.
It’s fun speeding through the rocks and inlets, after moving at
Heron’s pace. James hooks a nice one, but the fish steals away. Darn! Jeff lands a Coho and a weird-looking rockfish. Sam lands a second Coho… it’s a beauty, and James nets it perfectly.
With Sam’s fish neatly filleted, Kim and the boys catch the lodge’s floatplane back to Seattle (a 4.5-hour flight over every island, fjord, and channel it's taken us two weeks to navigate), and Jeff dinghies back to the
Heron. Gale force winds are predicted, so we’re a bit concerned, although Whittacre Cove looks to be a well-sheltered anchorage. Stay tuned for the storm report…!
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