Peter’s Pasta Receipe  1/2 diced yellow onion 1 red/orange bell pepper diced 1 clove garlic minced 1 can tomato sauce 250 ml heavy cream Diced skinless halibut White wine Capers Dill weed Some kind of soft cheese ie cream cheese or chevre Salt /pepper Fresh lemon juice Saute onion in olive oil or butter until softened add bell pepper and garlic, saute until garlic cooks out add white wine (1/4 cup) if desired add Tomato sauce, dill cook a little to reduce add cream, capers and cream cheese until it starts to thicken a little then add halibut and and simmer until fish is cooked ..read more

Fly Fishing for Coho salmon on Vancouver Island’s west coast Fighting a feisty coho, caught on a fly is exhilarating, as the Coho is often very aerobatic. When conditions are right, with the Coho salmon feeding near the surface, retreiving a fly on the surface can induce stike and then the battle begins. Be prepared; for as many coho to win the battle as you do. Fishing at first light, with rod in hand and coho slapping the water all around the boat builds the excitment. You can see your fly on the suface behind the boat. As you watch, a torbedo surfaces and charges at your fly, your feel ..read more

Guides in Kyuquot Beach House boats live in the stern. Facing their stern, facing clients, able to engage in face-to-face conversation while staying in complete control of the fishing gear is something none of the guides could envision being without. Years ago, whilst viewing a commercial troller, I thought the very complicated fishing procedure of fishing 6 lines and 100 hooks and navigating the vessel by one man had to be taken to the recreational sector. Working out of my first cruiser I was dealing with a few issues that really grated on me. My history of fishing to that juncture wa ..read more

Mike’s new favorite  6” flour tortilla Your preferred fish (Lingcod, Rock fish, Halibut) Cabbage, finely sliced Cilantro Lime Cilantro lime crema: Blend together- ⅔ cup of sour cream ⅓ cup of Greek yogurt 1 avocado ½ bunch of cilantro 1 lime ½ jalapeño (if you want it spicy) Pico de gallo: Mix together- 2-4 roma tomatoes, diced ½-1 white onion, diced 1 jalapeño pepper (remove seeds for less spice) ½ cup cilantro 1 lime, zest and juice Salt and pepper to taste Slice your fish into individual pieces and bake at 425 degrees for till just done – hot and fast Remove fish and allow ..read more

Kyuquot Beach House 2024 Fishing Outlook The short version of this outlook is that fishing should be productive in the waters around Kyuquot in 2024. It always seems to be that way, even though some years are better than others, but there are some data driven factors that support this optimistic thought. The managing authority, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), in early January released its own preliminary Salmon Outlook, with stocks categorized on a scale of 1 (poor) to 4 (abundant). For the stocks of salmon important to the recreational fishery in Areas 26/126, all are predicted to be a ..read more

Hello to our beloved Kyuquot Beach House friends and family. We hope your holidays were filled with good times, good company and great food/ We are excited to be gearing up for the 2024 season and look forward to seeing you this summer. While it will still be months before we can get back to paradise, we’ve been looking back at our years in Kyuquot and are happily reminiscing and we hope you will do the same. We hope you will take a moment out of your busy lives and look back on your photos or videos from previous trips and send them out way so we can share in the memories (and maybe to ou ..read more

2023 Lodge Season Recap Thanks for fishing with us at KBH. You and Your party made 2023 one of the most successful seasons to date. A successful 2023 season is now wrapped up, the lodge is packed up for winter. The guests and crew had a great summer….. Now looking forward to 2024 and lots of fish. Hoping the weather will cooperate in 2024 as it did in 2023. The calendar is on the web site so you can check out dates. It isn’t always up to date so please call with any questions. Many groups have booked their time slots, others are in the deciding mode. One sad note from 2023 was the loss ..read more

A favorite at Kyuquot   3 ribs celery 1 small yellow onion 4 or 5 peeled diced potatoes 1/4 cup butter 1/3 cup flour fresh or dried tarragon 2 or 3 cups chicken base or seafood base or if no seafood add a little fish sauce half litre heavy creame diced white fish and or salmon 2 cans smoked oysters and or mussels sauté celery and onion till softened cooking potatoes separately in a small pot of water until almost tender add butter to celery and onion and melt – add flour to make a roux slowly add a cup or 2 of stock depending on how thick you want the chowder it will take time ..read more

2022 Lodge Season Recap KBH had a successful 2022 season and now looking forward to a busy 2023. Last summer was one of the better years for catching fish. Most groups limited out, at times guests had to decide what they were going to do with all the fish! Fishing was strong inside and for the most part we stayed inshore and never went out to the 50 fathom line! This was a first. Mind you we did go a few miles out in search of halibut. Check out Jeremy’s more in depth fishing report and projection. 2023 time slots with availability are listed on the website. Start planning for this summer ..read more

2023 Fishing Outlook for Kyuquot Anyone who has done any fishing in the ocean over time understands that conditions rarely remain the same, with change often a factor in where we go fishing. Compared to recent decades, in Kyuquot there has been a significant change in where we do most of our chinook fishing, with almost all of it now occurring along the rocks close to town. In fact, at the Beach House none of the guides have ventured offshore after chinook for the past two seasons (2021 & 2022). There are several reasons for this – chinook non-retention outside the surfline prior to Ju ..read more