Qualicum Rivers Winter Harbour Fishing Lodge & Resort

07/07/2024

Last minute cancellation for one of our suites, available from the July 8th to July 18th. Two bedrooms suite, 5 single beds, BBQ deck, full kitchen, bathroom and all linens. Freezer space, flaked ice for fish, cubed ice for drinks, WiFi in main building and moorage all included. $340 per night, plus taxes. Three night minimum. Email [email protected]

07/10/2023

Morning comes early some days👍. Calm water and some great tides made for a great day. Did a little exploring in areas that we normally don’t go to, had fun and caught some nice fish. Can’t complain about 2knt winds and .7m swell height.

06/25/2023

Just an update on the new ice machine, we have changed the ice machine from unsalted solution to a salt brine solution, as this is what the machine was designed for - easier on the cutter and drum. Colder flakes make the ice last a little longer, better for the fish and transport. 1 cup of salt to approximately 2200 gallons of water, no difference in taste, but it did make the drum and cutter run smoother, little less noise and better quality flakes.

01/02/2023

WCVI Saltwater Guide Opportunity

Established West Coast Vancouver Island fishing lodge, located in Winter Harbour, is looking for a qualified guide to join our team for the 2023 season. Starting June 12 - finishing the first week of September. Requires SVOP, ROCM, First Aid and MED3 (or equivalent) while fishing out of our 26’, twin engine aluminum cabin cruisers. Experience fishing the waters of the West Coast preferred, with an emphasis on anchoring for halibut, jigging for bottom fish and trolling for salmon.

Looking for an easy going team member, with awesome guest relations, who would fit into our small, family run and family oriented fishing lodge. Land based lodge, with private staff rooms, crew kitchen and living areas. Schedule is 3/4 on, 1 day off, with the odd single day charter available on the off days.

More information on our lodge is available at www.winterharbour.com if you are interested and feel that you would be a great fit to our team, please email us at [email protected]

04/28/2022

WCVI Saltwater Guide Opportunity

Established West Coast Vancouver Island fishing lodge, located in Winter Harbour, is looking for a qualified guide to join our team for the 2023 season. Starting June 12 - finishing the first week of September. Requires SVOP, ROCM, First Aid and MED3 (or equivalent) while fishing out of our 26’, twin engine aluminum cabin cruisers. Experience fishing the waters of the West Coast preferred, with an emphasis on anchoring for halibut, jigging for bottom fish and trolling for salmon.

Looking for an easy going team member, with awesome guest relations, who would fit into our small, family run and family oriented fishing lodge. Land based lodge, with private staff rooms, crew kitchen and living areas. Schedule is 3/4 on, 1 day off, with the odd single day charter available on the off days.

More information on our lodge is available at www.winterharbour.com if you are interested and feel that you would be a great fit to our team, please email us at [email protected]

Qualicum Rivers Winter Harbour Fishing Lodge & Resort is your next fishing adventure. An exclusive resort with over 600 sq. miles of untapped fishing grounds. Located in Winter Harbour, British Columbia, Canada offering fishing charters, and suite accommodations.

07/09/2020

July 9, 2020

Special Note Regarding the 2020 Fishing Season

Just a short update on what is happening up here in Winter Harbour at the moment, plus a special update with regards to our US / International guests and the current Covid19 situation.

We are up and running this summer, although at a reduced capacity. Fishing has been stellar for bottom fish (especially Lingcod), while salmon has been hit and miss – we have had to fight the weather the last couple of weeks due to a constant barrage of SE systems that has been hounding us. The long-range forecast points to us getting back to our normal NW winds, which we are sure the guests and crew will appreciate.

With what has happened in the world these last six months, we were hoping that things would settle down and we would be able to get all of our guests up to Winter Harbour this year, but at this moment, we can’t see the Canadian borders opening up to US or International travel. The Provincial Health Office announce Tuesday that it was ‘highly unlikely’ that there would be any US or International non-essential travel for the rest of the summer. The plan was to take the June / early July groups and bring them up to the Harbour at the end of August – first part of September, but with the announcement Tuesday, we don’t think that the borders will be open to non-essential travel by then.

For all the guests who have booked dates for this 2020 summer and are unable to make it due to the Covid19 situation, we have a couple of options for you. A full refund will be given if you would like, or you can push your dates and deposits to 2021. At this moment, your current booking dates will roughly be the same for 2021, they might be off by a day or two due to holiday weekends and such, but the schedule will be similar to 2020 - we will not have the dates finalized until near the end of August at the latest.

For all of our Canadian guests who will be fishing with us this summer, we are following all COVID-19 protocols as per the Provincial Health Office, while at the lodge or out on one of our charters.

We are definitely going to miss all of our US and International guests this season, as many of you have been with us every year for the last couple of decades - we truly look forward to having all you up here every summer. We hope to see everyone who couldn’t make it this season again, either in the summer of 2021 or at the sport shows in early 2021.

Sincerely

The Knutson family

02/05/2020

Back at the Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show in Portland, OR. Getting excited for the upcoming season. Morgan and I will be here all week, maybe see you there.

01/24/2020

Down at the Washington Sportsmen’s Show in Puyallup, WA for the week, heading to Portland Sportsmen’s Show in two weeks, getting ready for the 2020 season.

06/29/2019

Quick video of what our new suites look like - interior doors, counter tops, kicks, cabinet door k***s and one set of BBQ grates were shorted - but we can still eat, sleep and fish - that is what really matters 👍. Been a busy few weeks, harbour is fairly busy for this time of year, fishing has definitely been above average, looking forward to a great summer.

05/25/2019

Dropping some campers off at a remote beach in the Winter Harbour area.

04/18/2019

It has been a difficult last 24hrs, to say the least. We have had many calls and emails since yesterday afternoon with regards to the chinook issue, asking what is going on and what are the options for our area. While we can’t give definitive answers until the official notice is released, we can give a rough update on what is happening in area 27/127 with the chinook fishery.

While we are severely disappointed with what our Federal DFO leaders have not accomplished with respect to this announcement, we still will be fishing during this period.

New update: the new regulations have been announced, a little change from what we thought earlier today. The new boundary for non-retention of chinook until midnight of July 14th is as follows (its a little confusing, but we has a similar boundary a couple of years ago with coho, fairly straight forward once you see the chart). 1nm from the seaward side of the Surfline is now the new chinook boundary line. You will be able to retain 2 chinook per day, inside of this new line. I’ll see if I can find a link to this on DFO’s website tomorrow, a visual will be easier.

Area 27 is still open for chinook retention (2 per day - same as 2018) but Area 127 (outside the Surfline) is part of the new regulations, non-retention of chinook until July 14th. Starting on July 15th, we are back to fishing the outside waters for chinook.

Inside Lippy Pt, Grants Bay, Perkins Rock, Kains Light, Inside of Lawn Point, Cliff Point, Harvey Cove, Brooks Bay (27-4) and all of Quatsino Sound (save for the RCA’s) are still open for inshore chinook fishing.

This is a tough time for the south coast, “politics in favour of science”. You would think in today’s world, governments would have knowledge to take scientific data (from their own departments no less) and work with it to produce a viable fisheries plan. Instead, they implemented such drastic measures, which by their own information, will not solve the issue.

Here is the link to DFO’s website for area maps, gives you a better idea. Also, this info is to the best of my knowledge, from the past few meetings that I have attended. Until the actual notice is out on the government fisheries notice webpage, no one can say for sure.

With regards

Rob K.

Qualicum Rivers Resort Ltd
Winter Harbour Lodge and Resort Ltd

03/29/2019

Here’s a 2D floorpan of our renovated suites, two bedrooms with two twin beds in each, full kitchen (with dishwasher and microwave), full bath, living area , and shared BBQ deck. Includes linens, dishes, cutlery, etc. As with all renovations, things could change a bit LOL.