Tons of bait around QB yesterday. Nothing but shakers for us too though.Shakers at the bell so far. No nets out
Put in a few hours in the Harbour today. 3 very undersized and 2 barely undersized, lots of bait but nothing for dinner ... apparently that means we are going out for a nice dinner tonight. Went back and forth thru the bait ball in the image 4 times and and tried all depths in it ... the ball was so thick and active that each time thru it the lines were shaking like crazy. Beautiful out there today.
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All I have heard is to leave the crab traps at home for now. Prawning is goodPlanning to get out tomorrow and fish the harbor. Any one been out lately to send a quick report? Has crabbin recovered from all the harvesting by the commis? Tried different spots before Xmas and only got a few little ones.
Did you talk to those sea lions with a machine gun?Today was close to perfect on the water. We went for an aquatic road trip to Saltspring. Left the dock in the harbour at 8:25am, crossed the flat calm strait, stopping to talk to the sea lions for a few minutes on the Galiano side of Porlier Pass on the way, and then landing at Saltspring at 925am just after the fog on that side had finishing burning off. Spent a few hours on land on that side and took a drive to see the damage caused by the recent windstorm (yikes!).
Turned around and came back this afternoon and dropped the lines at 2:45pm for a quick fish at Porlier on the way and managed to quickly box one nice little keeper and then lost our first big winter spring of the season (the better creature won the battle) before quickly pulling up and crossing the flat calm strait again, this time as the sun was setting off to the side of us.
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Not sure there was a better place in the world to be today.
Haha as I was reading his post all I was thinking was "Heeeeeeere we go"Did you talk to those sea lions with a machine gun?
Crabs gotta eatHaha as I was reading his post all I was thinking was "Heeeeeeere we go"
No ... but I think someone else must have as there were about 1/4 as many as there were at the same time last year. The much better half was the partner on the boat today and the much better half likes to see and talk to the sea lions, so we saw and talked the seal lions. As they say, happy wife means happy life (and happy wife means husband gets to fish on the way home).Did you talk to those sea lions with a machine gun?