2016 Nanaimo Reports
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chum opening Thursday and Friday, Nanaimo river has 40 thousand chum, in the system..
willydw
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How did they do.
ExFlyGuy
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Went out for a few hours today, dropped crab traps on the south tip of protection island NOT A. Dropped prawn traps NW of snake island NOT A. the netters were out in full force and there nets were very poorly marked, I saw one boat that looked like it ran into one, and there was dead chum floating everywhere! I'm surprised any of these fish make it into the nanaimo River...
Went out to the fingers to troll around for awhile and managed 5 tiny springs to the boat and a couple LDR's.
Nice day to be on the water!
There must have been 12-16 prawn traps around the fingers, how did you guys do?
Went out to the fingers to troll around for awhile and managed 5 tiny springs to the boat and a couple LDR's.
Nice day to be on the water!
There must have been 12-16 prawn traps around the fingers, how did you guys do?
Pacific Salmon Foundation
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Don't mean to hijack the reports thread but thought all of you Nanaimo fishermen/ladies would like to know about the upcoming Nanaimo fundraising dinner & auction coming up on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 at Beban Park (2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo). If you don't have them already, tickets can be purchased in person at Gone Fishin (2981 North Island Hwy) or by calling 250.210.7011.
This is always a fun event with great auction items and around 300 guests, including lots of informative people from the biological station to chat salmon with. Huge thanks to all of the volunteers who help organize and to the donors for their great auction items and cash sponsorship!
Now, back to fishing...
This is always a fun event with great auction items and around 300 guests, including lots of informative people from the biological station to chat salmon with. Huge thanks to all of the volunteers who help organize and to the donors for their great auction items and cash sponsorship!
Now, back to fishing...
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SpringVelocity
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Pacific Salmon Foundation
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That's OK. It's a fair comment and PSF, like almost all charities, are asked this questions as people/donors rightly want to make sure their support is going to the projects and causes they care about. Our annual magazine doubles as our annual report and we have them posted online here [https://www.psf.ca/about/annual-mag] dating back to 2002 so please have a look over the financial if you'd like more info. We wouldn't be able to do a fraction of the work we do without the support of 1000's of volunteers each year but we do have a staff that has varied between 10-15 people in recent years and we also contract out technical experts/researchers/etc as needed.
We are in a very fortunate and unique situation at PSF in that at least $0.90 from every $1 donated to PSF goes directly to projects and grants. We are able to do this in part because the Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society (created by the Government of Canada in 2001) covers the majority of our core operating costs on an annual basis. The other really impressive number is that for every $1 PSF grants through our Community Salmon Program another $7 (on average) is raised at the local level through cash/in-kind contributions. Hope that helps with your inquiry @KV1
Happy to discuss further through personal message or another thread but that's enough here. Now, any fishing reports from Nanaimo lately?
We are in a very fortunate and unique situation at PSF in that at least $0.90 from every $1 donated to PSF goes directly to projects and grants. We are able to do this in part because the Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society (created by the Government of Canada in 2001) covers the majority of our core operating costs on an annual basis. The other really impressive number is that for every $1 PSF grants through our Community Salmon Program another $7 (on average) is raised at the local level through cash/in-kind contributions. Hope that helps with your inquiry @KV1
Happy to discuss further through personal message or another thread but that's enough here. Now, any fishing reports from Nanaimo lately?
straightup
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LukeSeawalker
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Out yesterday many feeders around not quite legal size yet. 165 feet was the magic depth and small spoons with green on them seemed to be the ticket. Cold day out there but was nice by the afternoon.
ExFlyGuy
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Back at it today from 8-2:30. Lots of small guys out there, biggest one was 58cm. Glow green spoons at 185 was the ticket but we picked a couple up on a white hoochie and one on a wonder bread spoon. Saw some killer whales way out past the fingers and lost one fish and all my gear to what I would guess was a seal even though I didn't see any around. Fish was on and then line just started spooling until I tighted the drag all the way down, then POP nothing... Managed 130 prawns today after we threw back all the tiny ones and the berried up ones.
