advTHXance
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Were the rats clipped or unclipped?
A DFO & wife conspiracy?... Boy do I miss fishing... But the backyard hasn't looked better!
Didn't stop to identify them. Just went straight into the unmarked mass grave with the rest of their fallen brethrenWere the rats clipped or unclipped?
Haha! Follow the money...A DFO & wife conspiracy?
With or against the current? If against, do you speed up to try to make headway? Asking for a friend...Spent less than 90 mins at Coal today just before the low slack. Released 4 fish - 1 under, and the other 3 ranging from 12-16lbs. All clipped, and all on the bottom on an AP sandlance in the ripping current!
I only speed up against the currentsWith or against the current? If against, do you speed up to try to make headway? Asking for a friend...
If possible I like to fish across the current to keep my cable angle where I like itThe science behind trolling in the current... forgive me if this is common knowledge
First of all i dont use SOG (speed over ground) on my chartplotter, i use the angle of my downrigger lines. Depending on how deep my gear is I have an idea of how steep I want the angle to be. The ideal angle will be the same at a specific depth on any day, in any current, because you use the angle of the downrigger line to gauge the amount of drag on the gear. The current may be moving differently at the surface than on the bottom or wherever your gear is, so SOW (speed over water) doesnt work either. The angle of the downrigger line is truly the best tool to gauge the speed of your gear. If you fish one side at 60, and one side at 120, at the ideal speed, the angles will obviously be different. Over time youll develop an idea of what you want your lines to look like at the depths you normally fish. To get you started, if you know what the current is doing (in Sidney I use current tables, not tide tables) you can do some guesswork and a little basic math to determine roughly what speed you want depending on whether youre trolling into, or away from, the current. At slack current, most anglers like about 1.8-2.2mph for bait, 2.2-2.5mph for spoons/hoochies, and 2.5-4.0mph for plugs. If the current is ebbing approximately 2mph, if you troll into the ebbing current, your speed (using spoons in this example) will be quite slow, somewhere around 0.2-0.5mph. When I find myself in a scenario like this ill usually troll a little faster so I cover a bit more ground, so knowing that the "ideal" speed is 0.2-0.5mph, I might troll 0.5-1.0mph. Now you get to the top of the tack and turn around, suddenly that current is travelling with you, so you need to speed up (according to your GPS) a bunch to compensate. With the same 2mph ebb current, this time trolling with it, youll want to be in the 4.2-4.5mph range. This is obviously a fairly extreme example, as most sane fishermen wont fish a 2mph current out in the open and instead will opt for a backeddy or lee side of an island, but the same math applies if the current is 1mph or 2mph or 100mph.
When the current is really moving its best to just troll along with the current and pick up your gear at the end of the tack and start again from the top, otehrwise you spend 90% of your time chugging back "upstream" and by the time you complete your turn youve already blown by half the downstream tack.
TLDR: yes I speed up to make headway when trolling into the current.
Set out the traps in the morning and carried out my business for a few hours went back to check them and couldn't have been more successful! Three Giant brown rats that have been plaguing my yard for a while.
Peanut butter was the winning bait
... Boy do I miss fishing... But the backyard hasn't looked better!
Sorry, this is not the "Onion."Sorry, but I feel compelled to weigh in on this. On my drive home last week, I witnessed a dead raccoon on the Pat Bay highway. A quick call to the local chapter of "We Love Cute Animals More Than People" confirmed my suspicions that this was obviously clear evidence that the racoons are starving.
Some additional investigation pointed clearly at the culprits as humans and their wanton overharvesting of brown rats. Local FN's are claiming that only they have the right to kill brown rats and plan to continue to use utilize their traditional harvesting methods of .22 rifles and sticks of dynamite regardless of any government legislation. David Suzuki was asked for comment and blamed climate change, tanker traffic, and anybody who doesn't agree with him, as the real problem for the plight of the raccoons. He has also reached out asking for further funding for the Suzuki foundation from government and private donors so that he can save them.
Calls for a raccoon corridor are out and the Federal government is recommending that that the Pat Bay highway be shut down as the raccoons are known to frequent this area. Justin Trudeau quickly weighed in and apologized to the FN, the raccoons, and the rats for all of the bad things done to them before he was born. Anything he has done as PM were specifically excluded from the list of apologies.
While a local raccoon expert from UVIC has explained that raccoons don't actually prey on brown rats, none of the news media have chosen to report his findings.
Sorry for the derail.
1 year this July.Good work stizzla, no mention of lost gear
Well done!I put my big girl panties on and fished with my good luck charm @advTHXance this afternoon.
My skill was surely on display (and with full guns out) I hooked a personal best (14ish) and a couple around 10. Wicked nice day. Lots of sun and laughs. Thanks man! BTW... Great left handed releases
Stizz
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Sorry, but I feel compelled to weigh in on this. On my drive home last week, I witnessed a dead raccoon on the Pat Bay highway. A quick call to the local chapter of "We Love Cute Animals More Than People" confirmed my suspicions that this was obviously clear evidence that the racoons are starving.
Some additional investigation pointed clearly at the culprits as humans and their wanton overharvesting of brown rats. Local FN's are claiming that only they have the right to kill brown rats and plan to continue to use utilize their traditional harvesting methods of .22 rifles and sticks of dynamite regardless of any government legislation. David Suzuki was asked for comment and blamed climate change, tanker traffic, and anybody who doesn't agree with him, as the real problem for the plight of the raccoons. He has also reached out asking for further funding for the Suzuki foundation from government and private donors so that he can save them.
Calls for a raccoon corridor are out and the Federal government is recommending that that the Pat Bay highway be shut down as the raccoons are known to frequent this area. Justin Trudeau quickly weighed in and apologized to the FN, the raccoons, and the rats for all of the bad things done to them before he was born. Anything he has done as PM were specifically excluded from the list of apologies.
While a local raccoon expert from UVIC has explained that raccoons don't actually prey on brown rats, none of the news media have chosen to report his findings.
Sorry for the derail.
I put my big girl panties on and fished with my good luck charm @advTHXance this afternoon.
My skill was surely on display (and with full guns out) I hooked a personal best (14ish) and a couple around 10. Wicked nice day. Lots of sun and laughs. Thanks man! BTW... Great left handed releases
Stizz
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I honestly didn’t notice if they were hatchery or not. I Just enjoyed the fight! Maybe THX noticed as he released them in the water and I stood back to give him space to do so.
Maybe if it were a 44 pounder I would’ve had a closer look. (Inside joke for the Alberta Boys)
I feel like with the closures and NOBODY else fishing on such an INCREDIBLE day, it makes for some action packed catch and release fishing.
If they actually could find a way to keep the nets out of the rivers, we would likely see a difference for the future of salmon fishing.
FYI we were at coal and the hot hand was green glow flasher and skinny G on bottom. (Sorry I’m rusty at reports as it’s been months since I’ve caught anything!)