2019 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread

[Sam7]

I catch 5-600 Chinooks a year with Bananas plus i get my potassium!

Easy, don’t you mean 5-6.....
Don’t need the fishery closed down now

 

[Aces]

Easy, don’t you mean 5-6.....
Don’t need the fishery closed down now

Yeah, 5 or 6.

Our area has 20 years of dna sampling to prove that we don’t catch those Fraser Chinooks. We were open all year

 

[CatchAll]

I catch 5-600 Chinooks a year with Bananas plus i get my potassium!

To catch fish with Bananas do you cut plug the banana, or run just peel in a herring strip holder? Do you have to salt the banana first? I'm guessing fresh banana peel in a strip holder, but, honestly, I've never heard of this method before.

 

[Dorman Point]

View attachment 47295 Like I told the Key West guide that searched our lunch before our trip....you can’t have much confidence to worry about bananas

I don’t think I’d eat that banana in the picture. I don’t think it would taste much like a banana after hanging out in that slurry.

 

[wildmanyeah]

I guess no one went fishing today to windy and rainy and that’s why we are talking about bananas in a report forum that is for reports.

 

[Dorman Point]

I guess no one went fishing today to windy and rainy and that’s why we are talking about bananas in a report forum that is for reports.

Right. Sorry. I did go out tonight, fished 5-730. Slow for us, just one hit but we did box it, a nice fish of about 15-16lbs. 57’ on a white hootchie between the Bell and N Arm in about 185’.

 

[fishizzle]

Anyone on the water this morning? Thinking about going out this afternoon to the Sandheads

 

[Dixsea]

Banana is almost always closed when the salmon are migrating through. It is very shallow water anyways. Don't need to fish in there to get fish at all...

If you plot these Coordinates for 29-3 and 29-4 on your chart/gps etc you will have your boundaries and the eastern line which is the boundary between the open and the closed areas.

Subarea 29-3
Those waters of the Strait of Georgia inside a line that
begins at

49°23.021′N 123°32.166′W Gower Point
then to

49°21.500′N 123°29.157′W Popham Island
then to

49°20.907′N 123°27.903′W Worlcombe Island
then to

49°20.397′N 123°25.979′W Cape Roger Curtis
then following the southerly shoreline of Bowen Island to

49°20.135′N 123°21.643′W [Point Cowan]
then to

49°19.823′N 123°15.880′W [Point Atkinson Light]
then to

49°15.936′N 123°15.860′W Point Grey]
then to

49°15.440′N 123°16.778′W North Arm Jetty Light
then to

49°06.358′N 123°18.188′W Sand Heads Light
then to

49°08.997′N 123°38.497′W Thrasher Rock Light

Area 29-4:
Those waters of the Strait of Georgia inside a line that
begins at

49°08.997′N 123°38.497′W [Thrasher Rock Light]
then to

49°06.358′N 123°18.188′W [Sand Heads Light]
then to

49°05.262′N 123°18.615′W [Roberts Bank radar beacon]
then 176° true from Roberts Bank radar beacon to the intersection with the international boundary between Canada and the United States then following the international boundary until the intersection with a line drawn 356° true from Georgina Point
then to

48°52.430′N 123°17.483′W [Georgina Point]
then to

48°52.787′N 123°18.725′W [Rip Point]
then northerly following the shoreline to

48°54.251′N 123°20.618′W [Salamanca Point]

Direct link to all the areas boundaries/coordinates:
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng...ion-sched741607.html?txthl=2-94+29-4+2-9+29+4

Thanks very much I will begin the task of putting all of those cords into the lowrance.
Cheers!

 

[Dixsea]

Stay west of line drawn from s. jetty to n. jetty. West of marker t10.

Many thanks!

 

[Dixsea]

Anyone out at NA or T10 this morning. Looks like it may be a bit snotty.

 

[Sangstercraft]

Anyone out at NA or T10 this morning. Looks like it may be a bit snotty.

It'll calm down by this evening.

 

[ab1752]

Its dropping up the straits around Robert's creek. Might be a bit rolly but manageable. I'm off in search of islander pawl springs as I snapped one in a total rookie move cleaning up my highly neglected reels last night ack...

 

[CR Bill]

Be aware that North Arm/ Sandheads is now closed to all fishing, effective yesterday!

 

[el.Pereh]

Be aware that North Arm/ Sandheads is now closed to all fishing, effective yesterday!

It’s the same closure that was in place all year/every year. Doesn’t really effect the common areas you just can’t fish into the flats (which is really Fing good when you can on a high slack!)

 

[CBsqrd]

Be aware that North Arm/ Sandheads is now closed to all fishing, effective yesterday!

Not this again... I suggest you read the FN and look at the map of the closure area. Or just scroll back a few pages...

Let us know if you catch any chinook with yellow spots on their bellies and want to know if they are safe to eat...

 

[FloatingAroundDrinkinBeer]

Be aware that North Arm/ Sandheads is now closed to all fishing, effective yesterday!

CRBill where are you getting your info on the closure? I don't see anything on the Fishing BC App

 

[Pineapple Express]

CRBill where are you getting your info on the closure? I don't see anything on the Fishing BC App

He's wrong.

DFO has extended the closure for salmon fishing in the area called "the banana". Areas 29-6, 29,-7, 29-9, and 29-10 remain closed for salmon fishing. Fisheries Notice #FN0821

 

[ab1752]

Anyone see anything around this am? Buds are off the bell and quiet all morning.

Picked up our tix for the north shore fire fighters derby on 09 20 still about 80 to go, get on it! They're on sale at highwater in north van.

 

[ronin2024]

Anyone on the water this morning? Thinking about going out this afternoon to the Sandheads

Pretty lumpy out there. Chased us off to Milltown for lunch. We’ll try again in an hour.

 

[ab1752]

Heard of one picked up off the bell white hoochie 60' on the rigger Dont know depth.