2020 Victoria and Oak Bay Reports

[habberdasher]

Whoa. Hold the phones, here. At the risk of a derail, Cataline, could you please post up some pics and the story of the boat in your Avatar, in the appropriate section? Maybe the boats/towing rigs section. She looks like a modified bartender or something like that. I’d love to know a bit more about her. Thanks in advance.

I have been fortunate enough to have been invited on Cataline she is beautiful and is amazing that she cruises so well with three men aboard and fifty horsepower

 

[Fish_whistle_express]

Beautiful day on the water today with a little bit of everything! Put in at Fleming, humpback feeding and one huge breech off albert head, sea lions eating salmon on the surface, a few dolphins and a 7lb Chinook off Constance on a 6” blue/silver coyote spoon at 130 on the rigger. Lots of boats out today so I’m sure a lot of of happy people!

 

[eroyd]

Went out for a couple of hours of Oak Bay. Fished the Gap area and caught a few springs around 45cm and kept one a little bigger. A clipped white spring. What's the significance of that? Was stuffed with 3-4" sand lance. Conditions a little lumpy but nice to get out.

 

[tinboatrobb]

Fished the harbor mouth from 10:30 to 12:00 today. We hooked 7 fish and kept one that was 55cm, not huge but man was i tasty. One crab kept also.

 

[Slabbedout]

After dealing with some motor issues, and starting late I decided launch at Fleming to fish the waterfront instead of driving to Pedder to fish Beecher or Whirl

Lots of boats out and lots of 17-18” sub legal size fish out there. I had 5 to the boat including a somewhat comical solo double header. I switched out to some bigger herring sized spoons in hopes of a decent fish but no luck.

Called it quits around 230 since it was getting bumpy and I had not seen any nets out so I figured nothing of size was happening.

Most of the action was off the flag pole in 120-140’, fish all took small AP sandlace spoons.

 

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Got my boat out on Tuesday outa Fleming 9-3pm. Went out off AlbertHead and gots nice. 61 cm right away. Put up a nice scrap which was nice for a change. Then went out to mud hole to drift jig my new Hali lure that has a strobe with huge expectations after watching the camera action. Not even a nibble lol. About 1 we went over by the anchored freighter in 135-150 ft bouncing the bottom with decent success. AP blue Niki, Herring aid glow, & no bananas spoons all caught fish. Only had 3 shakers for the whole day. SE wind and chop came up 2:30 so we grabbed the trap & kept a couple dungy’s. Was good to get the boat out with no issues & looking forward to the next calm day.

 

[eroyd]

Beautiful afternoon in Oak Bay, except maybe for all the floaties. Only had one hit to show for a couple of hours off the Gap. Looked like a few boats out on the flats. Crab traps full of undersized D's.

 

[tinboatrobb]

You should have fished the waterfront...lol

 

[eroyd]

You should have fished the waterfront...lol

I know, I just like Oak Bay being out among the islands and meeting all the nice people that paddle board up to me. Seriously I had a fellow paddle up to me out by the gap. He was alone, just wearing regular street cloths and a backpack. No visible sign of a PFD. Guess he'll be a running shoe on the beach one day.