walleyes
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Nice fish boys.Great day for us in Sooke.
Started the day releasing an 88cm, then boated a 77cm and ended with an 80cm . Flat calm till we left the water at 11am.
Nice fish boys.Great day for us in Sooke.
Started the day releasing an 88cm, then boated a 77cm and ended with an 80cm . Flat calm till we left the water at 11am.
great story reminds me of the good old days (early eighties) at Trial Island at first light two fish in the babies bath and often too early to go to workQuick solo fish this morning before a busy day with the fa
I was the first boat at Beechey this morning and got a picture perfect pass in tight …. BAM fish on! Never landed it but that was ok as it was over the slot size without question. Regrouped and made another pass and same thing never saw this one but it had some shoulders. Next 45 min was small stuff. Then I got a perfect 80cm fish that’s processed and in the freezer before 9 am.
Did you weigh the 77? I got one of those as well and didn’t.Nice fish boys.
Great fish and nice workOut 3 hours with my dad for the tide change, bam fish on right away! Small spring, let go. Next pass double header of undersize springs. Wind picked up so trolled in to the bay, BAM! Pin popper! After one hell of a fight we netted it and into boat, quick measure @ 91cm (heart breaking) snapped a quick pic and released safely- watched swim back down into the depths.
Tons of crab traps this year. Too many poorly marked.Well after the howling winds and mountainous seas of last week (ok I exaggerate! ) we got out again 6 days after our last unsuccessful trip.
Much better than last time but a disaster was still thrown into the mix, as follows.
We headed to Muir and had little herrings down about 7:15am. We successfully negotiated the gauntlet of crab traps at the Otter point end of the troll and at 8:00am I turned from setting up one side to see the rod on the land side pounding away. He had hooked himself and after giving a pretty good fight we netted a 13lb hatchery chinook. Carried on down to the Sheringham end of the troll, boated a couple of pinks on the way and made a turn.
Then I saw the classic slow pull of a snag on one rod. I looked round and off the rear port side at least 35 metres away was a crab float! Panic ensued but too late! We ended up losing both sets of gear, at least 100 feet of line on each reel and a cannon ball. I still don’t understand how on earth we snagged the crab gear. It was still the ebb and we came from the downstream end and to one side. Utterly weird and infuriating as that lot was probably 100 bucks worth. Those crab guys have a good side line going!
After I calmed down I rigged again and we trolled against the ebb, back towards the Otter end of the troll. On the way we had some curious hits which turned out to be sockeye. We released three in all. Then two more pinks, then at the same spot as the first chinook we had another decent hit which turned into a nice bar-b-q sized 9lb fish. Pulled out of the 90’ contour then and head out to round up our last two pinks and headed home.
Really great to have a flat calm day, finally, but how I hate those crab traps!!
Profisher I need to connect with you, could you email me at duncr2002@yahoo.ca. thanksI had 2 long time clients on board this morning and we headed out at 6am. By 6:20 I had the first rod in and a few minutes later the 2nd rod was down. 45 and 55 ft. I had the 3rd line floating on top and was about to plug it into the downrigger when the 45 ft line went off and Craig in disbelief came out of the cabin to take the rod. As I headed to the rod with the floating gear the centre rod bangs off the rigger. Double and we end up getting both, 80 and 75 cm. In 5 mins they are limited. We troll around to get me one, releasing one well over 80cm and one about 7-8 pounds, loose one and then end up with another 80cm in the boat. We headed out and east and picked up 6 pinks by the time we were off the bluffs and headed in early. Flat calm, lots of bait around and fish obviously...beauty and easy for me day. After all the wind this week it was a well deserved easy day.
When you talk about shallow what depths are we talking?This whole last week is some of the best fishing I have ever seen in a long time LOTS and I meant lots of fish. when you see 5 or 6 guys on at a time with fish you know its good.
today fish were shallow again and the AP spoon is absolutely crushing it im getting 75 % on the spoons and im down to fishing 1 bait, seems its doesnt matter where I heard good from beechy,trap,island otter muir etc so go anywhere.
Only thing I can say negatively is give guys room a bit dont try and take shallow tact on the way down get into the circuit there is more then enough room right rod to shore applies no need to hump each others leg its a big ocean!!!!!
Roy it’s only cause you’re showing a lot more leg than you used to with that new motor!This whole last week is some of the best fishing I have ever seen in a long time LOTS and I meant lots of fish. when you see 5 or 6 guys on at a time with fish you know its good.
today fish were shallow again and the AP spoon is absolutely crushing it im getting 75 % on the spoons and im down to fishing 1 bait, seems its doesnt matter where I heard good from beechy,trap,island otter muir etc so go anywhere.
Only thing I can say negatively is give guys room a bit dont try and take shallow tact on the way down get into the circuit there is more then enough room right rod to shore applies no need to hump each others leg its a big ocean!!!!!
i was hitting fish today at 28 to 45 feet and the AP spoon was it in the micro and the small herring sizes, i dont think it matters cleaning fish ive seen small 2 inch herring or a large 6 inch one in the gutsWhen you talk about shallow what depths are we talking?
Roy it’s only cause you’re showing a lot more leg than you used to with that new motor!