Got a slow start today. A bumpy ride out to Tunstall. We arrived at 900am. Fished Tunstall until noon. It seemed very slow, I asked a few boats and by that point it was looking slow. We moved to a little bay between Tunstall and Hutt. Tons of bait and seals everywhere. So we went over to the waterfall and nailed a beauty. 189ft on the rigger in 150 ft, bouncing off bottom essentially. It was on an Ap spoon double white glow on a green glow flasher. We tried herring aid skinny g, we tried the smaller sandlance ap, and a tomic bright spoon. Zip. The fish was filled with 3-5" anchovies and a bunch of small 2 "bait fish. Nice day.
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sweettjim
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awesome fish u fished the mile markers? i fished tunstall today nothing was happening so i trolled south end of bowen and got into four undersize all around 50 cm
DirtyDog
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How deep?
Reeltime
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Outing from this past Friday, bait size sure varies in every area, threw down a Wee G spoon, belly of the feeder was stuffed full and puking firecracker bait out of it's mouth, it was a 30 min show of fish moved in then out, spectacular views, have a video of dropping the line on the rigger and it gets hit 3/4 way down as i was slowing the rigger down with this beautiful keeper... all along Seatosky hwy
sherrett
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Fished Tunstall Bay from 9:00am - 1:00pm and got skunked. Tried depths from 140' to 250' and nothing. Tried different spoons and hootchies and nothing. Three other boats fished about the same time and tacks and I didn't see them get anything either.
Lots of fish on the sounder and clouds of bait, but no bites. High tide was a very high one and was 8:41am at the N arm. Even tried jigging for the last hour just to try something different. Very calm but no fish. When there are no fish we talk about the weather. It was a lovely day.
Lots of fish on the sounder and clouds of bait, but no bites. High tide was a very high one and was 8:41am at the N arm. Even tried jigging for the last hour just to try something different. Very calm but no fish. When there are no fish we talk about the weather. It was a lovely day.
Dorman Point
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Nice day in the Sound today, worked Hutt to Waterfall and had some good early action scrubbing bottom in the 150-165’ range. Blue splatterback hootchie and No Bananas each produced.
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sweettjim
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Awesome
Sea Chaser
Crew Member
Weather looks pretty nasty next few days . That’s because I have a free weekend and would like to go fishing
sweettjim
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Sounds about right for me too
Totally unexpected
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Seems to be thr norm...**** on a plate all week Friday comes its blowing 30 till Monday morning...WTF???
Rain City
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The guy is next level for sure.
sweettjim
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Nope I haven’t
sherrett
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I tried jigging at Tunstall Bay last week for about an hour with a glo jig that's worked well for me in the past. No luck in 130-150' just up from bottom with a slight drift. That's the only time I've tried it. Nice for the quiet though.
Deepaaaar
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I jig for them a fair bit near Sooke and it can be really effective, though I'm in a kayak and can't control my troll particularly well, so I don't bother most of the time. If you're seeing even small clusters of marks feeding on the bottom, you'll get 'em on the jig, for sure. I'm usually down at 100-140ft. It's good to jig when there are a ton of shakers around as they don't usually tangle with a jig. Can't speak for your waters, but if you have some structure, it'll likely work.
Rain City
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Not a ton of structure fishing on this side. Dragging through the mud. Gives you time to bbq.
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