I tend to leave them for a few hours or drop late evening and get first thing in the morning. Hate the thought of someone stealing my traps. I am tempted to put a dummy string down, 2 cinderblocks on 1/4" rope see how they like that surprise
The whale watch boats are usually talking on the vhf, i think it was on channel seven but I could be wrong. Just set yours to scan and you should hear where the whales are
Humpies have been consistent early morning in front of FC whenever I’m out. Saw two Killers yesterday morning around 6:30am heading north.
Last summer I was watching humpbacks and got circled by a fast plane, a number of times, and then hailed on the radio. Turns out it's the marine mammal enforcement program (can't remember the acronym) but they're now doing aerial surveillance of how close boats are to the whales. I looked it up and I think it's 200 meters from all whales, and 400 m from Orcas. And supposed to turn off the depth sounders to avoid screwing with their echolocation. I used to turn my motor off and let them come to me, but turns out we're supposed to motor away from them if they come closer than 200m. The fine is $1000 I believe, and some people have already got it.
I think French Creek has been pretty good. Can't comment on Thrasher.
No bait at Gerald or Douglas this morning. Lots of bait at the top end of Ballenas, but only in 40 ft of water. Not much action later in the morning at the gap at Winchelsea from what I heard. Tough day.
40' is ok. The keeper i got last night i was in about 30' of water on the bait. It was getting near sundown then. Just went out for a quick hour.
I have a mooring buoy in Nuttal Bay which is just up from Schooner about a few miles. I row out from the beach to the boat.
Hey RC why rush home? Swing to the Sunshine Coast hit Sangster, Lasqueti, Texada and Epsom on the homeward tack, been productive this way and water has been falter than pee on plater, would post reports but they are not mine but it is going on. Hopefully the swimbait queen will be up to some action this weekend!
Yeah RC go there. No fish around here
I dropped the lines for an hour. Had one hit that popped off at 260 feet on the rigger with the Rain City Special combo. Watched the whale show, had a beer, a quick skinny dip and now I'm en route home air drying. It's one of those ***** plates out here. What a life. I'll swing by again on my way to Hornby in a few weeks
We didn’t need to know about your skinny dipping. Probably scared all the fish away
