Fished Entrance yesterday pretty much from first light to 4pm or so. Pretty lumpy holdover waves from the night before when we first got out, but it calmed down after a couple hours and was downright pleasant after lunch. Tried one tack up the back side of Gabriola in about 120 FOW without a sniff, so stuck to Entrance reef the rest of the day. Lots of wild coho, some of them quite fat but not that much of a fight given their size. Did manage to find two hatch eventually, but they were much smaller than the wilds. As for chinook not much luck there, only shakers and two on the larger end of undersize to the boat and gaff released. Had one pin popper that took me on a good run for a couple minutes, felt like a good size chinook but alas it came off before making it to the surface, so can't say for sure. Depths and lures were all over the place, but white seemed to be the best colour with a white flasher/white hoochie setup getting the most consistent action. That said, we got hits and fish on plugs and spoons as well. 602 colours mostly. Didn't try bait. Fish anywhere from 133' to 44' on the rigger. We were hugging the reef and fishing just above the bait when we saw it, or out in front of the island bait was shallower so we were too. Never did try out in the deeper water east of the reef in the ferry lanes - but saw lots of other boats out there. Wonder how they did?
