2024 Nanaimo Reports

[Babyduck Industries]

Heading out to Gabe on Friday afternoon to see if we can find some Coho. First time fishing this area for Coho so I will let you guys know how it goes. Any pointers are welcome.

 

[Aquaholic]

Heading out to Gabe on Friday afternoon to see if we can find some Coho. First time fishing this area for Coho so I will let you guys know how it goes. Any pointers are welcome.

Are you the aluminum boat builder?

 

[Grace underfire]

Was out on Wed evening. About 10 boats around Fingers and didn't see anyone do anything for maybe 1 1/2 hours. So trolled over to Snake and found (and released) quite a few chinook. No sign of a coho though.

 

[Babyduck Industries]

Are you the aluminum boat builder?

I was, haven’t built any for a few years now though.

 

[Slammin_salmon]

Has anyone tried these areas 17-6,17-9 that are open for hatch chinook or is it open because their are none in there?

 

[darin359]

Has anyone tried these areas 17-6,17-9 that are open for hatch chinook or is it open because their are none in there?

Definitely fish around at tent island. Always worth a try! Have had good luck there in the last couple of months for hatcheries. If your not familiar with the area fish inbetween the reef and west side of tent island close to the bottom (100-120ft) 3” spoons with some green

 

[Slammin_salmon]

Definitely fish around at tent island. Always worth a try! Have had good luck there in the last couple of months for hatcheries. If your not familiar with the area fish inbetween the reef and west side of tent island close to the bottom (100-120ft) 3” spoons with some green

Ok thanks

 

[Aces]

Good numbers of coho off the fingers. Got our 4 clipped ones and released 9 wild so decent ratio. 90-125 ft in 3 of 3.5 inch spoons

 

[Tomfoolery]

Good numbers of coho off the fingers. Got our 4 clipped ones and released 9 wild so decent ratio. 90-125 ft in 3 of 3.5 inch spoons

Yeah, it was a quick fish today off fingers for our four and released a couple but they were all hatchery. Hit the school and hit the fish! Same depths to a tee as you and gear.

 

[TipUp]

Yeah, it was a quick fish today off fingers for our four and released a couple but they were all hatchery. Hit the school and hit the fish! Same depths to a tee as you and gear.

Awesome to hear they've shown up. We were trying last week for coho but I guess too shallow, that seems deeper then last season where we were hitting them 45 to 80'.

 

[MikePA]

Fished for 3 hours this morning at the fingers. 20 coho to the boat, one clipped.

 

[Paul Burak]

Fished for 3 hours this morning at the fingers. 20 coho to the boat, one clipped.

How deep were you fishing and what were you using ?

 

[MikePA]

How deep were you fishing and what were you using ?

90-110, small green/white spoons, green glow flasher

 

[Pineapple Express]

I posted yesterday in the Vancouver reports but I should've posted here. Fished upwind of the Five Fingers Island (northish) from 10:30-12:00. Followed @Aces description and fished 110-130 on the downriggers moving fast. Had two doubleheaders (exciting and frustrating when solo!!). Got 2 chinook to the boat, 1 wild coho (it was a big one!) and 2 hatchery coho. It was a beautiful day out on the water.

Lures were a Krippled K spoon with pink jelly tape behind a triangle spinning flasher, and a white with green flash fly hootchie behind a Westcoast Tackle "black beauty" flasher.

 

[Rain City]

I posted yesterday in the Vancouver reports but I should've posted here. Fished upwind of the Five Fingers Island (northish) from 10:30-12:00. Followed @Aces description and fished 110-130 on the downriggers moving fast. Had two doubleheaders (exciting and frustrating when solo!!). Got 2 chinook to the boat, 1 wild coho (it was a big one!) and 2 hatchery coho. It was a beautiful day out on the water.

Lures were a Krippled K spoon with pink jelly tape behind a triangle spinning flasher, and a white with green flash fly hootchie behind a Westcoast Tackle "black beauty" flasher.

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Those inline triangles are coho beasts

 

[baddogg]

I haven't been out for coho yet. I'm thinking that I will go with no flasher for a bit and see how it goes. Sounds like a ton of fish so it may be okay.

 

[Pineapple Express]

Those inline triangles are coho beasts

I love Krippled K spoons too. This combo hooked several fish!

 

[chille51]

Those inline triangles are coho beasts

I've experimented with using two of them in tandem as a dummy flasher. I can't say definitively it works any better than a regular flasher, but I've caught fish with them.

 

[Pineapple Express]

I've experimented with using two of them in tandem as a dummy flasher. I can't say definitively it works any better than a regular flasher, but I've caught fish with them.

You mean kinda like a kone-zone? I remember when I was just starting out salmon fishing using a kone-zone rig off the mouth of the Fraser fishing for sockeye... I've never been as badly tangled up as I was with that dang thing. I've been too scared to ever try again! LOL!!

 

[chille51]

You mean kinda like a kone-zone? I remember when I was just starting out salmon fishing using a kone-zone rig off the mouth of the Fraser fishing for sockeye... I've never been as badly tangled up as I was with that dang thing. I've been too scared to ever try again! LOL!!

Kind of, I've never run a cone zone myself. I just clipped two of these together and clipped that to a 4' dummy clip just above the ball. Seems to work.