Saxe Point
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Out with my son at Muir for halibut this morning. Got one 25 pounder just as we were about to pack it in. Only a few dogfish so it was a great day.
2024 Sooke Reports
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cby
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Incredible amount of small coho around. Mixture of hatchery and Wild. But still quite small. but a few keepers in the mixture. Fished Wed, Thurs and Fri. Weather was 10 / 10, flat calm seas every day. Sun Shining bright and fish were biting. Went 17 / 28 on Chinook over 3 days. One day with a buddy. Most Chinook were wild. Lost a couple biggies. Biggest to boat was 20lbs. Weather was epic. Fishing was ok. There is some big ones around that is for sure. Long hours on the water. 9 hrs each day. Had to work for them, change gear, depths but we found them. 50% on Spoons, 50% on bait. I would say both are working. Fish are aggressive and put up great fights.
Howesoundhound
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Hi folks. I'm thinking of planning a trip out to Sooke with my parents. Thing is that as my mom is getting older, she finds the chinook harder to fight and so now loves bottom fishing for lingcod and rockfish. When I read the past year's reports for Sooke, I see lots of great reports for salmon, but don't see a lot of reports for lingcod or rockfish. Also, I have a few buddies that say Victoria is much better for those types of fish than Sooke. Would really appreciate your thoughts on how the lingcod and rockfish fishing in Sooke compares to Victoria, so that I book the right place for my trip. Thanks in advance!
Whole in the Water
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many of the well know ling cod places have been fished out - may have to go further afield to get some of hire a guide.
Fishin
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Steady action on chunky Chinook Saturday and last night was out for a few hours got into them right away didn’t even bother putting a second rod down last night as I couldn’t even keep 1 rod in the water before getting slammed! Gotta love it I was the only boat there yet again sad times but lots of fun for catch and release. 
Fishin
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Late afternoon/evening has been extremely productive for me.
Lewy
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That's what I hear but always have to fish daytime, no other options. Last couple of years it's been good but May and June sucked for me this year and so far July isn't shaping up too good either. It's not like I'm alone, all the other boats I spoke with had dick too. I did pick up a hatchery Jack spring, very deep though. Not that I was fishing deep, tried all sorts of depths, bait, skinny G's, spoons, hootchies, plugs, coho killers all through the water column.
Fished for about 7 hrs, just couldn't find em today..
Fishin
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That’s fishing sometimes definitely a lot of Chinook around you’ll get into them! tides are a big factor as well.
cby
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Where you fishing Lewy? What Depth mainly?
Lewy
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Started about 8.30 am. A few turns in the bay early on then out from Creke past Aldridge almost to the head then over towards Bedford then mid channel run back in to the bay then along shore to the Marina. Various depths 30, 50, 75, 90 and finally dropped skinny g to 170ft in mid channel on way back in, that's when I got the jack. Saw quite a bit of bait jumping here and there in the bay but no bird action at all which we thought was a bit odd.
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Out on the sunny Saturday morning. Surprised to get as parking spot at 0700 but I guess we know why. Probably missed the early bite but still managed to play with a couple of good 12lb + chinooks off the head. Saw several other boats with some pretty good sized salmon, including a couple I'm sure didn't go back. No coho for us. No whales feeding on the bounty of freshly exhausted salmon.
Sam7
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Motored out from Victoria arrived and started fishing in the bay at about 7:00 after dropping the crab traps in Pedder bay. Pretty quiet, saw a few smaller fish being caught until 9:30 just as the tide was changing, the rod goes off and a nice scrappy 79 cm, clipped spring found its way in the boat. I was fishing alone so the dance card was full. I made my way out to the Head trolling and landed another 12-14lb spring which was released in the water, and then got the rod set up again and brought in a small spring was was released back into the wild.
Trolled for coho for a few more hours from the head down to Secretary and back, with no action.
Picked up the traps on my way back, a few small ones but no keepers.
This setup was working again for me!
Trolled for coho for a few more hours from the head down to Secretary and back, with no action.
Picked up the traps on my way back, a few small ones but no keepers.
This setup was working again for me!
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Went out of Cheanhua around 1:30pm dropped crab traps and main engine starts revving again. Decided to head out towards head with kicker. Just as we turned around the head. Wow, washing machine condition out there. So decided to troll our way back into the bay. In the retention zone had 3 hits and missed them all. Finally around 6pm got into a fish. Turned out to be a clipped 35cm spring. So back it goes. Pulled the crab traps. Kept 3 dungees and all others went back.
Hot-Streak
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Sounds slow out there. Aren't the coho suppose to be here by now? Was toying with going down to beachy tomorrow but it might not be worth the time or the gas..
cby
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Well thats a wrap on the most incredible fishing I have ever experienced. 3 days were lights out and 2 days were good. Last Week Wed, Thrus and Fri was the most incredible fishing I have ever experienced. Wed had 20 Chinook, all really good size. 1 close to 30, 1 over 30. 4 x 25lbs and lots of teens and 20lbs. Thurs had 25 Chinook again all good size. Lost a couple biggies, but most were 15-20lbs. Fri had 15 Chinook 1 x 30 lb was the biggest rest Teenagers, low 20's. Then it cooled off. Sat has 5 Chinook biggest 25lbs, Sunday even slower as the Killer whales came thru the trap. grrr. 4 Chinook. A few coho around. Hatchery are getting bigger once you find them. I fished 5 days in a row. 8-9 hrs days. It was the most success ever and lbs per fish was way up. Super fun. Too bad they did not stay around. As the old saying goes? Hows the fishing? It was great Yesterday and the day before? lol. Well I hit it this time!!! I don't think I will ever top that 3 day set in Sooke. Although the last few years the fishing has been getting better and better each year.
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