2025 Campbell River Reports

[coastalmarinesafety]

Fished the hump and green can Tuesday and Thursday. 5 to 8pm. Hooked into a few but seems very slow. New to fishing here and wondering if I’m missing something. Hootchie and flasher at 130 to 200 on the downrigger. Trolling with lines at 45 degrees with 18lb cannon balls. Any tips?

You got to be over the bait and you have to be right in it, to do well in CR. Generally speaking. If band of bait ball is down 200’ you got to be 220+ on DR. Fish have 5-6” herring in them now. Only troll with the current if fishing the hump to lighthouse area. Follow the tack all the Grady’s do. They have it dialed. Green can to Fransciso you can troll both ways. 175-220’ down on the 200-300’ contour can be good around there during the day. But sometimes in early morning and evening, fishing the shallows can be good for springs… if stacked with bait. If no one catching fish, find some bait in 50-120’ of water near the shoals and jig. When lots of bait around and trollers are not getting them, the jiggers usually are.

 

[RiverBoy]

there are huge concentrations of herring between the green and red cans right now. if you troll, tow a plug as deep as you dare. get your boat going at a trolling speed and drop ballsntill they hit the floor. come up ten feet if you’re worried about snagging @dogdude

 

[j.lalani]

Pretty slow yesterday for me. Fished the lighthouse tack for a bit with no luck. Moved over towards Francisco and released a nice wild coho and then got a nice keeper spring @ about 180' and released another spring slightly under that we got @ about 200'. Quite a bit different then Thursday last week were we limited on coho in under 2 hours off Francisco, had no luck with springs though.

 

[westercoaster222]

Been hearing the bait is out deeper now between the cans. We poked around for hours on Saturday and no luck until we moved to the north end of the bay off Cape Mudge Village and got a nice wild coho, and a 90+cm spring. 602 5" plug.

 

[M1SF1T]

We hit the green can today, action came on pretty quick with a nice clipped coho then a couple wild. 2 mid slot size springs were next, we kept both and changed our gear with a plan to target coho but instead reeled up the biggest spring of the day shallow on a small spoon - barely a legal fish and girthy too but it had to go back... should have held out instead of keeping both early springs. Good thing we didn't push it, Fisheries was doing inspections at the marina when we got back in. Great conditions on the water today though.

 

[M1SF1T]

Back to the green can today and it's slowed, several small wild coho. 1 undersized spring and one 67 cm under 10# spring.

Plugs were hot yesterday, today nothing, most action was on a WCT phat spoon, little bit on a hoochie.