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.

 

[RiverBoy]

well the pinks are in big time. fished the hump last night 4-7 in the chop and caught heaps of them. retained five for our friends on board. get your kids out there. small jigs or buzz bombs 75-100 feet

 

[j.lalani]

Fished sentry a bit this morning in about 220', couple undersized springs, couple wild coho released, and a couple pinks caught around 150' to 180' on spoons and anchovies. Moved to Francisco for a bit and caught a wild and hatch coho at around 160' in around 250' on hoochies. Then lighthouse for a bit on the way back in and released a couple wild coho and caught another hatch coho around 160-170' on hoochies. Can't seem to find the keeper springs though.

 

[Timecrunch]

Fished sentry a bit this morning in about 220', couple undersized springs, couple wild coho released, and a couple pinks caught around 150' to 180' on spoons and anchovies. Moved to Francisco for a bit and caught a wild and hatch coho at around 160' in around 250' on hoochies. Then lighthouse for a bit on the way back in and released a couple wild coho and caught another hatch coho around 160-170' on hoochies. Can't seem to find the keeper springs though.

It was excellent for us Wednesday and Thursday night at fransisco but by Friday morning all we could land were unders, piles of unders.

 

[j.lalani]

Anyone fish up around chatham point/thurston bay area lately?

 

[ab1752]

Full on action denham, Hull, Fredrick thsi past weekend for chinooks.

 

[Haymaker]

I just went on the Tyee pool webcam and see some guys weighing in a fish. I know there was a tyee pool blog here but couldn't find it.

Published Camera on CameraFTP.com | Tyee Pool, Tyee Club camera

Published Camera on CameraFTP.com | Tyee Pool, Camera located at Tyee Spit Campbell River Big thanks to Bob Main for supplying the camera

www.cameraftp.com

 

[Jegermiester]

I just went on the Tyee pool webcam and see some guys weighing in a fish. I know there was a tyee pool blog here but couldn't find it.

Published Camera on CameraFTP.com | Tyee Pool, Tyee Club camera

Published Camera on CameraFTP.com | Tyee Pool, Camera located at Tyee Spit Campbell River Big thanks to Bob Main for supplying the camera

www.cameraftp.com

It's under the heading of "Tales From The Tyee Pool....2025" under the What's New tab.

Picture attached for your viewing pleasure

https://sportfishingbc.com/attachments/tyee25clowescurtis-jpg.119316/

 

[TMan]

I'm at Browns Bay for a few nights....if I would like to do some fishing...close by....is it pretty much navigate to any point within a couple of miles and drop the lines? Folks are fishing just north of here, and out front of the bay and also directly across the channel. It all looks good to me and I will try regardless. Any local knowledge is always appreciated.

 

[CR Bill]

I'm at Browns Bay for a few nights....if I would like to do some fishing...close by....is it pretty much navigate to any point within a couple of miles and drop the lines? Folks are fishing just north of here, and out front of the bay and also directly across the channel. It all looks good to me and I will try regardless. Any local knowledge is always appreciated.

Fish the Browns Bay wall on the flood and give Plumper Bay a try on the Ebb. Deepwater Bay wall on the flood also - Good Luck!

 

[RiverBoy]

I'm at Browns Bay for a few nights....if I would like to do some fishing...close by....is it pretty much navigate to any point within a couple of miles and drop the lines? Folks are fishing just north of here, and out front of the bay and also directly across the channel. It all looks good to me and I will try regardless. Any local knowledge is always appreciated.

find current slack at narrows and drop down jigs for lings