2025 Gulf Island Reports

[A-a-Ron]

Another awesome weekend in the books. Didn’t fish too hard but found some coho off Tumbo Friday afternoon (1 hatch)
The nephews have been waiting a while to get out, and they wanted a lingcod. Little guy got a nice high teens one that took him back to bottom a couple times.
Also hooked an octopus which was a first for me, a quick release. Said hello to a couple decent springs as well, which stayed in the water of course. The back is a bit sore from crossing back this afternoon. Next upgrade, shockwave seats.

 

[A-a-Ron]

Speaking of Porlier, can anyone see any opportunity coming up for Chinook? I see some small portions of area 17, and 29-1 and 29-2 open up on the 15th. of July. I'm coming out of Maple Bay and would sure like to find something a little closer.

A lot more on the inside opens up Aug 1st (Area 18 & 19)

 

[Fisherman Rob]

Going to be boat camping at Shingle Bay on Pender this weekend. Any coho or pinks in the area? Hard to tell but looks like there may be a low water slack at about 7am on July 19th.

 

[kingspring]

Another awesome weekend in the books. Didn’t fish too hard but found some coho off Tumbo Friday afternoon (1 hatch)
The nephews have been waiting a while to get out, and they wanted a lingcod. Little guy got a nice high teens one that took him back to bottom a couple times.
Also hooked an octopus which was a first for me, a quick release. Said hello to a couple decent springs as well, which stayed in the water of course. The back is a bit sore from crossing back this afternoon. Next upgrade, shockwave seats.

 

[carpeweekend]

Going to be boat camping at Shingle Bay on Pender this weekend. Any coho or pinks in the area? Hard to tell but looks like there may be a low water slack at about 7am on July 19th.

Just head straight across from Shingle Bay to Moresby Island. Beware of the no boating and no fishing area between Pender and Moresby. Check the regulations for the no go and no fish zones. Troll in about 300 feet of water, off of Moresby and you should run Into plenty of Coho. Don't believe that the Pinks have arrived yet.

 

[Gallivanter]

Went across to Gabriola for a couple days of family fun with fishing mixed in of course.
Bait balls were pretty scattered and hard to find at certain points. The first three Chinook we hooked we lost at the boat, thought we forgot how to land fish, morale took a bit of a dip. Had to hide from the wind so we went around through Dodd’s narrows and fished the 17-16 log boom tack. Lost one nice Chinook , release 2 fat wild coho and and bagged a couple hatch coho. Decided to go to the Grande for 6pm high tide and it didn’t disappoint. One hour of fast paced action, 3 nice nooks, one right at 80cm and 4 hatch coho. Riggers at 90’ and 105’ with lemon lime flasher/green splatter teaser head/chovie.
The other rod was purple flasher with clear-purple UV hootchie. Caught a few coho on and shakers on black flasher with cop car spoon at 55’. A few crabs mixed in too, overall great trip and we got to see some Humpback's on the way home yesterday in the SOG,

 

[Maxpri]

Went across to Gabriola for a couple days of family fun with fishing mixed in of course.
Bait balls were pretty scattered and hard to find at certain points. The first three Chinook we hooked we lost at the boat, thought we forgot how to land fish, morale took a bit of a dip. Had to hide from the wind so we went around through Dodd’s narrows and fished the 17-16 log boom tack. Lost one nice Chinook , release 2 fat wild coho and and bagged a couple hatch coho. Decided to go to the Grande for 6pm high tide and it didn’t disappoint. One hour of fast paced action, 3 nice nooks, one right at 80cm and 4 hatch coho. Riggers at 90’ and 105’ with lemon lime flasher/green splatter teaser head/chovie.
The other rod was purple flasher with clear-purple UV hootchie. Caught a few coho on and shakers on black flasher with cop car spoon at 55’. A few crabs mixed in too, overall great trip and we got to see some Humpback's on the way home yesterday in the SOG,

Nice! Mind sharing the 17-16 boom tack?

 

[Gallivanter]

Nice! Mind sharing the 17-16 boom tack?