2025 Nanaimo Reports

[DasBrew]

Fished Thrasher to Flat tops this morning, tons of coho and lots of Springs. Seems most people got their limits fairly quickly.

 

[seachicken]

Wicked, that’s a good pull. Thanks for the report.

I’ve got 18” square bauers, each trap has 4lb in it (tuna can of lead) and then 8lbs cannon ball 40’ above the second… they always seem to work well.

Ya got about the same again today and the new trap had a dozen or so.

Couple hours at Thrasher this morning, 2 45ish cm on the white Hoochie, lots of small on a reddish WCTW spoon. No keepers.

 

[Flywheel]

Excellent fishing continues at entrance. Quick limits for my guests in the 70-78cm range. Plugs, 200-220 feet of water 240-270 on the down riggers. Looking forward to the slot limit ending, although I haven’t seen many overs so far.

 

[Grant_J]

Porlier Pass on Friday was loads of undersized Chinook and mostly unclipped Coho, but we did get 1 keeper clipped Coho. We’ll be over to Five Fingers or Entrance on Sunday.

As a 3 yr newbie, reading these reports at first I thought it was a typo but I’m seeing so many posts with “X feet down and X + 20” or more on the downriggers. Damn. You guys are dragging your balls on the bottom! . No wonder I’m doing ok getting Coho and under size springs but can’t find a decent keeper Chinook. I don’t have the guts to drop the downriggers like that.

 

[Rain City]

Porlier Pass on Friday was loads of undersized Chinook and mostly unclipped Coho, but we did get 1 keeper clipped Coho. We’ll be over to Five Fingers or Entrance on Sunday.

As a 3 yr newbie, reading these reports at first I thought it was a typo but I’m seeing so many posts with “X feet down and X + 20” or more on the downriggers. Damn. You guys are dragging your balls on the bottom! . No wonder I’m doing ok getting Coho and under size springs but can’t find a decent keeper Chinook. I don’t have the guts to drop the downriggers like that.

Just do it, what's the worst that could happen?

 

[Flywheel]

Porlier Pass on Friday was loads of undersized Chinook and mostly unclipped Coho, but we did get 1 keeper clipped Coho. We’ll be over to Five Fingers or Entrance on Sunday.

As a 3 yr newbie, reading these reports at first I thought it was a typo but I’m seeing so many posts with “X feet down and X + 20” or more on the downriggers. Damn. You guys are dragging your balls on the bottom! . No wonder I’m doing ok getting Coho and under size springs but can’t find a decent keeper Chinook. I don’t have the guts to drop the downriggers like that.

I hit bottom at entrance all the time and haven’t lost a ball there. The herring are sitting deep. Find the bait find the fish. Good luck!