2025 Nanaimo Reports
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Squire
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Size? I released a few little guys in March off Entrance and I’m just wondering if they are starting to put on any weight yet.
Aces
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Yeah on the smaller size. One was real small but the other 2 were keeper size to me…..4-5 lbs. my favorite eaters
Squire
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Those are a great size - the ones I released were 2 lbs or less. Looks good for June 1 then.
Aces
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tannerc
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Got into a school of clipped coho the other day off entrance, eater size.
Bordeau
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How deep are they?
Unreel
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Last few times out i've found them anywhere from 70-150' in the deeper water 300 plus off the fingers. Lots of them out there and decent size already, should be a great season for coho.
Bearded wonder
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Got out this evening for a few hours. Dropped prawn traps and went to look for lings. Found some crazy bait balls at Snake Island and got one ling cod. Also got 3 10-14lbs springs while jigging, released those. Couple hits on the swim baits. Buddy had a large spring follow his swim bait right to the boat. Prawning sucked big time. Only 1 prawn and an old chunk of rope that had crap growing on it. Water seemed quite murky.
Beautiful evening. Flat calm.
Beautiful evening. Flat calm.
I got a chinook on a swim bait fishing for lings too. Nice one too. Hooked cleanly through the nose so was a quick in water release and I think not too much damage. We found one keeper ling. Different spot than you guys, but we did bomb over to Snake at the end of the night to try our luck there. Of which we had none.
Bearded wonder
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Did you guys come and try the entrance side of Snake? We were on that side
We came over around 7:30, fished the top end (East side) first, then tried a little bit on the steep shelves on the north side. Not even a sniff in either area but didn't try for very long. We were in the Arima with the aluminum skip top.
TipUp
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Bearded wonder
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Got out yesterday evening with my father in-law. Wind died down beautifully. Trolled off 5 fingers in 300-400 of water. 1 hatch coho onto the bbq tonight. Lost another decent coho. One wild and a handful of small springs released. Black small apex at 90 ft seemed to catch the most fish. Coho was stuffed with tiny bait fish. Saw few other boats catching as well.
Also marked bait and fish from 30-110ft. Lots of activity on the sounder.
Also marked bait and fish from 30-110ft. Lots of activity on the sounder.
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Fished off Gabriola tonight. 2” flash fly behind an 8” dodger and a beat up old wee ‘g’ behind a blue mini flasher each took a clipped coho and a couple released (mostly small) Chinook. 69’ and 89’ down. Pretty cool to see all the sail boats out also, wrapping up the vanisle 360.
Bearded wonder
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Got out for a very quick fish this afternoon as it was rougher then forecasted and had broken downrigger due to an incident at Dingy Dock.
One hatch coho on a black small apex again. 90’ on the rigger in 300’ of water.
Someone got a ticket for leaving their boat at the dock too long.
One hatch coho on a black small apex again. 90’ on the rigger in 300’ of water.
Someone got a ticket for leaving their boat at the dock too long.
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Tomfoolery
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Got out for a few hours this morning and had excellent practice with my gaff release technique. My spoons targeted wild fish perfectly but I am obviously missing the magic colours that the hatchery fish are after.
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