2025 Nanaimo Reports
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Aces
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Nice to see you brought your pup with you for good luck
Well done. We were one of the other boats dealing with the wind at the high end of prediction.
No love on the plug for me, but a couple of coho and a 68cm at 120' on a white hoochie.
Got out for a really quick troll tonight. Solo trip. Rod in the water just after 7. Flat calm. Caught a 62cm hatchery spring right away, then nothing. Sun was down and getting dark. Did the old '5 more minutes'. Saw some fish on the fiinder and circled back. Pin popper 75cm chinook. Put up an awesome fight. Had 8 inch herring in its belly. Fished around 85 ft with a mini hotspot white glow flasher and 3.5 inch skinny g herring aid spoon. Great night for 45 minutes of trolling!
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On vacation this week so managed to take advantage of the good weather window Monday and Tuesday. Don't get water like that in Nanaimo very often! Yesterday was the better of two days action wise. We fished the afternoon flood at Entrance on Monday, 3 people in the boat and only managed to boat one hatch coho. A few more wilds and some under chinook released on my side. My fishing buddy was having an off day - he got plenty of hits but only managed to get a couple of them boat side which were all wild. Lost a lot of fish before we ever saw them - so much so that I had to give him a gentle ribbing about his conversion ratio.
Yesterday was a solo mission for me. Launching the boat by myself at first light as the low tide approached was a bit of a challenge, but got it done and now I know my bow line needs to be about 3 feet longer than it is. Add that to the winter project list. Action was pretty steady all morning though - first hour I found a consistent chinook bite between Clarke Rock and Piper's - mostly just unders but a couple that may have taped out if I brought them in the boat. All released though. Tomic 602 on one side, white glow hoochie on the other side - probably 3:1 in favour of the plug. Anywhere from right on bottom up to about 88' in 150 FOW.
Chinook bite seemed to taper off after the low slack and when the sun was fully up, but coho turned on - especially when I trolled over to fingers. 4 or 5 wilds released including a couple nice fat ones. Ended up with two hatch - one of them a decent size and fought harder than his weight. Popped the pin, took it on a good peel and lots of zipping and flipping as it got close to the boat. Almost tangled the other line but managed to avoid it with some creative rod handling. I was using chovies because I had some leftovers in the freezer that needed to be used. Almost felt like cheating the way the coho were getting after them - the hoochie on the other side never got a sniff.
Limited on coho by 11am. Water was as flat as I've ever seen it, so killed the engine and cleaned them on the boat. Poured another coffee and decided to run up north a ways and try for a ling. Took about an hour to weed through the unders before trolling up a 68 cm. Great run back to the launch again on flat clean water. Here's hoping for a few more days like that still before the end of the month.
Yesterday was a solo mission for me. Launching the boat by myself at first light as the low tide approached was a bit of a challenge, but got it done and now I know my bow line needs to be about 3 feet longer than it is. Add that to the winter project list. Action was pretty steady all morning though - first hour I found a consistent chinook bite between Clarke Rock and Piper's - mostly just unders but a couple that may have taped out if I brought them in the boat. All released though. Tomic 602 on one side, white glow hoochie on the other side - probably 3:1 in favour of the plug. Anywhere from right on bottom up to about 88' in 150 FOW.
Chinook bite seemed to taper off after the low slack and when the sun was fully up, but coho turned on - especially when I trolled over to fingers. 4 or 5 wilds released including a couple nice fat ones. Ended up with two hatch - one of them a decent size and fought harder than his weight. Popped the pin, took it on a good peel and lots of zipping and flipping as it got close to the boat. Almost tangled the other line but managed to avoid it with some creative rod handling. I was using chovies because I had some leftovers in the freezer that needed to be used. Almost felt like cheating the way the coho were getting after them - the hoochie on the other side never got a sniff.
Limited on coho by 11am. Water was as flat as I've ever seen it, so killed the engine and cleaned them on the boat. Poured another coffee and decided to run up north a ways and try for a ling. Took about an hour to weed through the unders before trolling up a 68 cm. Great run back to the launch again on flat clean water. Here's hoping for a few more days like that still before the end of the month.
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