2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[mudguts]

Speed up and go deeper to loose the shakers.

 

[Pewpster]

Spent a a few hours around the bell this morning. One hatch that was missing a pectoral fin, a couple wild and a couple chinook released. The current was ripping and I hung up on a poorly marked commercial trap with the floats underwater. I did manage to spin around and untangled everything. Hoochies at 35' got the most action.

 

[Alex_c]

Spent a a few hours around the bell this morning. One hatch that was missing a pectoral fin, a couple wild and a couple chinook released. The current was ripping and I hung up on a poorly marked commercial trap with the floats underwater. I did manage to spin around and untangled everything. Hoochies at 35' got the most action.

Surprised you got any hatch coho at the Bell, usually none there and you definitely have to shoot to Bowen to find a single one.

 

[Aquaholic]

Surprised you got any hatch coho at the Bell, usually none there and you definitely have to shoot to Bowen to find a single one.

Bell/North Arm has been producing this year for keeper coho amongst the wild ones, and chinook.

 

[A1winder]

Had a two fish limit last week from Cowan's both fish adipose clipped and missing the right pectoral fin.
Showed them to the DFO creel checker at Vanier who was quite surprised as he did not know of any hatcheries marking with pectoral cuts.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Had a two fish limit last week from Cowan's both fish adipose clipped and missing the right pectoral fin.
Showed them to the DFO creel checker at Vanier who was quite surprised as he did not know of any hatcheries marking with pectoral cuts.

They sometimes rub them off in the holding tanks

 

[BeTheHeron]

Gower and south Bowen very slow. Morning bite. Had a Juvis salmon on every time I checked my gear. I don't think my rods were fishing half the time just pulling a baby
One small salmon took the chovie the same size as itself. Crazy little buggers.

If I start hooking those little fingerlings steady I run hootchies both sides and speed up a bit. They have a much harder time keeping up with em. Slows down the chinook fishing at times, but not as much as a drowned baby salmon on the line.

 

[Alex_c]

Bell/North Arm has been producing this year for keeper coho amongst the wild ones, and chinook.

No it hasn’t, you gotta cross to Bowen for coho. Nothing to catch within a 15 minute run from the city, nosiree, nada, zilch. Not even worth trying.

 

[Aquaholic]

No it hasn’t, you gotta cross to Bowen for coho. Nothing to catch within a 15 minute run from the city, nosiree, nada, zilch. Not even worth trying.

Right!