2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[Alex_c]

September 15th: https://notices.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=view_notice&DOC_ID=265729&ID=all

Ah yeah I remember now. Weather and work/other commitments didn’t cooperate, so I never got the chance to get out and get ‘em.

 

[A-a-Ron]

I can only recall the last sockeye opening from 2022. I would imagine it would be a reeducation for some of us on what to use and how to use it.

Sockeye 101:
-As many dummy flashers as you can run
-Slow 1.5-2 knots max
-Don’t set the hook hard (soft mouths)
-Small pink hoochies (rip off half the tentacles)
-short (18-22”) stiff leaders 50lb test

This lure looks ridiculous but it’s lights out for sockeye. If they’re there, you’ll get into them.

 

[Aquaholic]

Sockeye 101:
-As many dummy flashers as you can run
-Slow 1.5-2 knots max
-Don’t set the hook hard (soft mouths)
-Small pink hoochies (rip off half the tentacles)
-short (18-22”) stiff leaders 50lb test

This lure looks ridiculous but it’s lights out for sockeye. If they’re there, you’ll get into them.

Isn’t that also a chum attraction?

 

[Aquaholic]

Ah yeah I remember now. Weather and work/other commitments didn’t cooperate, so I never got the chance to get out and get ‘em.

They even opened the banana that year for about three days.

Subareas 29-6, 29-7, 29-9, and 29-10 (Fraser River approach area).

I would like to show that fisheries notice for 2022 where the sockeye opening was also in 28–1, 28–2, and 28–7, to the people that are selling their hair on fire for it being open now.

 

[Dogbreath]

Isn’t that also a chum attraction?

It actually works for everything.

 

[adanac]

you got your socks off the bell bouy?

This was common practice for years , caught many limits of sockeye at the bell growing up

 

[A-a-Ron]

Isn’t that also a chum attraction?

Any salmon will take any salmon gear if it’s right in their face, but this is the best way to target sockeye from what I’ve gathered over the years. Got a beauty spring on that Googly eye in 2018 I remember

 

[Aquaholic]

Any salmon will take any salmon gear if it’s right in their face, but this is the best way to target sockeye from what I’ve gathered over the years. Got a beauty spring on that Googly eye in 2018 I remember

The guys from Brown’s Bay resort were at an outdoor show a couple of years ago, and I think this is what they showed me as their best chum tractor.

 

[A-a-Ron]

The guys from Brown’s Bay resort were at an outdoor show a couple of years ago, and I think this is what they showed me as their best chum tractor.

Makes sense, I believe the chum one they have is the same colouring except a couple of the tentacles are black.

 

[Tighthead]

How to from Jason Tonelli:

 

[Pewpster]

50+ boats east of the bell. Steady hits, all pinks, all depths, no socks for us yet. Not many nets out, one foot chop.