2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread
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FishDoc
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First day out since the opener... took two other docs out from work. Let them run the rigs and catch the fish. Hit the ramp at 6 am and first. 
double header chinook was 720am... then got a big hatch coho and some wilds. Took a while till 11am to get our third chinook in the boat, a chrome hatchery 18 pound. Then just pinks and another hatch coho. Later on after 3 started hook a few chinook. Had a Flasher break with a chinook hook up and a couple pop offs. Then finally landed another one 20lb. Ended with 4 chinook, 2 hatch hos, 5 pinks in the boat. Amazing weather. Too hot. Most chinook at 100 feet we were hooking. But also 60 and 80 were good. All on hootchies 28 inch leader. White hootchie got more pinks. This crazy colored hootchie orange, yellow, green and blue... i call in the Nuclear Chicken... just seems to do well on chinook and coho and the pinks don't seem to like it.
I'll be back out tomorrow. About 80 boats out at the max period today that we counted.
I think all four were marbles/ whites. Reds must have busted up river with that full moon. Seems the area in tight wasn't producing. Most were favoring further out in the afternoon. We fished in tight. Marked fish but no bites. All out 250 to 350.
double header chinook was 720am... then got a big hatch coho and some wilds. Took a while till 11am to get our third chinook in the boat, a chrome hatchery 18 pound. Then just pinks and another hatch coho. Later on after 3 started hook a few chinook. Had a Flasher break with a chinook hook up and a couple pop offs. Then finally landed another one 20lb. Ended with 4 chinook, 2 hatch hos, 5 pinks in the boat. Amazing weather. Too hot. Most chinook at 100 feet we were hooking. But also 60 and 80 were good. All on hootchies 28 inch leader. White hootchie got more pinks. This crazy colored hootchie orange, yellow, green and blue... i call in the Nuclear Chicken... just seems to do well on chinook and coho and the pinks don't seem to like it.I'll be back out tomorrow. About 80 boats out at the max period today that we counted.
I think all four were marbles/ whites. Reds must have busted up river with that full moon. Seems the area in tight wasn't producing. Most were favoring further out in the afternoon. We fished in tight. Marked fish but no bites. All out 250 to 350.
Dorman Point
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Proof that a turned-on salmon will hit just about anything…
Aquaholic
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Halloween Hoochie? Trick or Treat?
A-a-Ron
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Here I am spinning bait and breaking leaders and you’re slaying it with that odd looking piece of rubber
Love your reports by the way, keep em coming.
Squire
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The wife volunteered to go to Sandheads with me yesterday in spite of her anxiety toward steering the boat around lots of others. As a concession I agreed to just run one rod (which we often do when fishing is steady) and not make it a test of endurance. I only brought my leftover refrozen bait from Friday to help impose a limit on myself lol. We didn’t leave the house until after nine and had the lines in just before 11:00 am.
Had two hits that didn’t stick in the first ten minutes then caught a pink. After that it was all Chinook with a couple of wild coho mixed in. We had three springs in the box when I lost a good one on my last piece of bait so I quickly switched to the other rod ready with the Tomic 602 while she wasn’t looking. It took a whole 5 minutes to catch the fourth and we were all packed up and heading out by 1:30. It was a beautiful day with even better water going back.
I went through a few teaser heads and once again had nothing but the bare leader left after a hit. I tied a few new ones up last night for Thursday if the winds cooperate.
After four whites on Friday, yesterday’s springs were three reds and a white. Nothing of any size but nice table fare. 69, 73, 76 and 78 cm
The consequences of limiting out on springs with your wife is that they all come home with you for processing lol.
Had two hits that didn’t stick in the first ten minutes then caught a pink. After that it was all Chinook with a couple of wild coho mixed in. We had three springs in the box when I lost a good one on my last piece of bait so I quickly switched to the other rod ready with the Tomic 602 while she wasn’t looking. It took a whole 5 minutes to catch the fourth and we were all packed up and heading out by 1:30. It was a beautiful day with even better water going back.
I went through a few teaser heads and once again had nothing but the bare leader left after a hit. I tied a few new ones up last night for Thursday if the winds cooperate.
After four whites on Friday, yesterday’s springs were three reds and a white. Nothing of any size but nice table fare. 69, 73, 76 and 78 cm
The consequences of limiting out on springs with your wife is that they all come home with you for processing lol.
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Rain City
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Fished 10:30-4 yesterday. Not a lot of love for the time spent. The usual mix of pinks and wild coho with a few dogs in the mix this time. Had a ton of those strange hits with the bait being stripped away, I'm convinced it's seals or dogs. We never ended up trying deeper water and stayed mostly in the 130-200 FOW range and North of the pack. I'm not a huge help on the gear still so didn't have the usual enthusiasm to switch things up like we should have been. The bbq game was fire though, and still ended with a couple springs in the box. One white and one red. 
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Ringo
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No close-up shots of the white chinook?? lol
Very happy to see you getting out and enjoying this fishery.
Capt. Jack
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Question, what is FOW?
Chummer
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Feet of water
Can I go on your boat!!
kingblazer84
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@Rain City buddy im still waiting to see those fried chicken shots on the back deck! lol
Rain City
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I posted some cold leftovers once. I did actually offer to bring the fryer over to Silva Bay once. But as I keep reminding everyone, nobody responded to my offer. Even then it would have been done at the dock lol. I'm crazy, not stupid.
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RageWelding
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Left over ribs revived on the boat grill are deadly
el.Pereh
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Off the dock at 12…pretty sporty at the start but fishable at SH. Got a good spring quickly at 67 then went quiet for a couple of hours, odd coho and Pink. Was hard to keep the gear looking right with the wave and river current. Got on them in tight eventually and got two more springs, then lost the next two by the boat. After that, it was a pink and coho show, ended up with a couple hatchery. Biggest spring was 24 the other two were low teen… nice to see some real shoulders hit the deck
FishDoc
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SAND HEADS Sept 9th. . .
Well, the wind wasn't really forecasted very well... but it was blowing, building, and blowing hard from the North West. I think that's about as bad as I want it to be out there while fishing. It's hard to even stand and control the boat. Poor fishing buddies were feeling the effects of sea sickness.
We stuck it out, I was almost certain we would have to call it quits early.
The same program tried out further 300 to 400 in AM 60 to 80 down and catching a bunch of pinks and coho. Caught two hatchery coho in a row, and the rest were wilds.
No chinook, though. So we trolled back towards the light house. Whe. We were doing our turn, and we hooked our first chinook. In tight with boats around and the wind, we were forced toward the fish, and it popped off.
Continued to catch coho and pinks to the north.
It wasn't till close to 3 pm when we hooked two 54, cm chinook, a 63 cm, a 65 cm, and a 77 cm chinook. We hooked them all deep. 100, 120, and 140 feet. White/glow hootchies worked well.
Wind finally started to die down.
He started to notice the bilge wasn't coming on, and the boat was feeling a little sluggish. When we took off, it wouldn't plane so I figured it was full of water.
We used our hand pump to drain the boat while the nose was up. Crazy wind. Sinking boat. Hectic.
Well, the wind wasn't really forecasted very well... but it was blowing, building, and blowing hard from the North West. I think that's about as bad as I want it to be out there while fishing. It's hard to even stand and control the boat. Poor fishing buddies were feeling the effects of sea sickness.
We stuck it out, I was almost certain we would have to call it quits early.
The same program tried out further 300 to 400 in AM 60 to 80 down and catching a bunch of pinks and coho. Caught two hatchery coho in a row, and the rest were wilds.
No chinook, though. So we trolled back towards the light house. Whe. We were doing our turn, and we hooked our first chinook. In tight with boats around and the wind, we were forced toward the fish, and it popped off.
Continued to catch coho and pinks to the north.
It wasn't till close to 3 pm when we hooked two 54, cm chinook, a 63 cm, a 65 cm, and a 77 cm chinook. We hooked them all deep. 100, 120, and 140 feet. White/glow hootchies worked well.
Wind finally started to die down.
He started to notice the bilge wasn't coming on, and the boat was feeling a little sluggish. When we took off, it wouldn't plane so I figured it was full of water.
We used our hand pump to drain the boat while the nose was up. Crazy wind. Sinking boat. Hectic.
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