2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[Digger]

Fished SH 6:30 -10:30
Steady action
White hooch was was out performing the bait although the bait got the largest fish of the day 27 lbs
4 chinooks 2 hatch hoe -55/65 feet on the rigger west of the green bell
Multiple releases of wild coho

 

[FishDoc]

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.

 

[FishDoc]

Here is that crazy hootchie I called the Nuclear Chicken or Jamaican Jerk Chicken hahaha... been doing good. Something different than white. Was outfishing our white hootchie on the other side.

 

[Dorman Point]

Here is that crazy hootchie I called the Nuclear Chicken or Jamaican Jerk Chicken hahaha... been doing good. Something different than white. Was outfishing our white hootchie on the other side.

Proof that a turned-on salmon will hit just about anything…

 

[Aquaholic]

Here is that crazy hootchie I called the Nuclear Chicken or Jamaican Jerk Chicken hahaha... been doing good. Something different than white. Was outfishing our white hootchie on the other side.

Halloween Hoochie? Trick or Treat?