2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[Forza]

Anybody having luck for pinks up Indian Arm?

There’s tons up there but they’re not very keen to bite. You’d be way better off fishing the mile markers if you want consistent pink action.

 

[fishin_magician]

Sept 1 is around the corner and boat launches are seriously hurting right now.

MacDonald Beach launch in Richmond has really deteriorated over the years but fees have gone up.
Examples:
The 2nd Dock is no long useable. It is fenced off.
The existing dock is often occupied with people taking way too long or derelict boats (like that sailboat recently)
The silt has filled in one side of the dock so that no one can use it on anything but a high tide.
There is a hole at the end of the ramp which the trailers sink into at low water.
The entire nook has filled in and desperately needs to be dredged. With low tides recently there is about a 3 to 4 hour window where larger boats cannot launch or haul out.
Since the old caretaker moved in the parking for trucks and trailers is no longer as organized and is helter skelter when it gets busy.
There is still fresh water available to hose your boat off and no fish cleaning table.

Have your say and complete this form. Hopefully we can get some value for our dollar there.

City of Richmond BC - Select a Form

infocentre.richmond.ca

 

[oronito]

There’s tons up there but they’re not very keen to bite. You’d be way better off fishing the mile markers if you want consistent pink action.

Do you mean like closer to Spanish banks? Trying to figure out where I can go from shore
On my paddleboard!
Or was considering paddling out from Acadia around corner towards Wreck.

 

[Nigeljp]

At low tide there is a very shallow long sand bar just south of first and second mile markers in Vancouver harbour. Maybe about 7-800 meters straight out from Acadia beach. On Sunday afternoon when the tide was flooding back in large bait schools were pushed up against the north side of the bar, which only had 3-4 feet of water over it. The pinks were going crazy feasting on them, there were hundreds jumping, mostly heading east to west along the bar. If the wind/waves are light then the sandbar is easily reachable on a paddle board from the beach. On a higher tide the pinks might be even closer to shore. Use a light spinning rod with a pink lure and you will have a blast. Look out for boats ripping through there as many cut the corner inside the markers and go close to shore. Surprised more don't ground themselves...

 

[Sea Chaser]

Sept 1 is around the corner and boat launches are seriously hurting right now.

MacDonald Beach launch in Richmond has really deteriorated over the years but fees have gone up.
Examples:
The 2nd Dock is no long useable. It is fenced off.
The existing dock is often occupied with people taking way too long or derelict boats (like that sailboat recently)
The silt has filled in one side of the dock so that no one can use it on anything but a high tide.
There is a hole at the end of the ramp which the trailers sink into at low water.
The entire nook has filled in and desperately needs to be dredged. With low tides recently there is about a 3 to 4 hour window where larger boats cannot launch or haul out.
Since the old caretaker moved in the parking for trucks and trailers is no longer as organized and is helter skelter when it gets busy.
There is still fresh water available to hose your boat off and no fish cleaning table.

Have your say and complete this form. Hopefully we can get some value for our dollar there.

City of Richmond BC - Select a Form

infocentre.richmond.ca

Thanks I sent my concerns .

 

[Pineapple Express]

Missed a few of the Googan tacks

Holy fack...remember last year Sept 30? There must've been several hundred boats out there...and one particular black-hull Cutwater that managed to **** off every single other boat out there. Gong show!

 

[Poppa Reelie]

Sept 1 is around the corner and boat launches are seriously hurting right now.

MacDonald Beach launch in Richmond has really deteriorated over the years but fees have gone up.
Examples:
The 2nd Dock is no long useable. It is fenced off.
The existing dock is often occupied with people taking way too long or derelict boats (like that sailboat recently)
The silt has filled in one side of the dock so that no one can use it on anything but a high tide.
There is a hole at the end of the ramp which the trailers sink into at low water.
The entire nook has filled in and desperately needs to be dredged. With low tides recently there is about a 3 to 4 hour window where larger boats cannot launch or haul out.
Since the old caretaker moved in the parking for trucks and trailers is no longer as organized and is helter skelter when it gets busy.
There is still fresh water available to hose your boat off and no fish cleaning table.

Have your say and complete this form. Hopefully we can get some value for our dollar there.

City of Richmond BC - Select a Form

infocentre.richmond.ca

Local papers may have interest in a story here. Richmond has so much money they were spewing cactus gift cards to all their employees, so make them pay for something useful.