2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[Aquaholic]

My Garmin shows about a 5 mile difference from the red buoy at the entrance to False Creek to Sand Heads, vs to T10. In ugly weather, it can be a long 5 miles.

 

[Alex_c]

My Garmin shows about a 5 mile difference from the red buoy at the entrance to False Creek to Sand Heads, vs to T10. In ugly weather, it can be a long 5 miles.

Yep, did that a couple times in a NW 15 in my old 14’ lake
boat tinny. Was not enjoyable lol

 

[Brett83]

Hey, does anyone have a live weather report for sandheads today?

 

[pescador]

Light chop. 8 mph winds. Sunny. Fishable in a 16 ft Lund.

 

[Samnjoe]

I’m sure many of us already know this, but I just want to share something that’s worked really well for me. Whenever I need to bring my line up whether it’s to check the bait or to wrap up fishing, I never reel in too quickly. Instead, I let the flasher rise to the surface first. Doing this gives fish hanging at different depths a chance to strike the lure or bait on the way up. It’s paid off for me several times, including just yesterday when I hooked a beautiful coho using this method.
Now back to the report.

Caught a spring at 280 At WH. Lost it but caught another as the spoon came up thru the water column. Lost that one and caught another one before it got to the surface. That one went in the box.

 

[Buddha]

Pushed off this morning at 7am looking for a quick hit and run before an afternoon in the office. Emerged from the very light fog of the Sound and had a nice ride on glass across the bay on the way to SH. Dropped lines at 7:45 with a herring on 1 side and anchovy on the other fishing depths between 70 and 100 in 100-200 FOW. Trolled around with the more predictable boats for a bit but then couldn't resist poking our nose towards the green can. When we hit the point of having 8 boats in our forward 180 view with every bow pointed in a different direction we aborted and turned back to where we were. When all said and done we released 3 wild coho and an undersized feeder spring and boxed 3 white Chinook. 12, 14, and 21 lbs. Popped off the rods at 9:45 to bring in the gear and when the flasher was almost to the surface started pumping like a fish and ended the day swinging a sablefish over the rail. Decent size. Easily 5-6 portions the size you get at the Japanese sushi bar. Way more productive and successful than going into the office this morning.

 

[sherrett]

Took my 77-year-old mom for her annual fishing adventure this afternoon to Sandheads. Fished 11:30 to 2:30 and it was wild coho city for us.

Lost a couple of fish on retrievals in the twisty currents. Landed one small slot chinook we let swim away, a few pinks and 8 or 9 really feisty coho in the 7-10 lbs range. They all also swam away for another day.

Spoon outperformed bait and deeper (75’ to 105’) was better than shallower. Most fish for us and other boats we noticed seemed to hit in pretty tight to the green buoy.

Fog burned off, sun came out, winds lay down for a nice ride home.