Rain City
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2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread
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A sablefish at SH, wow, I am amazed and optimistic. I know we have some deep areas in the Strait but havnt heard of anyone actually catching one. Well done.We did fish SH this aft, got 3 springs, 71, 77, 83. The 83 (which looked very deep and thick) scaled at 16# 7 ounces. All on chovies at between 40 and 60’. I’ll do better at photos in the future.
ChinookChaser
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First good one to this vessel since it opened on the first.
~24lbs
White flash fly and salty dog flasher down a lot deeper than I normally fish sandheads.
More to come.
A-a-Ron
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Does a bear sh** in the woods? Lol
Rain City
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tubber
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Clearly, I paid for my gas and time, especially since mine were both the highly sought after wild ivory artisanal subspecies. Better go warn the neighbours to close the windows since I'm about to open the ice chest for processing.
FishDoc
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SAND HEADS SEPT 11TH...
My brother and I slept in a bit and decided to head to the ramp at noon since we were out late the night before. We met up with my river fishing buddy Mark and headed out. Apparently there was an amazing AM coho bite that died once we arrived.
We picked up a couple wild coho, double header pink... but it was over all slow like expected as the tide continued to fall. I believe around slack tide way out beyond pack down 100 feet on an anchovies we picked up Mark's biggest fish ever an 18lb chinook. He was just vibrating... was awesome to see.
It stayed very slow till 5 pm and everyone was so spread out. I looked towards the green can and it was vacant. So I headed straight in. Got into 160 feet and we had two releases... landed one chinook and lost the other. Dropped the lines and instantly got another. We turned and all of a sudden it felt like 30 boats were headed right at us.
We had changed back to Hootchies and spoons and the bait was getting mauled by pinks and sockeye. The chinook seemed to enjoy the hardware. Running one rigger at 83 and one at 75 the action was consistent with several double headers. The current was strong and we had a few screamer long line releases.
Then we had a take down trolling against the current with lines straight out behind us at sharp angle that just popped and ran at high speed. Bro pick it up and was just hanging on... and then nothing. Reeled It in and the leader had snapped close to the Flasher. So I figure it had a nick from the Flasher snap unfortunately.
Got the lines reset with a different spoon and kept trolling north away from green bell against the current. Line pops and screaming like no tomorrow. Bro say better bring in the other line. I go to the other side. Pop the rod off the rigger and start reeling up the line when all of a sudden the rod doubles over and now I'm hooked up. Lines peeling out. Both fish behind boat crossing sides. I know my brother has the fish we can't lose so I pul mine in ASAP and Mark put a beauty net job on it lifting a our biggest of the day in at 20 pounds.
My brothers fight continued for about 15 minutes... and as the fish came close we could see the head was a different caliber. Took our time. We weren't going to rush anything. But as my brother slowly coaxed her to the boat she rolled, so I did a full extended reach over the back with the net and made the desperation scoop. Fish in the net! 29 pounds on the deck. So close.
Still looking for the Tyee.
My brother and I slept in a bit and decided to head to the ramp at noon since we were out late the night before. We met up with my river fishing buddy Mark and headed out. Apparently there was an amazing AM coho bite that died once we arrived.
We picked up a couple wild coho, double header pink... but it was over all slow like expected as the tide continued to fall. I believe around slack tide way out beyond pack down 100 feet on an anchovies we picked up Mark's biggest fish ever an 18lb chinook. He was just vibrating... was awesome to see.
It stayed very slow till 5 pm and everyone was so spread out. I looked towards the green can and it was vacant. So I headed straight in. Got into 160 feet and we had two releases... landed one chinook and lost the other. Dropped the lines and instantly got another. We turned and all of a sudden it felt like 30 boats were headed right at us.
We had changed back to Hootchies and spoons and the bait was getting mauled by pinks and sockeye. The chinook seemed to enjoy the hardware. Running one rigger at 83 and one at 75 the action was consistent with several double headers. The current was strong and we had a few screamer long line releases.
Then we had a take down trolling against the current with lines straight out behind us at sharp angle that just popped and ran at high speed. Bro pick it up and was just hanging on... and then nothing. Reeled It in and the leader had snapped close to the Flasher. So I figure it had a nick from the Flasher snap unfortunately.
Got the lines reset with a different spoon and kept trolling north away from green bell against the current. Line pops and screaming like no tomorrow. Bro say better bring in the other line. I go to the other side. Pop the rod off the rigger and start reeling up the line when all of a sudden the rod doubles over and now I'm hooked up. Lines peeling out. Both fish behind boat crossing sides. I know my brother has the fish we can't lose so I pul mine in ASAP and Mark put a beauty net job on it lifting a our biggest of the day in at 20 pounds.
My brothers fight continued for about 15 minutes... and as the fish came close we could see the head was a different caliber. Took our time. We weren't going to rush anything. But as my brother slowly coaxed her to the boat she rolled, so I did a full extended reach over the back with the net and made the desperation scoop. Fish in the net! 29 pounds on the deck. So close.
Still looking for the Tyee.
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