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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wildmanyeah
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96 cm one to finish off the year leased a
65 and 75 before it
65 and 75 before it
Aquaholic
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Almost identical report, except the herring is also working good. The hatch Coho are surprising that they are here in such numbers. Only one pink to the boat so far.
Buddha
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Pushed off a little later today at 8:30 am for a "customer meeting" before coming into the office in the afternoon. Lines down at 9:15 at Sandheads tacking down towards the green can. Only had chovies today. Pretty quiet for the first hour working 100-180 FOW with only 1 pink in the box to show for it and another black cod/sablefish to join the one caught yesterday. This one came on the inside rod on a sharp turn with the line almost straight up and down near bottom. Noticed a lot of boats more north of the green can so changed tactics and headed north. Worked 200-300 FOW and started to get into some steady action and a couple of double headers. Released 3 wild coho, an undersized feeder Chinook and broke off 3 good Chinooks like others have been reporting mid leader. We did box one chinook in the chaos. After relentlessly razzing the person that tied up the leaders for a good half hour picked up lines and headed home with a hatch coho, chrome chinook (red), doe pink and a sablefish/black cod in the box. Not bad for 2.5 hours of work. Sablefish are going into the miso/sake marinade tonight for the next 3 days. They cut out beautifully.
MorganFishing
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Any recommendations for guides who may be available on short notice (for Sunday)?
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el.Pereh
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Off the dock first light today, headed to T 10 on a good report of a first light bite yesterday. 3 big dad wild cohos in the first hour. Got a report from a friend at sandheads that they had 3 springs in their first hour so we pulled the pin and rolled south, high speed! Like someone said before, T 10 is dead to me
Get there and get a hatch coho quickly. I get someone else to grab the wheel while I reset and they get the lines tangled and suck one into the prop. Then seagrass city, clearing lines for the next half hour. Spirits low
At 10 we get a big take that’s one pump off the clip peeling line. Take a few big long runs before any line is retrieved. Very stubborn at boat side, took a long time to roll it over. Nice chrome 26, 150 fow 97 on the rigger heading into the can. High fives and hugs, spirits high
Send the other rod down to 109 and we keep picking them off, no super hot bite just slow and steady every 30-60 mins or so on a similar tack. That tack dries up eventually and it’s almost time to go home, so we pull the gear up shallow and take a run in the current right up to the can. Wild coho so let’s do one more tack. No dice so time to go. Going out with the current I drop one to 57 and start packing up the other side. Look up she’s going off…last spring in the bag. Finished up with 6 and two hatch hos. Some of the unclipped were BIG
One of our springs was a beautiful purple backed 68cm red feeder. Biggest two were white, three marbles
Get there and get a hatch coho quickly. I get someone else to grab the wheel while I reset and they get the lines tangled and suck one into the prop. Then seagrass city, clearing lines for the next half hour. Spirits low
At 10 we get a big take that’s one pump off the clip peeling line. Take a few big long runs before any line is retrieved. Very stubborn at boat side, took a long time to roll it over. Nice chrome 26, 150 fow 97 on the rigger heading into the can. High fives and hugs, spirits high
Send the other rod down to 109 and we keep picking them off, no super hot bite just slow and steady every 30-60 mins or so on a similar tack. That tack dries up eventually and it’s almost time to go home, so we pull the gear up shallow and take a run in the current right up to the can. Wild coho so let’s do one more tack. No dice so time to go. Going out with the current I drop one to 57 and start packing up the other side. Look up she’s going off…last spring in the bag. Finished up with 6 and two hatch hos. Some of the unclipped were BIG
One of our springs was a beautiful purple backed 68cm red feeder. Biggest two were white, three marbles
RiverBoy
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ummm…are you taking any new patients?
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