swimmingwiththefishes
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2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread
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The king of Starry Flounder would top out around that. I think that's about the only other possibility.
Marco Polo
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zloy
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I'll just say what we lost right at the boat (after a fairly long fight with what we initially thought was a big spring) with me holding the gaff in my hand already could've been nominated as a real King of Starry flounders lol.
With so many boats out and not a single report of that kind of bycatch, this probably means nothing - just one of those random stories that people get them in this part of Georgia strait once in awhile...
The sablefish caught twice in a row here makes me wonder though...
ChinookChaser
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There are halibut here. Needle in a haystack though.
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I've caught halibut at the mouth of the Fraser. Got it on a 3" Irish Cream Kingfisher spoon. Just got the one, but they are around.
zloy
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This year?
FishDoc
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Sand Heads Sept 12th...
After 4 days of fishing this week and the two prior days with my brother, we were pretty content sleeping in. We cleaned up a bit and vacuum packed about 40 pounds of salmon... looked at the time and it was 2 pm.
Decided we better get out before the day was gone. All week the afternoon Flood Tide had been excellent. Every day the bite was turning on about an hour later. So we figured around 5pm to 6 pm things would heat up like clock work.
On our way out, my youngest daughter all of a sudden said she was coming. So we packed her along as well. Love when they actually want to come out with me.
When we arrived to the ramp and I could hear that the recently installed bilge was running constantly. So we played with it and it stopped. Another fisherman walked up to say hi and said things had been slow out there today.
We knew it would pick up, so we headed out. The weather was great and ocean was pretty flat.
Got our troll on with a white hootchie and a 4 inch green/chrome spoon. We hooked a few pinks and wild coho. Evie pulled in some fish as well and was enjoying watching the fish jump.
Some of the pinks coming in are still really chrome, but we have our share so released them all boatside.
The sun was dropping and just as suspected around 530pm we get our first chinook hook up. I think we lost the first two trolling with the current. When we turned against it we hooked a couple more that stuck.
The bite was not crazy like the two prior days, but decent. I dropped an anchovie to 95 feet and it got slammed. Evie and me slowly pulled that one in. Turned out to be a 19 pound RED! First one for us this week.
Turned back towards the green can and picked up our last one on the spoon.
The depths that worked were deeper again. 75, 85 and 95. We were marking some really big single marks down at 120 to 150 feet but we were not convincing any of them to bite down there.
The key to Sand Heads for people just getting into it is really all about timing. If you're there when the bite is on they are pretty easy to catch. The rest of the time it can be a bit of a grind.
Best of luck. I suspect the season will remain excellent until we get some rain out there.
(FYI back at the launch when the boat was out of the water it started running constantly again... so I just cut the ground to disable and figure the wiring out later. )
After 4 days of fishing this week and the two prior days with my brother, we were pretty content sleeping in. We cleaned up a bit and vacuum packed about 40 pounds of salmon... looked at the time and it was 2 pm.
Decided we better get out before the day was gone. All week the afternoon Flood Tide had been excellent. Every day the bite was turning on about an hour later. So we figured around 5pm to 6 pm things would heat up like clock work.
On our way out, my youngest daughter all of a sudden said she was coming. So we packed her along as well. Love when they actually want to come out with me.
When we arrived to the ramp and I could hear that the recently installed bilge was running constantly. So we played with it and it stopped. Another fisherman walked up to say hi and said things had been slow out there today.
We knew it would pick up, so we headed out. The weather was great and ocean was pretty flat.
Got our troll on with a white hootchie and a 4 inch green/chrome spoon. We hooked a few pinks and wild coho. Evie pulled in some fish as well and was enjoying watching the fish jump.
Some of the pinks coming in are still really chrome, but we have our share so released them all boatside.
The sun was dropping and just as suspected around 530pm we get our first chinook hook up. I think we lost the first two trolling with the current. When we turned against it we hooked a couple more that stuck.
The bite was not crazy like the two prior days, but decent. I dropped an anchovie to 95 feet and it got slammed. Evie and me slowly pulled that one in. Turned out to be a 19 pound RED! First one for us this week.
Turned back towards the green can and picked up our last one on the spoon.
The depths that worked were deeper again. 75, 85 and 95. We were marking some really big single marks down at 120 to 150 feet but we were not convincing any of them to bite down there.
The key to Sand Heads for people just getting into it is really all about timing. If you're there when the bite is on they are pretty easy to catch. The rest of the time it can be a bit of a grind.
Best of luck. I suspect the season will remain excellent until we get some rain out there.
(FYI back at the launch when the boat was out of the water it started running constantly again... so I just cut the ground to disable and figure the wiring out later. )
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FishDoc
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Lol... i only work in hospital... have to be sick enough for a hospital admission if you want to be my patient... I recommend you stay healthy. Haha.
A-a-Ron
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Check your float switch on your bilge, could be sticky and telling your bilge to stay on.
Anywho, great report.
FishDoc
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. We took it off the holder and shook it around. Could hear the float sliding up and down. Might be a faulty one or the switch like you say is sticking despite the float dropping. Will be tinkering with it some more.
Alex_c
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Fished for about 4 hours today, mostly Sandheads but did a couple passes at T-10. Was kinda slow with the action picking up in the afternoon. Broke off a nice chinook, bonked 3 hatch coho, and caught a bunch of wild coho, pinks, and a feeder spring that was under.
Definitely has been slower on the days I’ve been out this year compared to the last few years. Maybe bad timing but probably just a skill issue
Definitely has been slower on the days I’ve been out this year compared to the last few years. Maybe bad timing but probably just a skill issue
Aquaholic
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Not the lights out fishing this year for Chinook that we have experienced in past years. I noticed you also got into some hatchery, that’s just terrific that they’re here late like this. A great combination to go with the Chinook.Fished for about 4 hours today, mostly Sandheads but did a couple passes at T-10. Was kinda slow with the action picking up in the afternoon. Broke off a nice chinook, bonked 3 hatch coho, and caught a bunch of wild coho, pinks, and a feeder spring that was under.
Definitely has been slower on the days I’ve been out this year compared to the last few years. Maybe bad timing but probably just a skill issue
RiverBoy
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one of the worst things for those pumps is women’s hair. i have a brunette friend and everytime she’s on the boat her hair gets everywhere lol. she needs more milk or something. anyways…wash the boat and it ends in the bilge
FishDoc
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Thanks that makes a lot of sense too! I have 4 of those woman things with lots of hair.
Aquaholic
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Nice catch, Gator. That monstrous adipose fin looks like a rudder.
wildmanyeah
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It’s been pretty damn good this year and from what I have noticed if your in the pink schools getting them the chinook bite seems to die off.
Had the best luck when no pinks around jumping or biting or coho and the chinooks seem to move in.
Coho seem to like the faster moving current and bite more in it then chinook.
The morning bites been pretty consistent
RageWelding
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Fished 8 to 3 sandheads. Nothing was consistent for us. Rotating a lot of gear. Ended up with 2 chinook marbles and 3 hatch coho. Released 5 thick wild coho and some pinks. Leader sheared off on a frieght train of a spring at the teaser head. Best depth was 135 today 
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