2025 OFFISHALL Vancouver- Howe Sound-Sechelt Fishing Reports Thread

[TucTuc]

Been busy running the gear solo here at the bell, 6 fish released all very close to legal . One on hoochies then swapped to double tomics and they seem to be liking them . Should bode well for December fishing

I love fishing plugs. Last winter had luck at the Bell with 5" 602 Tomic plugs. What was working for you? Any dummy flashers?

 

[adanac]

I love fishing plugs. Last winter had luck at the Bell with 5" 602 Tomic plugs. What was working for you? Any dummy flashers?

5 inch 602 , 5 inch 185 . no dummy , 2.5 - 2.8 Kts on bottom in like 135'

 

[mudguts]

Next summer at T10 after DFO closes SH.

 

[MiddlepointBight]

proposed closure possibly for sandheads next year theres a meeting tuesday online be sure to tune in if your interested give jason tonelli a email for the details at jtonelli@pacificangler.ca

Here are the full details to join the DFO SRKW online meeting on Wednesday, October 29 at 11:45 am PDT:

Microsoft Teams Meeting:
Meeting ID: 265 327 058 767 7
Passcode: Yo2rY7Df
Phone dial-in (Canada – Toronto): +1 647-484-5913,,344358975#
Phone Conference ID: 344 358 975#
Video conferencing device:
Tenant key: teams@dfo-mpo.video.canada.ca
Video ID: 113 359 511 1

 

[the butcher]

I attended the online DFO meeting last night that was mainly focused on closing down sandheads. There were no more than 40 attendees of which 6 were DFO. Subtract the 2 Jasons and the other people who are with organizations fighting for us to keep the scraps that we have left for the September fishery at sandheads brings the count to about 30 who attended the meeting. Very disappointing to see the poor turnout when DFO is threatening to completely shut us down with closure of the south arm. First week in September we have people taking time off work and its not uncommon to see 300-400 boats fishing sandheads up to T10. With average of 2-3 people onboard each boat that's more than 1000 people fishing sandheads each day during opening week yet we can't even get more than 30 people to login to the meeting? 30 people tells DFO we dont give a damn if they implement what they are planning on putting in place. We didnt even have to drive anywhere to attend the meeting since it was online. At the minimum we should have had hundreds login...even if you dont have the time or dont care to be present for the entire event, just login and put yourself on mute for audio and video and go about your day... if DFO sees good numbers of people logged into the meeting they may think twice about pulling these BS stunts year after year. Come on guys, we CAN and NEED to do better.

If other interest groups are willing to chain themselves to trees and block traffic to get their voices heard... the minimum we should do to fight for our right to fish is to login to a damn online meeting even if we dont participate it in. DFO said the measures will be reviewed year after year and may be altered if the data shows differently but we all know once its closed it closed for GOOD.

 

[Rain City]

Yeah but that edgy Instagram story had 1500 likes and 100 racist comments and STILL nothing was done. It's so weird.

Honestly what's more shocking is that people still think that attendance to some meeting is going to change anything our government does. I'm hoping that the guys that somehow got their foot in the door and are attending the meetings with the real decision makers are somehow making progress. Because if any of this is based on public opinion we're all screwed anyway.

 

[scott craven]

Honestly what's more shocking is that people still think that attendance to some meeting is going to change anything our government does.

This is the bottom line and the truth unfortunately!!

 

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[Aces]

Here are the full details to join the DFO SRKW online meeting on Wednesday, October 29 at 11:45 am PDT:

Microsoft Teams Meeting:
Meeting ID: 265 327 058 767 7
Passcode: Yo2rY7Df
Phone dial-in (Canada – Toronto): +1 647-484-5913,,344358975#
Phone Conference ID: 344 358 975#
Video conferencing device:
Tenant key: teams@dfo-mpo.video.canada.ca
Video ID: 113 359 511 1

I couldn’t get it to work for me

 

[sweettjim]

Next summer at T10 after DFO closes SH.

pretty much

 

[sweettjim]

I attended the online DFO meeting last night that was mainly focused on closing down sandheads. There were no more than 40 attendees of which 6 were DFO. Subtract the 2 Jasons and the other people who are with organizations fighting for us to keep the scraps that we have left for the September fishery at sandheads brings the count to about 30 who attended the meeting. Very disappointing to see the poor turnout when DFO is threatening to completely shut us down with closure of the south arm. First week in September we have people taking time off work and its not uncommon to see 300-400 boats fishing sandheads up to T10. With average of 2-3 people onboard each boat that's more than 1000 people fishing sandheads each day during opening week yet we can't even get more than 30 people to login to the meeting? 30 people tells DFO we dont give a damn if they implement what they are planning on putting in place. We didnt even have to drive anywhere to attend the meeting since it was online. At the minimum we should have had hundreds login...even if you dont have the time or dont care to be present for the entire event, just login and put yourself on mute for audio and video and go about your day... if DFO sees good numbers of people logged into the meeting they may think twice about pulling these BS stunts year after year. Come on guys, we CAN and NEED to do better.

If other interest groups are willing to chain themselves to trees and block traffic to get their voices heard... the minimum we should do to fight for our right to fish is to login to a damn online meeting even if we dont participate it in. DFO said the measures will be reviewed year after year and may be altered if the data shows differently but we all know once its closed it closed for GOOD.

my thoughts too