2025 Secret Cove, Pender Harbour and Texada Reports

[Weatherall]

Sangster Yesterday morning was productive. Two limits in about two and a half hours. Bait and plugs with dummy flashers did the trick.

Not many boats, but it was mid week.

 

[sherrett]

Fished Epsom yesterday from 7-9:30 am, through the slack low tide at 7:30. Lots of rearing chinook and coho all over the water column, as shallow as 90' and as deep as 225'. Caught and returned somewhere around 25 fish.



Tried to find some bigger migratory chinooks and found one that could have been a shy slot fish, in the mid 60 cms. Let it go. Bite turned off as the tide started moving. Lots of bait out deeper with fish but no feeding fish for this guy.

I seem to remember (and my fishing journal tells me) that the first week of August is a slow week of fishing for migratory fish. Anyone getting any?

 

[Netanyahu]

Fished Epsom yesterday from 7-9:30 am, through the slack low tide at 7:30. Lots of rearing chinook and coho all over the water column, as shallow as 90' and as deep as 225'. Caught and returned somewhere around 25 fish.

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Tried to find some bigger migratory chinooks and found one that could have been a shy slot fish, in the mid 60 cms. Let it go. Bite turned off as the tide started moving. Lots of bait out deeper with fish but no feeding fish for this guy.

I seem to remember (and my fishing journal tells me) that the first week of August is a slow week of fishing for migratory fish. Anyone getting any?

Finding the same... Lots of Coho to sift through. The Springs have been Sparse. Picked up a few deep on plugs some under kept some in the 64-75 size. Fished the high yesterday looked like most of the long weekend fleet pulled out prior to the tide. Overall it has still been well worth the effort. Some windy days mixed in. Relatives converging soon so as long as they have the gas $ We will enjoy the time.. Can here Sangster calling..

 

[Jordan330]

Chinook bite has slowed for sure! Coho and pinks are thick epsom hard to get your lures down.

 

[EAGLE ROCK]

Fished Epsom yesterday from 7-9:30 am, through the slack low tide at 7:30. Lots of rearing chinook and coho all over the water column, as shallow as 90' and as deep as 225'. Caught and returned somewhere around 25 fish.

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Tried to find some bigger migratory chinooks and found one that could have been a shy slot fish, in the mid 60 cms. Let it go. Bite turned off as the tide started moving. Lots of bait out deeper with fish but no feeding fish for this guy.

I seem to remember (and my fishing journal tells me) that the first week of August is a slow week of fishing for migratory fish. Anyone getting any?

We saw you there yesterday morning along the west side of the shelf. Agreed it's hard to find the spring now, although we got a couple of nice hatchery coho at about 100', one full of herring and the other empty. No action on plugs or turds but no bananas is still working. We saw pinks jumping but thankfully didn't get any.

 

[Salish Ranger]

Had a 77 cm chinook fatty off Upwood on Tuesday. A few pinks and a lot of cohos there as well.

 

[el.Pereh]

upwood was holding Springs last two mornings. 140 to 200

 

[ab1752]

I was in Lewis Channel today and there's an absolute wall of nookies southbound...

 

[sherrett]

Fished Epsom again yesterday morning, 8 to 11 with the kids. Again lots of coho to be found, at all kinds of depths, along with some stray and ferocious pinks popping lures out of clips.

Got a few 7-8 lbs coho, all wilds so released. Had to work to find any chinooks but finally scratched up two slot fish: 64 and 66 cms.



Both hit right on bottom in 180’+, around bait but not on bait. Empty stomachs too so my guess is they’re overall passive and not feeding but unable to resist a lure passed right in front of their nose.

Only other notable event was a humpback show N off the bank. Two whales slapping white pectoral fins that looked like sails at a distance. Then one doing a headstand in the water, tail rising straight up in the air and slapping the surface. A bit mind blowing.

Speaking of blowing, wind looks hostile for the next day or two so seems to be time to get the chores done. Then back at it, maybe to Upwood.

 

[Sea.S.I]

I think the same two humpbacks (mom and calf??) have stuck around there for awhile. We watched them come leisurely up Bjerre to Fran Pen on Thursday. Same fish report too!!

 

[Girica]

Two warrior springs with bling in 2 weeks.
What's fascinating about this scenario (vs the last fish) is that the hook tips had been broken off or filed down over time whilst lodged in her gills, while the mono had mostly stayed in tact.
I wish I could somehow date her piercing. Blood seen here is from my cutting of the gills to bleed her out, but the hook scars were almost healed over.

 

[Sea.S.I]

Interesting, surprised the hooks were still embedded once they broke like that. I lost a monster earlier this month but I put a bead between the hooks for ID

 

[adanac]

Two warrior springs with bling in 2 weeks.
What's fascinating about this scenario (vs the last fish) is that the hook tips had been broken off or filed down over time whilst lodged in her gills, while the mono had mostly stayed in tact.
I wish I could somehow date her piercing. Blood seen here is from my cutting of the gills to bleed her out, but the hook scars were almost healed over.
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How much mono between hooks ? Looks like a cut plug leader maybe , pretty common to have them choke them down like that . Could be from up north

 

[Girica]

How much mono between hooks ? Looks like a cut plug leader maybe , pretty common to have them choke them down like that . Could be from up north

Short of an inch.

 

[Mekanik]

Two warrior springs with bling in 2 weeks.
What's fascinating about this scenario (vs the last fish) is that the hook tips had been broken off or filed down over time whilst lodged in her gills, while the mono had mostly stayed in tact.
I wish I could somehow date her piercing. Blood seen here is from my cutting of the gills to bleed her out, but the hook scars were almost healed over.
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How big was the spring? That’s a hoochie leader that I had a friend lose a fish on