2025 Secret Cove, Pender Harbour and Texada Reports

[MiddlepointBight]

Has anyone hit up south end of Thormanby / Pirate recently for coho?

 

[EAGLE ROCK]

Glad to hear the hatcheries are out there and starting to move in!

Yup we caught some more yesterday but let them go as even at 20"or so they are still pretty skinny.

 

[Cptn_Adventure]

Question for the group - we had a bit of a debate on the boat. Would you call this a clipped adipose fin? The healed-over 90 degree notch led us to believe it was indeed a legal fish, but debated whether keeping it was risky or not. Curious what others think. Also attaching the pic of what swayed us to keep it.

Fishing report: Went out this weekend and fished a little all over. Epsom had quite a few fish Friday night, but no keepers. Some wild Coho and quite a few nice spring. East/South East Sangster fished well on Saturday with lots of action, but only one keeper... managed to bounce around a little and find some hatchery coho elsewhere. Didn't make it down to Pirate, but also curious of some of the hatchery hoes have moved that far south.

Pic of the hot lure of the weekend also attached.

 

[Pineapple Express]

I believe the language is "healed scar" for the clipped adipose fin. Looks like your fish meets that criteria.

 

[Chiu Toy]

I had some lines in the water on Sunday at Epsom, and had 3 coho to the boat, including one hatchery. Hoping it's another great year!

 

[Gopher]

Solid morning out at epsom,no action for the first hour then it was on. 5 wild and 2 hatch ho’s, all on spoons. Tons of bait out there.
Trolling at 70-90’

 

[MiddlepointBight]

Solid morning out at epsom,no action for the first hour then it was on. 5 wild and 2 hatch ho’s, all on spoons. Tons of bait out there.
Trolling at 70-90’

Right on. Were you fishing the ebb? Did you stay for the low slack?

Hope to be out next few days, see you there if tacking!

 

[adanac]

Solid morning out at epsom,no action for the first hour then it was on. 5 wild and 2 hatch ho’s, all on spoons. Tons of bait out there.
Trolling at 70-90’

atta boy gopher

 

[Girica]

fished the flood at epsom last night... it was pretay, pretay, pretay good!
hatch coho limits using spoons at 40-100ft.

 

[Gopher]

Right on. Were you fishing the ebb? Did you stay for the low slack?

Hope to be out next few days, see you there if tacking!

Yes I was fishing the ebb , stayed for the low slack that’s when I got both my hatcheries

 

[Cptn_Adventure]

As we were heading over to Sangster yesterday morning, we saw some bait jumping off the south end of Lasqueti. Decided to drop the lines in a new (to us) spot. We found a nice school of hatchery ho's, and for the first time this year we avoided the springs. It was also nice to see a higher ratio of hatchery to wild. Got our limit in about an hour on spoons from 40-70 ft. deep.

 

[ghyvr]

Fished Sangster 7:30 - 9:00 AM today. Lots of coho. 40’ - 70’ on DR. Hoochies. Then Epsom. No coho there. A bit more SE breeze than forecast.

 

[Sir Reel]

Fished Epsom Thursday afternoon. Got 2 hatch coho and gaff released a nice 10 pound Chinook.
Steady action on AP spoon and white hootchie. 60 to 80 feet.

 

[Cptn_Adventure]

Was anyone out there this weekend? How was it?

 

[EAGLE ROCK]

Was anyone out there this weekend? How was it?

we were out yesterday at Epsom.. pretty rough. Released a wild coho and good-size spring. Fast troll, 40-50’on DRs.

 

[Chiu Toy]

Fished Epsom yesterday, and despite the sloppy weather we landed 2 nice hatchery coho, and 8 wild coho. Around another 10 springs gaff released at the boat as well. Using 3 inch Irish Cream spoon and coho killer, 40-120. Most action surprisingly down deep.

 

[Girica]

A gorgeous evening at Epsom. Hatch to wild ratio 1:3, and all caught 25-40ft on hoochies.
Stayed shallow and avoided the springs except for one beastly shallow hunter.

 

[Shano]

We fished Epsom today, 2 unclipped coho and a small spring 8 or 9 pounds. Missed quite a few hits in the chop. A fair bit of weed and jellyfish slime in the choppy conditions. I may head out again later if it stops raining. The coho were about 5 pounds and were scrappers. My first time fishing there so kind of an exploratory. We had the spoons at 43 on the riggers.

 

[sly_karma]

Epsom has been busy. Lots of small springs and coho. We varied spoons, hoochies and depths, didn't seem to matter. Fun fights with feisty fish, but no lottery winners for us.

 

[Shano]

We fished Epsom this morning from 10:30 to 1:30 and we were busy - released 14 unclipped coho, kept 4 clipped coho and released 4 chinook from about 8 pounds to 14 pounds. Flash flys worked the best for us at depths from 40 to 70. I replaced the hooks on the flash flys and they were sticky sharp - sharp enough to go right thru one of my fingernails when I was cutting corners releasing an unclipped coho by grabbing the hook with my fingers rather than the gaff or pliers. We fished Pirate Rock and Epsom later this aft and we released 3 unclipped coho and 2 smallish chinook.