2025 Secret Cove, Pender Harbour and Texada Reports

[sherrett]

Trolled a solo lap last night from 7:30 to 8:30 pm at Epsom. Started in shallow at 90' or so and moved out steadily to the NW contours. Got a few small ones and then this slot Chinook at 135'. Herring aid 3.5 glow spoon and lemon lime flasher.



Bright red meat. Stuffed with 4-5 anchovies at various stages of digestion.

 

[CIVANO]

Beautiful filet job

 

[sherrett]

Quick solo lap at Epsom this morning, 7:30 to 8:15 on the slack low tide. Worked out to the west from the elbow in tight to the marker, one rod up high and one on bottom.

Got out to about 160’, rigger at 155’. One hit, one chinook just squeaking into the slot at 79cm.



Stuffed full of anchovies from stomach to mouth, including these freshly eaten ones with the bite marks clearly marked.



Even grabbed the collars for the grill. As the kids say, IYKYK.

 

[Jordan330]

Epsom was on fire today, had a total of 54 fish to the boat and limited out 6 licenses. Biggest chinook being 86cm released. Biggest kept was 80cm. 100ft to 188ft on the downrigger, turd, no bananas and anchovie.

 

[adanac]

Quick solo lap at Epsom this morning, 7:30 to 8:15 on the slack low tide. Worked out to the west from the elbow in tight to the marker, one rod up high and one on bottom.

Got out to about 160’, rigger at 155’. One hit, one chinook just squeaking into the slot at 79cm.

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Stuffed full of anchovies from stomach to mouth, including these freshly eaten ones with the bite marks clearly marked.

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Even grabbed the collars for the grill. As the kids say, IYKYK.

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Those are herring my guy

 

[sherrett]

Those are herring my guy

Ah, you’re right. My mistake. Thank you for the correction.

 

[Jordan330]

Fished Epsom today. 6am -11am total 35fish released, kept 3 chinook 72-75cm and 6 coho. Turd, no bananas and anchovie. Same drill as yesterday

 

[Weatherall]

Fished Epsom today. 6am -11am total 35fish released, kept 3 chinook 72-75cm and 6 coho. Turd, no bananas and anchovie. Same drill as yesterday

Nice! We had a slower morning than the previous day, but still got a few fish. 1 chinook, and 2 hatchery coho. Released lots of wilds. Been fun out there.

 

[Sea.S.I]

Fished Epsom today. 6am -11am total 35fish released, kept 3 chinook 72-75cm and 6 coho. Turd, no bananas and anchovie. Same drill as yesterday

You must have dialed in your leader lengths, well done! I’ve been running the same gear, same time, same location, and managed to squeak out limits in hatchery coho but no luck in finding a slot winner yet!

 

[Rain City]

You must have dialed in your leader lengths, well done! I’ve been running the same gear, same time, same location, and managed to squeak out limits in hatchery coho but no luck in finding a slot winner yet!

Do you check your gear roll before you send it down?

 

[Sea.S.I]

Do you check your gear roll before you send it down?

I usually do but will confirm next time.i suspect I’m off with my dummy flashers. Had to get new dr balls and replaced my wigglefin gear with 11” flashers that I’m still experimenting with the dummy leader lengths. Will give another go tomorrow!

I usually fish quarry bay but haven’t heard much lately so I keep pushing to the typically productive Epson pt. Still following everyone’s report!

 

[adanac]

Up at Epsom area next three nights , going to do a mix of live bait, run and gun slow pitch jigging, and I’ve also loaded up my 8wt with heaviest grain I could find , gonna strip some big bucktails while on anchor

 

[cohochinook]

Up at Epsom area next three nights , going to do a mix of live bait, run and gun slow pitch jigging, and I’ve also loaded up my 8wt with heaviest grain I could find , gonna strip some big bucktails while on anchor

See you out there! I'm up here for the next 6 days starting Wednesday.

 

[Jordan330]

Picked up 2 ling out of Pender harbour mid day then thought I’d run up to egmont point to see if there are any fish around. First pass 15 minutes in released a 86cm on the turd hoochie. 2 unders after that and headed back.

As for quarry bay I know of an 81cm 84cm 86cm and 90cm released Sunday morning.

 

[Rain City]

Picked up 2 ling out of Pender harbour mid day then thought I’d run up to egmont point to see if there are any fish around. First pass 15 minutes in released a 86cm on the turd hoochie. 2 unders after that and headed back.

As for quarry bay I know of an 81cm 84cm 86cm and 90cm released Sunday morning.

Love it, burn that fuel.

 

[Jordan330]

Plenty of bait around as well!

 

[EAGLE ROCK]

Fished Epsom today. 6am -11am total 35fish released, kept 3 chinook 72-75cm and 6 coho. Turd, no bananas and anchovie. Same drill as yesterday

Wow, amazing success! Do you smoke a lot of them? I tried to find a spatterback turd hoochie here on the coast but everyone's out of stock. However, Pacific Angler in Vancouver has some ..can't wait to try them out on Wednesday evening! May I ask if you troll at 3+mph for spring as well as coho?

 

[Girica]

My wildly successful coho tricks from a few weeks back have run a bit stale. Hunting the shallows at high tide, two white~ish hoochies (one glow, one opalescent), 23ft & 41ft respectively. Roughly a fish every 10 mins has now shifted to a fish every hour. Could very well be any number of things (lures, tides, location, time of day, temps etc).
I kinda love it because I'm spending more time out there messing around and appreciating the dynamics. What a place to live and explore.

 

[adanac]

Got out tonight around 6 pm . Really hard tide and took us 5 attempts to set our anchor where we wanted , but ended up settling for a bit shallower in about 90’ . tide was absolutely cooking making it hard to keep live baits down , but I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than tow around flashers and spoons/hoochies these days so we stuck it out . Ended up having some of the craziest coho fishing I’ve ever had , felt like i was in the charlottes . Fish ripping baits out of our hands on the surface , big schools ( 6 - 10 coho ) following hooked fish up , eating everything . Ended up putting the live bait away to conserve it for when the tide slowed down and had a hay day on the flat fall jigs . Easily into 25 plus coho in three hours , retained our four hatch . Tide slowed down around 830 and we could get our herring into the zone we wanted to fish . Three nice chinook right away , retained a 78cm , released an over and my old man knocked one off with the net. Back out in the AM

 

[Pineapple Express]

tide was absolutely cooking making it hard to keep live baits down , but I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than tow around flashers and spoons/hoochies these days so we stuck it out .

Tell us how you really feel!

Good report as always. Sounds awesome up there right now