Soup Knot Sea
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it’s been around for a while… although, maybe the “Consumptive activities like fishing and foraging are prohibited." is new??
2025 Sidney Reports
carpeweekend
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Given that it is a Provincially mandated reserve, I highly doubt that the DFO would have any ability (since they are Federal employees) to enforce the closure? Not really sure how the Province has the ability to put a reserve onto an area of the ocean either, and what the point of not allowing salmon fishing as a way to preserve "sea floor habitat"?
Your Provincial Government at work, using your tax dollars to find solutions to problems that don't exist .
Sorry for the derail rant.
Your Provincial Government at work, using your tax dollars to find solutions to problems that don't exist .
Sorry for the derail rant.
Srthomas75
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I went out early this morning hoping to hook some salmon. And even more hopeful for a coho. After a few hours of nothing I changed gear and tried for a ling. It took a bit and a couple undersized to find this 20lb/ 98cm.
The prawn traps had a worthwhile amount too. ( small-medium though)
kaelc
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Thanks for the report! Looks like a blue Ling? 20 prawns a trap on average? I have to do a charity trip and the fellow wants his kids to see some prawns and sea creatures. Thanks
Stizzla
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I dropped lines this evening for a dinner bite with my wife and our daughter. Brought fish n chips and it was amazing out!
Around arbutus rock for a couple of hours and had two small guys (like 16-18”ers) and dragged a few flounders around for a bit. They are annoying as they don’t really show on the rod tip when they get on.
No big action but I did get a nice bit of sun
Edit: I missed the best part. Got to reel the first one in on a Peetz reel. First time since I was a kid
Around arbutus rock for a couple of hours and had two small guys (like 16-18”ers) and dragged a few flounders around for a bit. They are annoying as they don’t really show on the rod tip when they get on.
No big action but I did get a nice bit of sun
Edit: I missed the best part. Got to reel the first one in on a Peetz reel. First time since I was a kid
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Srthomas75
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I think I had around 100 on 3 traps. 1/2 shrimp, 1/2 spot prawn. 5-6 squat crabs. About 4 hour soak time.
The creel observer guy at the ramp said that ling would be 10-12 years old.
Stizzla
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smokedvw
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Looks nice! We were going to come out last night to the spit. Today we hit the local beach.
We are going to go out tomorrow morning. I'll report back if we get anything.
Srthomas75
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A friend told me this morning that they had one about 14-15lb off the spit last night.
smokedvw
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We went right off the lighthouse there. We got a small coho 2 minutes after dropping then a small lingcod after that then nothing for 2 hours until we got a dog fish to finish it off. Haha
None were keepers.
carpeweekend
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Out for a morning fish today. Tried the open area west of Piers Island for Chinook. Washed hooks for about 90 minutes with no bites and very little bait showing up on the sounder. Pulled up and ran to Moresby to try our luck for Ling around the tide change.. Again nothing for our efforts. Decided to see if the Coho had shown up and fished in about 400' -500' of water between Moresby and Pender. Lost a good one that actually took a bit of a run. Shortly thereafter we hit a double header of hatchery Coho. Not too big but will be tasty.
We were running flasher/hootchies at around 50 - 70 feet and trolling fast. Definitely the earliest I have caught Coho in the Sidney area.
We were running flasher/hootchies at around 50 - 70 feet and trolling fast. Definitely the earliest I have caught Coho in the Sidney area.
Srthomas75
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Is that area open/ legal to fish? I tried there myself for a bit last weekend too for coho ( no luck)
Then on Canada Day at the Saturna lamb bbq I picked up some boating/ whale brochures from the parks booth. And I think it showed that zone as one of the many srkw sanctuary areas? But I’m not totally clear as it also said once they were spotted there for the season ???
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