Srthomas75
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Any recent reports from Fairfax area?
( I may head that way this afternoon )
( I may head that way this afternoon )
2025 Sidney Reports
Srthomas75
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I guess I’ll add my own update. I fished Fairfax this afternoon. Only 3 fish hooked, but one was 9lb that made it into the boat.
2 other boats at one point and pretty nice November weather.
2 other boats at one point and pretty nice November weather.
BC Coast Pilot
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That was me beside you in the whaler
ryanb
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Fished Fairfax again this afternoon. There was an absolutely unreal amount of bait, and big bait too making the lines shake when you trolled through a bait ball, large herring if I had to guess.
Hooked 4 legal fish, and took home this beauty 14lber. His stomach was empty so I couldn't confirm what they were feeding on.
Hooked 4 legal fish, and took home this beauty 14lber. His stomach was empty so I couldn't confirm what they were feeding on.
kaelc
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Nice work. There was tons of bait in poets Cove last weekend, combined with shrimp at night. Ocean feels healthy right now.
Deepaaaar
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We found the same massive clouds of bait in the inlet earlier in the week. Floor to ceiling in 70-80' at times. The vast majority of it seemed like small 3" herring - that's what the birds were attacking, anyway. The big news for us is that we managed to jig up some squid. Not a ton, but I brought home 7-8 for dinner with the gf. That might've been what your lines were hitting if you were dredging the bottom. They were anywhere from 70-150'. I'm sure there were some big herring about, too, but we didn't run into any.
Oh, we didn't touch a single salmon and only marked a few all day, but we were jigging from our kayaks and got distracted by the squid.
Oh, we didn't touch a single salmon and only marked a few all day, but we were jigging from our kayaks and got distracted by the squid.
Where about's in the Inlet did you find the squid? I caught one last year in Deep Cove, tried a few times but never found them.
We use to catch them in Tod Inlet in December years ago but no chance now with all the boats anchored in there now.
Deepaaaar
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Some were in Deep Cove, others just north of Wain. They followed the general down-tide-side-of-structure rules, to some degree. Even when we found 'em, we only managed one or two from a school. Not sure why. We thought it might've been a few squid feeding on herring instead of an actual school of squid. Hard to know, really.
Got out for a couple hours this morning to get some fresh fuel through the engines. Picked up a dinner spring over by Halibut Island on an AP herring spoon in 140ft of water. Fished plugs, Sandlance and a hoochie with no action. Nice and calm out there, off the water by 11. The commercial crabbers were out in full force around sidney.
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sweettjim
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wow what a view
sweettjim
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nice fish love the colours on those feeder springs
Finally found a decent weather window to go out and hunt and gather. Got our prawns and a nice winter spring. Also had a visitor land that wanted to share some of our bounty, out off Wain Rock.
The fish had a smorgasbord in it's stomach, small herring, small squid and a digested large herring.
The fish had a smorgasbord in it's stomach, small herring, small squid and a digested large herring.
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kaelc
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Thanks for the squid report and congrats on a great day on the water.
Srthomas75
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I was today as well. About 2-1/2 hours off of Sidney spit/ lagoon. Only one undersize (maybe 45-50cm) but did get a few crab.
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