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fish brain
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I have been buzzed by their jet while fishing Swiftshire. It came in at about 100 feet, had a good look and came back around for a second. I was sure an inflatable would be arriving soon, but it never did. With the dash 8 I hope they have pretzels.
browningmirage
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I don't think they have or have had jets...
fish brain
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I called it a jet. I don't know what it is actually, Im not an expert on planes. Im pretty sure it was this one. Whatever it is it's fast
It's called a turbo prop aircraft.
Uses a jet engine( broadly speaking) to drive a propellor.
pacemaker
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King Air, absolutely loaded with high tech electronics. That thing can spot you, ID your Reg # and / or name, and pinpoint your exact location long before you even realize it’s coming. Pretty neat setup.
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spring time
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There is a red dash 8 plane I see flying faster river pretty much once a mouth looks pretty official.
SpringFever552
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Nice to see the new plane has been made official
I mentioned this on the forum back in November, funded from DND/Navy's budget
The crews flys almost daily 52wks a yr. outfitted
with the most high tech electronic surveillance equipment available.
all to go after "colonial" grandpa and his grandkids, and look the other way for others..
True story
Slabbedout
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I am sure this guy does a few fly overs in Sannich inlet when prawning starts up
Reel_Restorations
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They have been around for a while. They were previously based out of Comox and moved up to Campbell River recently. I believe they are mostly for research and keep an eye on offshore commercial fishing.
Doug
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The creel counter you are referring to was Hugo and I’m sorry to say he past away two summers ago. Hugo all way let me know about his fly overs and what they saw. He was a really nice guy and I always provided him the information requested.
I've seen that plane numerus time a year in JDF. It usually flies down the US board line and comes back along the Canadian shore line to get a good counts of boats.
I thing the fly overs are one of the only ways DFO can estimate the fish catch and check on illegal fishing.
When every you see the DFO plane out you will see the creel counters checking fish catch ratios at the marinas VS the plane data count on boats fishing. If the plane counts 100 boats fishing and the creel counters get info from 25 boats and each boat has an average of two fish (lb by size of fish checked) caught . DFO assumes all 100 boats caught 2 fish (2 X 15lb =30lb) and a total of 200 fish (6,000lb) were caught that day. That is how they calculate the total fish take.
Going back a few years, I was in a meeting with a few guides, SFAB and DFO and the DFO fly over showed over 300 boats halibut fishing. Wolf, Foghorn and I tried to explain to the DFO rep that there are never even 200 boats halibut fishing in 19/20 in one day. Not even when the Island Outfitter derby was on and numbers by the numbers of derby tickets sold. The worst thing is if the creel counters check 25 boats and the average catch in each boat is two halibut (2 X 25lb = 50lb), DFO assumes the take is 600 halibut (30,000lb) caught that day. I don't think we got it into the DFO scientist head there are not 300 boats fishing and not every boat catches fish.
We all know, some days boats get skunked and some of those 300 boats the DFO rep said they reports on where pleasure craft and not fishing. Including those pleasure craft boats increase the fish taken numbers and effects our fish total lb numbers.
walleyes
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Pretty sure that’s a Beechcraft Kingair 200, very nice plains and yes quick.
My bro’s in-law owns I think 4 Kingairs currently. ( well he’s retired my nephews run the company now ) I have flown in them quite a bit, very sturdy built plains.
SpringVelocity
Crew Member
Guide logbooks were supposed to be used as well as a comparison from halibut effort estimates. Without them your right DFO just uses flyover and creel. That was what I was told anyways.
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