ECVI Strategy For Returning Chinook....

Seafever

Seafever

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They'll be here in a short while......Chinooks on their way to natal rivers off mid ECVI....

I'd be interested to know what your personal tips and tricks are for catching these.

I'm familiar with techniques for trolling off rivermouths etc etc etc.

Just wondering what your personal favorite methods are (if you care to divulge them) for fishing around

and about at this time.....

(On a side note:- last year there were people fishing off the "Q's" as early as mid-July in water 200ft deep with the lure down near the bottom and catching some respectable fish..........this year there hasn't been one single post concerning same........????......????)
 
I enjoy jigging off Big Q. We don't hammer tons of fish, but we get a few. It's a fun way to fish on a beauty, flat calm, warm, ECVI, summer evening. Nothing like it.

MacDeep jig, right in the bottom.

Good fun. :-)
 
When I troll in close to the shore by little Q in about 100ft of water I have used (late late August) a Purple Haze flasher with a 32 inch leader and a small pink hoochy with a glow head on it. It worked. It was recommended by a well known poster on here a couple years back.

But that's for trolling in tight when the fish are right by the rivermouth.

Wondering what depth these 'returners' would be at when they are around the vicinity but not actually heading up the river yet.

One member posted a year or so ago that he was running 5" cop-car spoons about 30 to 50ft down with good success (again late late August) off F.C.

I'm so used to going deep there it came as a surprise to me at the time.

I might also add that a recommended lure called the "Qualicum Killer" ( Clear UV hoochy with pink squirt inside) did not work for me ....except for catching the odd Coho on it.

Various versions of pinkish or pinkish-hued hoochies and spoons seem to be favored at that time. But other than the one I mentioned for rivermouth use........trolling these any where else at the time didn't seem to work either.....

Which pretty well left me with standard "goto" gear......


Kildonan:- what color/size MacDeep were you using?
 
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Black/white macdeep. Also, Lil' nibs. Black over white or purple over white.

Dark back, white body is the ticket I've
found.
 
I only fished around big Q last summer once in mid August. Fished all morning without a bite but at around 2pm got a 25 pounder on cop car hoochie with a cop car flasher in about 50 feet of water. That thing ran for the beach like crazy! It was awesome. Played it for a solid 15 minutes before landing it.
 
I too tried the famous pink stuffed hoochie here nothing on it catch most with standard flasher spoon setup although last year there was about fifty boats just swarming (fishing at its worse consideration wise "my boat is bigger than yours so move off your line") no one is touching a fish including me with flashers and spoons they are jumping around like crazy I pull out a lucky Louie plug my dad gave me from the eighties it had its own fancy box tied it on fished on surface rod fish on in less than ten minutes. It was white with jagged light blue and a touch of pink on belly and the eyes had been carved into the wood and painted yellow only time I've ever fished it afraid to lose it someone told me the shovel nose was worth a bit of money
 
mac deeps ony come in one colour, thats white with a green back . You want to use the original mac deep which is the mid size one. Best jigging depths of little Q between 50 and 80 feet
 
Anybody use actual bait around that time for troll...and to heck with dogfish?

Right now there is so much bait and small fish around I think the salmon are thumbing their noses at regular trolling hardware and rubber.....
 
hmm interesting i have one of those lucky louie plugs brand new in box... also was out in front of french creek last night got two pink salmon seems like the bait has thinned out?
 
I was at a place last night where you almost could walk across the water on bait...

Can't tell you where it is but it rhymes with Gangster.....
 
I know this is a thread for ECVI but I'm wondering if anyone has jigged successfully for salmon around the Vancouver area: T-10, Sandheads, Cap mouth. I understand that jigging at the cap mouth with a busy carousel may not be super popular, but has anyone done it successfully? I just got back from trip around bella bella doing a lot of jigging for springs and it is the most exhilarating way to hook one up IMO!

I know it has a lot to do with feed/salmon concentrations, but has anyone tried it?
 
Seafever said:
Anybody use actual bait around that time for troll...and to heck with dogfish?

Right now there is so much bait and small fish around I think the salmon are thumbing their noses at regular trolling hardware and rubber.....
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best success I've had at the Little Q was with bait...5-6" herring with a shorter leader (42"). Tough to find those herring sometimes by the end of August and the last few years when it was in short supply the anchovies just didn't cut it. Never had a problem with dogfish.
 
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