Basing my comments on the old data from the 1970's and 80's where DFO hired a commercial troller each year to fish off Nanaimo and tag and release them. They found based on the tag returns that these fish stayed in the Nanaimo area for 4 to 6 weeks, then headed north around the island then down the west coast. We see these same fish sometimes in huge numbers off Barkley Sound in late August as they head south. I should also have posted that some of the fish we have caught in the last 2 weeks have no eggs developed whatsoever, so I'm guessing these fish will not spawn until 2010. Regardless of our various theories, you have to admit these fish are not ready to enter the river any time soon, so they will be going somewhere to bulk up over the summer and I'm betting it will not be in this area.
Searun