OFFICIAL 2016 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread
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frostyballs
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No luck today at thrasher, fished from 3pm-8 and no hits. At around 7:30 tons of bait started to surface and still no hits. Gave bottom fishing a go and no takers either. The strait was relatively calm when we crossed it.
63stingray
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We started at HITW hit one a hour in was a good fight came to the boat pretty quik and when we got to see it lets say it was north of 30!!!and panic started lol 20 mins later we got it back to the boat and we tried to net it but our so called salmon net wasnt big enough and it didnt like the net and launched and snapped the leader 
what a bummer!!! Stayed till the end of the tide change and headed to the fisheries and got 4 under size springs on white hootchies and not one coho!!! Gonna head out tomorrow again and see if we can find another bad boy!!
what a bummer!!! Stayed till the end of the tide change and headed to the fisheries and got 4 under size springs on white hootchies and not one coho!!! Gonna head out tomorrow again and see if we can find another bad boy!!
Tockeyetalmon
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Lots of boats out at sandheads. No wet nets yet.
63stingray
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We fished west van flats and got one 7lb coho and one undersize spring , pretty slow still.
63stingray
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A few charter boats got a couple I seen not to many caught!!!
fishin_magician
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Lots of Sox around right now.... Not in massive schools but quite a lot for sure.
Seals are going to have a problem... transient and resident a killers have been around frequently... And I anticipate the transients will be by a lot more. Seal populations are at historical highs.
Tockeyetalmon
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They ever show up on my boat I'll shoot em in the head right than and there
Salmon is good eats, hundreds of thousands of seals can't be wrong 
I wonder where the salmon went????????
DFO
"The
highest densities of harbour seals occur in the protected waters of the Strait of Georgia
(13.1 seals per km shoreline), which represents only 11% of the coastline but supports 37%
of the seal population."
In 2008 Washington and Oregon state introduced a seal cull at the Bonneville dam, many groups protested the cull as being unnecessary to protect the salmon, they blamed the dam. Since the cull, which still happens, the Columbia river salmon runs are now hitting historic highs year after year. On our west coast we benefit from this program. There are still plenty of seals.
In 2010 DFO scientist studied one river and 36 seals, he estimated they killed over 10,000 salmon of one run of chum and over 3.1 million salmon fry.
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...52730/&usg=AFQjCNFHX1Zalwn6SHdRs1sH1oc0XnzqYQ
So I guess my question is, is there anywhere the seals don't hang out around here? I am just finishing up my boat for August.
I wonder where the salmon went????????DFO
"The
highest densities of harbour seals occur in the protected waters of the Strait of Georgia
(13.1 seals per km shoreline), which represents only 11% of the coastline but supports 37%
of the seal population."
In 2008 Washington and Oregon state introduced a seal cull at the Bonneville dam, many groups protested the cull as being unnecessary to protect the salmon, they blamed the dam. Since the cull, which still happens, the Columbia river salmon runs are now hitting historic highs year after year. On our west coast we benefit from this program. There are still plenty of seals.
In 2010 DFO scientist studied one river and 36 seals, he estimated they killed over 10,000 salmon of one run of chum and over 3.1 million salmon fry.
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...52730/&usg=AFQjCNFHX1Zalwn6SHdRs1sH1oc0XnzqYQ
So I guess my question is, is there anywhere the seals don't hang out around here? I am just finishing up my boat for August.
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