OFFICIAL 2016 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread

[cohochinook]

Sounds like someone didn't catch many fish this season! Don't trip on that lip! Still lots to come

Trust me Blackmax is an outstanding fisherman and caught more big fish than the majority of us on the forum, so doesn't need to worry about tripping over his lip!

 

[fishin_magician]

Maybe if everyone stops fishing around everyone else they will catch more fish...find your own water and find your own fish...

Some of the hyperbole on this forum by certain posters cracks me right up..

 

[fishin_magician]

Berry's Bait and Tackle states that this 45 was taken on August 29 off the Fraser....

 

[Blackmax]

Trust me Blackmax is an outstanding fisherman and caught more big fish than the majority of us on the forum, so doesn't need to worry about tripping over his lip!

Thanks Dave, I'm just old! Hitting 59 and my dad had me out in his 12 foot glass Hourston since the age of 5. As I get older I find myself getting more upset over the state of the fishery. We caught huge springs at Active Pass mooching while ferries avoided us, Galliano Island, Porlier, McNab Creek, Campbell River casting for springs off the dock, off Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island you could walk across the coho. As a matter of fact Point Roberts 20lb coho, I have bar fished all the way Hope and caught 62lb in river. We fished Sockeye like you have never seen , every year all year, I thank my dad for all those memories he gave me. So when I see the state of the inside fishery now it really saddens me that most here will never experience anything like it.

 

[high tide]

Thanks Dave, I'm just old! Hitting 59 and my dad had me out in his 12 foot glass Hourston since the age of 5. As I get older I find myself getting more upset over the state of the fishery. We caught huge springs at Active Pass mooching while ferries avoided us, Galliano Island, Porlier, McNab Creek, Campbell River casting for springs off the dock, off Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island you could walk across the coho. As a matter of fact Point Roberts 20lb coho, I have bar fished all the way Hope and caught 62lb in river. We fished Sockeye like you have never seen , every year all year, I thank my dad for all those memories he gave me. So when I see the state of the inside fishery now it really saddens me that most here will never experience anything like it.

We have likely been fishing side by side all our lives ....... Started at Pt Roberts in diapers in 1960.... Active Porlier, the Gap, etc etc ....... And your feelings of what has gone bad to get where we are now, all these years ....... It is truly truly sad. Our grandchildrens future of fishing and what we've had and seen is quickly leaving.

HT

 

[TheBigGuy]

Sadly, only the older fishermen like ourselves truly realize how far downhill the fishing has gone. I have just come to accept not catching Tyees anymore. In the old days you could catch multiple legit on a real scale Tyees in a day. Now I'd be happy if I caught one in a season. I'd like to think things will get better, but I don't see it happening any time soon.

 

[adanac]

Thanks Dave, I'm just old! Hitting 59 and my dad had me out in his 12 foot glass Hourston since the age of 5. As I get older I find myself getting more upset over the state of the fishery. We caught huge springs at Active Pass mooching while ferries avoided us, Galliano Island, Porlier, McNab Creek, Campbell River casting for springs off the dock, off Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island you could walk across the coho. As a matter of fact Point Roberts 20lb coho, I have bar fished all the way Hope and caught 62lb in river. We fished Sockeye like you have never seen , every year all year, I thank my dad for all those memories he gave me. So when I see the state of the inside fishery now it really saddens me that most here will never experience anything like it.

Sorry blackmax didn't mean to come across as rude, just trying to be optimistic for younger generations of fisherman like myself. Allot of what I've learn has been from an older generation of fisherman like yourselves. Just trying to be positive about the local stocks!

 

[Blackmax]

Sorry blackmax didn't mean to come across as rude, just trying to be optimistic for younger generations of fisherman like myself. Allot of what I've learn has been from an older generation of fisherman like yourselves. Just trying to be positive about the local stocks!

Absolutely no need to apologise as I did not take it the wrong way, I totaly understood where you were coming from and I should take a lesson from you and be more positive for sure.

 

[Pippen]

We have likely been fishing side by side all our lives ....... Started at Pt Roberts in diapers in 1960.... Active Porlier, the Gap, etc etc ....... And your feelings of what has gone bad to get where we are now, all these years ....... It is truly truly sad. Our grandchildrens future of fishing and what we've had and seen is quickly leaving.

HT

Hey you old pharts.....back on the porch and out of the reports thread!!!!

(I'm gonna get sheeot for this post)

 

[Blackmax]

Hey you old pharts.....back on the porch and out of the reports thread!!!!

(I'm gonna get sheeot for this post)

I'm going to try for an afternoon fish and will report later .

 

[adanac]

Out here now, fished the end of the flood at the cap for nothing , t 10 - bell right now for one hatch ho. Rain may have sent em packin

 

[bones]

Has anyone crossed to thrasher on this thread lately? Was gonna take a 6 year old across for the day. Little fishing and jigging.

 

[cohochinook]

Thanks Dave, I'm just old! Hitting 59 and my dad had me out in his 12 foot glass Hourston since the age of 5. As I get older I find myself getting more upset over the state of the fishery. We caught huge springs at Active Pass mooching while ferries avoided us, Galliano Island, Porlier, McNab Creek, Campbell River casting for springs off the dock, off Rebecca Spit on Quadra Island you could walk across the coho. As a matter of fact Point Roberts 20lb coho, I have bar fished all the way Hope and caught 62lb in river. We fished Sockeye like you have never seen , every year all year, I thank my dad for all those memories he gave me. So when I see the state of the inside fishery now it really saddens me that most here will never experience anything like it.

I wish I could have seen a few of those days! It's certainly hard to keep the faith with Federal Government failing to live up to their election promise and mandate letter from PM Trudeau to Federal Fisheries Minister "Act on recommendations of the Cohen Commission on restoring sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River." We then have Fisheries Minister LeBlanc extend salmon farm license for 6 years and come out to BC saying that he see no conflict in DFO promoting fish farming as opposed to just regulating it. Little of the 75 recommendations from Cohen have been adopted. No independent evaluator has been appointed so DFO the angency that was investigated continues to police or evaluate itself. The Fisheries Act that had been gutted by the former Harper Government and under the Liberals remains the same toothless piece of law, where the proponent hires the consultant to write the recommendation for the work they want to do. Fish habitat is being lost and hand over fist! The Liberals are working on rewriting the Wild Salmon Policy to align with the gutted Fisheries Act. The same bureaucrats that ran the show under Harper are in place and keep moving forward with this. The Federal Liberals sit back and do nothing. Not much hope for the future state of our fishery! More concerned fisherman need to unite and speak up to demand better!

That's end of my rant and hope to see you out on the water, Joel!

 

[ZENYO]

Live report at sandheads... Pretty calm considering... One in the box and a just undersized...

 

[adanac]

Ended up with 4 coho, 4 , 8, 10 , 12. All hatch, three took the herring right on the surface at the bell! Anyone else see that 40 foot plus centre console with the four massive outboards fishing what looked like tuna gear? Pretty sure it was a hydra sports siesta 42', crazy nice boat.

 

[TheBigGuy]

Thanks for the up to the minute reports guys. Now I've just got to get all my stuff cleaned up and out of the truck and boat. Just got back last night from my trip to Barkley Sound. Glad to see the reports are still good from the mouth of the Fraser.

 

[Kapt. Kirk]

Nailed my first hatch Ho of the year at hi tide Weds night at the Cap mouth. Super clean fish. Their coming........

 

[Tightlines22]

Hot at Sandheads right NOW. Over 100 boats here at south end.

 

[Jimfish]

Good one. I was out yesterday and it was ok. Anchovies 59'. My biggest fish are from here. Great time of he year.

 

[CBsqrd]

Ended up with 4 coho, 4 , 8, 10 , 12. All hatch, three took the herring right on the surface at the bell! Anyone else see that 40 foot plus centre console with the four massive outboards fishing what looked like tuna gear? Pretty sure it was a hydra sports siesta 42', crazy nice boat.

Yeah, that boat was sick. We were thinking it must have been the "tender" for one of the super yachts coming through for the long weekend. The colour coordinated outboards looked sharp.

Nice job on the coho. No luck for us. Trolled Cap to Pt. Atkinson from 7:30 - 9:30 am without a sniff. Headed over to the North Arm. Landed one jack and long-line released two springs that would have been keepers. Arrggghhhhh. Seem to be lots of soft biters this year...