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Hillbilly Hourston
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Hey DaFixer.You goin up this weekend again.See you up there if you are.
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Dafixer! Great post! Island Idiot and myself should be in Rennie sometime around the end of the month. So if your looking for that fish off will be there. Cheers FC.
Knotty Seamen
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Fished yesterday went off carmanah for halis fished for three hours and nothing but dogfish. Went to the NW corner and was gonna try there then noticed coho everywhere so we trolled for about a hour and went through about 30 fish to get our 4 hatcheries! They weighed between 8-13 lbs. Then tried for halis and more doggies! We then moved to the ranch and same results! Didn't even see any being landed! Went into camper and troleed our way back to the pile and not even a sniff. pulled up the gear around 6 and packed it in!
Deewar25
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said it once, i'll say it again - would be so great if DFO would get off their azzes and just do away with this ridiculous wild vs hatcheries thing on the banks. 2 per limit for everyone - get your 2, move on to springs - none of this sifting through 30 just to find your 2 stuff. Out of those 30 wilds, how many survive??? It's a losing battle because of their incompetence and I have no idea why they don't see this. All offshore banks should be open to wilds as well, plain and simple.
At least when I bought this up to federal, they expressed great concern, but still had nothing more than the pass the buck angle and take it up with your local SFAC....
At least when I bought this up to federal, they expressed great concern, but still had nothing more than the pass the buck angle and take it up with your local SFAC....
I couldn't agree more Deewar. How DFO can implement regs that are more harmful than good is beyond me.
Even if 25% of the 30 wilds for example die (because quite frankly I don't trust most anglers careful handling of released fish), that means 7 or 8 as apposed to keeping your first two and moving on.
Renfrew is good, lots of Coho, some springs on the bank, and of course, limits of halibut right away. Back up for Sunday I go.
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juandesooka
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Port Renfrew trip report: Aug 10.
I’ll try to keep it brief as I can, but not likely -- first Swiftsure mission in the new-to-me boat (18’ Campion), and pretty excited about it all.
** arrive 9 pm at Marina. Along the way see a 27’ Whaler flipped on its side on the steep switchback west of Sombrio (the hill that has kept me from trailering to PR for years, and now I see why). Trailer was pushing the truck downhill, 4 wheel slide on wet pavement. Then it slid sideways, rolled once or twice. Driver felt lucky it turned sideways, rather than landing on his truck and maybe killing him. Woah, reality check. This is serious business.
** boat in the water, no hitches. Do a gas estimate, wonder if we have enough -- borrow another 5g and a litre of oil just in case (don’t need it in the end, used only 3/4 tank)
** motor out in the gloom at 5:15. Straight to Logan, get a 22lb Spring, first aboard my boat (FINALLY). Didn’t see anyone else get any, feel lucky and relieved to break the jinx.
** Head out to the chicken ranch. Fairly bumpy from windchop in night and a residual windswell, can only do 15kts. Peasoup fog, 100 foot visibility. Approach shipping lanes, very eerie, more than a little sketched (GPS, but no radar). Hear a freighter foghorn that sounds CLOSE, 180 degree turn & full speed out of there. Sit for a while deciding whether or not to proceed. Figure we’ll get out there and assess the situation. Once out there, lots of boats around, so we stay, if they scatter we will too!
** Backtroll for halibut as well as jig buzzbombs for coho. No hali bites, and aren’t seeing anyone nearby get any. Catch some decent sized coho though, half wild, half hatchery. Really fun playing them shallow, jumping all over the place.
** Pull up the gear and think about going elsewhere, decide to first troll for coho and see what the rest of the pack is doing. Get to another spot 100m away, everyone around is playing halis. We drop the gear too, bing bing bing, 3 or 4 in 20 minutes, limit an hour or so later. By this time, fog has cleared, swell subsided, it is glassy calm and hot. Best weather I can imagine for west coast Vancouver Island. We are getting into a “it doesn’t get any better” day.
** Deep troll along the Swiftsure boundary, get a bunch more small feeder springs, medium coho, and what I believe to be a couple of pinks (or extra slimy springs?)
** Amazing whale show a few hundred metres into the straight, with humpbacks breaching over and over, every 20 seconds or so for 10 minutes, then disappeared. Also saw grey whales by Carmanah on the way in.
** Drop the gear at Logan on the way home, get into a 28 lb Spring.
** Crab trap full of 20 or so, but all female or undersized.
** Back to Marina after 14 hours on the water. Home at 10:30, 2 hours of butchering and packing. TIRED and very very satisfied. Maybe a run-of-the-mill day for Renfrew regulars and guides, but epic for us!
Good times!
John
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I’ll try to keep it brief as I can, but not likely -- first Swiftsure mission in the new-to-me boat (18’ Campion), and pretty excited about it all.
** arrive 9 pm at Marina. Along the way see a 27’ Whaler flipped on its side on the steep switchback west of Sombrio (the hill that has kept me from trailering to PR for years, and now I see why). Trailer was pushing the truck downhill, 4 wheel slide on wet pavement. Then it slid sideways, rolled once or twice. Driver felt lucky it turned sideways, rather than landing on his truck and maybe killing him. Woah, reality check. This is serious business.
** boat in the water, no hitches. Do a gas estimate, wonder if we have enough -- borrow another 5g and a litre of oil just in case (don’t need it in the end, used only 3/4 tank)
** motor out in the gloom at 5:15. Straight to Logan, get a 22lb Spring, first aboard my boat (FINALLY). Didn’t see anyone else get any, feel lucky and relieved to break the jinx.
** Head out to the chicken ranch. Fairly bumpy from windchop in night and a residual windswell, can only do 15kts. Peasoup fog, 100 foot visibility. Approach shipping lanes, very eerie, more than a little sketched (GPS, but no radar). Hear a freighter foghorn that sounds CLOSE, 180 degree turn & full speed out of there. Sit for a while deciding whether or not to proceed. Figure we’ll get out there and assess the situation. Once out there, lots of boats around, so we stay, if they scatter we will too!
** Backtroll for halibut as well as jig buzzbombs for coho. No hali bites, and aren’t seeing anyone nearby get any. Catch some decent sized coho though, half wild, half hatchery. Really fun playing them shallow, jumping all over the place.
** Pull up the gear and think about going elsewhere, decide to first troll for coho and see what the rest of the pack is doing. Get to another spot 100m away, everyone around is playing halis. We drop the gear too, bing bing bing, 3 or 4 in 20 minutes, limit an hour or so later. By this time, fog has cleared, swell subsided, it is glassy calm and hot. Best weather I can imagine for west coast Vancouver Island. We are getting into a “it doesn’t get any better” day.
** Deep troll along the Swiftsure boundary, get a bunch more small feeder springs, medium coho, and what I believe to be a couple of pinks (or extra slimy springs?)
** Amazing whale show a few hundred metres into the straight, with humpbacks breaching over and over, every 20 seconds or so for 10 minutes, then disappeared. Also saw grey whales by Carmanah on the way in.
** Drop the gear at Logan on the way home, get into a 28 lb Spring.
** Crab trap full of 20 or so, but all female or undersized.
** Back to Marina after 14 hours on the water. Home at 10:30, 2 hours of butchering and packing. TIRED and very very satisfied. Maybe a run-of-the-mill day for Renfrew regulars and guides, but epic for us!
Good times!
John
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DaFixer
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Great post JDSooka! Nice way to break in the new boat for sure. Sounds like it was a great day to on the water! Howdy fahcups and HillBilly, yep just back from Buttle Lake with the wife and kids. Getting ready to go back to Renfrew in the next day or so. I'll be up off and on as the boat and camper are there until the end of August. Keep in touch and we'll get together for that fish off and a couple cold beverages around the campsite.
Talk to you guys soon!!
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Talk to you guys soon!!
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Hillbilly Hourston
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Hey DaFixer,good to have you back.Hope your holiday was good with the family.We will probably see you in Renfrew.DP(RaeDar) and I are goin up on Sunday afternoon and fishing that afternoon after we set up camp.Probably stayin up for 3-4 days.Hopefully doing runs to Sooke to drop off fish for St.Jeans for canning.Should run into you up there.
HillBill
PS:Hey Fah-Cups when are you goin up to Renny?
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PS:Hey Fah-Cups when are you goin up to Renny?
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HillBilly Hourston. Should hit Renny last week of August if all goes to plan. looking foreword to a fish off with you and the Dafixer. Cheers FC
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Hillbilly Hourston
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Hey Fah-Cups,as you said to Da-Fixer--Lets Get It On!!Maybe a side bet will be in order? Talked to DP(Rae-Dar)and he limited out by 8:00
He is hot this year.23 lb and 24 lb this morn.Talk to you soon.Should be up at Renny early afternoon on Sunday.
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He is hot this year.23 lb and 24 lb this morn.Talk to you soon.Should be up at Renny early afternoon on Sunday.
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