Sooke 2013 Fishing Reports

[KCW]

I believe the proper word is Poaching

 

[dhcaptain]

Have you checked your trailer hitch lately?? During a camping trip on the Canada Day long weekend I happened to notice that the stairs accessing my camper (which plug into my trailer hitch) appeared to be about 15 degrees off of vertical. As this didn't appear normal I checked the hitch and found that 5 of the 8 brackets holding the hitch to the frame were broken!

This is a 2002 factory installed class IV hitch and my boat/trailer weighs in at about 7000 pounds.

I would have been devastated if the boat/trailer would have broke loose on the highway and wiped out anyone in its path.

I have installed a class V hitch and will be checking it every time I hook up the boat!

 

[islander55]

but clearly im learning so i made a rookie mistake srry guys

 

[islander55]

I believe the proper word is Poaching[/ no i wasnt poaching by the way, i made a mistake im only a kid and im learning it what we all do is make mistakes and learn.clearly you dont know that!

 

[Rum Buddies]

actaully we never kept any wild choho so stop picking on the young ones, its realllly fricking ennoying ever since i jopined this **** hole everybody seems to really like picking on kids thats a bit!!.and the only reason why we kept the sockeye is because we hooked it in the gills so why throw a dead fish back to the ocean when you can atleast eat it and not waste it.

the thing is, if we were allowed to keep gill hooked fish then guys would just claim well it was gill hooked why waste it. Its sad but you can't make a rule that relies on a persons honesty, its too easy to abuse.

Don't worry about it, but I would go back and delete your original post and read up on the regs. We all love to eat sockeye and we can't keep em, you can't either.

 

[Tips Up]

Good for you for admitting your error and learning from it. I believe you would not have posted the info if you were purposely poaching.

Also good to see some young enthusiastic anglers up and coming. Keep pluggin away out there and get some of your friends interested.


Move on with the fishing reports...

Tips

 

[Fins -n- Skins]

Well said Tips and the rest of you guys never made a mistake in your life. Yesterday ya lumpy on the way to Otter so decided to drop the gear at the Tin Shed and troll with the ebb. Lots of bait show and went 1 for 3 with the springs. Herring has been very successful lately.

 

[Bag-Juan]

Fished Secatary Is. on Sat , seemed a little slow for springs in tight and around Possesion, managed a 12 lb'er. Coho and pinks in tight all over, 3 packs of bait later we headed out and threw on some spoons on the flyrods with dummy flasher's - too much fun, gonna head west on friday.

 

[Finished Business]

My Bag-Juan, that's quite the Banana you have in your avatar...

Thanks for the report.

 

[Bag-Juan]

Yes it is Finished Business, thanks for noticeing, should have seen the look on her face when she saw that Banana, i may become a post ***** now! I thought it was only fitting , considering '' I'm Da Man!''

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Im thinking maybe for the forum you could get a real sweet signature to after everypost! That says "I'm Da Man!" LOL

Boats down and work is busy wont be out for some time! Good luck to all!

 

[Bag-Juan]

Lots of lucky fish out there if you'er not out there K-K!

 

[NautiGirl]

just got a call from a friend at Otter.It has been good this morning. Dodge the pinks and coho and they have had several high teeners and lost some bigger. same old story....

 

[Englishman]

Beauty morning today after two days of gale force winds! Flat calm. Got out in front of Bluffs at 7:00 had had 6 pinks on the boat and a couple lost in about an hour. Went on down to Otter and fished in tight with anchovies for about an hour but nothing doing. Did not see any chinooks come in either. Eventually just started getting pinks on the anchovies so came in with our 8 by 10am. Maybe we could have had a shot at chinooks if we had been at Otter earlier, but there sure were a lot of pinks around and unless you have a magic repellent I would imagine you could use trays of bait!!

 

[Whole in the Water]

Beauty morning today after two days of gale force winds! Flat calm. Got out in front of Bluffs at 7:00 had had 6 pinks on the boat and a couple lost in about an hour. Went on down to Otter and fished in tight with anchovies for about an hour but nothing doing. Did not see any chinooks come in either. Eventually just started getting pinks on the anchovies so came in with our 8 by 10am. Maybe we could have had a shot at chinooks if we had been at Otter earlier, but there sure were a lot of pinks around and unless you have a magic repellent I would imagine you could use trays of bait!!

I dont use bait when it is like this. Use larger spoons (5-7 inch), still will catch springs but usually less smaller pinks and ho's. Worked for me last weekend.

 

[Englishman]

I do the same.....Very large springs caught on these this year me so far...Even the stupid coho killer.It's ridiculous these things just slay fish... catch a large Chinook with a goofy piece of bent sheet metal...LOL too funny.

I find the pinks and coho are easy to release with them..... More gear in the water not messing around with bait.... I will fish it if I am clear but that won't happen for a while....

Thx guys I will give my coyote spoons and other metal a work out next time. I have caught coho on the coho killers (I believe the make I used was Golf Star). Anyway the metal is so thin near the tail end (and probably poor quaility) the spinning twisting cohos in the fall eventually either bent it or snapped the hook off altogether.
I am amazed they will hold up to chinook!

 

[Kildonan]

catch a large Chinook with a goofy piece of bent sheet metal...LOL too funny.

It is amazing how this Coho Killers take fish. I like them.

The dude at Wise Buys was showing me the remains of a Coho Killer when I was in there the other day, it had had a run in with a large Spring out Sooke way somewhere I was told. It was all bent to rat shyte, curled up in a knot. It failed to cut the mustard on that one. LOL

But I'll add, they are shockingly strong for a flimsy piece of metal.

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

Out to sherringham this morning. Released countless coho, pinks and a few sox, 1 25# spring. Trolled from sherringham back to otter........ More of the same with another chinook thrown in also. Was an incredible day with almost flat water. This fishery right now is truly awesome.

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

Thx guys I will give my coyote spoons and other metal a work out next time. I have caught coho on the coho killers (I believe the make I used was Golf Star). Anyway the metal is so thin near the tail end (and probably poor quaility) the spinning twisting cohos in the fall eventually either bent it or snapped the hook off altogether.
I am amazed they will hold up to chinook!

I got a teener spring on a silver horde coho killer last Sunday, it WAS brand new now it's into the scrap metal bin.

 

[Whole in the Water]

Thx guys I will give my coyote spoons and other metal a work out next time. I have caught coho on the coho killers (I believe the make I used was Golf Star). Anyway the metal is so thin near the tail end (and probably poor quaility) the spinning twisting cohos in the fall eventually either bent it or snapped the hook off altogether.
I am amazed they will hold up to chinook!

Make sure that you change out the crappy hooks on those GoldStar coho killers. Chris73 lost a nice spring in the Sidney Derby this year to those crappy hooks.