Sooke Reports - Spring and Summer 2012

Hey Wolf would you expand on what you agree and disagree with in the previous post. I too have lots to learn and would benfit from your experince and knowledge. Thank-you very much. Hope to do a charter with you some day but for now i will continue to work on it as best i can Thanks again
 
Well for 1 colors are very important, depth yes they do vary but i personally look to where the bait is holding and etc i sometimes stick and stay If i kow its slow other place but I also have a good network of guides and we relay a lot of info. Im not going to hack what the guy said but hes wrog in a few things thats all ill let you be the judge on it ,
As for biat well sometimes its what works its all i use and you have to learn sometime yes spoons and hootchis work but look at what any guide uses and it will be BAIT its works and the fish on the docks prove it best advice watch what the guides do be it sooke or anywhere else we get fish for a reason. if you want come down and chat to me at the dock after fishing rather then on here as this forum is getting a little tired if you ask me.

wolf
 
Good advice from Rgreen29 especially for beginners.
Until you learn how to roll an anchovie or herring properly,
spoons and hootchies are the best bet as they are always working.
I also find Green/glow/white are usually the best colors for Springs.
(whether using bait or not.)
 
Maybe in Victoria Craven. LOL

Nothing imitates bait... like bait.

It's not that hard to roll a chovie. It's right on the package.
Of course there are different rolls that produce at different times and you can definately get experianced at tweeking your bait.

Start with bait on one side of your boat and hardware on the other if you are not confident with your bait but learn to fish bait.
Leader length is important on your bait. Try just under 6 feet to start for this time of year. Shorter will spin your bait faster and longer will make netting difficult.
Try glow heads early or deep and chrome heads later or shallower.
Some will tell you to use any color you like as long as it's green. A good place to start.


Tips
 
Maybe so Tips, but the commercial trollers never used bait.
Only spoons and hootchies and it seemed to work for them.
Now i'll get back to the Victoria thread where the reports are pretty scratchy. ;):D
 
"Now i'll get back to the Victoria thread where the reports are pretty scratchy. "

Maybe you should try some bait? = )

Agreed on the trollers but you don't see too many of them trolling the shoreline in Sooke. I don't use bait off shore either.
Different fishery.

Tips
 
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Out from 6-12 started at Otter, not much action early from what I could see, one Soc, one Coho, one immature Spring, no substantial Hits. Trolled West about 8 picked one up about 22 Lbs, Red Glow Flasher and Glow Head, Gear back in and, one line Set and another hit, Spoon-Betsy this one was 15Lbs, both in deep water 170Ft and 90 off the Rigger, Boat is happy :), good Day Driller P.s sounded like something was starting to happen when I was pulling lines to come in.
 
Any natural bait will be a more consistent producer over the long haul. However what has been said about spoons/hootchies versus bait is also true. An improperly rigged natural bait is most likely to catch squat. I have to assume that the vast majority of those new to salmon fishing that are not producing catches with bait are fishing it improperly. While a spoon or hootchie may not produce as consistently it is very hard to fish it improperly. Therefor for new salmon anglers I would say better to have something on the line that will catch a fish than to fish a piece of bait improperly and catch nothing. A good fishy bait roll is easy for the experienced to recognize...not so for a newbie. To them they all look the same.
 
Opps BTW still some decent fishing for springs. Yesterday I had 3 ladies out who who a silent auction charter for the Charters Salmon Centre. They landed 6 of 8 up to 23 pounds. Today was tougher for me with 2 in the mid-teens.
 
Went out today for another marathon this time with a kind forum member. Learnt a couple of improvements and fiddled around with the black box while measuring actual voltages on the cable with a voltmeter. Interesting fact is the actual voltage is not what the black box says it is!

Anyway 6.5 hours at Otter and 1 hour at Possession in pounding waves was all to no avail once more. Got one hit which came to nothing (on the members rod, not mine!!) , and that was it!!

I grow more convinced that the guides and others on here who post reports of multiple Sooke summer chinook hooks ups and fish boated apparently every trip are fishing gods, GODS!! Sooke summer runs are much too difficult for mere mortal “Joe’s” like me. Certainly the memory of the three summer fish I actually managed to catch last year takes on more and more of a dream like quality, as they fade into time…….

Roll on winter. Although the Sooke winter fish are only 8-10 lbs or so, at least I can catch the damn things!! LOL:D

P.S. Today’s unsuccessful gear was purple haze, green/chrome, and bloody nose teaser heads, a Coyote cop car spoon and a translucent hootchie, all fished at different times from 35- 100 feet depending on the location.
 
Chaos said:
Ever try bait??
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Yes I enjoy using bait lots. Out yesterday at head and shack, released 3 wild cohoes 4 to 6 lbs, and also released a small feeder spring. Lumpy ride, indeed!

Last week, released a good wild coho pushing 10 lbs at same area
 
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Englishman said:
Went out today for another marathon this time with a kind forum member. Learnt a couple of improvements and fiddled around with the black box while measuring actual voltages on the cable with a voltmeter. Interesting fact is the actual voltage is not what the black box says it is!

Anyway 6.5 hours at Otter and 1 hour at Possession in pounding waves was all to no avail once more. Got one hit which came to nothing (on the members rod, not mine!!) , and that was it!!

I grow more convinced that the guides and others on here who post reports of multiple Sooke summer chinook hooks ups and fish boated apparently every trip are fishing gods, GODS!! Sooke summer runs are much too difficult for mere mortal “Joe’s” like me. Certainly the memory of the three summer fish I actually managed to catch last year takes on more and more of a dream like quality, as they fade into time…….

Roll on winter. Although the Sooke winter fish are only 8-10 lbs or so, at least I can catch the damn things!! LOL:D

P.S. Today’s unsuccessful gear was purple haze, green/chrome, and bloody nose teaser heads, a Coyote cop car spoon and a translucent hootchie, all fished at different times from 35- 100 feet depending on the location.
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English, I'm looking forward to breaking this trend with ya. Shouldn't be too much longer. Today is 40 weeks.
 
Englishman said:
Went out today for another marathon this time with a kind forum member. Learnt a couple of improvements and fiddled around with the black box while measuring actual voltages on the cable with a voltmeter. Interesting fact is the actual voltage is not what the black box says it is!

Anyway 6.5 hours at Otter and 1 hour at Possession in pounding waves was all to no avail once more. Got one hit which came to nothing (on the members rod, not mine!!) , and that was it!!





It wasn't that bad, you had a shaker "chinook" and the head shakes I got from the one I had on straightened the hook, so you know they're there, it was just a slow day we only saw 2 or 3 fish caught.
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Out today. 2 nice clipped Coho. 1 on bait off rigger and one on a Coho killer attached to a small chrome trip planer out the back between the riggers. Also a 20lb white Chinook starting to go gold. It was caught on a green and silver chrome standard Rhys Davis chovy holder with a little yellow in it at 80 feet in 98 feet of water right out front with a pink haze UV Flasher. One other nice pin popper lost out behind the boat on the same flasher/chovey holder combo.

Did I mention the afternoon wind and waves. Made us run for home.
 
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