Sooke Reports - Spring/Summer 09

[Sangstercraft]

Sorry for the 'hijack' but I think you'll find this important:

DC Reid, a major sportsfisherman on this coast, wrote this article about fish farms hurting the sockeye run.
http://www.timescolonist.com/Fraser...+chance+because+fish+farms/1971312/story.html

"Department of Fisheries and Oceans minister, Gail Shea, was in Norway at the major aquaculture get-together wooing them to come to Canada."

He urges us to write Shea.G@parl.gc.ca to tell her we want to keep fishfarms out of BC. If she gets enough stinkin emails about this, it'll help.

Thanks.

 

[Deewar25]

yep, run a little faster - 3 to 3.5mph around the tidelines, greens are good, whites are good/combinations of white/green. My traditional favorite combo is usually mint tulip hootch on a plaid flasher - rarely fails me, yesterday was doing good when we found the pockets on glo-green coyote and plaid. Can be partly a hunting game as well...only area we got into them was around 95', but earlier in the day, one guy mentioned all around 40'. Stack your lines until you find the depths.

I'm hearing further east (Church/Race) is better right now as well, but I'm sure waves of them will be coming through.

Any other suggestions out there I'd like to hear as well!

 

[Karma-Kazi]

my ticket has been a custom hootchie, electric chair, with double red beads in the head and a single large 5/0 hook, out fished my dad 3:1 against his green coyote spoon. Try the Mongoose. They work well. But hootchies seem to be my ticket!

It is all about hunting for them, on sat it was 55ft on sunday it was 45ft and monday it was 100-110ft.

-Steve,

 

[ReelAffair]

quote:Originally posted by fishflyguy89

Thanks for the clarifacation Striperjack. I was told by numerous people including a fisheries officer at cheanuh that it was sept 8th. I dont see how those idiots could misslead fisherman that way. Well i guess its a waiting game again. It kills me to throw those wild ones back. There always the bigger of the two (Hatch/Wild).

may be DFO was looking to drum up some business

 

[Karma-Kazi]

i honestly wouldent doubt it. ive seen some sad sad things this year, one 8 yr old was cleaning a small feeder spring and the guy was more interested in checking the boys licence that he dident notice the woman next to the boy putting a sockeye in a cooler in the trunk of her car and driving away. blood still on her hands. I Wanted to scream at the guy. His response when i told him what she did..."I cant do anything about somthing i dident see" [xx(][xx(]


-Steve wheres the DFO clowns shirts when you need one!!!

 

[Gypseas]

Out solo yesterday 10am to 6pm got a bunch of shakers, one nice wild coho, and picked up a 30lbr off possesion probably last slab of the summer. 85ft green hotspot with silver spoon looong leader (9ft)around 5:30.
Nothing today [8)]
cheers

JUST FISHEN'

 

[bananas]

i have a feeling there's going to be one more small push of springs in the next morning floods don't give up yet boys the biggest fish of the year are still lurking around.

 

[juandesooka]

quote:Originally posted by striperjack

Deewar has it correct

WILD COHO open OCT 1 for Sooke area


here are the regs

http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/x...notice#9001;=en&DOC_ID=117261&ID=recreational

You sure about that wild coho open in Sooke Oct 1? I looked through that link, can't see where it says Area 20 open at all. It says 20-1 and 20-2 are (Renfrew), but nothing else. I may be misreading it though...not exactly super clear document.

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[Deewar25]

quote:

You sure about that wild coho open in Sooke Oct 1? I looked through that link, can't see where it says Area 20 open at all. It says 20-1 and 20-2 are (Renfrew), but nothing else. I may be misreading it though...not exactly super clear document.

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try this one john...

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/tidal-maree/a-s20-eng.htm

we are 20-5 and yeah, the wording is meant to confuse - no doubt, but I read it 1 wild...been that way for several years I think - the PDF is black and white as well if you click on that.

Coho: Portion of Subarea 20-1 (Port San Juan Light), Subareas 20-3 to 20-7: Effective Oct 1 to Dec 31, 2009: four (4) Coho per day, one (1) of which may be wild (unmarked) in that portion of Subareas 20-1 (seaward of a line between a square white boundary sign at Owen Point, the Port San Juan Light and Whistle Buoy, and San Juan Point and Subareas 20-3 to 20-7.

 

[ReelAffair]

sorry there juandesooke I just corrected that link

 

[juandesooka]

Got it, thanks Deewar

 

[Rum Buddies]

big wave of hook nosed coho out there 15lbs+

http://www.fishingvancouverisland.org - a new Fishing forum

 

[Deewar25]

quote:Originally posted by Poppa Swiss

big wave of hook nosed coho out there 15lbs+

http://www.fishingvancouverisland.org - a new Fishing forum

tell them to hang around a couple days k...any of those hatch or all wilds?

 

[Tips Up]

Can you give a bit more detail JDS?
Might pop out for a couple of hours tonight.

Thanks,
Tips

 

[Karma-Kazi]

I will second the big hook nose! i hit 8 in about 2 hours out off west race. 6 wild 2 hatchery, threw back one of the hatch only 4 pounds, kept one about 9. All the wild were bigger then 10 pounds. Losy one around 15. Yesterdays secret was a green cuttle fish hootchie. and a purple haze flasher at 120 on the rigger. Depth is always changing with these fish. so dont stick in one depth to long. Alot of hits come while going up and down with the riggers. Or on a very sharp zig-zag turn.

-Steve

 

[Karma-Kazi]

One more thing that worked for me was drop your regger down to 120-30 ft, wait 10 mins no fish...Grab rod in hands and hit you electric rigger to automatic and reel the rod up with the rigger, and get ready for it to pop off the rigger! i hit 4 of mine this way, and let me tell you, you have to have the rod in ur hand, because the initial hit is amazing!

-steve

 

[juandesooka]

changes to trolling pattern....can agree with this.

Fished a couple of hours on Monday, was a bit slow for what we expected or hoped...visions of schools of coho attacking downrigger clips.

But we had two good coho hits, both came on speed changes. We were trolling 2 knots, bumped it up to 3 plus and had a hit a few seconds later. Unfortunately both were "long distance releases"....I'll assume they were wild anyway.

Hey, on that note, Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society needs members and volunteers.....clip more fish this year, keep a lot more 4 years from now!



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[Deewar25]

quote:Originally posted by juandesooka

Hey, on that note, Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society needs members and volunteers.....clip more fish this year, keep a lot more 4 years from now!



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agree there (clipping is in the late spring/early summer I think) - did it this year with Chris73...will do it again next year...hopefully get a bunch of my poker buddies from Six Mile out as well (one of the volunteers and local guides plays there). They can't do massive large scale clipping, but we can sure encourage them to bump up the numbers clipped.

 

[northriverrunner]

Fished out of Sekui, WA over the weekend and on Monday people were catching humbolt squid a few miles out from the boat launch. Were there any caught on that side of the line? Also lots of pinks and hatchery silvers as well.

 

[fishhawk8]

I've decided to go out and give it a try tonight. Just wondering what guys have been having the best luck with over the last few days. Looks like high slack at about 5:30 tonight too, so I'm hoping to get out there just as the bite turns on.

From what I've read here, anything green seems to be the ticket. We'll be doing the usual things like wick the speed up and zigzagging our way across the water. Should I bother to waste bait, or just stick with spoons and hootchies. I see that there seems to be some good fish in the east of Race area as of this morning, but has anyone been out working the 2nd or 3rd tidelines?

My current plan is to run a cut-plug just back of the prop wash, a 4" green/chrome coyote down 40' on one side and a green/white hootchie at 100 ft on the other. Then we'll squeeze the two outer rods in 20ft increments until we starting hitting fish. Has anyone had good luck with other presentations? Chovies, purple haze hootchies, cop car spoons. What about best flashers? Stick with greens as per usual?

I'm asking because time will be short and want to cut the experimentation time down as we can't be on the water before 5:00 p.m. thus leaving only a couple of hours to fish.

Thanks for any tips,
'Hawk

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