Stomach Contents

[barkerfam]

From 2024 Nootka Chinook

Micro grand Slam bucktail specifically designed for the small Nooka bait from 2021-2024

HB

 

[brutus]

sandlance? where? offshore 23-1?

No off the beach in Renfrew, 20-1

 

[CBsqrd]

From 2024 Nootka ChinookView attachment 120277View attachment 120278

Micro grand Slam bucktail specifically designed for the small Nooka bait from 2021-2024

HB

Great match, good job!

 

[agentaqua]

From 2024 Nootka ChinookView attachment 120277View attachment 120278

Micro grand Slam bucktail specifically designed for the small Nooka bait from 2021-2024

HB

Are those the fillets from that same fish, HB? Chinook? Very red for Chinook. Looks more like sockeye fillets wrt the colour.

 

[barkerfam]

Are those the fillets from that same fish, HB? Chinook? Very red for Chinook. Looks more like sockeye fillets wrt the colour.

it was a VERY red chinook. 22 lbs.

 

[Charter Tofino]

1. A full Ratfish in a 10 lb Sablefish this week.
2. Half digested 6 lb pink in a 13-14 lb Ling (this is very common).
3. Juvenile Wolf Eel in a June Chinook.
4. Piling worms stuffed in a 23 lb March Chinook. This was an odd one as Herring were everywhere but the Chinook were all shallow feeding on these spawning worms in the tideline.
5. Sand Dabs in a late season Coho.

 

[Charter Tofino]

6. Small skate inside a Lingcod.
7. Shad inside a Halibut while deep dropping 600ft.

 

[tubber]

Are there any sardines at all this year, CT?

 

[islandboy]

4. Piling worms stuffed in a 23 lb March Chinook. This was an odd one as Herring were everywhere but the Chinook were all shallow feeding on these spawning worms in the titideline.

Interesting, as my biggest spring took a hootchie/sandworm combination. It also was a white spring.

 

[Charter Tofino]

Are there any sardines at all this year, CT?

Saw a few caught in the commercial Herring fishery in March on ECVI. Haven’t seen them in a fish since 2010. I did see anchovies in Chinook this summer for the first time in years.

 

[Dorman Point]

1. A full Ratfish in a 10 lb Sablefish this week.
2. Half digested 6 lb pink in a 13-14 lb Ling (this is very common).
3. Juvenile Wolf Eel in a June Chinook.
4. Piling worms stuffed in a 23 lb March Chinook. This was an odd one as Herring were everywhere but the Chinook were all shallow feeding on these spawning worms in the tideline.
5. Sand Dabs in a late season Coho.

I can’t imagine anything thinking a ratfish would make a good meal.

 

[CastleRocker]

No pics, as it was pre cellphone days. Big Halibut had circle shapes popped out of it's hide, with a few still hanging on. Skipper said it was big squid or an Octopus. Stomach had some small mostly digested tentacles, and 5 BIG beaks that looked like Octopus to me. All I know for sure is, I've seen the beak from a 9' Octopus, an these were the same size. I would've liked to have seen those battles!

 

[adanac]

1. A full Ratfish in a 10 lb Sablefish this week.
2. Half digested 6 lb pink in a 13-14 lb Ling (this is very common).
3. Juvenile Wolf Eel in a June Chinook.
4. Piling worms stuffed in a 23 lb March Chinook. This was an odd one as Herring were everywhere but the Chinook were all shallow feeding on these spawning worms in the tideline.
5. Sand Dabs in a late season Coho.

Nice speckled sanddab kell

 

[CalCom]

This would be a great running thread with photos!

 

[trophywife]

This would be a great running thread with photos!