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Originally posted by Red Monster
Knuckles, to find some fresh fish you could also try actually putting your boat and then your fishing line in the water.
This approach has sometimes been known to produce fish ...though somewhat infrequently in Vancouver.
Magic Man, I'll bite: For newbies like me, where or what is the "Slash"?
Slash? 2 to 5 miles south of Cape Roger Curtis. An ambiguous area characterized by current structures, tidal movement, abundance of different forms of feed, etc.. Sometimes called the "hump" as a vague reference to a half-way point from Vancouver to Vancouver Island.
As for catching fish in Vancouver, that's a different story...
Certainly, there's not the abundance of fish relatively speaking depending on area etc...however..the ability of anglers and feeding habits of fish are characterized more by the terminal fishery as opposed to the wild instincts of fish far from their natal rivers. As well, a more sound understanding of angling techniques and the application thereof in a circumstance which will produce fish is CRITICAL to producing fish. Case in point...Johnny Angler..fishes the Wall at Bamfield...hooks 4 springs using a purple haze hootchie. there were 100 springs that could potentially have eyeballed his hootchie..however..the same angler trolling at the WRONG speed, at the wrong depth, may not catch JACK in Vancouver when in fact his lure trolled by 20 fish which are not biting and feeding as aggressively. Example..buddy that fishes the Charlottes and Vancouver Island North and WCVI, comes down to VCR and gets nothing..whereas the experienced, detail oriented, accomplished, and technique savvy angler will hook more fish.
Absolutely Vancouver does not have the same number of fish as other locales..and the size depending on time of year is smaller relatively speaking...however..what really makes a different is attention to details...like sharpening your hooks, having the right colours for the area..etc..
Fishing in Vancouver sucks relatively speaking..but on the other hand.. relatively speaking...many of the anglers from other locations SUCK and don't catch fish in Vancouver more because they don't apply the details and techniques required to catch fish here.
For example..here's a curious bit of trivia...
Did you know that the best colour hootchy for Capilano Cohoes is a colour that NO ONE fishes for them with?..I only came across it by accident when I left my tackle box in the trunk and had to root through the boat for tackle "making do" and..not wanting to head back in to pick it up . Since then it has always outfished the leading hoochy colour and combination for that particular fish by 2 to 1? Or multiples to none? Interesting eh? Shocked me..and sheer fluke on my part for discovering it.
Did you know that one of the MOST POPULAR colour spoons does not catch Capilano Cohoes with the same consistency as Coho elsewhere on the coast?
Most of the fault though..as I would like to suggest though...belongs to the anglers in question..and not necessarily the fish themselves. Case in point..I'll go fishing on 5 different trips and catch a keeper or 2 or 3 or 5 or 6 depending on the species on say...4 of the trips...whereas Johnny Angler who "is the greatest fisher" catches NONE on any of the five trips? Yup..there's lots of anglers in Vancouver that do just that and no longer BOTHER going fishing in Vancouver as a result..however..that's taking the easy way out (in my opinion).
However, not to say that fishing in Vancouver is great..but relatively speaking..fishing in Vancouver does SUCK relative to many other locations on the BC coast.
How do I explain it? I can't scientifically..however it's true.
Just my two cents worth on a reality as disturbing as it is...exists in Vancouver *the reality that fish stocks are in such decline that is*.
Can't argue about the weather though. First time in a long time I could see the Olympic mountain range from Bowen.[8D]
