Victoria Reports - Spring and Summer 2011

TheRock for the win! :cool:
 
Good to hear there a few new fish around. Steady rising tide tomorrow should bring more. I'm gonna hit Pedder/Whirl/Beechey Head.I might try my luck bucktailing for pinks tomorrow with the fly rod. Might snap if a chinook slams, but it'd be a challenge.
I heard there are also more chinook around Sidney now too. Chinooks going thick through between James and Island View beach area, but also decent catches around Mandarte Island, and Fairfax. No reports of pinks there yet.
 
Dogfish

Anyone know where the best place is around Victoria to catch dogfish from shore? My 6 year-old is obsessed with sharks and he has been begging me to take him out to get a dogfish. We tried the breakwater today and it is just too dangerous for a little guy. Also, what is the best technique? Can you get them on buzz bombs? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Blackleech said:
Anyone know where the best place is around Victoria to catch dogfish from shore? My 6 year-old is obsessed with sharks and he has been begging me to take him out to get a dogfish. We tried the breakwater today and it is just too dangerous for a little guy. Also, what is the best technique? Can you get them on buzz bombs? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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doggies are primarily bottom dwellers, you would have more luck on a boat....
they will certainly take a jig, or almost any kind of bait.
 
When i was young i was also pumped to catch them from shore. You wont get them often casting lures but you can definately get them with salmon scraps. Just chuck it out there with enough lead and let it sit on the bottom. Might take a bit to get them but we used to get a frenzy of 15-30 sharks feeding in 5 feet of water by the end.
 
Waterfront report

Got out this morning again 7am off Esquimalt and over to the breakwater. Dead calm- sweet. Go to put the rigger down. Doh! There goes 12 lbs due to a bit of rust near the swivel. Time for re-rigging. Though we'd miss the bite, but no. Green flasher, green glow teaser and fat anchovie did it twice for us. Between the breakwater and Brotchie for 18lb at 8, then near the flagpole right on the bottom as usual there for another 12lb around 9. Would have thrown the 12 back but did not see any nets out, just lots of rods clearing seaweed off their lines. No bait showing when either hit. Not much bait or salmon showing today on the "fishteaser TV":cool:. Boats were bunched up then spread around searching.

Went down near Race Rocks for some hali fishing from 1130-3 but no luck.

That was a great calm day to be on the water.:cool:
 
Blackleech said:
Anyone know where the best place is around Victoria to catch dogfish from shore? My 6 year-old is obsessed with sharks and he has been begging me to take him out to get a dogfish. We tried the breakwater today and it is just too dangerous for a little guy. Also, what is the best technique? Can you get them on buzz bombs? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Not sure about where but you want somewhere that you can get 20 or deeper ideally. Forget about the buzzbombs. A hook, weight and a herring/perch/anchovy right on bottom or 1 foot above is perfect. heck you can even catch them with a piece of dead meat or fish on the line if they are around.

As said you would be much better off in a boat 50' off shore but if you can find a dock that runs out deep you might get lucky. Probably just a bunch of bulllhead or flounders in close to the shore around vic.
 
Fished Oak Bay today with jigging gear and fly from the wee inflatable. Expectations were only rockfish and a pile of small lingcod. Bottomfish were scarce but a school of 4" herring tight behind an island were getting molested regularly. I saw one seal but since I didn't see a seal head every other swirl I figured some of the swirls were springs. Stayed in the area for an hour and finally stuck one after casting right to the swirl. I passed the rod off to my sister since she'd never played a decent salmon plus I could run the motor if a seal showed up. With a little coaching we had the fish in the net in 10 minutes. Estimate 20lbs based on the bathroom scale. Interestingly it was hooked right in an old healed jaw scar presumably from getting released or maybe breaking free in an earlier encounter. I wouldn't say the fish were thick at all, but he probably wasn't the only one in that kelp bed.

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Looks like a white Spring
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Cmon Scott LOL
look at the red under the chin thats definatlly a red spring....thats the spot to look before cutting it open to see if they are red or whites i have had a few white up this year already biggest was 27.1 lbs the one in the juan de fuca derby........the pinks will be down your way soon boys get ready.....

Good luck Wolf
 
wolf said:
Cmon Scott LOL
look at the red under the chin thats definatlly a red spring....thats the spot to look before cutting it open to see if they are red or whites i have had a few white up this year already biggest was 27.1 lbs the one in the juan de fuca derby........the pinks will be down your way soon boys get ready.....

Good luck Wolf
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Last one i caught looked just like the picture, small pink slash under the collar
but the fish was a white...
just a bit of pink in the meat, but predominantly white.
 
The ones that fool me are the marbled they will either have a white or red gill plate then you filet them and totally different inside but if its really vibrant red like that last pic 99 out of a 100 they will be red all the way thru.

Good luck wolf
 
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Just curious if the flats are still a good place to go. Thinking about going out fishing in my boat for the first time this year. My boat isn't really a 'fishing boat', so i only head out 1-2 times a year. But i lurk here often!
 
There are a few out there. Not huge, but they are there. Picked up a 10lb hatch tonight in about 110ft of water. Loads of needlefish and squid in it's belly.

Sounder showing tons and tons of bait at all different levels.
 
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