Victoria Reports - Spring and Summer 2011

[NautiGirl]

Friday- Clover to OB Flats

Took some friends out this morning trolling around Trial Island. Gillnetters looked like they set up to work satellite channel off the golf course. I worked the ebb between Trial and Clover. No bait or salmon in shallow, but tonnes of bait and salmon showing 90-175 in 250-350 water. No bites there though. Back to flats and gillnetters gone. Ran out of time and when pulling the gear up got a high teenager that puy up a spirited fight near Brodie.

Met two older gents who spent the morning jigging minnow/stingzelda style right on the bottom of flats who hit the ramp with 2 low teenagers in the tub. They said they have had good results this week. They said they just had to remove 3 dogfish for every Chinook on their line. KISS principle paid off for them.

Later- going for prawns in Saanich Inlet for salmon prawn BBQ weekend. I might try jigging for some salmon off Moses Pt/Wain Rock while the traps soak.

 

[Dave S]

Any sign of pinks out in the tide lines?

 

[beemer]

Took some friends out this morning trolling around Trial Island. Gillnetters looked like they set up to work satellite channel off the golf course. I worked the ebb between Trial and Clover. No bait or salmon in shallow, but tonnes of bait and salmon showing 90-175 in 250-350 water. No bites there though. Back to flats and gillnetters gone. Ran out of time and when pulling the gear up got a high teenager that puy up a spirited fight near Brodie.

Met two older gents who spent the morning jigging minnow/stingzelda style right on the bottom of flats who hit the ramp with 2 low teenagers in the tub. They said they have had good results this week. They said they just had to remove 3 dogfish for every Chinook on their line. KISS principle paid off for them.

Later- going for prawns in Saanich Inlet for salmon prawn BBQ weekend. I might try jigging for some salmon off Moses Pt/Wain Rock while the traps soak.

Hey nautigirl , you sure put on the miles! The gillnetters were on there way to a opening and were stopped to help out a sailboat aground on Mouat Reef near Trial Island. I was the commercial assistance boat (big orange zodiac) that was setting lines etc. You sound like you were pretty focussed on fishin! Luckily no gillnetters in Oak bay yet.

beemer
www.C-TowVictoria.ca

 

[sammyslabber]

kiss principle,u mean they actually kiss doggies

 

[scott craven]

Some nice Springs out there !

 

[NautiGirl]

Good weekend

Did the halibut, salmon, prawn, and crab feast with friends and family in Deep Cove near Sidney, then got the invite for the "early shift" in Sooke on SNAFU with my brother. Up at 330 for the drive to catch sunrise in Sooke. Quick bite at Otter. Got a pink just dropping the gear in first 30 seconds, then got a 20lb spring (same green army truck flasher and flow green bullet roll teaser that's worked all week) after a smoking long run or two, then slowwwwwww, stuck around no bite late morning, then went for pinks & coho in afternoon and got some out in 450 ft water at a tide rip.

Never got any bites off pinks at the tide rips off OB or the waterfront, so they must not have been there. Lots of bait off OB, but next to none showing off Sooke in comparison.

The spring I got today was one of those part white fleshed/ part normal springs. Half breed of some sort kinda marbled colour.

 

[NautiGirl]

Sammy- that's the Keep It Simple Stupid method. Tie up to the kelp. Cheap spincasters and jigs get er done, just like when I was a kid in Sooke. No wasted fuel, no lost rigger balls. Kissing the doggies is strictly optional.

 

[NautiGirl]

Accuracy of salmon weight estimaters?

I am now seriously questioning my brother's expert weight guessing on other's fish when he has none in the boat. He said my fish was 18 maybe 20. I was thinking 20 +, but rarely catch the decent size fish so my judgement is off. Anyway, I measures the length from nose to fork in tail = 35.5 inches and girth was 24. I think it was so long it made it look skinnier. I just picked up the frozen meat trays and they are likely 20, so I went online for an estimate. The link below said it was 26lb and change. Are these online tools accurate?

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/resourcecenter/weightcalculator.htm

 

[scott craven]

The chart i have would place this fish between 18-19 lbs
i'm not sure just how accurate that is ?

 

[spring fever]

I did it by Dfo's long mathematical formula and came up with 25.56 lbs ( wt x girth squared divided by 800)

 

[Striper Sniper]

I did it by Dfo's long mathematical formula and came up with 25.56 lbs ( wt x girth squared divided by 800)

I did it using Spring Fever II calculations..............51.463 lbs. Great fish!

SS

 

[sammyslabber]

I would go with the small ,med & lrg scale sm=1-10 ;med10-20;lrg.20+ in the winter you can 1/2 that...sammy

 

[gon fishin]

I am now seriously questioning my brother's expert weight guessing on other's fish when he has none in the boat. He said my fish was 18 maybe 20. I was thinking 20 +, but rarely catch the decent size fish so my judgement is off. Anyway, I measures the length from nose to fork in tail = 35.5 inches and girth was 24. I think it was so long it made it look skinnier. I just picked up the frozen meat trays and they are likely 20, so I went online for an estimate. The link below said it was 26lb and change. Are these online tools accurate?

You know that your brothers birthday is only a little ways away and just to make sure he stops guessing low you could buy him a 0-50 Shimano scale Best scale I ever bought and mostly aluminum parts with stainlesteel spring He was only 2lbs low on that 32 lber we caught recently I hear that the mottled (orange/white) springs taste like Roast Beef LOL

 

[NautiGirl]

It looks like fishermen's estimates will always vary, eh? I am not sure how I feel about my estimate being so close to DFO's though.LOL. Lose everone's trust in a heartbeat.

 

[Lakeside6]

1st reply, lil late

First kick at the cat here, was out Friday, July 15th, I know this is a lil late, lol, went out and fished Constance, tides were moving, had 1 on, who knows what, turned around and went to Brotchie, dropped an anchovie with purple haze flasher and head, 5 minutes later, hooked a 38 lber and a long while later in the boat. Fisheries were patrolling with the help of 2 RCMP officers, they stopped me shortly after and checked all my gear and licences, nice day all around.

 

[TenMile]

Few people (myself included) going to call you on your first post calling a 38lb fish with no pick to back it up. You must have taken a photo of that one....

 

[yo mama]

Wow great way to welcome somebody to the forum tenmile. There are tyee sized fish on the south island, just cause its there first post doesn't mean its alway BS. Doesnt even specify a salmon could of been a hali.

 

[Lakeside6]

Hi Tenmile, yes, actually have some pics to back it up, trying to figure out how to get pis on

 

[Lakeside6]

oops, pics on, any help

 

[TenMile]

I find easiest thing to do is create a Google Photos account (others use Photo Bucket). Then when posting a reply, click the "Insert Image" button and paste the "Embed Image" link that Google provides for your photo and it works great. Best to use the Medium size setting rather than Large.

And sorry, don't mean to be unwelcoming -- it's just the largest fish reported in the region all year -- we don't see too many Tyee fish reported in the Victoria area -- plus it's the first post. Just being skeptical (and jealous)...