Grace underfire
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Most consistent fishing off Nanaimo I've had until mid June. Since definitely spotty but that's usual for me. On the good side, at least there are coho around so generally you can come home with something.
Where are they?
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Seafever
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I notice the ECVI fishing hotspots seem to co-incide with wherever the major herring spawning spots were earlier on in the year...
Tribune Bay, North Texada both had big spawns...and later there was lots of action there. Whereas French Creek the spawn was late comparatively, and IMO wasn't exactly huge.
Maybe this is just the ECVI July doldrums......
How big was the spawn off Kitty this year?
Tribune Bay, North Texada both had big spawns...and later there was lots of action there. Whereas French Creek the spawn was late comparatively, and IMO wasn't exactly huge.
Maybe this is just the ECVI July doldrums......
How big was the spawn off Kitty this year?
Fish Assassin
Crew Member
Piles of it all over the beach...... Yet fishing is and has been pretty dam slow, sure there are a few fish out there lots of guys getting skunked, some bonking 8-10 pounders and coho. I be happy just to see some teenagers.
The other interesting thing I have found this year is that there are very few white and marbled fish. 95% of the fish I am seeing are red. Maybe its the gear I am using
LOL Time to start using Tyee lures
Seafever
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I haven't caught any monsters myself this year yet.......but I also noticed that everything I've caught so far has been quite red flesh.....only one or two were lighter color......no whites or marbled.
Maybe they were having a Krill heyday someplace.....
I also notice how in places on ECVI where there is supposedly no bait around, guys will go out and use 6 and 7 inch plugs and pick up fish where spoons and hoochies aren't working................so much for the "match the hatch" theory........
Not everyone that fishes ECVI posts on this site...there are lots of fishermen who never ever post and have never heard of SFBC. And then days or weeks later you hear through the grapevine that some guys were doing pretty good etc etc etc....
I take some big plugs with me every time I go out......but as soon as I get out there I get a bout of "plugaphobia" and revert back to spoons or hoochies....
Possibly because my confidence level with plugs on ECVI isn't all that high.......but they work darn well for some guys.....
Maybe they were having a Krill heyday someplace.....
I also notice how in places on ECVI where there is supposedly no bait around, guys will go out and use 6 and 7 inch plugs and pick up fish where spoons and hoochies aren't working................so much for the "match the hatch" theory........
Not everyone that fishes ECVI posts on this site...there are lots of fishermen who never ever post and have never heard of SFBC. And then days or weeks later you hear through the grapevine that some guys were doing pretty good etc etc etc....
I take some big plugs with me every time I go out......but as soon as I get out there I get a bout of "plugaphobia" and revert back to spoons or hoochies....
Possibly because my confidence level with plugs on ECVI isn't all that high.......but they work darn well for some guys.....
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Someday
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For fun the other day I through out a 5" plug and landed a coho within 10 minutes.
Some plugs look amazing in the water yet results are not so consistent.
It is hard to fish one rod seriously and play with something of the latest greatest new or old invention.
The way I see it. Time on the water is a good time.
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Some plugs look amazing in the water yet results are not so consistent.
It is hard to fish one rod seriously and play with something of the latest greatest new or old invention.
The way I see it. Time on the water is a good time.
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capt. crunch
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Slow day again. 1 small Chinook(released) 1 small coho(long line release) 1 legal crab. Tried Browns bay in the early morning and Hump and Green can in the morning/afternoon. Lots of cabbage floating around and windy at times. Didn't see any fish caught. Running hoochies and plugs.
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Fish Assassin
Crew Member
Sure is dead around Comox..... Unless you want 2 lb pinks, 3-5 pound coho and undersized chinook
Whats going on?
Whats going on?
Fish Assassin
Crew Member
I know why there are no creel surveys arounds..... Cause theres no fish to survey 
I haven't fished since Thursday since it so slow. Got to take the family out today and not sure where to go. Waiting for the wind to drop then off to wash lures and release rats.
I haven't fished since Thursday since it so slow. Got to take the family out today and not sure where to go. Waiting for the wind to drop then off to wash lures and release rats.
Seafever
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In all seriousness and all kidding aside, FA, I hear what you're saying.......
Seems like when the fish come through they aren't around very long at all.....here today-------gone tomorrow.
Begs the question:- if a USA fish left it's hatchery and travelled up the outside of V.I. to get to Alaska...why would it return on the inside of VI on it's way back....?
Not trying to sound like a whiner (Glad for what I've got)....but as far as fish size goes, my year so far has been epically unepical compared to years before.
Wonder if seals are indicative of baitfish areas........I rarely see a seal off F.C. these days........maybe one the whole trip....but more often not.
Winchelsea used to be Grand Central station for seals.......haven't seen hardly any there this year at all......
Haven't seen a single baitball off F.C. this year.......
Water doesn't appear to be any warmer than usual.... ..
If you go by the predictions.....then epic numbers of fish need epic numbers of bait sources to feed on.......I'm thinking if no bait around then they're out of here right away and on to someplace where there is.
Seems like when the fish come through they aren't around very long at all.....here today-------gone tomorrow.
Begs the question:- if a USA fish left it's hatchery and travelled up the outside of V.I. to get to Alaska...why would it return on the inside of VI on it's way back....?
Not trying to sound like a whiner (Glad for what I've got)....but as far as fish size goes, my year so far has been epically unepical compared to years before.
Wonder if seals are indicative of baitfish areas........I rarely see a seal off F.C. these days........maybe one the whole trip....but more often not.
Winchelsea used to be Grand Central station for seals.......haven't seen hardly any there this year at all......
Haven't seen a single baitball off F.C. this year.......
Water doesn't appear to be any warmer than usual.... ..
If you go by the predictions.....then epic numbers of fish need epic numbers of bait sources to feed on.......I'm thinking if no bait around then they're out of here right away and on to someplace where there is.
Seafever
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Where I fish the fishing wasn't "red hot" at all earlier....except for one or two locations.
My "small but legal" catch is about the same as ever.
And the ones I get aren't plug full of herring......maybe they have one or two herring in them at best.....some are empty....
I fish area 14 ........and I haven't seen a baitball off F.C. yet this year.......( places like Tribune Bay have had their share though).
It's common knowledge that we get a diversion of springs......but many are bound for BC rivers....
Many of the so-called "Columbians " that guys think they are catching on the inside are not Columbian at all.........they are BC fish.
I see you are "guest" poster.........who you working for?.........
My "small but legal" catch is about the same as ever.
And the ones I get aren't plug full of herring......maybe they have one or two herring in them at best.....some are empty....
I fish area 14 ........and I haven't seen a baitball off F.C. yet this year.......( places like Tribune Bay have had their share though).
It's common knowledge that we get a diversion of springs......but many are bound for BC rivers....
Many of the so-called "Columbians " that guys think they are catching on the inside are not Columbian at all.........they are BC fish.
I see you are "guest" poster.........who you working for?.........
RageWelding
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What bc hatchery clips adipose on chinook salmon? None that I am aware of. I think if you hit a clipped spring it is more than likely Columbia bound
Fish Assassin
Crew Member
Well then we must have Columbian fish on the ECVI. As I have a collection of hatchery heads from Chinook in my freezer caught in area 15 in May-June. I will hopefully know as these fish are entered as a part of a DNA sampling program. Pin or not I should be able to find out where they came from.
Whole in the Water
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Very few, if any chinook are clipped as DFO does not do it and discourages any volunteer hatcheries from clipping. Their flawed reasoning is that it confuses our fish with the US fish. They say the ever decreasing coded wire tags (due to endless budget cuts) are good enough.
I caught a 27 lb'er with a clipped fin, the last time I caught a hatchery Chinook that size,it had come from some small river that feeds the Columbia, a lot of the Columbia run runs down the Sabine channel but I am sure a good number head down the Georgia strait Just my opinion
J-GLOBAL
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I continue to find a more springs than usual, however fewer of any real size, last while fishing WCVI. They've had various things in them, but there has been a bit of a shift over the last week from squid to herring. I'm wondering if the number of fish has increased, but amount of feed has not, resulting in more but smaller fish in general.
