Halibut season

[The Fish Assassin]

1 day trip
- $1000
- 1 25 pound halibut
= $40.00/pound, if your lucky enough to get one that is.


$15.83/lb for fillets today at thrifty foods. Your boss could still spend the $6 grand on Halibut and probly get 400-500 pounds already filleted for you guys to split up!!


That is unreal! It is now offically way cheaper at the supermarket!!
Not a good time to be a guide.

Take only what you need.

[Deewar25]

quote:Originally posted by The Fish Assassin

1 day trip
- $1000
- 1 25 pound halibut
= $40.00/pound, if your lucky enough to get one that is.


$15.83/lb for fillets today at thrifty foods. Your boss could still spend the $6 grand on Halibut and probly get 400-500 pounds already filleted for you guys to split up!!


That is unreal! It is now offically way cheaper at the supermarket!!
Not a good time to be a guide.

Take only what you need.

weak...try again - thats per boat and I seriously doubt 1 guy ever books - more typical is 3 to 4/boat, so on your so called 1 hali (each), that is $10-15/pound average IF you only caught a hali each. Odds are that isn't the case though and you can count on at least a 20lb salmon or two on top and perhaps a ling or two.

Last 3 years we have gone to Renfrew:
3 people, 6 hali, 8 salmon (coho/small springs), 3 snapper, 1 ling about 180 pounds

2 people, 4 hali, 3 salmon, 1 ling (I think...tougher year) - about 95 pounds

3 people - 5 hali, 6 salmon (all teens), few cod - about 160 pounds


Still can't justify supermarket even with only 1 hali - the guides will be fine, will adapt and fish the holes with the larger hali if need be, get into larger salmon etc etc

Personally, have not bought a fish in my life from a supermarket, and don't ever plan on it (if I have to live on trout, so be it!). For most of us, it's as much being out on the water than it is providing meals for the family!

[wolf]

ITS CALLED"SPORT FISHING" for a reason if you want meat go to the store if you want to experience fishing and the chance at some quality salmon,halibut crab or ,the westcoast,whales, seals,bald eagles and fun times then you go!!!!!! it is entertainment money you are really spending isnt it ??? think about it there is NO Guarantee in fishing..... If a quide tells you that I personally would book with him as he must be great.

If you spend $500 for a pair of canuck tickets ferry,hotel and etc and now your over $1200. people seem to have no problem with that and its only 3 hours of fun and all you get from it is pure entertainment you dont get to bring home anything from it just what you watched.

Point is we have to get away from the mind set the ocean is a never ending supply for our freezer yes its fantastic to get it and trust me I love it and eat it alot we have to stop giving it away to all our friends but if you choose to do that then dont bitch when it is all gone and seasons close!!!!!! Hoard what you catch and feed yourself first not everyone else


Wolf

Blue Wolf Charters
www.bluewolfcharters.com

[chris73]

quote:...whales, seals,...

What? You do this on purpose? You bad Wolf! Never gonna book with you if you set me up to get sealed!!!

[LastChance]

I'm going to get roasted for saying this, but I'll bet it's really going to seperate the guides from the "I have a boat and know how to throw Berkeley at halibut on random banks on WCVI" crowd. I'll bet it will really thin the herd a lot.

My bookings are about right where they should be and that includes me telling everyone that at best they should expect one halibut per day.





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[chris73]

So you are going back to Rennie this summer, LC?

[LastChance]

quote:Originally posted by chris73

So you are going back to Rennie this summer, LC?

Either for May long weekend or after the JDF, but yes, I'll be there.

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[Governor]

Lets be positive - we're going hali fishing on Sunday coastwide

But remember the allocation fiasco is gonna kick us in the jewels again ... we can't drop the ball on this one

Last Chance good to hear your bookings are on track!



God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling - Izaak Walton

[ReelAffair]

they opened it with no closure date...how long will it be??


Fishery Notice

Category(s): RECREATIONAL - Fin Fish (Other than Salmon)

Subject: FN0101-Halibut: Further to FN0037 & Amendment to FN0100 - Coastwide Opening and Limits

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The department will implement a coastwide opening of the recreational halibut
fishery:

Coastwide:
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Effective 00:01 hours March 1, 2009 fishing for halibut will be opened
coastwide. The daily limit at the start of the season is one (1) per day with a
possession limit of two (2).

The exception to this opening is:

Areas 121, 23 and 123:
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Effective 00:01 hours March 1, 2009 to 23:59 hours December 31, 2009:

- No person shall fish for or retain halibut, rockfish and lingcod in Area 121
outside the 12 nautical mile limit seaward of a line that begins at 48 degrees
34.000 minutes North latitude and 125 degrees 17.386 minutes West longitude and
continues south easterly at a bearing of 116 degrees True to a point at 48
degrees 28.327 minutes North latitude and 125 degrees 01.687 minutes West
longitude.

- Electronic licence conditions will be continued as follows:
"no person who is not a Canadian resident may fish for or retain halibut under
this licence in management Areas 121, 23 and 123."


In an effort to open the recreational fishery while some key issues with
respect to the 2009 management plan remain unresolved, the initial halibut
retention limit will be one per day, two in total possession. The department
expects to complete its consultations with the recreational sector on the
halibut management plan for 2009 before the end of February, including
examining the feasibility of increasing the daily limits. The plan will include
measures for monitoring and evaluating the catch in-season. Any changes in the
management plan following these consultations will be announced in a subsequent
Fishery Notice.

Variation Order No. 2009-67


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Bill Shaw 604-666-3271 and Gary Logan 604-666-9033.







http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/xn...D=recreational

[fish4all]

quote:Originally posted by wolf

ITS CALLED"SPORT FISHING" for a reason if you want meat go to the store if you want to experience fishing and the chance at some quality salmon,halibut crab or ,the westcoast,whales, seals,bald eagles and fun times then you go!!!!!! it is entertainment money you are really spending isnt it ??? think about it there is NO Guarantee in fishing..... If a quide tells you that I personally would book with him as he must be great.

If you spend $500 for a pair of canuck tickets ferry,hotel and etc and now your over $1200. people seem to have no problem with that and its only 3 hours of fun and all you get from it is pure entertainment you dont get to bring home anything from it just what you watched.

Point is we have to get away from the mind set the ocean is a never ending supply for our freezer yes its fantastic to get it and trust me I love it and eat it alot we have to stop giving it away to all our friends but if you choose to do that then dont bitch when it is all gone and seasons close!!!!!! Hoard what you catch and feed yourself first not everyone else


Wolf

Blue Wolf Charters
www.bluewolfcharters.com

Awesome post Wolf.