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Charlie
Major Contributor
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 Posted - 06/29/2010 : 20:52:47
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Originally posted by TheRock
Good thought about looking at the tide tables! 
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces of Moon and the Sun. Currents are the movement of water created by many different forces, including the Tides. I look at both tables. If you have a tide change, you are indeed going to have a current change. You have to look at the current table to find the time of that. I know this might surprise some… but salmon don't travel with the tides... they travel with the currents. They really don't care if it is a high or low tide. Depending on the time of year, at the beginning of an incoming tide you can find yourself waiting for the current to change before marking any salmon. In any inlet, it is very much the time and direction of the CURRENTS that matters the most. |
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TheRock
Advanced Member
Canada
444 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2010 : 21:11:27
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Bang on !!
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Originally posted by Charlie
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Originally posted by TheRock
Good thought about looking at the tide tables!
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces of Moon and the Sun. Currents are the movement of water created by many different forces, including the Tides. I look at both tables. If you have a tide change, you are indeed going to have a current change. You have to look at the current table to find the time of that. I know this might surprise some… but salmon don't travel with the tides... they travel with the currents. They really don't care if it is a high or low tide. Depending on the time of year, at the beginning of an incoming tide you can find yourself waiting for the current to change before marking any salmon. In any inlet, it is very much the time and direction of the CURRENTS that matters the most.
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Slack-tider
New Member
Canada
27 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2010 : 22:09:28
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| Great info to digest. Current table is what I have been looking at for "best" fishing time. Combined with low winds, fair weather and time off work we have fishin' heaven!! You got to love Island life eh. |
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r.s craven
Major Contributor
Canada
3133 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 13:55:22
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Pretty bleak in Oakbay this a.m., had one good screamer on for
about 30 secs and then.. nothing.
never saw a net out all morning. |
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porcupine
Advanced Member
Canada
365 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 15:47:24
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I've heard that Oak Bay has really slowed down. I fished from Albert Head to Clover Point yesterday for 6 hours and had no strikes, just a limit of crabs in the traps.
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Rockfish
Average Member
Canada
232 Posts |
Posted - 07/01/2010 : 17:41:42
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| Wed June 30th I was out for an evening sail on a friend’s sailboat out of the Oak Bay Marina. When we came back in there was what looked to me to be a solitary Humpback Whale swimming in and out of all the anchored boats to the west of the Marina. Strange to see it in there. It looked kind of lost. |
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cby
Junior Member
Canada
92 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 06:44:23
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Yes the humpback has been there for about 1 month in are Oak Bay. It is a baby and looks lost. Not sure where mother is. I think it is sick and can find its was or is feeding on everthing in sight. I don't think that is the case.
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beemer
Advanced Member
Canada
451 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 07:05:23
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| Yah nice to see some local whales establishing themselves. It's actually a juvenile gray whale. Today is Day 11 that it has been hanging around. A few scientist types have had a look at it and don't feel it is malnourished , grays can be solitary , so this could be his/her first year away from its mother. If you are coming in or out of Oak Bay Marina and you see whalewatchers hanging around it is probably around the entrance to the marina , so please slow down , grays are not that smart and will surface in front of a speeding boat. |
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Charlie
Major Contributor
USA
2132 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2010 : 10:01:16
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| Might want to add, turn off the sonar! |
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r.s craven
Major Contributor
Canada
3133 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2010 : 14:42:29
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Killer whales showed up off Oakbay this afternoon, nice to see
but it sure didn't help the fishing  |
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beemer
Advanced Member
Canada
451 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2010 : 19:25:11
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| damn mammals! think what kind of damage killers could do if they had opposing thumbs and a few Islanders! |
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r.s craven
Major Contributor
Canada
3133 Posts |
Posted - 07/04/2010 : 07:27:38
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damn mammals! think what kind of damage killers could do if they had opposing thumbs and a few Islanders!
Don't they know us humans need the salmon to feed our families ?? |
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Slack-tider
New Member
Canada
27 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2010 : 08:03:42
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My Dad is in from Ontario. He has fished his whole life, steelhead, browns, cohos in lake Heron and Ontario. Sure would be nice to nail a couple real salmon or buts while he is here. Is there any good reports out there? Break Water, Clover or out on Con-Bank. Picked a great week to have off.
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dawn2dusk
Junior Member
Canada
93 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2010 : 08:50:18
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SO anyone hitting any spawners at the wall yet?
THey should be around now.
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r.s craven
Major Contributor
Canada
3133 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2010 : 10:01:51
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| Usually August before those fish show up ?? |
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Victoria Spring, and Halibut Summer 2010
