Just arrived back from Browns Bay again this evening and it was slow. The area is very fishable with a SE wind, I was suprised how calm it was coming from the Comox Valley and the wind we were experiencing. Very few jumpers or finning fish around Deepwater Bay, and even less on the sounder
. We considered ourselves lucky to even get a couple strikes, but nothing to the boat. Didn't see any other rec anglers catching either and word on the dock was the morning was slow as well. We are heading back up Saturday afternoon with our neice and her husband and will post how we do tomorrow night.
The lack of fish may be due to the gillnetters trying to make a living - there was a large commercial fleet in the strait since yesterday afternoon, but as I read the opening it is done on Saturday morning at 9am. Maybe it will improve with the rain and a lack of gillnets! Part of the notice below:
Category(s): COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Gill Net
Subject: FN0931-Salmon: Gillnet - Area D - Areas 12 & 13 - Johnstone Strait Chum - Opening
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Areas 12 and 13
The gill net fishery will open for 41 hours from 16:00 hours Thursday, October
11, 2012 to 09:00 hours Saturday, October 13, 2012 in the following areas:
AREA 13
- Subareas 13-6, 13-7 (excluding Deepwater Bay), 13-8 to 13-10