Crabbin' and a Jiggin'

[Giterdone]

Any suggestion on best places to drop traps and do a little cod jiggin' outside Nanaimo? Around Snake, Entrance, off Gabriola? Just don't want to drop the traps where they're going to be in way of anything.

 

[ratherbefishing]

I'm new to the prawning in the area but check chart and start trying places. Most people are pretty tight-lipped about productive locations and I can't say I blame them. Check the regs for Nanaimo area for RCAs and general regs...

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish/Species/fintable_e.htm

 

[ratherbefishing]

I'm new to the prawning in the area but check chart and start trying places. Most people are pretty tight-lipped about productive locations and I can't say I blame them. Check the regs for Nanaimo area for RCAs and general regs...

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish/Species/fintable_e.htm

 

[ratherbefishing]

Guess it would help if I could read...lots of guys crab in D-Bay with mixed success...check out a chart and give a 'new' area a try!

 

[ratherbefishing]

Guess it would help if I could read...lots of guys crab in D-Bay with mixed success...check out a chart and give a 'new' area a try!

 

[SIR]

Hey, let us know if you actually find a codfish in that area... I'm suspecting you'll be catching a lot of lings & rockfish.... reel in slowly.... we pretty much give up on bottom fishing in this area for anything other than flounder over sandy bottoms until they open rockfish and lings in the summer.

Good luck crabbing and prawning!!!

 

[SIR]

Hey, let us know if you actually find a codfish in that area... I'm suspecting you'll be catching a lot of lings & rockfish.... reel in slowly.... we pretty much give up on bottom fishing in this area for anything other than flounder over sandy bottoms until they open rockfish and lings in the summer.

Good luck crabbing and prawning!!!

 

[Stress Medicine]

Good place to start prawning around Nanaimo is out around five fingers island. Check out the bouys on the north west or south east sides of the island in 275 -300 ft of water. Need to watch the drop off as it is quite steep and with the strong currents when the tide is running with a bit of a chop will bounce you off into deeper water. Make sure you have enough bouy to float your traps if they do drift and chase them in the same direction as the tide. If no luck there, move along the drop off towards the west and closer to Hammond Bay. You mentioned jigging, if you go further north west in front of rocky point and icarus point it's really sandy and you can get some flat fish and perhaps the odd salmon. You mentioned cod, leave them alone until June. "0" retention on cod or rock fish in the Strait of Georgia until then. Also as mentioned brush up on the Rock Fish Conservation Areas. Departure Bay has one and Snake Island towards Gabriola is one. Fisheries were enforcing the departure bay one a couple weeks ago. Good luck on the prawns. Try the salmon, they are coming in. Watch the wind. Can be calm in close but rough out at the islands.