I was 9or so at the tail end of the Brentwood fishery. My best buddy's folks had a family cabin at Willis point. We used to jig everywhere in a little 9 foot row boat. It was awesome, time of my life. We did that for a few summers, and then he got a 13ft whaler with a 40 Johnson. We would get woken up at 6am or earlier, by those blue and yellow rental boats chugging along. We'd get up, eat bfast, and head out. We would fish till dark, stopping only for lunch and dinner. Our biggest was 21 pounds, which I don't know how a couple 11 year olds landed in a 9 ft rowboat!
His grampa, who grew up fishing in the Bay, had loads of stories every night for us. The one that sticks in my mind was a story of a monster 60 pounder. He told us that he had it curled in the bathtub. Head and tail curling up at each end of the tub. My buddy and I used to sit and stare at that tub when we couldn't fish because of weather. We would speculate at how far the head must have stuck out, or how far the tail must have been sticking out......great times.
Yep was probably us....sunday ritual; with my dad head out just before first light on the yellow brentwood chuggers..... I was 5 when we started fished brentwood so got to see it in prime time years....Really wish we could have it back.... at that time it was basically tack into bamberton and hug the cement plant.... Always got fish all along there.... I haven't been able to find old pics of Gilberts marine or brentwood boats fishing that shoreline....
Greg is that Mas?This is a North Shore News newspaper clipping of a fish an associate of mine guided some guests to in Vancouver Harbour off West Van in 1997 - seems like yesterday as I was listening to the VHF radio as this was landed. Don't think there has been a bigger one landed in Vancouver Harbour since then and probably many years prior either. There has been several in the 40's and I know of a 54 off Ambleside a few years ago. Tincan if you want the actual original photo the fellow may have one otherwise North Shore News could be contacted.
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I know very cool pic, instagram like. You would have to think not much is getting out of there alive.This is great. And sad at the same time.
Here is my brother in 1980 with a rock codQUOTE]
AHH somethings will never change eh Lucky???
It's always the other guy!!!
I have to give you one though on your linger that would have eaten both that cod and your brother....
Love these old pics!!!!
Wish my neighbour was still around from the early 80's, we had some photos of guy's fighting to be in line at Sewel's in Horseshoe Bay for live herring...not to mention some of the coho we use to catch.
Those were the days of Tom Thompson flying around the straight giving live reports on NW...
Here we are in Secret Cove with part of our wild coho catch at Sangster. The hat I'm wearing is a dead giveaway this pic was taken in the eighties.