Halibut-face
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Sooke 2014 Fishing Reports
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Dan
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The one about the dude at the breakwater ? Newspapers should never print hearsay ....anything for a "story".
"Oh yeah it all happened....juuuust like that!!!
......uh no, no one took pictures...no..nope..."
A few fish taken early including our 17 pound hatchery. Lost 1 other and despite moving around and covering miles of water nothing until just before 4 pm at Possession. A sockeye and a 22 pound spring just ahead of the whales. You could tell the spring was freaked by the whales as it played like a big coho darting in all different directions including passing us ....giving me a fit thinking it was going to get into the riggers I was working on clearing. Otherwise a long day in between action.
NautiGirl
Well-Known Member
Saturday was more satisfying. Got a 34lb hali out of pedder and lost some others. Today headed straight for sherringham and worked there then through to otter for a few laps beside wolf then zig zag to possession. Was going to do a few laps there but buddy puked his guts out from the swells. Pro fisher must have got the 22 I was planning on. Anyone get hali from by trailer park or Muir? I saw a few trying. We got one coho about 6 lbs after working bait and hootchies from 830 to 3
Seagirt
Active Member
Fished the last three days from Sooke to Sheringham. Targeted sockeye most of the time and managed a couple sockeye everyday from random places with random gear but never seemed to find a school of them. Kept chinook and hatchery coho and released some wild coho and pink also. The chinook had a mix of 6'' herring, and 8'' cod, and krill or small shrimp.
Note: some of the fresh herring were from the coho.
Note: some of the fresh herring were from the coho.
SpringVelocity
Crew Member
The two I got on Sunday both teenagers were on those as well... Just had a strip of green on them.
pescador
Well-Known Member
BTW- did you guys here all this action at Neah Bay yesterday?
http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2218266/
http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2218266/
RevyFisher
Active Member
It appeared the fishing rebounded today compared to what I witnessed over the weekend. Saw nets out here and there throughout the morning which gave us hope and we just kept changing gear and depths till we found the purple onion and bloody nose teaser got my wife a pink at 120' as we kept working our lines down deeper and deeper. That same setup went on to bring in two springs and a couple small shakers through the early afternoon before we called it quits. The spoons and flashers that were hot last week never got a sniff today. Nice to be back on fish after the weekend.
I listened to the Coast Guard side of the conversation that afternoon while fishing offshore. I'd like to know more about what happened on that boat and why his life raft, flares and GPS were not in good working order. My suspicion is that some regular maintenance may have been ignored. Did you hear the later call around 3PM from the vessel Black Swan? This was a 42' sailboat with a working GPS and radio that called asking for an escort into harbor due to the fog! My buddy and I laughed about that one for quite awhile as we listened to the exchange (I could hear both ends of this conversation). Regardless of how stupid it sounds to be in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in August and to be unable to navigate in fog when you have working equipment, the US Coast Guard went out and escorted them into the harbor. For those of you who haven't been to Neah Bay, the harbor is well protected and the entrance is quite wide and fairly deep. Moreover, once you come around Waddah Island, it's almost always clear in the harbor itself. I ran back into port a couple of hours later and did 30mph on the way back. Visibility then was around 100yds (probably a bit better than earlier) and with the radar zoomed into to 3/4 of a mile, I had zero problems seeing boats well before they became an issue.
wolf
Well-Known Member
Last 2 days were a bit of a grind with the wind and not helping the whales BOTH days .... still managed to get a few fish each day not hearing much on the sockeye front out there but im getting a few on the beach.what concerns me the most is the springs i got last couple of days are beat up from nets gills sliced, scales off etc . did hear that the commercial fleet on west side almost took double the amount of springs they were allowed ..so is that why there isnt as many showing??? who knows... makes you wonder though
Good luck Wolf
Good luck Wolf
halibuster
New Member
Been a real grind this year. Last year averaged 2-3 springs every time out. Fishing log last year shows only 3 skunkings. This year my average is one spring every 3 or 4 times out. Hit a small school of springs a couple days ago and caught 4 of them in 20 minutes. None were more than 2# so decided to move on rather than hurt the little guys. Seems that the good days do exist but they are spaced out alot more than last year. Here are the Columbia predictions for 2014. Hope they are just late but every day I can't help but wonder.
Rum Buddies
Well-Known Member
Columbians don't transit JDF or at least in great numbers - can we finally put that theory to rest based on how crappy this year is?
Karma-Kazi
Active Member
Since I was a little lad I truly believed they came here in good #'s now my head is spinning trying to figure out the lack of consistency in Sooke this year. East Sooke more so then out West. It seems WEST has been far MORE CONSISTENT. I hear like Wolfie said that the Commies are over harvesting.
A bunch of my buddies that have been fishing the north island cant believe the fishing. Limits of salmon in 4-5 hours and that includes cohos and springs for 6 guys. Most springs are 25-30 pounds aswell. Not the teeners we are getting used to down this way.
-KK
A bunch of my buddies that have been fishing the north island cant believe the fishing. Limits of salmon in 4-5 hours and that includes cohos and springs for 6 guys. Most springs are 25-30 pounds aswell. Not the teeners we are getting used to down this way.
-KK
Andrew P
Well-Known Member
they do....but like you say, not in great numbers. Perhaps the massive algae this year is causing a lot of fish to just bypass on the way down the coast? Or stay deep...
I had a head come back as a columbian from May 31st of this year. 13.5lb 2011 brood year.
