I fished the last 4 or 5 days from Secretary to Sheringham. Everyday we picked up a couple sockeye, coho, and chinook (under 15 lbs) but we fished hard for them using all the common techniques. Doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to areas/times/conditions but maybe that says something about my ability to recognize patterns... Lots of bait showing on the sounder west of Sooke, especially yesterday, and easy to see jumping at the surface thanks to calm conditions. I've been finding 6'' herring in the coho and even found herring in one mature ~7lb chinook. Found a squid in one of the stomachs also, cant remember the species.
Random wildlife encounters include the two humpbacks that have been hanging around, a sealion eating a large octopus (at one point he looked like he had dreads, with the octopus draped over his head), and the sea otter floated alongside us while we were trolling the tack west of Possession. The sea otter was in the current on the other side of the tide line from us, floating faster than we were trolling as he laid on his back lazily watching us.
Donnie D - At Pnp most of the commercial traps seem to be readily visible and common sense will keep you clear of them, just resist the urge to fish amongst the myriad of buoys. There are always some surprises but that happens everywhere.