Hey thanks for the info been checking the weather forcast lookin good for fri, is there any area of sooke u would recommend for a small boat, fishin for pinks and socks mainly
No.
You can look at the weather all you want, conditions change fast some days out there especially if you have low free board on your transom.
The waves going back into the harbour seem to funnel into the area of the spit and magnify themselves.
I've gone around the corner going out and hit 6-8 footers,
sometimes you can scoot along the shore and get out.
But you better know where and how.
You can be standing on the shore on the spit looking out it will be flat as a pancake yet a mile out at the fist tide line it can be a ripper of a tide, rip somedays of 3 or 4 footers short in between, other days a barely a ripple.
Its hard to explain, you need to be able to figure it out.
Having said that some days you'll be fine.
Wanna guess what day?
A small boat with low free board is not suitable for Sooke.
In my young days with my 17 Double Eagle I have taken a foot or so of water over the bow, it hits the windshield, is a nice shade of green up and over the top of the hardtop.
The boat shakes as it comes up out of the wave only to get buried again and again.
You get to your spot and you are on your knees in the back of the boat getting your gear out, if you stood up you would get ejected from the boat.
An hour and a half later calm...
Dohboy and I came in from winter spring fishing 3 or so years ago and the butt end of the boat was getting lifted higher and higer the closer we got in, 25-30 degee angle I bet
Not comfy for a pair of xxx's like us.
Just had to play with the throttle all the way in and around the corner.
It was flat calm when we left the tin shack.
Dan.
