Keep your rod low and tip close to the water when you fight sockeye. Almost perpindicular to the boat as you continue to troll. If you keep your rod tip super low it will encourage the sockeye not to jump. Once the fish is beside the boat, lift up and net it. If you have your rod up and...
There would be smart, data driven opportunities for the rec sector if it was not for the unreasonable and frequent hyprocital teamwork of the First Nations and the ENGOs that do not want the public fishery to be fishing. Period.
You are missing something. If you have spent anytime in the Strait of Georgia in the last 5 years, you can now got back to a 14 foot Lund with no sounder, hand down riggers and no radar... and catch as many chinook as people did the 80s. Buying a bigger boat to chase fewer fish is not the...
Exactly.. the angling population base from a saltwater perspective around the Salish Sea and along the Fraser River have gotten destroyed in recent years. 3 million or more people less than 50 miles from the ocean and the Fraser and a brutal outlook with politics playing a huge role in the...
Didn't mean to make it a quote. Was a statement in general and not directed at you. Things in general for the majority of the population is not good and the outlook is not good either.
The reality is basically the entire Salish Sea is closed to retention of Chinook till July 15th or August 1st. The bottom fishing scenario is far from getting excited as an angler and it is something the guiding community can not fall back on. The CTV story was a decent retraction that will be...
Has to do with mark rates. Closer to the US, more marked hatchery fish and low prevalence of stocks of concern to rationalize opportunity. The further north you go, the less marked fish even though many areas are basically devoid of threatened stocks.
Canada needs to mark our hatchery fish...
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