Chums in Brown’s Bay

[Islander57]

Did it fall off the trailer?

 

[lazoman]

Didn’t leave strap connected backing down?
Bad start to the day

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Hope every thing is okay with the transom and the help he has gets the boat back on the
trailer. Sorry for your mishap. .......BB

 

[albernifisher]

Slow out there today, we caught one and lost two. Only saw two others caught but at least it was calm and sunny

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Slow out there today, we caught one and lost two. Only saw two others caught but at least it was calm and sunny

Sorry I missed you. Guess you were fishing Deep Water Bay or further north.
I fished plumper for a couple of hours on that small ebb, note that I said fished
not catching, never saw a net out.

Would of liked to see that boat fishing in its old catching waters.
The previous owner liked to fish Deep Water Bay. ....BB

 

[Cuba Libre]

Skunk today for me and a lot of others. Very few weighed in
At 330 the biggest was a 12+ weighed in.

 

[Trimtab]

Guess nothing much going on up there?..
Most exciting thing to happen is this
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Almost made it to the high tide line. Doesn't look like a lot of damage done. Boat launch is where all the action is.

 

[TakesAll]

2 bright ones for us at either end of deepwater, biggest 10.5lb. tough grind bite wise though. Beauty day, its anybody's derby.

 

[Cuba Libre]

Approx. 15 lber was the winner. Fishing dead slow like yesterday. Weather was great so that was a bonus. First time for me to get skunked in JS at this time of year. Normally a spring or coho to break the monotony (spell check not working )

 

[TakesAll]

Fought one for about 5 seconds that was it for us today too. Didnt see a net all day until we bonked a nice feeder spring in town in the afternoon.

 

[Redfisher]

We only managed 1 each day. Yes it was slow. Lots of skunks by very experienced guys. Still a great way to spend a weekend. Well organized derby again.

On a larger note I really hope some chums show up late or this will become a ****** cycle.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

We only managed 1 each day. Yes it was slow. Lots of skunks by very experienced guys. Still a great way to spend a weekend. Well organized derby again.

On a larger note I really hope some chums show up late or this will become a ****** cycle.

How many seine boats did you see Sat & Sun going north passing you?
I saw maybe a dozen Sat morning before noon. ...BB

 

[Redfisher]

How many seine boats did you see Sat & Sun going north passing you?
I saw maybe a dozen Sat morning before noon. ...BB

A few more came through on the afternoon tide Saturday night and another handful Sunday. Not much of a fleet compared to when I seined there in the past.

 

[Prawn Star]

Does anyone know what the results of the derby was? How many fish weighed?

 

[Bruce Lee]

I heard 40 fish weighed in from 400 tickets, winner was 14.25 lbs, second place was 13.75 lbs and 3rd was 13.75 lbs

https://www.facebook.com/brownsbayr...815342062774/1946803905397251/?type=3&theater

 

[RBL]

I heard 40 fish weighed in from 400 tickets, winner was 14.25 lbs, second place was 13.75 lbs and 3rd was 13.75 lbs

https://www.facebook.com/brownsbayr...815342062774/1946803905397251/?type=3&theater

That about sums it up. From Deepwater to Green Sea I saw one jumper. Can’t believe they are going to have a seine opening. Hopefully there’s a lot of Chum up North

 

[Crow]

I heard 40 fish weighed in from 400 tickets, winner was 14.25 lbs, second place was 13.75 lbs and 3rd was 13.75 lbs

https://www.facebook.com/brownsbayr...815342062774/1946803905397251/?type=3&theater

first second and third were the only weight related prizes. Some people didn’t weigh in knowing There fish wasn’t going to win a prize. This makes it hard to know how many fish were caught.

 

[searun]

That about sums it up. From Deepwater to Green Sea I saw one jumper. Can’t believe they are going to have a seine opening. Hopefully there’s a lot of Chum up North

Careful, other way around could sound like...only 1 jumper, can't believe they allowed a recreational fishery. Just because we rec fishers couldn't catch them isn't necessarily an indication of run size - the test fishery told DFO otherwise.

 

[Gong Show]

We saw lots of finning and jumping chum.
Up at Greensea where we caught our two and in Plumper.
Not large schools, but lots of action around, just lockjawed for what we were presenting.

But hey, we now have two data points!

 

[searun]

yup, some are biters and others not so much. In past I've found sunny days to be better than rainy ones...but clearly that didn't help this year. That's fishing.