Aces
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No kidding!
2021 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread
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NNW and out going tide will do that at the mouth of the N arm. Can be pretty nasty at times.Big Wave Dave says it should calm down late afternoon. I went out mid afternoon yesterday and got into some pink actions at Cowan Point. Coming back was flat calm in the evening.
sherrett
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Fishing at Cowan Point this morning for pinks was a hoot. Tons of fish around and fish flopping all over – out deep, in shallow, off points, in random water.
It wasn't pretty and it wasn't high skills but it was fun. We hooked ~20 fish from 9-10:30 on the Old Humpy Canadian Tire special (white plastic flasher, pink hoochie). Landed maybe half those (including one slingshotted into the boat because my 8-year-old net man was having a snack) and kept 4 for dinner. Riggers were up tight in 40' and 63', fun meter cranked to 11.
It wasn't pretty and it wasn't high skills but it was fun. We hooked ~20 fish from 9-10:30 on the Old Humpy Canadian Tire special (white plastic flasher, pink hoochie). Landed maybe half those (including one slingshotted into the boat because my 8-year-old net man was having a snack) and kept 4 for dinner. Riggers were up tight in 40' and 63', fun meter cranked to 11.
Cinco Sirenas
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Cowan today 230 - 630. Kept 12 pinks released 1 Wild coho and 1 Spring high 20's. Ran 2 rods Humpy Killer setup at 69 ft 1 green/gold flasher with no bananas skinny G 70-145 ft. Probably could have fished much shallower but I'd rather play with them a bit.
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prodjsaig
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Just sending this out there that this is what this season is all about. Giving the new generation the fishing knowledge. This is why I disagree with the closures why cant we keep a clipped chinook. My son will be told the best values of fishing. When someone is being a jerk be the better man. That the fight with a fish you go all out. I caught this with my son two years ago. Its the only memory I have with my son. divorced but my son will come to his dad because I dont give af.
Bullet Troll
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Lost a few fish yesterday morning but managed to land a 78 and 75 cm. Spring
West Van
All on bait.
West Van
All on bait.
Paravoffka
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Are they white or red?
Alison2
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West of Cowan and just east of the white house again today starting at 9am. All four of us limited out by noon. The Can tire humpy killer out performed the white hoochie but a close second was a pink squirt. 30 to 75' on riggers. Lots of fish yes but the cool part was taking out our friend and his 5 year old son who had never been on a boat and it was his first time fishing. We taught them what little we know and the boy actually listened. The last fish of the day the boy brought it in and his dad netted. Smiles all around. If you're in doubt about going out, there were tons of nets out all around us and most boats left pretty early in the day.
Sea Chaser
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Anyone try Roberts creek lately ? Out at gambier till tomorrow and thinking of giving it a go In the morning
Just West of Cowan today with the other 50 boats and it was an equal mix of success on the anchovies and Can tire humpy killer. Limited out on Pinks quickly but no sign (for us at least) of hatchery Coho. Let go about 12 wild ones. Fish jumping at the surface in all direction. Riggers between 40 and 60 feet the whole day.
Bullet Troll
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Fishallspec
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Heading out later today, I have my set-ups for pinks but don't know what colour(S) this Can tire Humpy guy is! Should be good to get a couple fish for newbies.
RPM
RPM
Alison2
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Scroll back a few pages in the forum and there is a picture of it. Also we found chrome type flashers worked better than glow but I think pretty well anything would work right now.
Rain City
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White
the butcher
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Anyone know what the chop conditions are like around south bowen
Howesoundhound
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Just got a 74cm chinook at 80 feet on rigger in 28-9! No bananas spoon, while I ate bananas on board!!
Barely any bites today though
Barely any bites today though
Fished Cowan from 10-2 limited out on pinks (8). Steady action all day. Lost maybe 15 more. Stayed away from the crowds out further. Tagged 2 wild coho as well. Steady action on pink squirts at 65 and 45. One quad and 5 doubles. When u find the schools it was none stop. This is my 6th weekend at Cowan and pink limits every time. There's alot of pinks moving thru. Wonder where they have been heading?
The Albion test fishery must be using 8" to 10" gill nets.
According to that test fishery there have only been 155 sockeye, 0 pinks, 0 Coho, 0 Steelhead, 408 Chinook and only 26 sturgeon all year.
You would think that the river was sterilized or maybe that piscine virus has wiped out the stocks.
They had to sterilize the rivers in Norway because of the virus and escapement.
I know I have caught a few Atlantics in the wild over the years, all in the ocean though not in rivers.
They are weird to catch when you don't expect them, kind of hard to figure out when surprised, I didn't figure it out until I cooked them.
DFO didn't seem to want to know much, they were around 12 to 14 lbs. Very aggressive hits. Some had roe.
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