OFFICIAL 2015 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread

[mikeyman]

Blame the bottom bouncers. Didn't they just give the natives an opening last week...bull! I have caught no sockeye in 4 trips using only spring gear. 8 springs and tonnes of pinks. Good bye Sunday plans.

 

[stones93]

FB, we only hit 1 small pink all day. We were fishing a bit deeper than the pinks seemed to be.

 

[CohoOn]

Well that's freakin great...we just paid for a months moorage at Captain's Cove yesterday!

Would appreciate some clarification on the banana. In previous posts someone described that anything northwest of a line between the white tower breakwater marker at Sandheads and the end of the Iona jetty was okay to fish when banana is closed, if that's the case then it seems there's plenty of water to still fish out there.
Is there coordinates to work with on our GPS?

 

[El_Kabong]

Oh boo-hoo-hoo, the Banana is closed again. Just don't fish in the Banana. Get out your chart, draw a line from Sandheads north to the Iona light. Fish west of that line. You're outside of the Banana.

There's nothing to complain about here, lots of fishing to do and lots of fish to come. Head out to Sandheads, make a right and drop the lines, circle around the Bell Buoy. No problemo.

Tried to get out the North Arm today, she was sure blowing hard! Dropped the lines and headed for T10, then gave up and turned back in. Big rollers in the North Arm on the way back to Macdonald Beach. Back tomorrow.

 

[Hookin'up]

X2^^
El Kabong nailed it, unless you like fishing the shallows
Nothing to whine about



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[CohoOn]

Yes I don't see what the big deal is as most of the boats seem to be outside that when I'm out there anyway. Would that not put the T10 outside the banana then?

 

[Dogbreath]

Wall to wall Whales out there today both J&K pods saw the newest baby resident too.

 

[El_Kabong]

T10 is just a cat's whisker to the west of the BANANA LINE. Stay west of the T10 and you're fine.

 

[CohoOn]

Thanks for the help guys...now for an actual fishing report.
Out with the wife yesterday and managed to lose three fish...first two seemed to be of the small pink variety that seem to be out there now but the third went screaming three times before it ran straight for the boat and broke off against the one rigger we had left in the water. One of the fastest running fish I've ever had on. The wife had her polarized glasses on and swears it was a big steel head having seen a red streak along it's side. Didn't see anyone laying into the pinks as some have reported but did see another guy with a big fish on and a guy at the helm chasing the fish for a good 15 minutes or more only to lose it at the boat so we didn't feel so bad.
We spent some time at both T10 and sandheads mid to late afternoon. Even though there was a STRONG WIND WARNING of northwest winds it was absolutely perfect out there. Don't know how they come up with these forecasts??

 

[wishiniwasfishin1]

We pounded out to T10 this evening. Pretty tricky day on the water but we stuck it out and were rewarded with this:

 

[Teja]

Went for an early solo fish west of T10 this a.m. The wind made getting the lines down a bit more challenging than usual but between 625am and 725am I managed to have one epic tangle and box a 16 and a 17 to call it a morning.

 

[getbent]

Right on Tom, were you running meat?

 

[Teja]

Meat at 50 feet and 55 feet.

 

[dmurph]

Had a killer day off t10 and sandheads on Thursday. Started off the morning off t10 and more than anything I was just stoked it was flat calm and sunny, but there were quite a few nice springs being taken. I started to get concerns as nothing was hitting on the solowey aside from a couple pinks. I laughed when my wife pulled out about a solid 10 inch herring I has sitting in brine, caught the previous week jigging off the marina dock with the boy and some friends. Well down went the herring rigged with just hooks, no teaser head or flasher. It didn't take long before Yuho's rod hammered over and we we re into a nice solid spring. Wife played it for a while before handing off opting for the net instead. We ended up with a beauty 23 lbs red. Caught at 47 feet inside the t10. The bite was slowing at t10 so we decided to run down further to sandheads following a solid report from bon chovy. We were just stepping away from setting the 4th rod off sandheads when one fires off and it's a good one. Just as we get it close to net another rod fires off, followed by a third. I have my fish playing, one is off the clip and hammering away and yuho is setting the hooks. So now we have Nakai who's not even 4 yet reeling away also. Well we get the first in the net, I grad the other one that's in holder just dancing away Nakai gets his flasher in hootchy in and yuho nets another beauty. 2 from a triple and we are freaking out stoked. We played a hood 12 springs for the next while. I had commercial hooks straighten out on me we had a big monster in the net boat side break the leader and rip through the net. It was the best fishing. Fast furious non stop action. We ended with 6 springs on board between 14 and 24 lbs. 67 and 47 were the hot depths with chovy no flasher getting the bigger fish and glo hootchies and pink squirt getting the rest. Awesome day. Went back Friday and didn't get any springs in, lost a hood one off the back end at 55 feet on the glo hootchies and picked up 2 nice hatch Coho and some pinks.

 

[chris.heatley1]

Well that's freakin great...we just paid for a months moorage at Captain's Cove yesterday!

Would appreciate some clarification on the banana. In previous posts someone described that anything northwest of a line between the white tower breakwater marker at Sandheads and the end of the Iona jetty was okay to fish when banana is closed, if that's the case then it seems there's plenty of water to still fish out there.
Is there coordinates to work with on our GPS?

Almost everything that we fish is not considered the banana. As long as you fish north of sand head lights station and go out into deeper water you are guaranteed to be in 29-3. South of Santa heads most of our typical fishing grounds are closed unless you go west of the shipping lanes

 

[Delray]

This is what I'm going to go by. Doesn't look like a big deal, haven't fished in closer than that anyway.
P.s. If I'm off with my closure areas, please let me know.

 

[Bjw]

Do you know where the t 10 is on there Delray, thanks

 

[Canso]

Fished sandheads west of the banana, The day started landing 2 nice teeners in the first half hour, then trolled around the rest of the day with nothing but a few pinks.
Saw the odd sockeye jumper but no big schools. Didn't see any finning pinks.
Running metal and plastics, white hootchie and green splatter back hootchie, taking the big fish. 60' and 80'
RCMP came over for a visit, good talking to them. then couple hours later DFO pulled up for a chat. Nice to see them on the water showing a presents.

 

[Canso]

Do you know where the t 10 is on there Delray, thanks

The light to the left of the word Sturgeon on sturgeon bank. It is just outside the banana.

 

[Blueback]

I was out today with my 8 yr old son, from 12 pm to 4 pm to see if I could get him into some pinks. We trolled around the mouth of the north arm and lost one on a white glo hootchie at 50ft. About an hour later, with my son getting bored, we got a huge hit that popped out and screamed a bunch of line out. A few minutes later we had a nice 18lb red spring in the boat, that fell for the white glo at 50ft. About an hour later, right after my boy spotted that grey whale (to his great excitement), we got another huge hit as we were coming in from the QA, on the deep rod at 74ft with the Coyote Wonderbread. Got the net tangled and had to tail this one. A nice 16lb red. Time to go home. So much for pinks