2018 Secret Cove, Pender Harbour and Texada Reports
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Jigs n' Reels
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Agreed. The Fishing is slowing down, but I was off last week and managed to find a few still lingering around. My wife got a 21.5lber jigging on the inside of the shoal on Monday. Tuesday found a 12.5 on the east side of the shoal. Wednesday was a conservation day, released small springs (just under) and wild coho. Saturday we got a 9.5 and a 8 off of Whitestone. But this summer overall has been outstanding.
TheHurtLocker
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Salish Ranger
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According to Fishing BC you won’t be able to keep chinooks after Sept 30th.
silversands
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I do not believe that is correct. Fishing BC app does show that only 1 Chinook June 1st to Sept 30th. But I would not read into that, that after Sept 30th it will close..it will likely remain 1 Chinook over winter for area 16, or perhaps even go back to 2 Chinook per day over winter and next Spring...until next May or June when fishing pressure increases again for summer and likely back to 1 perhaps next summer.
Salish Ranger
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Fingers crossed you’re correct. I was looking forward to some winter springs.
Burban
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Water was snotty as hell today but we were set on fishing. Fished Bjerre the low tide change and got 2 wild coho and a nice 13lb red on good ole 602. Lots of marks and small schools marked over the afternoon but they seemed really tight lipped, and only a couple more undersize to the boat. Lots of bait marked as well.
tubber
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I have a book of all the hot spots around Egmont some place. It's from the 60's and times have changed.
I "camped" by the marina about 15 years ago in August. The only people there were some folks looking for sea urchins. There is good prawning around there too.
I went out in my 11 foot whaler with little gear and no downriggers and no net. I got a 32# spring with a mooching weight and a dead herring. I was just trying to get a bottom fish.
I put a heart on my spot for you. Don't have a break down and get sucked through the rapids at the wrong tide.
I "camped" by the marina about 15 years ago in August. The only people there were some folks looking for sea urchins. There is good prawning around there too.
I went out in my 11 foot whaler with little gear and no downriggers and no net. I got a 32# spring with a mooching weight and a dead herring. I was just trying to get a bottom fish.
I put a heart on my spot for you. Don't have a break down and get sucked through the rapids at the wrong tide.
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Sliver09
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Burban
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If the water is nice, you can fish anywhere along the coast that looks good to you but the popular stops would be the Epsom shelf which is the northern tip of Thormanby island. If you follow the mainland north from Epsom there is a giant shoal called Bjerre which fishes well. You can fish along the Texada island side as well, the southern tip is called Upwood point which is another popular spot. Heading to Egmont through the Agamenmon channel theres are spots to fish in the channel as well, but I would fish in the strait if the water is nice.
Realistcally you can fish anywhere you like the structure, but I would check out Epsom and Bjerre!
Realistcally you can fish anywhere you like the structure, but I would check out Epsom and Bjerre!
kingblazer84
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if your heading from secret cove start heading towards halfmoon bay you will see on the right a light house just around the corner is pirates rock but usually thats a massive breeding area for seals.... lots of bait usually schools in there but if you do hook up good luck ripping it into the boat before the hoards of seals get in the water! lol
we used to mooch that area alot but the seals got too much, so moved to epsom instead
ab1752
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Hey I'm going up the Coast this weekend as well on Saturday, looks like building ridge of sorts and the seas should be OK...my plan is to have a peek in around Camp Byng to see if there are cohos around then make a run straight over to Upwood for springs. Pirate Rock was good to me this summer, never was sealed once...you might want to start off the hump and troll north for an hour to see if you find any slabs heading down, they're coming based on what we saw last weekend up the Straits. Cheers and enjoy the run!
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