Rain City
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Good question. Is that a dare? I might have to tell my wife a guy from the forum dared me to go. She has to let me go then right?!
2020 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread
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SaltyAlice
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How is the algae at the hump right now? That stuff is the COVID of the sea.
ab1752
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An effing pain in the butt, so painful to peel off your line. I've seen it worse but it's there for sure.
ab1752
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That was a ridiculous day, dead then bam bam from 1245 through 230. Had a visit from the fish cops doing license and compliance checks, they seemed to have checked every boat in the area.
Most everyone was tight into shore but out west was where it was at, for me anyway. And the white jughead was definitely the winner over every spoon. I stopped counting after 13 to the boat. Amazing trip to start the season.
Oh and the side without the counter had the jughead. I'd drop with my 15 lb cannonball, count to 20 and have at it.
The damn brown algae remains too, gross.
Most everyone was tight into shore but out west was where it was at, for me anyway. And the white jughead was definitely the winner over every spoon. I stopped counting after 13 to the boat. Amazing trip to start the season.
Oh and the side without the counter had the jughead. I'd drop with my 15 lb cannonball, count to 20 and have at it.
The damn brown algae remains too, gross.
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Reeltime
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Awesome getting the blood flowing now with the talk of big fish..
sweettjim
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nice to hear bigger fish r showing up
littlechucky
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I’m no fish biologist...but:
Non retention last spring / early summer probably reduced the pressure on 3 yr old fish which may have been just legal immature feeders in spring 2019.
Now they have had a full extra year to grow and are being caught as 4 year olds.
I have caught / kept many ~10 lb whites in the spring fishery off Bowen and the gulf islands. Give them an extra year and they will be 20lb.
Just a partially educated guess.
Non retention last spring / early summer probably reduced the pressure on 3 yr old fish which may have been just legal immature feeders in spring 2019.
Now they have had a full extra year to grow and are being caught as 4 year olds.
I have caught / kept many ~10 lb whites in the spring fishery off Bowen and the gulf islands. Give them an extra year and they will be 20lb.
Just a partially educated guess.
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Rain City
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Quitter...
just need to be smart and fast, show the seal HITW huge bait schools rolled in. Have a video of seals going nuts right in front of Sunset Marina but cant figure out how to attach it. Needless to say it was a epic day with 20+ hookups. 4 double headers and at least 10 fish in the teens. Reeltime seals definitely meant fish around today.
Reeltime
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I was around there fishing all last week the bait balls are huge black moving schools, was insane a really good thing so awesome to see, just seems like things are
getting better out there locally... jacked for the season ahead..
need to upload your vid to Youtube to play
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Tinny
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Truth be told my wife was expecting me home at a certain time. The leash isn’t very long.
But there were seals and it seems like they were getting impatient waiting for the fish to bite. They were surfacing 10’ from the boat.
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