oak bay master
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Well done, we started at clover, got into a school of 8 to 12 lb hatch springs, mostly 8lbs bit lasted on and of for an hour and a half. Released a 11 lb wild landed 9 fish had a fun day
2022 Victoria and Oak Bay Reports
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kaelc
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That’s an amazing day! Hopefully he is hooked for life!
scott craven
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Sounds like it.
I was there from 10:00 am- 2:00 pm with 2 other boats, one was my buddy Mark the other was the HI-GEAR
was that you ?
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tinboatrobb
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Got out for a solo trip today from 11 to 2 as my wife was at work. Fished the waterfront, brotchie to the flagpole. When solo I usually only fish one rod, today I had 2 out. Got these 2 on the AP spoon on the photo. The huge rain cloud over the Westshore stayed out there so I did not get wet, which was nice. Just a few more days to fish springs do get out there. That was about my 8th trip and the only one that resulted in fish in the boat.
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ThatswhatSeasaid
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We put in 3 hours yesterday 8-11 near the freighters by Albert Head and had a whole lotta shakers going on but then a nice 5# Hatch. on a cookies and cream flasher and same color coho killer. Dropped 2 pots in 120' and landed 8 jumbo Dungees. I Fed a party of 14 people and still had some leftovers to go with my scrambled eggs this morning. Grey skies but really calm waters. Last week we got skunked at the mud hole. 5 hours and only 1 dogfish. Today was a much better day!
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silver spring
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I got an invite to go jig with my cousin King Crab and his twin boys. After dropping the traps at Willows, we jigged the flats at Oak Bay. It was quite slow for salmon. Just when we were going to pull up, I was lucky enough to jig a small spring up. The hook fell out of its mouth at the same time it was being netted. We then motored 20 minutes out to Constance Bank. There was a ton of action for small lings and rockfish that we caught and released. When we were pulling lines up when one of the kids got snagged on the bottom, my jig got hit half way up the water column. It is always so much fun playing a spring caught by jigging. We kept on catching and releasing a variety of fish including greenling, flounder, Cabezon, rockfish and tons of small lings. We picked up the crab traps and we were able to get 6 keepers of which 3 were jumbos. One of the crabs was just over 8 inches long! Fun day on the water!
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Fished/trolled Oak Bay Flats for several hours on Monday and Tuesday. Had a couple of bites, no fish to report and generally very dead. wished we had gone to the waterfront. will go to waterfront on Thursday to fill in our licences.............
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fishinforever
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Wacked a couple 8 pounders after work this eve, didn’t even have to wait for the ebb to start in the gap. Fished 4-5pm with the wife and little one
fishinforever
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Fishid 4-515 this eve and went 4-4 . Biggest 7 pound the others were closer to 4. Not much bait on the bottom
kaelc
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Put in a good shift for Hali out of Pedder. I had been planning to head to boarder bank but stayed close to pedder. First time fishing solo, even running three rods in 320 feet of water. Went pretty well other than the Hali that was supposed to bite my line were caught yesterday I found out when my buddy texted me a picture of 4 in a tub.
Do most people fish the ebb for Halibut?
Do most people fish the ebb for Halibut?
Irishwolf
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I can’t catch a Hali to save my life! Then I went on a charter out of port Renfrew and the guide laughed when he heard this saying Hali are the easiest fish to catch! He proceeded to put us on a double header within minutes back trolling against the current. I’m sure he had a diver in the water. 
How were currents? I would have thought too fast to fish Hali yesterday.
L
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Do your research and put your time in, you'll soon see that you can catch them in all kinds of circumstances.
Here is one for you.... Back in Port Renfrew in the 3rd week of August over a decade ago, I decided to do some jigging for cod at Owen Point on my way in from salmon fishing, in 50 ft of water with my wife, we caught and landed a 65 lb halibut on a 2 oz lure and on a single action reel, and on an ugly stick rod. Meanwhile at the cleaning table the charter fleet came in with their limit of ping pong paddles and the guests were asking me if I do halibut charters as they seen me slicing and dicing, because no one was getting anything over 30 lbs.
Another time I went to one of my producing spots, and all I could catch were big halibut (90-150+lbs) and about 15 of them on that trip alone. Came home with nothing but muscle spasms in all kinds of places.
Sometimes you just never know.
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kaelc
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I got out just as it slacked off and then had a good hour a half letting my line out, then switched to downriggers. About a 2.5 hour window with 2lbers and 65lb braid
ship happens
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We fished Hali Friday off pedder. Anchored at Williams head all day. No Hali. Tide was mint. Still had fun
GodLovesUgly
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I've been out to Border Bank twice this season for flatties since the opener and got blanked both times. 1 Dog first effort that was it. Fishing herring, squid, and chinook bellies.
kaelc
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How deep? I used to fish 240 there but switched to 320 last year, approximately for both. Been fishing deeper again this year except for Sunday with now luck super shallow.
GodLovesUgly
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Yeah I like that 240 area and spent some time in that range as well as deeper to 300+. We fished everything between 180 to over 300 on the 2 attempts with nothing. I was kind of surprised usually there's at least a few smalls around.
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