My wife and I just got back from two days coho fishing in Sooke. We stayed at Sunny Shores, so we fished straight out from the mouth of the basin, in the second and third tidelines, to about 600 feet.
Saturday we were out from noon till about five. We were able to keep five - two wild, 14 and 8 pounds, and three clipped, two about 6 pounds and one lunch sized blueback (later sauteed in butter, garlic and lemon - man, was that ever good!!). There was non-stop action for the first hour and a half, and another brief bite at 3:30 or so.
On Sunday, we fished from 8 til 6. The weather and water were beautiful, but the fishing was slower. Still, we came in with another pair of wild ones, 13.5 and 10 pounds, and five more 6 to 8 pound hatchery fish. There was no real bite, just a fish every now and then.
Most of the fish were caught on old 5" green or pink Apex's, but we also got a few on a #602 Tomic plug. We didn't use flashers at all, so it made for some great action, especially from the wild ones! All but one were between 50 and 70 feet - the last clipped fish was caught at about 25 feet, right off Secretary in the first tideline, at the end of the day yesterday.
As we were getting ready to pack it in, we saw a school of coho for a few seconds - they were swimming like porpoises in the kelp of the tideline. These were not small fish, and we saw what looked like one or two dozen of them.
All in all, a great weekend of fishing.
Paul
Edited by - lpaulcarter on 10/10/2005 13:09:49
Edited by - lpaulcarter on 10/10/2005 13:12:25
