I was out two weeks back and fished coal on the ebb for an hour, nothing, so headed over to the channel and made passes on the ebb past powder down to the first crab string a few hundred yards past the end of James. About the 4 th pass we hit a nice chinook and it made two big runs and my partner horsed it to the boat and when it came alongside and looked up it decided to snap the line and swim away with my flasher dragging behind it. It had nice wide shoulders and looked to be around 15lbs. If you catch him with a green and white coho killer and purple haze flasher, PM me to return my gear. LOL. Then on next pass my buddy drove us into a submerged crab line and lost a cannon ball, about 60ft of cable and another flasher and spoon. I think I need to buy a machete to clear that channel each time before fishing it.
Last week I fished north or Darcy for hali for about 2.5hrs on a slack, but no bites. decent crab around sidney spit it if there is not a crowd of commi traps.