Sooke River Estuary- Chum salmon fishing timing
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Are there anything other types of salmon than chum there right now? Do the other types go into the the Sooke River Estuary?
Talked to someone at the tackle shop and they recommended some green gibbs lures. Anyone else have any suggestions?
Also, is there any point in trying to fly fish down in the estuary? Or is the water too slow moving?
Talked to someone at the tackle shop and they recommended some green gibbs lures. Anyone else have any suggestions?
Also, is there any point in trying to fly fish down in the estuary? Or is the water too slow moving?
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fish stalker
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I had luck with a 4 inch silver spinnow. I have tried a brass and orange stripe spoon which seems to be the ticket up island. Green seems to be the hot color out in the chuck. Theres supposedly coho in there. River is nice lots of school of chum that are quite dark. It is non retention. Definitely need some rain for those poor fish stuck in the river with the seals right up in there.
Looks like some of that rain is coming today. Does this mean there won't be any fish in the estuary this weekend?
I'd like to fish where I can retain a fish for dinner.
Lipripper
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Pretty windy and low light... Nothing jumping on the Basin side and couldn't see anything moving around on the Harbour side. They were flopping around by the reserve below the bridge. Check tomorrow
Fins -n- Skins
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The buzz bomb specialist with the cowboy hat has been spotted down there. This time he is carrying a net with a 12 ft handle. Must be Fall on the Sooke !!
Kildonan
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That guy is a real donkey.
Fins -n- Skins
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Well put kildonan.
Karma-Kazi
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LOL If only they knew how easy it is to get them to bite 
If only they knew...
If only they knew...I was out on billing's spit today and there were lots of fish around. None of them liked what I was serving up to them though. There were a couple guys fly fishing out there that caught a couple nice bright chums.
Had a chat with one of them and he seems to think that the spoon my local tackle shop recommended was way too big, but he also said he only fly-fishes so he didn't know for sure. There were a couple of dark chums near the shore, I tried waving the spoon in front of them to see if they were interested in it, but it's like they didn't even see it.
Maybe I'm just a really bad fisherman and doing something wrong altogether. Or maybe I'm not in the right spot to be using spoons? I was right out at the end of the spit. Should I have gone closer to the bridge?
Maybe I should try again tomorrow with a flyrod instead. Seemed to work for those two.
Had a chat with one of them and he seems to think that the spoon my local tackle shop recommended was way too big, but he also said he only fly-fishes so he didn't know for sure. There were a couple of dark chums near the shore, I tried waving the spoon in front of them to see if they were interested in it, but it's like they didn't even see it.
Maybe I'm just a really bad fisherman and doing something wrong altogether. Or maybe I'm not in the right spot to be using spoons? I was right out at the end of the spit. Should I have gone closer to the bridge?
Maybe I should try again tomorrow with a flyrod instead. Seemed to work for those two.
So what's up with this guy? Is he using a buzz bomb above the bridge where it's flyfishing only?
Or is he a donkey because he doesn't know what he's doing and looks like a tool doing it?
Lipripper
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The dark chum generally wont move at the gear.... the bright ones will.
The guy with the hat fishes the spit and single-handedly tries to make the Sooke chum a 2 bum hole strain... I would doubt he has ever hooked one in the head.
There is a garbage can on Philips (right hand side) that is right across from the entrance to Sunriver.... that is the trail you are looking for. You might have tried the one at the small parking lot that is right before that?
The guy with the hat fishes the spit and single-handedly tries to make the Sooke chum a 2 bum hole strain... I would doubt he has ever hooked one in the head.
There is a garbage can on Philips (right hand side) that is right across from the entrance to Sunriver.... that is the trail you are looking for. You might have tried the one at the small parking lot that is right before that?
That's horrible. I hope you guys are calling him things much worse to his face, because donkey is way more polite than the words that I would think of. But I bet words just bounce of this guy don't they. I don't get how people figure that rules are for others and don't apply to them.It's a shame that the province can't afford more conservation officers so that they could be out there catching these guys consistently. If only vigilante justice had no consequences.
Yah, I must've been at the wrong parking lot. It was a small lot that came immediately after the camp grounds.
Promised the old lady I'd get a bunch of yard work done tomorrow; gonna try to pound through it early in the day and maybe run out there in the late afternoon to try looking for it again.
Thank again for the tips Lipripper. I wish I had found this board 5 years ago when I moved to this rock.
Promised the old lady I'd get a bunch of yard work done tomorrow; gonna try to pound through it early in the day and maybe run out there in the late afternoon to try looking for it again.
Thank again for the tips Lipripper. I wish I had found this board 5 years ago when I moved to this rock.
Karma-Kazi
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Black wollybugger produced a few silver biters from 7-16 pounds yesterday! At the campground they may ask for a loonie for day access but if im know the fish are there its worth it! Good luck!
-Steve
-Steve
Lipripper
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You can park there.... Its a hundred feet or so farther down the road
Yup, It beats not being able to fish there
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