Vancouver BC Fishing Charters

Great day on the water this morning! We got an early start to beat the wind. We started trolling in the middle of Vancouver Harbour where we had some good success recently. The wind stayed down long enough to land a nice 23 pound chinook, a coho, and a few undersize chinook. We also lost a solid chinook and did not connect on a cas well. We did a tack down the West Van shoreline to finish off the day as the wind picked up. We lost a coho of the rock jetties before picking up the gear to head back to the Westin Bayshore. A couple boats reported some good coho action off Ambelside during the morning.
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Well what a good stretch of fishing we had for the second half of June. We had a couple of tough charters, but all in all it was one of the better months of June we have seen for quite some time. The coho salmon rolled in very good numbers in the second and third weeks of June and provided local anglers with some real good action. On a few trips we hooked over a dozen coho off the West Vancouver shoreline. The coho fishing slowed down a little bit during the latter part of last week with the rainfall we had. Things have improved over the last day or so with more and more coho showing. Intermingled with the coho there have been some nice chinook mixed in as well. Both our charters on Sunday both landed both coho and chinook off the West Vancouver shoreline.

Jason Tonelli on the Salty Dog and Preston on the Seastar were both able to make it out off the Fraser River mouth on Saturday to target some of the big returning chinook salmon that have been showing recently. Both boats got into a good number of fish. Most of them were jack chinook but both boats landed chinook in the mid 20’s and lost a big fish each. The Fraser Mouth is always a good bet in the summer as the fish stage for the river.

Vancouver Harbour has had some nice fish as well. We have landed a few coho, undersize chinook, and the odd big chinook. This morning Bon Chovy landed a chinook in the mid twenties in Vancouver harbour.

It looks like a very promising stretch of fish coming up with solid coho fishing and some nice chinooks thrown in as well.

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We had an excellent charter this morning!!!! The coho salmon were very cooperative with lots of bites to be had. The West Van shoreline was stacked with bait and the coho were aggressively feeding on small herring and crab larvae. The fish were scattered from Navy Jack all the way down to the research center. It did not seem to matter to much where you fished as long as you were tacking in 15-70 feet of water. We had the bulk of our success on hootchies fished fairly shallow and trolled fast. We had good action throughout the morning with 14 salmon hitting the gear. We did not land them all as some fish were lost to seals and some just didn’t hook up. Our guests still went home with some nice coho for the bbq. There was a couple other charter boats out as well who also had good success. This years coho fishery has been the best we have seen in quite a few years, especially this early in the season.
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Headed out off West Vancouver for the last few hours of the flood tide this evening. The weather was beautiful with sunny skies and light winds. We set up off the pink building around 5 pm and were into fish right away. The coho were definately feeding on the large amounts of baitfish hanging in the shallow water. In the 3 hours we fished we had 8 coho hit the gear with 3 nice fish ending up in the boat. This start to the coho season is the best in many years and we are very optimistic that it will continue through the summer.

Fishing remained productive locally over the weekend! There were some nice coho and the odd chinook caught off West Vancouver. The Fraser Mouth slowed right down on Saturday as a pod of killer whales came charging through on Friday. The Five Fingers were really good on Friday and Saturday with a few fish over 30 pounds caught, including a 37 pounder.
The second half of June has had some amazing days so far. It is likely that the Fraser Mouth will pick back up now that the killer whales moved on. Howe Sound is starting to perk up a bit with the arrival of the first Squamish River chinook. West Vancouver should continue to see more waves of coho and increasing numbers of big chinook.
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Another solid day off the Fraser Mouth for big chinook today. We hooked a half dozen mature chinook up to 30 pounds and a few more undersize chinook. Pretty solid action for a half day charter. The West Vancouver also produced good numbers of coho as well for the boats that were there. Time to get out on the water as we are experience some great fishing right now.

Fishing has picked up off the Fraser River Mouth. Good numbers of decent sized chinook salmon in the 15-30 pound range have been hooked over the last few days. These fish are a combination of mature and feeder chinook salmon. Also in the mix have been some good numbers of jacks and undersize fish. Nice to see some good activity locally after a slow couple weeks. The reports from Sooke and Comox have been fantastic so we should see some of those fish soon. Crabbing has continued to be great in the harbour.

A couple of beauty chinook salmon caught this week

This weekend saw some better activity in local waters and across the strait in the Five Fingers area. We made it over to the far side of Georgia Strait yesterday and managed to get into 4 chinook salmon, landing 2, a 16 pounder and a 19 pounder. The conditions were beautiful with calm water and warm temperatures. There was also some good reports closer to home with some nice fish being hit off the Fraser River. Now that we are getting later into June we will not have to travel as far to find fish. We rescheduled todays trip due to the blustery weather. The reports from the Victoria and Sooke area have been great so we should some of the fish that they are hitting now make their way towards the Fraser.

Well it looks like things are starting to heat up along the West Van shoreline for hatchery coho. Increasing numbers of coho are being hooked every day. These fish are not exceptionally large but they are great table fare and pretty scrappy fish. Mixed in with the coho there has been the odd legal and undersized chinook. This fishery should continue to gather steam this month. The key to catching these coho is to speed up your trolling speed. The Gulf Islands have started to show some more life after a tough stretch of fishing mid week. The chinooks that have been hooked on that side have been towards the Five Fingers. Fishing should start to pick up with the passing of the full moon and the continued build up of coho in West Van and the Big Squamish Chinook that will be showing soon.