Vancouver BC Fishing Charters

We have had some ideal fishing conditions on our salmon charters over the last week in Vancouver. Hot sunny days with light winds have made for some picture perfect days on the water. Fishing has been pretty solid all in all for coho and the odd bigchinook along the West Vancouver shore line this past week. We had couple trips where we had 15-20 salmon hit the gear this week. On average we have been hooking 4-8 salmon a trip. What we have found this year is that the coho have been moving throughout Vancouver Harbour more than usual. We have landed hatchery coho off the Bell Buoy, the QB, Stanley Park, Dundarave, Fisheries, and the Cap Mouth. If it is slow moving around a bit might pay off. The West Vancouver fishery should continue to produce for the next couple months.

Now that we are getting into mid July we will start focusing more and more on the big chinook salmon that are showing up in local waters. Yesterday morning, July 18, a handful of big chinook salmon were hooked in the outer reaches of Vancouver Harbour. There were also some unconfirmed reports of fish off the Fraser Mouth. Last year the big chinook salmon fishery really caught fire in early August in Vancouver Harbour and off the mouth of the Fraser. It is looking like we should be in for solid big chinook fishing based on the good reports from the eastern Vancouver Island and Sooke area soon.

There have been some solid reports from the eastern shoreline of Gabriola Island this week. Some really nice fish up to 35 pounds have been landed. With some calm weather the Gulf Island make for an awesome day trip. We have not made it over there in the last few day but will likely head that way on our next 8 or 10 hour trip.

We are eagerly awaiting an announcement on sockeye. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is calling for an excellent return of roughly 12 million fish. We should know in the next week or two when we will get our opening. Sockeye are known to be the best eating of all the salmon. Also they can supply some excellent action with multiple hook ups at one time common.

The first pink salmon of the year were caught this week off of West Vancouver. These early 4-8 pound salmon are bound for the Seymour and Indian Rivers. There numbers will build in coming weeks supplementing the action off of West Vancouver. The massive Fraser River run of pinks will start in the middle of August.

Our boats are availble for Fireworks Charters over the next couple weeks! There is nothing like seeing the Symphony of Fire from the water. We can even fish for a few hours before anchoring up for the fireworks!

Give us a call to book a charter! The weather is amazing and the fishing has been consistent!

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