Vancouver Fishing Charter Blog

Weekend Report…JULY 18

Jason — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:52:12 +0000

What a great weekend of fishing! The coho fishing was about as good as it gets in Vancouver! Today, on Bon Chovy we started off slow but we really caught fire later in the tide. At the end of the day we ended up hooking 25 coho salmon, landing 9 of them! There were also some nice chinook caught by our boats this weekend up to 27 pounds. We hit a few chinook in the harbour and a handful off West Van over the last couple days! Here are some pics from the last couple days!!

July 15 Update

Jason — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:20:33 +0000

Well fishing has been solid over the last few days…including today! Good report from a different spots today. In the morning Van Herring had some great action oan mature chinook salmon up to 20 pounds off of Point Grey. They hooked 8 good chinooks, landing 3 of them. All the action was around the tide change in the morning. Anchovies were the ticket. Bon Chovy hit the West Van shoreline afternoon and had a crack at 10 coho salmon. The Gulf Islands also had some really good action this morning! Things are definately looking good!!!!!!!!

JULY 1 REPORT

Jason — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:06:44 +0000

Sorry about the lack of udates lately.. I just finished a 3 week coastal fishing trip from Vancouver to the Alaskan border chasing big chinook salmon!!

Today, the local action picked up with some nice coho salmon up to 8 pounds and a few larger chinook salmon hooked. The majority of the fleet was working the western half of the West Vancouver shoreline with pretty decent success. Most boats had a crack at 5-10 fish this morning so not too bad at all. With the drying trend in the forecast we should see the numbers of fish increase daily. Right now there is an incredible amount of crab larvae in English Bay. The fish are definately feeding on them. Hootchies in pale and white colours seem to be the ticket right now from 20-60 feet.

The Gulf Islands kicked out a few fish up to 25 pounds today as well.

Finally some clear, hot weather is forecasted in a few days….Finally we can be catching fish in our shorts and flip flops again.

June 6 Update

Jason — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:18:40 +0000

There was lots of fish to be had over on the Gulf Islands this weekend. On Saturday, Van Herring landed 6 legal chinook and had a crack at a number more….a very solid day! Today was a bit slower but both boats came back with some nice fish! Hootchies and spoons got the fish this weekend!

MAY 31st REPORT

Jason — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:26:06 +0000

Had a great day over on the Gulf Islands today. It was a little damp in the morning, but the sun broke through in the afternoon.. Fishing was very good as well. We ended up with a limit of chinook up to 20 pounds for the guys from Colorado. During the course of the day we had a crack at 10 chinook salmon! We were not the only ones getting fish! We had our best success fishing spoons and hootchies from 100-200 feet. June is quite often the best month to fish the Gulf Islands!

MAY 29th FISHING UPDATE

Jason — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:40:54 +0000

We have had some pretty solid fishing over the last week! Especially on our longer 8 and 10 hour trips to the Gulf Islands. Some really nice fish up to 20 pounds have made it back to our dock this week as well as lots of dungeness crab! We have focused our efforts off of Gabriola Island. Thrasher Rock and the Grande have produced well on the ebb and flood respectively. Last Saturday there was a 37 pounder weighed in to take top honours at the North Vancouver Fish and Game Club derby on Gabriola Island. So there is some real good quality over there! Locally, we have had some good success in the harbour and there was some good action off the South End of Bowen Island this morning. We got our first decent coho salmon this week as well! It will not be long before West Vancouver catches fire for hatchery coho!! Last year there was some great action for coho in the second week of June!!!!

MAY 18 REPORT

Jason — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:06:28 +0000

BOTH VAN HERRING AND BON CHOVY HAD VERY GOOD DAYS OVER ON THE GULF ISLANDS YESTERDAY. BON CHOVY ENDED UP KEEPING FIVE LEGAL FISH UP TO 19 POUNDS AND VAN HERRING LANDED 4 LEGAL FISH UP TO 17 POUNDS. THERE WERE ALSO UNDERSIZE FISH AND LOST FISH IN THE MIX AS WELL! DEFINATELY WORTH THE RUN OVER! LOCALLY THERE WAS THE ODD FISH PICKED UP OFF THE QA MARKER YESTERDAY, BUT OVERALL IT WAS PRETTY SLOW. HOPEFULLY THE FISHING WILL PICK UP ON THE VANCOUVER SIDE AS THE TIDES MELLOW OUT THIS WEEK! IF NOT THE GULF ISLANDS ARE DEFINATELY PRODUCING WELL!

MAY 14 Report

Jason — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:07:15 +0000

Van Herring had a great day over on the Gulf Islands today with some great weather and good fishing. Fishing from 11am to 230 pm they were able to land a couple nice chinook in the mid to high teens as well as a smaller legal fish. They also had a crack at couple more fish that did not stick. Other boats were getting good action as well. There was also continued good reports from the Vancouver side.

May 11 Report #2

Jason — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:12:45 +0000

A great day close to home today!!! Fishing was really good this morning for some nice feeder chinook..Van Herring landed 4 legal chinook salmon, 5 undersize, and also had a crack at a handful more fish! Really good action. Best results were on coyote spoons and anchovies from 80-120 feet!! Crabbing was great as well!

May 11 Report

Jason — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:48:10 +0000

Well after hearing some great reports from the Gulf Islands on the weekend we had to head across and give it a go. Unfortunately the weather and the fish did not cooperate. We did have a couple cracks at fish, but they did not stick. After fighting the wind and chop off of Thrasher Rock for a few hours we decided to head back over to the Vancouver side to finish the day…It was definately a good call. We had a sustained bite for an hour where we could not get all 4 of our rods in the water without a fish hitting. We landed a couple legal fish, a few undersize, missed a few, and lost a several good fish between 2pm and 3pm.