Salmon fishing in Sooke continues to be great. We’re fully into Coho Salmon season and the returns look very good. Harbour Mouth and out into deeper water up to 500ft has been GOOD for Coho from 60 to 100ft on the downrigger. Many lures are working, and now is the time to break out your [...]
Filed under: Fishing on October 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
Fishing for Winter Chinook Salmon (winter Springs) is EXCELLENT in Sooke waters right now. Trolling hootchies,spoons and anchovies behind a variety of flashers deep, close to the bottom, 110 to 150ft on the downrigger,has been working well for most anglers. White and or glow, and Purple Haze anchovy teaser heads have been working particularily good. [...]
Filed under: Fishing on November 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Currently in the Sooke area anglers are able to retain one wild, and up to three hatchery Coho salmon per person. These returning Nothern Coho are larger than the summer run version we saw earlier in the season, averaging from 8 to 15lbs, some topping 20lbs. Smaller feeder Springs to 10lbs have been showing up, [...]
Filed under: Fishing on October 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
Salmon fishing in Sooke is EXCELLENT right now. Spring / Chinook, and Sockeye, are being caught in good numbers daily, there are some hatchery Coho and Pink Salmon being landed as well. There has been a very consistant Sockeye Salmon “BITE” come on daily, usually mid morning anywhere off Sooke in 100 to 500ft of [...]
Filed under: Fishing on August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
July has lived up to its reputation for Salmon fishing in Sooke as being a SPOTTY month. There has been good sized Spring Salmon caught, but not many and not by many anglers. Currently there are fish at the Harbour Mouth which is normal for this time of year, we would expect more action from [...]
Filed under: Fishing on August 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »
Big Spring Salmon have arrived in good numbers at the local Sooke HOT SPOTS west of the Harbour Mouth, Whales have been in the area daily fishing the shoreline from Beechy Head to Sheringham Point for the last week. This has caused some very quiet mornings on the water for quite a few boats, while [...]
Filed under: Fishing on July 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
Fishing for Spring Salmon in Sooke is GOOD, the big Spring Salmon have arrived and have been hitting anchovey trolled in bait heads. Many of these large Spring Salmon have to be released due to the local restrictions D.F.O. has placed on the Victoria/Sooke areas. There are plenty of smaller hatchery Springs around that anglers [...]
Filed under: Fishing on June 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
Fishing for Spring Salmon in Sooke is SPOTTY or SLOW, there are some fish being caught, but not many. Word from up West is that the big Springs are on thier way, and some boats are reporting getting into the odd big one, but I haven’t seen any on the dock. Yes we still have [...]
Filed under: Fishing on May 31st, 2010 | No Comments »
Salmon fishing in Sooke waters continues to produce mostly winter sized Spring Salmon, although there are some fish in the 15 to 20lb range coming into the dock. The consistancy has become more spotty lately with some quiet days, and some outstanding days. The weather has been unsettled, which is very typical in this area [...]
Filed under: Fishing on May 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Winter Spring Salmon fishing in Sooke has slowed down over the last couple of days but overall has been Excellent this season. These smaller immature Spring Salmon are feeding heavily on herring, shrimp, and other smaller bait fish and squid. The fillets are noticably a darker red colour than the summer run fish, are feeding [...]
Filed under: Fishing on January 20th, 2010 | No Comments »