July 18th Fished with Mark and his Son Jeremy from Ontario. Rough water and strong winds started early today, landed four nice hatchery Coho all 6lbs and one small Spring Salmon. Did see some other boats get into larger Spring Salmon. Foggy and windy.
July 19th Mark, his nephew and daughter, Brian, and Stephanie fished the [...]
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July 13th Fished with Giacomo who was having his 76th Birthday today. Trolled Tiger Prawn glow Rhys Davis anchovey teaser head behind a red flasher and Silver Betsy flasher infront of a Purple Haze teaser head. Caught Giacomo’s limit of Pinks and Coho and a 22lb Spring Salmon, as well as crabs in the traps [...]
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July 4th Fishing with Peter Sienfeld in the afternoon at Possession Point. Peter landed a good 25lb Spring Salmon on a purple haze Rhys Davis head trolled behind a red Oki flasher at 57ft on the downrigger, right off the point at 9pm.
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June 20th Fished the Juan De Fuca Derby with Bob from 2Reel2 and Matthew MacKenzie from the Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina. Fished Otter Point and Bob landed a nice 22lb Spring of the Point on a chartruese tiger prawn Rhys Davis bait head trolled at 85ft.
Took two hatchery Coho for the BBQ. We moved [...]
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June 13th Fished with Herman,Dave,Bill and Scott on Herman’s 33ft Ocean Sport “Emily D”. We were fishing this boat in preparation for the Sooke Salmon Classic on the Sept 3rd weekend 2009. We started out at the Bluffs in 100ft of water, trolling the gear at 60 and 70ft on the downrigger, and a 17 [...]
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Fishing for large Spring Salmon in Sooke is EXCELLENT with opportunities to catch these hard fighting silver bullets daily, at all the local hot spots minutes from the marinas in Sooke Harbour. The Salmon have arrived earlier than normal, and are larger and in greater numbers than in recent years.
Many fish in the mid twenty [...]
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May 29th Fishing with the Defillipi crew: Judy,Gigi,Brad and Rick, staying at the Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina. We started out fishing at Possession Point and received some good info that the bite was on at Otter Point about half way through the trip. We pulled the gear and ran to Otter where Rick got [...]
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May 19th Fished the Trap Shack with Mario and Frank, driving down from Duncan we had a later start at 10:00 am. There was another boat in the area when we got there, “High Noon” had a reported 30lb Spring on board. We had on big strike that didn’t hook up around noon fishing around [...]
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Great fishing in Sooke for Spring salmon of all sizes, there are 6 to 39 lb Springs being caught in Sooke now.
This last weekend showed some nice Springs wieghed in at Sooke Harbour Resort and Marina and Eagle Eye Outfitters including an awesome 39lb hatchery Spring Salmon, caught by Cal Young and crew. It was [...]
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April 7th Fishing with Chris and his father Larry at the Trap Shack, trolling anchovey in 130 to 140ft of water and deeper, with the gear at 105ft to 120ft, using anchovey in green glow patterns, water was flat and clear sunny skies. We had two bites that didn’t hook up and three that did. [...]
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