Wednesday 29 March 2023

March fun with S + S



   March is a fun time for fishing.  This was a wonderful day with Scott and Sharon.  We hit it right,  even after a late start and they caught two beauties each. Sharon brought her lucky self and dominated the action.  


 I don't often talk about tackle techniques in this blog, but the strikes were dominated by the Loony Spoon , so here's a shout out to Cameron at Spirit Lures .  https://spiritlures.com/ .  I rig  the spoon above an attractor flasher, so there is no clumsy flasher on the line when playing the fish.   




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Tuesday 28 February 2023

Do you always catch fish ?


  Do you always catch fish ? 
 Sometimes I'm asked that, especially from a youngster, when we have yet to have the first bite.  The answer has been, yes, but with some need for clarifications. This past season there were two motorboat  trips when we caught no keepers, but we did release an oversize fish on each of those trips that was larger than the maximum size allowed at that time and area. Fish that we release are measured, sampled, tagged and released carefully. The third photo is from a trip that began with higher expectations, and ended with one fish caught, and one lost at the boat.  I'll be giving some extra fishing time to these folks on their next trip.  




The rowing season, in the grand Tyee Club Tradition, was not such a great success.  For some reason this past season the mature chinooks did not collect in their usual staging areas in the Tyee Pool and down along the shoreline in shallow water.  However, the fish did turn up in the river in good numbers, showing again that the fish can be mysterious and the Tyee Club catch record is not a good indicator of the run size.  It is always a challenge greater than ordinary fishing, and always has the unique attractions of fishing from a rowboat with simple light tackle.  Even when the bites are few and far between, we live in hope and enjoy the fishing experience.  
 

 

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Monday 6 February 2023

Planning 2023, Fishing the backcountry, April 1 to July 14

    


 One of my very favorite fishing trips is getting out into the marine backcountry with a lovely trip to the mainland side of our area in the early season.  It is a lovely picturesque cruise to where the ocean channels weave into the mountains. 






 We can feel confident that this fishery will continue for 2023 judging by a recent presentation by DFO, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans .   



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Saturday 19 February 2022

New contact email



Please notice that my contact email address has changed to gobrightfish@gmail.com .  


 

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Tuesday 15 February 2022

Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline



   Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline.  That is the headline , Feb 15.  

 Furthermore, it is encouraging that Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, also said encouraging words about the near future ; 

 “It’s important to note that if the epidemiological situation continues to improve, if hospitalizations continue to diminish and Canadians continue to get their booster shots, further easing of travel restrictions could be considered in the coming weeks.” 


News items : 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/exclusive-canada-ease-travel-requirements-covid-cases-decline-govt-source-2022-02-15/ 

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2022/02/government-of-canada-lightens-border-measures-as-part-of-transition-of-the-pandemic-response.htm


 

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Friday 28 January 2022

Project Bottleneck continues

























  Project Bottlenose continues as we fish to sample, tag, and release little chinook salmon in their first winter at sea.   The idea is to fill a knowledge gap about where the young chinooks rear in winter,  where they travel to and from, and where the bottlenecks are in their survival .  



This is a project of the Pacific Salmon Foundation using a few volunteers to go out in the winter weather with our own boats .  Typically I am going about twice a week , one time with a biologist /technician from the BC Conservation Foundation, and once with Shamra, as we have learned to do it all ourselves.   Shamra does most of the data entry and I do the sampling and injecting the PIT tag . 



 We are using small spoons and flashers that are made for trout or kokanee, and stacking them on the downrigger line , usually six per side, and 12 hooks in total.  ( I made a post about this, with photos, back in October 2020 . )  The little chinooks often cough up herring that are much bigger than our lure . 

 We also catch some larger chinooks in their second winter , and occasionally a 3 year old , but the big ones get away .  

 We had clear but very cold weather before Christmas , and we found a concentration of the target fish in the north edge of Georgia Strait .  

 Then the snow came . We didn't get out for a while during the snow time .  

 

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