Early season fishing the back country 2024

Planning 2024, 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.  

    

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More March great fishing

 Swapping stories of earlier days with a couple of other old-timers, and getting interrupted by the occasional fish.  These guys were already well established guides when I started.  They influenced my style of guiding.  
 

sargassum seaweed

A bit of floating seaweed with herring eggs attached.  This probably got blown up to here from the spawning areas further south. Notice the eyes in the eggs. 

This Sargassum seaweed is an invasive species .  https://www.exoticsguide.org/sargassum_muticum 

 

a Recapture today

 Today in the micro-trolling research project we recaptured a chinook that was first tagged by a micro-trolling crew nearly exactly a year ago near Nanaimo .  It grew from 237 to 470 mm. 

  It is regular procedure to scan every fish on the chance that it could be carrying a PIT tag.  This is the first recap that we've had in our boat that was tagged by micro-trolling in a previous year.  

Loonie Spoon works

The Loonie Spoon was catching fish today. 

 

March fishing continues being very good

Great guests , great weather , great fishing . 

Citizen Science

We're helping in salmon science research, again, as we have done for many years.  You'll be participating in the Avid Anglers Program.  We'll be recording the details of all the salmon we catch or release .   We'll  measure length and get a tissue sample for DNA which will be analyzed to identify the home river of each fish .  Also, the fish we release will get a PIT tag , a tiny electronic tag inserted in the body cavity, and then carefully released.  All my guests have been very supportive and gain a feel-good experience to contribute to the salmon knowledge base.