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FISHING
REPORT
"Alberni"
Sockeye
opens June 15
Comox Valley
Saltwater
July 1 , 2009
The Georgia Strait is holding huge schools of herring of many different
sizes this year and the large numbers of migrating salmon are taking full
advantage of this abundant food source. The schools of herring can be seen
at most slack tides all the way from Salmon Point to the Lighthouse on
Chrome Island. The Chinooks we are hooking into are much larger than just a
few short years ago with many fish in the high twenties and some nice fish
in the mid-thirties. The Kitty Coleman “Hump” has been the highest producing
area since the beginning of the season. The low slack and well into the
flood tides have been very good for months with fish hitting many different
depths with most fish hitting in the 180-195 ft range. The set-ups, that are
working the best include 3.5 inch and 4 inch Cop Car or Night Rider Coyote
spoon and well as the Yamashita KG174R and the KG140R double glow squid
baits run behind a silver Betsy flasher at 1.5 mph. We have been using few
of our favorite white glow Gibbs Highliner flashers again this year with
great results. One other favorite is a small # 10 Abe’n’Al silver prism
flasher from Luhr-Jensen this seems to be hooking many of the larger fish
when combined with a Gibbs 6” Chrome Wonder Spoon. Good numbers of Chinooks
in Tribune Bay are attacking baitfish in the shallow waters near the marker
buoy. When fishing in this area, take off your flashers and kick up your
trolling speed while running just a 6” Tomic 500 tubby between 60 and 90 ft
. The action can be non-stop if the fish are there! Many of the Big and
Little Qualicum River Chinooks will soon be cruising the Bowser shoreline
and the south Hornby area, fattening up before schooling at the river mouths
in mid to late August and usually well into September. With the high tides
in the evenings, this shallow water fishery can provide some of the best
local fishing of the year. At 35-40 ft these fish hit hard and fast, so make
sure your hooks are sharp and use heavier leader (40-60 lb test). Always
remember to bleed out your fish immediately after landing it, a point most
fisherman overlook. Halibut are still being landed in many areas of the
strait with a nice 125 lb flatty taken on June 30th at Flora Isle
on salmon gear (25lb leader) while jigging for Lingcod.
See you on the water….
For charters or angling info contact G&M Fishing
Charters at (250) 954-6500 or toll free at 1-800-577-6966
www.fishingbc.ca
Regards
Gil DiCesare
Freshwater
With summer creeping around
the corner and the weather changing from clouds and rain to shining sun, it
is one of the more productive times of the season. Summer sun has yet to
over heat smaller and lower elevation lakes, but has made short work of the
snow and ice preventing anglers from trying higher elevation venues.
The ants are flying! These large scale
hatches of both small and large black ants can make or break a day of fly
fishing. During the initial days of the ant hatches fish will take most any
black bodied brown winged fly you can throw out to them. As the hatch
proceeds, however, the trout will stop feeding due to the high amounts of
acid in their stomachs from digesting the ants.
Maple Lake has been recently stocked with
twelve inch fish and is a great place to stop for a while, or spend a day
with the family. Though the gate remains closed it is not too strenuous to
lug in a belly boat or a canoe between buddies. Fishing from shore with
power bait on the bottom or small spinners and worms is a sure bet, and
trolling with wedding bands tipped with worms or Berkley gulp! Leeches is a
guarantee for landing enough for a generous dinner. For the fly fisher,
black ants, tom thumbs and emerger patterns on a dry line will be effective.
If wet lining is your forte, then black micro leeches and stickle back
patterns will yield strong takes as well.
Reports of great fishing are streaming in
from Campbell river in Lost, Snakehead, Brewster and Mohun Lake. Though most
are fishing from boats trolling gang trolls, spoons and spinners fish can be
taken readily on worms and power bait from shore as well.
Spider lake continues through the spring
and into the summer to be a great fishing destination. Though fishing for
bass is currently closed the lake sports stocked triploid and resident
rainbows that can reach five and six pounds on a good catch and the two
pound range is common. Fly fishers would do well to chironomid fish this
lake, though trolling black, or pumpkinhead leeches makes up for a fair
number of fish caught. Frog pattern Kwikfish, Blue fox spinners and Humpies
are a wise inclusion in your box of tricks if fly fishing isn’t your
preferred pastime. Be aware that there is a restriction on all motors, and
launching boats is problematic due to the lack of a ramp, so car toppers,
belly boats, and pontoon boats are the best option.
Stamp River,
Somass River,
Sproat River
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