Sooke continues to offer fun winter spring fishing. The salmon are being caught deep, 120-160 feet. Anchovies in green glow teaser heads has been a popular lure this week, behind purple haze or glow flashers. Glow and purple haze hootchies are working too.

The Sooke Harbour Derby wrapped up on Sunday. 41 fish in caught, with mostly winter springs, but the one and only chum caught Sunday -- after a 9 day chum fishing derby, weighed in 5 minutes to closing! A fun excuse to get out there, so hopefully it will become an annual tradition.

On a different note: here's a Youtube video of divers along Sooke's wastewater pipe (just off the Bluffs, in front of the tin shack). "The Sooke, B.C. wastewater treatment plant operated by EPCOR Utilities Inc. is helping in the restoration of the areas marine habitat. On a routine inspection last April of the outfall that dips into the Juan de Fuca Strait, divers observed rockfish, greenling and lingcod using the structures crevices for habitat and breeding. This video contains footage from that diving expedition, showing the marine life along the 1.7-km-long, 30-metre-deep fused plastic outfall pipe, concrete weights and ballast mats. " That's pretty cool, good to see more sealife down there.

Good luck fishing, if you can get out there!