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Sooke Fishing Report

Welcome to the Sooke Fishing Adventures website! On this page, we will post regular updates on what's happening with Sooke fishing, Vancouver Island fishing, and other news of interest to our fishing friends from around the world.

Monday, March 23, 2009

March 23 Sooke Fishing Report

Fishing around Sooke and Victoria has been pretty fun lately.

Trevor from No Bananas Fishing reports: "Halibut fishing is red hot with fish every trip -- almost limited every day last week. Halibut catches have varied from 20lbs to 100lbs and have been caught from right off the waterfront all the way out to Border Bank."

Gord from Foghorn Fishing Charters provides a similar halibut report, with many of these fine white fish caught over the past week. "Here's Alex, Nigel, Vince, and Bill...these good old boys had a great day fighting halibut and winning! Alex at 81 years young landed his first halibut, a 40 pounder. Below that is K-Noot, Max, having a day off work. Everyone had lots of fun."

Additionally, Gord's guests reeled in some nice salmon up to 15 pounds. The big ones had to be released, due to the Fisheries "slot limit" regulation, but there's still the fun of reeling them in. They did get to keep a few nice "dinner fish" for the BBQ.

Good luck out there!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

March 11 Sooke Fishing Report

With halibut fishing opening March 1st, the fishing effort around Sooke and Victoria has switched away from salmon.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans have announced another "slot" limit this year, to protect the Early Fraser Chinooks. The salmon fishing regulations call for:

00:01 hrs Monday March 2, 2009 and until 23:59 hrs Thursday May 14, 2009
the total daily limit is two (2) chinook salmon per day which may be any combination of:
  • hatchery marked chinook greater than 67 cm fork length.
  • wild chinook (unmarked) or hatchery marked between the size limit of 45 cm and 67 cm fork length.
So, that means local anglers can keep larger hatchery salmon, but for wild salmon can only keep the smaller ones, between 18" and 27".

On the halibut front, many reports of limit catches from Jordan River to Oak Bay.

Gord from Foghorn Fishing Charters provides this picture and report: "This is the first halibut day of 2009 in Victoria waters, Joe on the left and his good friend Brian on the right. Joe is a Vancouver Island local and Brian is from Ottawa, they each are holding 40lb fish. These are their first halibut ever caught...and they are both planning to do it again!"

Constance Bank is said to be a hot spot, with Trevor from No Bananas Fishing Charters reporting two good days this week. First day -- "put the gear down at 7 and we were back the dock by 830, both were on herring in 200ft of water". Second day: "non-stop action, brought 10 to the boat ... nothing very big but the guests had fun!"

Steve Arnett of Kiwi Magic provides the following report in the Sooke News-Mirror: "“Stick and stay make’s it pay,” the old saying in these parts for a successful day on the water. As was the case Sunday for these anglers from Sooke. Albert hold’s up two nice hali’s caught west of Sooke. While Ryan, Adam and Bob show off their catch of halibut caught fishing Constance Bank in Victoria. Patience is the practice for a successful day of hali fishing, you spend hours waiting for a bite and wam in half an hour you’re done, heading home with a hali of a smile on your face. Until next time. Keep your rod tip up! Kiwi Magic "

The air is a bit chilly, but the sun is out...put out the anchor and chase a nice flat fish!

Good luck out there.

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