It was nice to see some great fishing weather over the weekend, we spent several days out fishing the salt for salmon, completed our first river seminars and we are now starting up our spring sturgeon, steelhead and salmon season.

Steelhead

STS guide Thomas Rutschmann has been out several days this week and is out on a trip this morning. Water is in great shape and our guest from Vancouver just landed his first Vedder river Steelhead. Over the next 2 – 3 weeks we will probably see some of the best steelheading of the season, lots of fish in the system so great time to give it a try.

Vancouver Salmon

Vancouver salmon fishing is starting to pick up, any day now south end of Bowen Island should start to produce good results and Gulf Island are already starting to pick up. Ling fishery opens May 1 over in the Gulf so we are looking forward to getting out there. Crab and prawn fishing has been good and should remain steady until the commercial opening in May. Once that fishery is open we pretty much stop prawn fishing on salmon charters on the Vancouver side of the strait.

Although we still have lots of great salmon fishing between April and July, August is by far one of the best months for salmon fishing in the Vancouver area, with 70 million sockeye predicted this summer, it going to be a bit crazy. If you’re looking for a great local trip for both Chinook and Sockeye, August is the month to book.

Fraser River Sturgeon

Sturgeon fishing has been a bit spotty this past week, some days are great and the next day you can’t get one to bite. Most of this is due to inconsistent weather and we are still just a bit early for the Eulachon run. The lower and middle Fraser has fished best with most fish being caught on Eulachon and Lamprey eel.

We still have a few seats available for this weekends Sturgeon seminar and Jet Boat Seminar, give us a call if you would like to book.

Next Hells Gate tour is May 2, 5 seats are still available.

Have a great week.

Fraser River Sturgeon

The Fraser River is in great shape, water clarity is good, temperatures are at 40F and rising. We had several trips out this week with good success landed 9 fish in a 4 hour trip and 12 fish on a 8 hour charter. Our largest fish this week was just over 6 ft but had a couple other larger fish. Best baits have been Eulachon, lamprey eel and salmon roe with Eulachon producing best results. There is good fishing from Langley through to Agassiz and we will see this improve even further over the next few week.

Vancouver salmon

We had a trip out on Friday fishing Tungstal Bay and Vancouver Harbour, 1 keeper chinook and released a few undersized as well as a good haul of crab and prawns. Fishing for salmon has been fair to good and will remain this way for several more weeks then we should start to see some bigger fish and better numbers in mid to late April. We were using the new Gibbs STS UV Glo flasher with the new Gibbs/Delta G-Force spoons

Jet Boat Tours

We still have a few seats for our May 2 Hope to Hells Gate jet boat tour, cost is $129 per person, also still have space on our April 20 sturgeon seminar. If you would like to book one of our seminars or a salmon or sturgeon trip , please call or e-mail us sts or 604-671-3474

Vedder Steelhead

It’s been a great week for steelhead on the Vedder, lots of fish being caught throughout the river. Most of the fish we are getting on b eing caught on salmon eggs but many other baits and lures will work. Spring is a great time to use artificials such as Colorado blades, Ironhead spoons, single egg patterns and yarn. For fly fishers those large maribou fly’s work well as well as stone fly’s in brown or black.

We will be out on the water all week chasing salmon, steelhead and sturgeon, if your looking to get out, give us a call

Hope you have a great week

Vic Carrao

Congratulations to Ross Jardine of Vancouver, winner of our Share our facebook post, a Gibbs/Delta/STS care package is on the way. Included is 2 of the new Gibbs Delta Tackle Guide Series Flashers.