Vancouver area & Gulf Islands Salmon Fishing.

Fishing in the Gulf Island region continues to produce good results. We have been on the water daily producing some nice Chinook Salmon. Yesterday we landed 6 salmon but unfortunately they were all a bit too small. Most of the fish last week were all between 16 to 25 lbs, we even produced one Chinook that weighed 27lbs.

Over the next month we will continue to focus our salmon fishing in the ocean waters surrounding Vancouver & Gulf Islands. By far this is the place to be in the Vancouver area. Although the Fraser will probably open for salmon fishing on July 15, water conditions will remain poor for most of July. We will have to wait and see how water looks in early August before we start salmon fishing the Fraser.

Pitt River Trout Fly- Fishing and Spin Fishing

The Pitt River has been a bit slower than we are use to but we are still producing some nice trout in the 4 to 7 lb range. Waters levels are excellent this time of year so regardless of weather we are always fishing good waters conditions. Both fly and Spoon fishing produces good results, the key is to fish the fly or spoon in fish holding water. Don’t waste your time fishing every run every hole, focus on key holding water and only fish those spots. I fish the Pitt much the same as I would steelhead, fish primary and secondary runs, leave the rest to the other anglers who don’t know any better.

Fraser River Sturgeon Fishing

The Fraser has been fishing fair to good this past week, the last couple days we have seen some aggressive feeding behavior with some larger sturgeon being caught. Yesterday one of our groups battled a large sturgeon for over an hour, the fish got tangled up in some debris on the river bottom and was never landed but they did manage to land a bunch of nice fish.

If you’re looking to get out on the water this week, we still have boats available for this weekend and next week. Just give us a call or e-mail to Book.

Currently we are offering

– Vancouver Salmon Fishing

– Gulf Island Salmon Fishing

– Fraser River Sturgeon Fishing

– Pitt River Fly- Fishing & Spin Fishing for Trout.

Vic Carrao

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Nice fish Guys.

Gulf Islands are fishing well, good time to book a trip if your wanting to experience this great fishery.

My guess is 27 lbs, and i don’t mean the girl.

That is one fat fish, nice job Ben.

Below is a couple Pitt River pictures from this week.

Nice Pitt River Bull Trout, this is a great fishery lasting well into early August.

This guy walked out off the bushes about 20 feet from one of our guests. Good thing he was friendly.

We are so lucky to live where we do, all this within 1 hours drive from Vancouver.

Vic Carrao

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Vancouver & Gulf Islands Salmon

Salmon fishing has been steady over in the Gulf Islands, we did two trips this past week to Thrasher Rock and the east side of Gabriola. Both trips produced nice Chinook up to 25lb but numbers of fish were not that great, boat load of Dungeness crab on all trips. Seems like each trip we have 4 or 5 chances so it’s just how many chances turn into landed fish. For the most part that is up to the guests and a bit of luck. The Cod and Rock fish are keeping the rods busy when the salmon are not biting.

This picture was just sent to me from the water at 10:08 am on June 23. Great job Chad, you’re the man.

Pitt River Fly & Spin Fishing

We have been on the Pitt all week fishing for sea-run Bull Trout. Although the numbers seem to be down from same period last year, these fish are probably just late as it’s seems to be the trend on all local rivers. We are catching fish on every trip but working hard for each and every one. Our largest trout this week was just under 7lbs, a few fish in the 5 lb range and some smaller ones.

Here is a typical Pitt River Bull Trout you could expect to catch while on a guided trip. This fish was caught a few days ago.

We are catching fish on both Fly & Spoons, Egg Suck’n Leeches, Streamer fly’s and Flash Flys. Most of our fly’s are hand tied and don’t have names, but if your looking to tie some fly’s for the Pitt, I would recommend using pea cock herl, flashabou and some polar bear or died moose or elk hair. Most of our fly’s are 2 to 4 inches in length imitating larger bait fish like herring or needle fish.

The one below is one of my favorites.

Fraser River Sturgeon Fishing

Sturgeon fishing has picked up again, we fished the last 3 days between Mission and Vedder River confluence with good results. Bait of choice has been Eulichons and eels but we are picking up a few fish on salmon eggs and bellies. Some of our larger fish are coming from the salmon baits so they might be starting to key in on migrating salmon.

Berkley releases new fishing line

I finally get to talk about Berkley’s new Nanofil fishing line. Someone of you who fished with me last season might remember using a new fishing line that I was not able to say much about. Well now we can not only talk about it, we can purchase it as this new Nanofil will be coming to stores soon.

You’re probably saying, ya ya, another fishing line, whoopti doo. There are so many new lines are the market it gets a bit confusing. Well trust me when i say, this line is like nothing you have ever used.

Nanofil is not a monofilament, not a braid but something completely new. This line is the first Uni-filament fishing line. It casts effortlessly, casts longer than any line I have used and is extremely accurate. This line has zero memory, zero tangles, zero stretch and virtually eliminates tangles.

Last season I tested this line on one of my spinning reels, we used 12 lb test which is the diameter of about 4lb test. It casts like silk. I compared 8 & 10 lb mono which I was using on another rod/reel, the Nanofil casted twice the distance with half the effort. All our guests that used it were thoroughly impressed with this line.

I am trying to get some pictures of packaging so you can see the line, it is white, soft and has no memory. As soon as I do, I will post.

Vic Carrao

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