Outlook: The tides this week are fantastic for out in the Salt. Slow, gradual flood tides that have been the type of tide that has consistently produced over the last month. We generally use the Dairiki Tide site for our updates. When reviewing the Georgia Basin forecast for conditions is a great tool to use for…
Archives for 2013
Chinook Fishing is HOT!
The chinook fishing continues to be good to outstanding at the Bell Buoy, North Arm, T-10 and South Arm. If you have some time to get out fishing or book a charter with us, I suggest you do it now. The big chinook are here with more on the way in the next two weeks….
The Chinook Salmon Are Here & Pesca RSG Spoons!
The chinook salmon fishing has really picked up over the past 7 days with some frantic action in the last 2-3 days. We are experiencing good to great chinook fishing off the Bell Buoy on our 5 hour and 8 hour charters and some equally good fishing on our 8 hour and 10 hour charters…
Pacific Angler Saltwater Fishing Report – Aug 9th, 2013
Outlook: Weather forecast for Vancouver = GREAT Wind forecast for Georgia Basin = GREAT (moderate 15knot to light 5knot) Tides for Vancouver Harbour = GREAT! Early morning flood tides this weekend with nice mid-day low slack and evening flood. Thompson river reports are getting better, pinks in the Squamish, Skagit fishing nicely with more bulls…
Saltwater Fishing Report July 19th, 2013
Saltwater Report – Eddie Matthei Fishing has continued to improve locally along West Vancouver and it seems that along with the big plump cohos we’re getting we are also hooking chinooks as well. Not to mention an ever increasing amount of pinks in West Van and Hole in the Wall. A successful outing with Eddie…
Pacific Angler Fishing Report: Friday, July 12th 2013
Outlook: The long-term forecast calls for a 48hr heavy rainfall of over $50k in cash and prizes, YES it is the Labour Day Chinook Classic is coming SOON!! LABOUR DAY CHINOOK CLASSIC is the premier catch & release salmon fishing event hosted annually on Vancouver’s North Shore. Held over the Labour Day long weekend, this 2-day event (Saturday…
Monday Fishing Report: July 8, 2013
With heavy NW winds all weekend the charters were quite often being blown off of W. Van even though there was a good early bite. Once the wind kicked up we ended up having to head to Hole in the Wall where the waters were calmer and some great Chinook were being put into the…
Friday Saltwater Report: July 5th, 2013
Saltwater Report: Beach Fishing: Its time to start tracking the start of beach season for W. Van, Furry Creek and Cate’s Park. No solid reports yet but this fishery will begin turning out some fish within the next 7-10days while the true season is not expected to start till late July. I have been to…
Fishing Report: Tuesday, July 2nd 2013
Here is our current report up to and including this morning! Fishing at Thrasher slowed down this week. Most trips only had 3 or 4 hookups but the good news is that those fish were big and hard fighting. Many were in the mid to high 20’s. These fish were taking lots of line with lots…
Saltwater Report: Friday, June 28, 2013
Saltwater Report Eddie Matthei: Well despite having the strongest tides of the year, the Gulf Islands continued to produce. The gear is the same I’ve described on my previous reports. spoons, hoochies and even bait works. Thursday the conditions changed. The first thing I noticed was the lack of good bait concentrations which resulted in…