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Vancouver Salmon Fishing Report: June 19, 2015

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VANCOUVER SALTWATER SALMON FISHING REPORTS

Here is your Vancouver salmon fishing report for June 19, 2015!

Beach Fishing

It is getting close to the arrival of salmon at our local beaches. Yes it is time to get ready for another season of beach fishing for coho and pinks. I have been checking regularly for the past two weeks to see if by any chance there are fish, but haven’t seen much to shout about. With the exceptionally low water year for the Capilano River we might have a really good accumulation of salmon in the estuary. It will be coho any day and by mid July the pink salmon should arrive, estimated at 20 million. Get your 7-8 weight rods
with a floating or intermediate line and be sure your gear rods and terminal tackle are ready for the closest and convenient fishery in our city. I will have the flies in by next week and if you really want to have a better understanding of this fishery there are 3 dates available for my beach fishing course. If you’d like to know what to tie or which spoons and spinners to use please come to the shop and we’ll fill you in.

Chris with a beauty coho on a guided trip after he took the beach fishing course last year.

Chris with a beauty coho on a guided trip after he took the beach fishing course last year.

See you on the beach.

Andre

Local Saltwater

Well the winds finally backed off this past week and we were able to get some good days in over at Thrasher Rock.  The fish have been on the structure and we have been fishing the Thrasher Reef and over off the Grande area as well.  Our gear has been right on the bottom and we have been fishing from 140 to 225 feet of water and basically dropping our gear to the bottom and coming up a few feet.  Hot flashers have been any with glow, in particular the blue blade with glow tape on one side and silver tape on the other.  Blue, green, glow teaser heads with anchovy or herring have been hot as well as chartreuse glow splatter back hootchies.  There are about 2 more weeks of this fishery before things start to slow down a bit around early July.
Eddie's guests with their catch from a Thrasher Rock trip this week.

Eddie’s guests with their catch from a Thrasher Rock trip this week.

Over on this side of the pond the first coho of the year have been showing up off W. Van and the mouth of the Cap.  The fishing is far from red hot, but there have been a few fish taken this week.  Trolling up higher around 10-45 feet on the downriggers is usually productive and a UV flasher like an Oki Purple Onion with a 28 inch leader to a white or UV white hootchy is often the go to setup this time of year.  More coho will continue to show up later this month and all of July, so this fishery is just getting going.
Jason’s guests went 3 for 6 on Sunday at Thrasher Rock.

Jason’s guests went 3 for 6 on Sunday at Thrasher Rock.

There have been some nice fish up Howe Sound this past week as well.  Not a lot for numbers, but usually a few bites each morning and if you hook up the fish have been a good size, like mid to high 20’s.  Best depths around Hole in the Wall and further N up the Sound have been 60-150 on the downriggers.  Try shallower in the morning when it is darker out and then go deeper once the sun gets on the water later on in the day.  Bait is recommended in this fishery, so make sure you bring your teaser heads and anchovies and herring to go with your favourite flasher.  Good flashers for this fishery are Green Onion and Purlple Onion when higher up in the water column and then some glow flashers when you drop the gear down south of 120 feet or so later in the day.
See you in the shop or on the water – Jason.
Posted on by Pacific Angler in Fishing Reports