In the interests of not high-jacking someone else's thread. Just thought I'd tell nidfc what we've been doing the last few days. He [nldfc] needs to get out here and have at it!

Just bought ten new reels and some great rods. Plus, with the sockeye run we're up to 90lbs of fish in three days, to be both hot and cold smoked.

Looking good in the fish department got to get myself a trip over for next season

Those reels look like the dogs danglies as well - did you get a good deal on them ?

DFO are closing the sockeye run tomorrow. Hopefully the big 20lbs to 40lbs bastards start to turn up next week. Yes, got a great deal, saved in total about $1500 off the MSRP, so well chuffed.

We have our fall cod fishery open at the end of this month for a week - will have to make do with that for just now

Approx, 50lbs, caught today in English Bay, Vancouver. Not by me though.

Very nice

Here some other pictures. And this is our amp. It rocks man!

nice pictures oink mate, good looking reels that sounds like a great deal.

Hows the fishing going this season ??
Expecting my 1st box of snow crab any day now with any luck

So you stun the fish with 1Kw of sound and then pick them out of the water?

Nah, he lowers speakers into the water, cranks up the Saline Dijon so the fish hurl themselves out of the water to get away.

Fishing is great but the catching sucks. I actually had to go an do some work last week so I didn't get out till yesterday morning. Lots of bait around but hardly any fish. They'll come eventually.
We've had to entertain ourselves with pawning and crabbing which while instantly gratifying doesn't quite have the same thrill of the hunt. Got about 800 spot pawns though, which is about two five gallon buckets full.

oink, nice to hear you got out fishing yesterday, 800 spot prawns great,
l must say that is one hell of a fishery you have got around vancouver always
some thing to catch all year round, do you still have to measure them just
like the crabs you catch.

Not that I'm aware of. There is a 200 a day limit per licence so you need to take a few mates with you if you want to load up. If they are tiny or females with eggs we throw them back. Apparently, up at the top one of the fiords called Indian Arm, the prawns can be up to 10" in length.

Also, if we the have time, we might bomb over to VI (its about 25 mile trip) and fish the reefs for lingcod. They're ugly buggers but very tasty when battered and deep fried.