Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rodney on July 29, 2014, 09:38:22 AM
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http://www.psc.org/TestFish/Area12PSsummary.PDF
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Time to roll out the gong?
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Where is Blinkhorn Area?
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Between Campbell River and Port Hardy
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Brinkhorn Peninsula is somewhere between Port Hardy & Campbell River. So when is the most likely time to open for sockeye in non-tidal Fraser? ;D
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Sounds like a prime year to experiment fishing them in the Lower Fraser.
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Area 12 (Port Hardy / Robson Bight) I believe.
Hopefully DFO open the marine areas this weekend. If not, taking my boat and my Washington State license and fishing for them on the US side in the Straight of Jaun De Fuca.
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I'm curious to see how long it takes the school to make it up the Fraser. Certainly most of these fish are going to get picked up by various nets and some may not be headed up the Fraser but we should still see a decent slug of fish come thru at the same time.
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What's most shocking is the amount of pinks compared to years past. Hearing they are getting a bunch out in Sooke as well which is pretty rare on a non Fraser year. I wonder where they are all headed? Sounds like the Campbell is plugged with them.
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marine area might open Friday .dfo news release says.
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For future reference, here's a DFO map of fishing areas:
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/maps-cartes/areas-secteurs/index-eng.html
I'll see if I can come up with a date when we can expect to see decent numbers in the river.
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Too early to tell based on the few sets at Blinkhorn but the timing looks very close to 2010.
2010: Area 12 - seine
big numbers started on Aug 3
numbers peaked around Aug 24
numbers finished around Sep 4
2010: Area 29 - Whonnock gillnet (Maple Ridge)
started Aug 8
peak1 Aug 17
peak2 Sep 17
finished Sep 26
Entry into the river is very weather related - they will sit outside the mouth until the river cools down.
That's probably why you see 2 dates where the numbers at Whonnock peak.
Will be interesting to see if we get the huge numbers in area 12 again:
84,000 - August 19
85,000 - August 24
97,000 - August 26
I would estimate a week from area 12 to area 29.
3 days from the mouth to Hope.