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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Rodney on March 25, 2014, 02:47:33 PM

Title: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Rodney on March 25, 2014, 02:47:33 PM: Just a quick report for now, full report will be available in our blog section later on. Yesterday we went out with Bon Chovy Fishing Charters (http://www.bonchovy.com/) from Granville Island for a full day of "seafood safari". We dropped the crab traps, prawn traps and trolled for winter chinook salmon around Howe Sound. The water was a bit choppy at times, but the weather worked out pretty well and we got plenty of sun by the end of the day.

All five chinook salmon caught were undersized so had to be released after DNA samples were collected from them. The day before they were able to get some nice keepers (you can see the pics in this report (http://www.bonchovy.com/blog/2014/03/vancouver-fishing-report-march-25th2014/)). We had a good haul from both prawn and crab traps. It was a pretty excellent day without having to travel to far to enjoy some saltwater fishing.

Here are some photos from the trip.

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2014/140324-03_zpsf28a5f04.jpg)

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2014/140324-05_zps31b05363.jpg)

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2014/140324-12_zps1ce61389.jpg)

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2014/140324-06_zps3410fe69.jpg)

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2014/140324-14_zps43f50463.jpg)

Give Jason at Bon Chovy a call (604-763-5460) if you decide to do this trip. The crabbing and salmon trips are available for 4 or 8 hours, but if you want to include prawning, then 8 hours is needed. Full report to come! :)
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Silex-user on March 25, 2014, 06:54:24 PM: Thanks for saltwater fishing report Rodney. Those prawns and crabs looks good. I would love fish salt-chuck but with those little swells or whitecaps makes me nervous. I guess being little older makes me a fair weather fisherman. ;D ;D ;D

Silex-user
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Fish Assassin on March 25, 2014, 07:32:19 PM: Dungeness crabs and spot prawns. Mmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Rodney on March 26, 2014, 11:01:44 AM: Here are some more photos from the trip and a lengthier write-up. :)

http://www.fishingwithrod.com/blog/2014/03/26/salmon-crabs-and-prawns-at-your-doorstep/
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: wonder on March 28, 2014, 05:03:26 PM: I'm doing the same thing on the sunshine coast april 9th-11th, hopefully i can get into some chinook aswell, looks like a lot of fun and i love the spot prawns.
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Toprod on March 30, 2014, 07:47:11 AM: Did a shakedown run with the boat this week in Howe Sound. No prawning but fished for a couple hours. Landed one 9 lb beauty, 200 feet of wire out in 200 feet of water on a green spackleback hoochie.

Was damn good on the barby.
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Rodney on April 09, 2014, 10:36:03 AM: Here is part one of the three-part video I'm putting together from this trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48Lr7QiJLQ
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Rodney on April 18, 2014, 02:26:28 PM: Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUT6jV09JqM
Title: Re: Howe Sound, March 24th 2014
Post by: Rodney on May 04, 2014, 05:26:24 PM: Part three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqPCF3YjbmI