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[BwiBwi]

Took kids out to the beach today.  Saw 2 guys netting smelt. No luck.  How's other places doing? Anyone heard of anything?

[Fish Assassin]

An old timer caught over 60 one morning off West Vancouver. This was couple of weeks ago.

[charles]

Was out on Friday June 1 at ambleside evening, 3 smelt nets, in total of 4 smelts caught when I was talking to them.  Two were netting on the beach and 1 was on the floating dock...

[Nicole]

Are these not ooligans? Shouldn't they be closed as the populations have collapsed?

please correct me if I'm wrong... Maybe these guys are not the olligans that migrate into the Fraser.

Cheers,
Nicole

[Fish Assassin]

Nicole, these are not eulachons. They do not migrate up the Fraser. These are ocean smelts which spawns in the summer months along the local beaches. There is a closure from June 15 to Aug. 15 inclusive.

[Sam Salmon]

As always those fish are all over the bay different beaches on different tides.

Some nights guys will fill the nets @ Spanish Bank a few nights later it's the dog beaches north of Kits Beach that are hot.

Some Smelters seem to believe that big tides will bring more fish-and they might be right.

What those tides do bring though is all kinds of crap-seaweed/flotsam/you name it-to clog nets-no Smelt is going to swim into a wall of junk that's right in front of them.

My point is that anyone can buy a Smelt net and a lot of the people you see out there aren't very efficient or knowledgeable fishermen-anything but.

[Nicole]

Hmm, interesting, thanks for clearing that up for me!


Nicole

[coryandtrevor]

Saw a few guys cleaning up at Garry Point on Friday night at peak tide. Its kind of a ruthless way to fish. Nettin' and chuckin' em up onto shore.

[Sam Salmon]

Its kind of a ruthless way to fish. Nettin' and chuckin' em up onto shore.

Catch/Kill/Eat-just like everywhere else in the world.

[Hohummm]

An old timer caught over 60 one morning off West Vancouver. This was couple of weeks ago.

I remember the good old days (early 70's, yes, I'm that old.....)  when you would sometimes get 20-30 fish per set......You could actually see the floats of the net move when a school of fish swam into it.

[coryandtrevor]

Its kind of a ruthless way to fish. Nettin' and chuckin' em up onto shore.

Catch/Kill/Eat-just like everywhere else in the world.

Or : Catch/Kill/Sell in some cases, no pun intended