Sandhead Chinook Salmon Limit Small Boat
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2023
- Chinook Salmon Fishing Sandheads Lighthouse, Vancouver British Columbia, Fraser River Mouth in September.
Another late night post work run out to Sandheads for me. With evening meetings the following two evenings I was not sure if I'd make it out... so I headed out for a solo mission to the Straight of Georgia to see if I could find some Chinook willing to bite.
So looked at the forecast and decided to buzz out in my tinner. Couldn't sell the kids on a bouncy ride.
So ripped out and turned to the north to avoid the seine nets and guys trolling the can line. 200 feet of water, marking fish so dropped the lines... I dropped a spoon to 80' and turned around to grab the second rod... when I turned back the first rod was bouncing and released. I grabbed it. Big heavy head shakes but no run. Eventually came up behind the boat rolling. I figure it was a big wild coho... so he released himself.
Dropped the lines back down and after a short troll in the 200 foot range to 250 I had my first line peeler. Spunky 12 pound white male. BONK.
Back down we go. Switched up the other side to the same spoon, different color. It had a couple hits and farmed a couple pinks. At about 80 feet.
Things were a little slow, so I rigged the third rod with a large herring on a glow head and dropped it down on top at 60 feet. It went off... nice little fat undersized Jack chinook probably 5 pounds. Then another hit on theherring, but came off. Hooked a pink that came off on the herring... why??? then as light faded the herring got a big hit.
The fight was on and soon after a mess of a solo net job somehow I got the 16 pound white male in. Super fat male.
In the fiasco of netting the boat slowed and spun around. Remaining lines down went into epic tangle mode.
By that time I was drifting towards a net... so I just cut my flashers and line so I could get all my gear in before I ended up an even bigger tangled mess in a seine net.
Of course took longer than expected so getting back in was a wee bit dim to say the least.
Beautiful evening. Fish at 99, 79, and 60.
Thanks for watching my outing. Not much talking on this trip. Was all business because I had a short time window and it was a little bit windy. Hope you enjoyed the video. If not... better luck for me next time.
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God Bless Your Adventures and good luck fishing! - Спорт
Super video Doc!
Thanks, quick short one!
I'm just watching the struggle with the solo net job great work!
Yeah got to love the solo net jobs, boat control, reeling them in and getting the fish in the net... that's a real challenge.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures definitely look's like an art form.
Nice short video doc
Thanks for watching
Nice fishin' dude, until you reel one of these monsters in you can't understand the power of those badboys.
Yeah Chinook are pretty powerful. Amazing runs.
how do you time your trip? i am assuming you go out of the fraser when the tide is going out? do you wait for high tide to come back in ?
I usually wait till September first when the season opens on the South arm of the Fraser River at Sandheads. Then I usually watch the weather. If the winds are "light" or up to 15knots Max I'm usually OK to go out. Then I just finish work as soon as possible get home, load up and head out. I usually just go when I have time. I don't pay much attention to the tides, but sometimes the tides are more favorable the not. The only time it's hard to launch is an extreme low tide. I've had to wait at the ramp before for the time to come up to launch. Otherwise to me doesn't matter if it's high, coming up, going down or whatever. If I'm off I tend to go out first thing in the morning for first light fishing and come in before the tide drops too low so I can load.
@@TheFishingDoctorsAdventures you never have issues with huge standing waves? i am new to the area and going to get out this year, although i am in a bit smaller of a boat. it can handle bigger water fine but everyone i talk to seems to make it seem like im going to have to go through 14 feet standing waves at the mouth lol.
@@mgp5156 haha, this is a 16 foot aluminum console... the main thing you have to worry about out there is the wind. If the wind blows up and you have standing waves then it can get a little sketchy. I've never seen much for standing waves. Can be a bit of a washing machine type effect at the mouth with 3 to 4 foot standing waves. Never seen anything bigger than that.