Fresh Lower Mainland Fishing Reports

Summer is officially here, and summer salmon fishing in Vancouver is off to a hot start! Coho salmon fishing has been on fire for at least the last few weeks with good numbers of hatchery fish in the mix. In addition, pink salmon should start showing up in numbers any day now, as we are expecting a record return this year, estimated at 27 million fish! And if that weren’t enough, chinook salmon returns for the past few years have also been spectacular, and we expect the same again for this year. In short, if salmon fishing is on your to-do list, you couldn’t pick a better year to do it than this one! Summer spots book up quickly, so be sure to reserve your spot today!

The spring fishing for a catch and release only of Chinook salmon has been fantastic and the non-retention will continue until September 1st in the local Vancouver waters. However retention for Chinook will start July 15th but only over across to the Vancouver Island side of the Salish Sea. It's a 20 miles run across or about an hour depending on the sea state and only for 8 hour charters. Locally as of June 1st, we can keep hatchery coho and pink salmon. There is an estimated 27 million Pink Salmon expected to return to the Fraser River which is historically a very huge number. Fishing for coho and pink is fast and furious which makes it a lot of fun and chaos on the boat as there are double, triple and quadruple headers more often than not. Book an amazing fishing adventure soon.

While yesterday was a little cloudy and chilly for this time of year, fishing in the Vancouver area continues to be terrific this Spring, with good numbers of chinook salmon in local waters. Soon, the coho salmon will start to fill, and the chinook numbers will also grow as the main summer migrations kick in. Once again, both coho and chinook are forecast to have very strong returns this year, and we are also expecting a huge return of pink salmon as this is a dominant run year for the Fraser River - which literally means millions upon millions of pink salmon homing in on Vancouver area waters this summer. All in all, salmon season in Vancouver is in full swing, and it should be one for the books! Book your spot now!

We had to work hard for these fish today bit we managed some nice results. Personal bests all around. The river is on the rise and fish are starting to be where they are supposed to be. Not long before they settle in and the bite comes back to normal.

Art, Tomi, Ollie, Josh and Benji set out from Australia this April to spend some time in Whistler testing the ski runs and then coming out to the Fraser River to find and battle with the Great White Sturgeon. They set some personal and family World Record Catches and here are just a few shots of their adventures. Each of them had a chance to do battle but the last fish of the first day at 199 cm (78 inches or 6.5 ft) proved to be endurance test of the day. The fish tried a few tricks, starting with some good head shakes and then a sleeper run pretending to be a small one but then it took a rod bending run that looked like it was going to do in the tackle. Eventually Ollie prevailed and the family photo op smiles says it all. They were a fun crew to have on board and hope they make another trip up from Down Under soon! Tight lines.

A few first timers today and the fish did not disappoint. Many fish lqnded today. The smaller average size during the spring season sure allows for many opportunities. Todays bestbone was 73” or 187 cm.