I've been fishing the waters off Sidney just 1/2 hour from downtown Victoria all of the month of May. The fishing is typically good here in May and because you are on the east side of the Island and among the Gulf Islands the waters are sheltered and often lake like calm. The fishing has been very good most of the month with only a couple of stinker trips during a week of bad tides. Yesterday with awesome afternoon tides we played 15 Chinook up to 24 1/2 pounds. We kept our 3 person limit of 3 hatchery Chinook that went **hidden content** and 10 pounds. Released 5 wild Chinook that went **hidden content**,and 5 pounds. Released 4 more hatchery Chinook because we had our limit and lost 3 more far from the boat. Lots of action for a 4 hour trip and we were the only boat there for all but the last 15 minutes of the trip.