Thanks for the great day Ian, Matt and Adam

Thanks for the great day Ian, Matt and Adam

It was an honour to have you and your wife aboard.  I look forward to our next trip together with your friends from Panama.

It was an honour to have you and your wife aboard.  I look forward to our next trip together with your friends from Panama.

Thanks for the great morning with your crew and awesome job on the rod.

Thanks for the great morning with your crew and awesome job on the rod.

I’m sorry you feel this way about your fishing experience.  First off, Rick is a very experienced guide operator in the local waters.  Typically we only prawn on 8 hour and longer charters as it takes a while to set out the traps, let them soak and then go back to retrieve prawn traps.  Prawn traps are set in the area of the intended fishing grounds.  As for crabbing, this is the height of the commercial season and there is a very poor ratio of catching legal size crab to undersize crab and also there is a an extreme possibility of trap theft.  Rick and I have lost over 10 traps in the past 3 months to thieves as well as many other guides and recreational fishermen. 2 weeks ago, my 2 brand new replacement traps lasted 2 uses before they were stolen.  My guests feel horrible when we return to the area and do not find our traps or even other traps that were in the area.  It’s to the point if people want to crab, they sit on their traps. It is a horrible situation out there with no enforcement whatsoever.
The regulations state that there is no fishing for Chinook salmon in our local waters from Gibsons to the USA/Can border including Vancouver Harbour and Howe Sound.  That means we are not allowed to target Chinook Salmon until Sept. 1.  As for 4 lines, when fishing for Coho, they are a top water column salmon and you can not fish 4 lines. We run 2 lines shallow.  I and many other guides will fish 4 lines when we fish in deeper water targeting Chinook Salmon, while many other guides will only fish 2 lines at any time. 
If you had a previous excellent experience, I have to ask why you did not go back to that guide operator.  Most of the Vancouver guides are in communication with on another, but it doesn’t mean we always chat back and forth.
In our email communication, you were advised that you could only retain hatchery coho and no time did I mention prawning and crabbing would be included in a 5 hour charter.
I’m sorry you feel this way and expected more….but there’s a saying that it’s called fishing and not catching.  We provide excellent newer vessels with top of the line fishing equipment and electronics and put our guests in areas that has the best potential of hooking up some fish.
Captain Ivan

I’m sorry you feel this way about your fishing experience.  First off, Rick is a very experienced guide operator in the local waters.  Typically we only prawn on 8 hour and longer charters as it takes a while to set out the traps, let them soak and then go back to retrieve prawn traps.  Prawn traps are set in the area of the intended fishing grounds.  As for crabbing, this is the height of the commercial season and there is a very poor ratio of catching legal size crab to undersize crab... More