Fishing Reports

After a challenging start to the 2021 Vancouver and Sidney Fishing Charter Season, we are back in action! Health orders have relaxed and we are welcoming guests back on board! Give us a call if you want to head out on the water!

Bon Chovy Fishing Charters offers fully guided fishing trips from all the Southern Gulf Islands. Galiano, Saltspring, Saturna, Mayne, Thetis and Pender Island

It has been a bumpy start to our Vancouver and Sidney based fishing trips this spring. With current very limited operations, we are optimistic that things will improve as we get into May with dropping Covid numbers and potential hatchery chinook salmon retention in some areas around Vancouver, Sidney and the Gulf Island's! Stay tuned!

Our Sidney Fishing Charters have been operating on a limited basis with Covid Safety Protocols in place. Our 30 Foot Grady White Marlin is now based at the Port Sidney Marina and ready for a busy fishing charter season ahead.

We have been operating on a limited basis over the last few months. We have been following Provincial Health Orders and doing the odd fishing charter with same household groups. We are hoping the Covid 19 situation improves soon so we can get back to some more normal and conventional charter operations! In the meantime, we are sticking with our Covid Protocals and doing the odd trip if the group aligns with Provincial Health Orders!

We have been enjoying the start of the winter chinook fishing season in Vancouver and Sidney, BC. We have seen decent numbers of fish, pretty good weather and steady catches of prawns and a few crabs! Winter is one of our favourite times to go fishing in British Columbia. Our weather is the warmest in Canada and when needed, we just turn our diesel heaters on!

After a long wait, Vancouver area anglers have lots of options to take advantage of. With virtually all the traditional Vancouver salmon fishing areas now open and subject to full retention, September is shaping up to be the most anticipated month of the year. There certainly has been some good waves of chinook coming into local waters, but there has also been some tough tides where we have had to work for our bites. The slower days have often followed visits from salmon eating killer whales. The Gulf Island’s are still producing a few fish, but most anglers are now focusing on the local Vancouver waters.

We are seeing coho numbers start to increase this week on our Vancouver Fishing Charters. In Sidney and the Gulf Island's we have seen good numbers of chinook salmon . This is perfect timing as chinook retention begins on July 15th in some areas and August 1st in some other locations. Time to go fishing in Vancouver or Sidney, BC!!

After a 10 week hiatus, we are now resuming our Vancouver Charter Fishing operations with Covid 19 protocols in place. Summer is coming and the boats have been waxed and polished and are ready go. Give us a call to get out on the water!

Our Vancouver Fishing Charters are getting very close to resuming after a long suspension due to Covid 19. We should have an official start date by next week and are now taking summer bookings! Looking forward to get back out on the water!

Bon Chovy Fishing Charters is following provincial Covid 19 guidelines and our Vancouver Fishing Charters will resume once it is deemed safe!

Our Vancouver Salmon Fishing Charters have been pretty busy over the last couple weeks. We have seen good action on most of our trips with some nice fish up to 15 pounds. We have been focussing our efforts on Howe Sound, Vancouver Harbour and the Southern Gulf Island's. We are looking forward to a good month of fishing in March!

Like we do every year, we are offering fully guided Vancouver winter chinook salmon fishing charters for a great rate from January 15th to April 15th. Come and join us for an adventure you will not forget. Winter fishing trips in Vancouver are amonst our favourite of the year. Come find out why! Granville Island Fishing Charter Departures

Vancouver and the Gulf Island's have had some very nice winter chinook salmon around. Our Vancouver and Sidney Fishing Charters have been have some good days with some nice fish up to 15 pounds landed. Winter is our favourite time to target salmon in Vancouver. The combination of the amazing scenery and typically consistent fishing makes for some great Vancouver Fishing Trips!

Our favourite fishery of the year is underway in Vancouver! On our fishing charters in recent weeks we have had decent success targeting early winter chinook in Howe Sound and Vancouver Harbour. It is still early, but from all indications, it is looking like the stage is set for another good winter of salmon in Vancouver!

Fall fishing in Vancouver has been productive on our charters in recent weeks. There has been the odd slow day, due to high river levels in the Capilano River, but we are seeing fish on most flood tides.

August chinook fishing was about as good as it gets! We enjoyed the some of the best chinook salmon fishing we have ever seen. September is now here and the fishing has simmered down, but fishing is still solid for chinook salmon in 10 to 30 pound range. Pinks are still around off the Fraser River Mouth and the Capilano Fishery is a week or two away. Lot's of options coming up!

Our July fishery in Vancouverl waters is off to a good start. There is significantly more chinook salmon around than normal for this time of year and the coho fishing has been pretty consistent. On the far side of the Strait, Gabriola Island has been excellent for the last couple of months! All in all, 2019 has been a very good year to date!

The last couple weeks have been some of the best chinook fishing in recent memory over on the Gulf Island's. Local fishing has been productive as well with some very nice chinook salmon. Chinook salmon are currently catch and release until July 15th. Hatchery coho salmon are open for retention as are ling cod on our longer full day trips to the Gulf Island. Fishing in Vancouver is one of the best activities you can do in the summer!

Over the last number of years, May has definitely proven to be one of the best times for chinook salmon fishing in the Vancouver area, this is May is no different! Despite the regulation changes, we are enjoying solid catch and release fishing for chinook (until July 15th) in all of the usual spring spots. We have been successful sending our guests home with some dungeness crabs and on some of our longer charters ling cod and spot prawns! We have seen the odd early coho salmon as well. The DFO is forecasting a strong return of coho this year, so we are hopeful that we will see excellent coho fishing like we saw last June off the South End of Bowen Island and the Gulf Island's!

The South Bowen Fishery has really picked up! The last few days have seen very good fishing. Looking forward to the coming weeks!

We are now transitioning into a spring pattern in our local Vancouver fishery. After a productive winter fishery in Howe Sound and the inner reaches of English Bay, the offshore fishery has started. Over the last week there has been decent numbers of fish showing up out in the deep! This trend will continue and the fishing should continue to improve in coming weeks.

We have been out quite a bit in recent weeks and have enjoyed some good fishing in Vancouver. Winter fishing for chinook salmon has been fairly consistent in Vancouver Harbour and Howe Sound. We have been dropping traps for Spot prawns and Dungeness Crabs and spot prawns and have had very good results.

Our 2019 Winter chinook salmon is here and so is our annual Winter Chinook Charter Special! Like we do every year, we are offering fully guided winter fishing charters at a great rate from January 15th to March 31st.

It has been a hot, smokey last few weeks! We have enjoyed some solid fishing for sockeye salmon, some good bursts of coho fishing and a few good chinook tides.