September is a month that anglers eagerly await in Vancouver!! This is when some of the biggest fish of the year enter local waters and it is also when fishing restrictions ease and almost everywhere is open to chinook salmon! The Bell Buoy, Sandheads, T 10, Point Atkinson and the Capilano Mouth are areas where local anglers witll target chinook salmon up to 30 or 40 pounds!

Georgia Strait has been a lively one over the last few weeks. While on our Vancouver salmon fishing the abunance hales, salmon, seals and baitfish have been amazing to see. There are good numbers of coho showing in the Gulf Islands and a few showing up off the South End of Bowen Island. We will likely see more coho in Vancouver waters soon.

RIght on time, some nicer, bigger fish are showing up in Georgia and Haro Straits! Our Vancouver and Sidney trips have been quite successful this last week with some really nice fish being landed. Vancouver is still non retention for chinook salmon, Sidney is open for retention of hatchery marked chinook. Ling cod open for retention in the Gulf Islands and Sidney area tomorrow.

April is one of the better months of the year for numbers of chinook salmon in Vancouver waters. You have to read the regulations carefully as some areas go to catch and release only for chinook salmon and some areas go to no fishing for chinook. We have some good opportunities to get out on the water for catch and release options for chinook salmon in Vancouver during the months of April and May. From our Sidney location, we are open to the retention of hatchery chinook in most of the areas we fish. If you are looking at keeping salmon, please ask us about our Sidney fishing trips!