Nice videos, thanks for the sharing. I fish a lot around Victoria waters and caught quite a few Chinook last month. Just wondering how deep do you guys drop your downriggers? most of my salmon were caught at 60-90 ft recently.
@@lewiswilliams5187 hi Lewis! Depth is just variable for the fishery… we look at electronics and try to mark bait and fish. Early morning I always go pretty shallow in the water column… down here in Puget Sound it seems like the coho are shallow, and the chinook are deep… but not always! We got a nice chinook on Monday at 40’ on the wire just after sunrise! 😃
What bugs me is the huge expense invested into catching salmon, not to mention the limited seasons and fish limits, then once you get out there the fish cop harassment begins and STEALS the time you have to fish. I think if you get checked out there, THEY should compensate you for lost time and opportunity. Of course they totally ignore one of the MAIN culprits in salmon numbers declining.... a single seal can kill up to 100 fish EVERY DAY as they usually take one bite from the belly and move on. If they eliminated some of the seal population, I believe we would experience far more salmon numbers. Remember " Herschel " the sea lion who they LET murder salmon for years at the Ballard locks where all the salmon are confined in a kill zone?
Ha! Yes, I’m definitely old enough to remember Hershel! Yeah, I’m a rules follower so getting stopped like that by the WDFW isn’t that big of a deal, but you’re right, it’s a waste of time and somewhat awkward. I sped up that part of the video on purpose, as the whole interaction was a weird experience. They were obviously training a new officer, because dude had to quadruple check and then look at the other guy when he was having trouble identifying a coho vs a chinook. They accused us of not recording a fish immediately and starting to fish again… there was 3 of us on the boat, we had two rods out, and they approached us less than 2 minutes from when we caught that crazy surface biting coho. We didn’t get cited, but it was pretty obvious that they were watching us and approached us immediately after we caught a fish. They checked all of our gear, fish, kill bag, and all compartments… it was weird. Oh well, on to the next adventure! Thanks for watching and the conversation JC! 😃
Nice videos, thanks for the sharing. I fish a lot around Victoria waters and caught quite a few Chinook last month. Just wondering how deep do you guys drop your downriggers? most of my salmon were caught at 60-90 ft recently.
@@lewiswilliams5187 hi Lewis! Depth is just variable for the fishery… we look at electronics and try to mark bait and fish. Early morning I always go pretty shallow in the water column… down here in Puget Sound it seems like the coho are shallow, and the chinook are deep… but not always! We got a nice chinook on Monday at 40’ on the wire just after sunrise! 😃
@@GooglyEyeFishing Thanks again.
Nice fish, what area are you in? I'm trying to learn about the migration of the different salmon
@@Waldo1982 we are near Seattle.
What bugs me is the huge expense invested into catching salmon, not to mention the limited seasons and fish limits, then once you get out there the fish cop harassment begins and STEALS the time you have to fish. I think if you get checked out there, THEY should compensate you for lost time and opportunity. Of course they totally ignore one of the MAIN culprits in salmon numbers declining.... a single seal can kill up to 100 fish EVERY DAY as they usually take one bite from the belly and move on. If they eliminated some of the seal population, I believe we would experience far more salmon numbers. Remember " Herschel " the sea lion who they LET murder salmon for years at the Ballard locks where all the salmon are confined in a kill zone?
Ha! Yes, I’m definitely old enough to remember Hershel! Yeah, I’m a rules follower so getting stopped like that by the WDFW isn’t that big of a deal, but you’re right, it’s a waste of time and somewhat awkward. I sped up that part of the video on purpose, as the whole interaction was a weird experience. They were obviously training a new officer, because dude had to quadruple check and then look at the other guy when he was having trouble identifying a coho vs a chinook. They accused us of not recording a fish immediately and starting to fish again… there was 3 of us on the boat, we had two rods out, and they approached us less than 2 minutes from when we caught that crazy surface biting coho. We didn’t get cited, but it was pretty obvious that they were watching us and approached us immediately after we caught a fish. They checked all of our gear, fish, kill bag, and all compartments… it was weird. Oh well, on to the next adventure! Thanks for watching and the conversation JC! 😃