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Late Spring Chinook and Halibut: Vancouver Island Fishing Report

Late Spring Chinook and Halibut: Vancouver Island Fishing Report

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This is Artificial Lure with your Vancouver Island fishing report. We’re sitting in a classic late‑spring pattern on the Island: cool mornings, mild afternoons, and light to moderate winds. Around Nanaimo, Campbell River, and Victoria, expect mixed cloud with sunny breaks, daytime highs in the mid‑teens to low 20s and a light westerly picking up in the afternoon. Mornings are cool enough for a jacket, afternoons are shirt‑sleeve weather on a calm day. Sunrise is landing in the early‑morning window, with sunset late in the evening, giving a long fishing day. Plan serious efforts around first light and the last two hours before dark; that’s when the bite’s been most consistent. Tides around Georgia Strait and the east side of the Island are running moderate, with a decent morning flood and an afternoon ebb. In most inlets and passes, the best action has been on the first half of the flood and again as the ebb starts to move. Slack has been slow fishing unless you’re dropping right into structure for rockfish or ling. Chinook salmon are still the headline. Offshore of Nanaimo, off Five Fingers and Thrasher Rock, boats have been picking up a mix of legal and undersized Chinook on hoochies and spoons fished 100–180 feet down on the riggers. Productive colors have been glow white, green splatterback, and simple chrome or nickel spoons with a bit of glow tape. Anchovy or herring in a teaser head is still a top producer if you’re willing to fuss with bait. Down off Victoria, from Constance Bank over toward Clover Point, trollers are finding springs in pockets, mostly deeper, 150–220 feet on the wire. Smaller spoons and glow hoochies behind a green or chartreuse flasher have outfished plugs the last few days. If the tide’s really pushing, don’t be shy about adding a bit more leader length and slowing the troll slightly. Halibut reports off the south Island and out of Port Renfrew have been steady, not red‑hot. Most fish are coming from traditional gravel and sand humps in 200–300 feet. Bait is king here: salmon bellies, herring, and octopus on spreader bars or slider rigs. Add a glow skirt or a large glow jig to get noticed near bottom. Expect to work for a couple of good fish rather than filling the boat. Inside waters and rocky shorelines are giving up decent lingcod and rockfish. Jigs in the 3–8 ounce range, in motor‑oil, white, and root‑beer patterns, have been doing the job bounced tight to structure. Where regulations allow, a strip of herring or squid added to the jig has been turning lookers into biters. On the freshwater side, lakes like Cowichan, Elk, and Langford are fishing well in the low‑light periods. Trout and kokanee are feeding higher in the water column; small spoons, wedding bands tipped with worm, and size 8–12 leech patterns on intermediate lines are working. Midday, the bite drops off unless there’s a good chop and cloud cover. For gear, if you want a simple box that covers most Island situations: - For salmon: 3–4 inch spoons in glow/green, UV purple, and basic chrome; white hoochies; anchovy teaser heads with 5–6 foot leaders behind a green, chartreuse, or Kelp‑pattern flasher. - For bottomfish: 6‑ to 10‑inch glow grubs and large metal jigs with a scent strip or bait. - For lakes: small silver or brass spoons, spinners, and olive or black leech flies. A couple of current hot spots to consider: - The stretch from Thrasher Rock to Entrance Island off Nanaimo for Chinook, especially around the edges of bait balls on the morning flood. - Discovery Passage near Campbell River on a moving tide for salmon and strong bottomfish action where regulations permit. As always, check the latest regulations and closures before you go; things can and do change quickly around the Island. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss a report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn
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