heard on marine traffic (ch 71) around midnight, large clump of gillnetters from sep head up towards cinque is. working night shift I guess.

fished Plumper and Deepwater on Saturday and Sunday. Brought 3 home each day and probably lost the same amount. Never found a big group of fish. Whenever we got a hit, it ended in a double or triple but with new fishers on the boat, we missed a bunch. We fished 10-4 on Saturday and 11-5 on sunday (ie around the high slack throuigh to the low slack as I recall).

I set up a dummy on the cannon ball, second dummy at 7 feet, the a hook at 15 and a hook at 25 (from the ball). trolled 2 lines like that at 80-95 on the deep side and 70-60 on the shollow line...that gave is hooks at 40-70. Flashers were 8 feet back from the line and we had leaders of 22-33 inches with pink or orange hootchies. pink and orange got hit, we had a doable on the deep and shallow line (ie the extremes), so we really saw results across a range and for the life of me, I couldn't dial it in?!?

Any ideas? Just not a big mass of fish then? further up the straight...lower down???

I guess thats why its fishing. On a positive note, we did better than anyone else there that we saw.

sounds like you're just hitting pockets of fish as they pass by. With the time of year and the recent rain I bet any sockeye still out there are on the move pretty quick.

on a side note, the socs were COVERED in lice, multigenerational too. I could see maybe 4-5 different sizes of lice on each fish, including ones the size of a pin head (ie young). This inidcates to me they are picking them up all along there migration path home. Anyone see exposure like this on the outside IE away from the fish farms littering georgia straight?

I only went out one day on the first weekend of the run. Didn't notice much in the way of lice on the west side of the island....No suprise eh? With that said, we usually get a few on most fish.

out in sooke/vic most sockeye had a good deal of lice but then again pinks seem to have a lot also. Maybe it has something to do with the size of scales and slime compared to coho and chinook?

I think it has something to do with the CR area, there was gross amounts of sea lice on the chum we were catching last year aswell as pictures people were posting from fish caught in this area are covered.

But I think along with the fish farms in the area's, but since pinks/sockeye/chum are schooling in much larger numbers that there are more hosts for the sea lice to spread to and from.