fished the grande this afternoon and caught a 20 and 16 same spoon and depth as last night.it's nice to get out there without having to battle the wind.

I think this question has been posted before but where exactly is grande? Thanks in advance. BTW is there a map somewhere that lists out the various spots in Nanaimo?

fished nanaimo hit first fish 15.5lbs landed it then 15 minutes later a double landed both realese some shakers becareful these little guys are hard to see i think i killed a little baby of the hatchery boys sorry guys didnt see him hit checked the gear and found anouther shakers this one i think made it released one chinook about 11lbs
all fish were on 3.5 inch spoons

off to ukee tonight doing some personal fishing
still got room for charters if anyone is interested

and heres a pic from today

The grande is near the northwest entrance of silva bay on gabriola. there is a log building on the bluffs can't miss it

Cheers All,

Three fish this afternoon with the largest 16 lbs and full limits of crabs. Was a ton of PWS Dolphins off Entrance on way home.

Got news that the digital camera guests dropped cannot be fixed so I headed to buy a new one on way home tonight. Got to store and found I had a flat tire on boat trailer. Had to race to pumps and fill so I could get home. When did they start charging $1.00 for air?

Hopefully can get tire fixed quickly and still have time to stop for camera.

Back on water tomorrow.

well- fishing report from a poor novice--went fishing in Porlier Pass (is that close enuff to nanaimo to be in this thread?) last 2 days--not much showing on the finder- fished 150 to 40' low high tide today and high high tide yesterday--fished spoons (glow) from HC. one ling cod in the boat- no salmon or strikes--was trying one rigger with braid and one with stainless--both as bad as the other LOL!
3 other boats out also no luck this AM. water was smooth and was cold and overcast untill 0930 hrs when sun broke through---gonna keep trying to learn--mracer

Thursday noon to 5 Thrasher for a couple of hours nothing in the usual spots but saw some bait balls. Trolled over the reef north of thrasher light, 60' of water 45' down had a strike that looked like a ling as I was expecting,dragged like a Ling then I handed it off to my guest and it turned into a 12lb spring. Over to the Grande nothing at the waterfall, back to the Grande and 140' in about 180' we had a popoff that I grabbed on the end was a 9lb spring that acted like a coho with some nice aerials for the guests and neighbouring boats.

fished Grande to waterfall tonight caught a 14# on a black/glow at 125. We get back to the dock clean our fish and proceed to wash the fish off in the water when a seal grabs it out the old mans hands! needless to say we had a good laugh and a little pissed off at the same time.

Cheers All,

Hey...no feeding the seals...we have enough problems with them! LOL That is truely amazing and the first time I have heard of that occuring. Glad you could laugh.

It really is time for a cull. When they start to attack people at the docks, they have now become a dangerous animal and not just a nuisance. Remember the little girl that was pulled in by a seal at Mosquito creek in NVan last year. She is lucky to be alive.