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Originally Posted by Marty S
Nice Brandon! You and your little Tigress crew!
Question.... when they close down the river and only let the natives massacre the sockeye, are you still allowed to go out in the salt/tidal portion and fish away or is that closed then too?
What boat are you in? Seems kinda small, but I thought you were running some kind of ocean boat in your old age.
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So the Fraser Tidal and Freshwater portions closed down earlier than the ocean fishery. I believe it stayed open after the close of the river probably another 3 or 4 weeks. The limit on the river was 2 per person per day. On the ocean it is 4. I favor the ocean since the fish are actually biting and can be targeted, where as the people on the river are bottom bouncing and flossing the migrating sockeye. Hardly sporting in my opinion. So many more people fish the river though and that is why I think it gets closed earlier.
This is my 16 foot spectrum with 75 hp and merc 9.9 kicker. Its nice to use the smaller boat since it goes pretty fast and gets you out there on the water which is usually pretty calm in the Salish sea. Burn much less gas as well for a day of fishing.
Yes, I did buy another more ocean worthy used Trophy a couple years ago, but the engine is out of commission unfortunately after sinking another $3000 in to fix it last summer. So I want to repower with a new motor. Going to wait till next year maybe since a little strapped for spare cash with out house build. Hopefully be back out on the trophy next year.
Thanks for the questions.