Shore fishing Vancouver island!

[HuyFishin]

https://youtu.be/gWOElNAcQ5g

Hey guys! just showin a short video of me catching bottomfish off the shore.
This area is beautiful. It offers a good Rock wall near shore you can cast to which is about 80 feet deep. The area is perfect for rockfish and lingcod. Access is easy and it also has a small parking lot.

If you guys would like to know where to go or if you're within the south side of the island this place is pretty good. Look up google maps and you can see the furthest point of the island. (eastside of the island)

[58thecat]

hmmmm banging the bottom on the best of days costs lures.....a hunk of meat on a hook was our go to way of catching the bottom fish...usually the first rock fish ended up as bait too......

[HuyFishin]

Originally Posted by 58thecat

hmmmm banging the bottom on the best of days costs lures.....a hunk of meat on a hook was our go to way of catching the bottom fish...usually the first rock fish ended up as bait too......

What kind of meat do you throw on the hook? Do you set it up like a sliding sinker rig?

[Smoky buck]

Originally Posted by HuyFishin

What kind of meat do you throw on the hook? Do you set it up like a sliding sinker rig?

Common options squid, octopus, prawns, anchovies, herring, chunks of salmon, chunks of rockfish, and basically any fish you can chunk up

Any mix of bottom fishing rigs work. I prefer to use rigs that if you hang up your weight in the rocks you can break it off without loosing your hook

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by Smoky buck

Common options squid, octopus, prawns, anchovies, herring, chunks of salmon, chunks of rockfish, and basically any fish you can chunk up

Any mix of bottom fishing rigs work. I prefer to use rigs that if you hang up your weight in the rocks you can break it off without loosing your hook

Ya I like to tie a lighter line to the weight so it breaks off first.

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Smoky buck

Common options squid, octopus, prawns, anchovies, herring, chunks of salmon, chunks of rockfish, and basically any fish you can chunk up

Any mix of bottom fishing rigs work. I prefer to use rigs that if you hang up your weight in the rocks you can break it off without loosing your hook

Yup.....exactly.....and we would never run out of bait because we usually chunked up a rockfish etc....man fishing the coast was so simple, ample and fun all the time.

[Smoky buck]

Originally Posted by 58thecat

Yup.....exactly.....and we would never run out of bait because we usually chunked up a rockfish etc....man fishing the coast was so simple, ample and fun all the time.

As a kid we would throw basically and thing we could find on a hook. Fire it out there and see what you caught.

Only thing I truly miss about BC is the ocean