Sooke Salmon Charters

Today was the first day of Chinook retention in Sooke waters since April 1st. Unnecessary regulations that are totally destroying a business I began back in 1986. Everyone in the industry on the lower Island is in survival mode because of these rules. So today took some repeat clients out who are from Utah. We landed 5 nice Chinook all under the 80cm maximum size before 7:30 then switched to find some hatchery coho salmon. We ended up with 5 of those, released 2 wild ones and kept 2 pinks out of 15 or so we released. Also let go a couple dozen undersize Chinook.....all in 6 hours. Its been the same all summer long except we couldn't send visitors home with fish for the table which for most makes them book trips elsewhere.