Canada Fishing Help?

Question

What are your favorite lures to use while fishing up in Canada (for any and all species)?

Answer 1

East coast, West coast?. I am a guide in the Pacific Northwest region of Vancouver Island. Right now we are catching Chinook with a few pink and sockeye showing up. Chinook are hitting herring. Sockeye and pink are hitting chartreuse green hootchies( remove all but two strands of the tail section. MacDeep jigs or any jig resembling a herring or sardine will catch Ling, kelp, or rock cod of all kinds. Sea bass as well will hit most fish shaped jigs. Halibut are hitting octopus and 12in mackerel. We caught 2 last week using Berkley's whole 8in squid powerbait. I was impressed with some of the hits we got on those Berkley baits trolling about 300ft down. Fishing near the estuaries or up on into the rivers, steelhead, cutthroat, and rainbow trout can be caught on flies, powerbaits, row( artificial or fresh),. Personally I like to fly fish when fishing the rivers here, and I know without a doubt that there are fish in these rivers. If I am not getting a hit after my 4th or 5th cast then I have a different fly on my line. I probably have 20-30 to choose from in my f***y pack at any time. Please email me if I can be of more help. 40yr exp