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TheWeasel
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Thanks..Will be in the water tomorrow night by 5 pm...Just in time for the night bite...Then ready to go at 5:30 am on Friday...
Probably run offshore Friday daytime after we get our limit in socks...
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July 8, 2010 5:25AM
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Remember its a daily combined species limit of 4 salmon per person. People are catching their limit of 4 socks a person then going to get their nooks/coho which to my understanding its illegal. I doubt your running out to C&R so good thing to think about.
Its halfway down page 18
''The aggregate daily limit (total daily limit) for all species of Pacific
salmon from tidal or non-tidal waters combined is four''
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/SFG-GPS/SFGtidal-GPSmaree-eng.pdf
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July 8, 2010 5:53AM
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cory
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kelly makes a good point. Im sure there are people who dont realize the ''aggregate'' daily limit of salmon is 4 per day. If you keep your 4 socks in the morning you are done for the day. Also your possession limit is twice the aggregate daily limit. Therefore 8 salmon is your max possession limit. If the daily limit on sockeye was 2, then you could only have 4 sockeye and the other 4 would have to be a different species of salmon. If you are making a ''trip'' to go fishing anywhere in BC for that matter, then the total number of fish you can have in your posession before you make it back home is twice the daily limit on that salmon species but no more than 8 fish in total.
When the sockeye limit was upped to 4 per day a couple weeks back, I overheard one guy from alberta say...''right on, Im going to go over their and fish hard for 5 days and bring 20 sockeye home with me (4 per day)''. WRONG. This would be illegal, only 8 salmon can be in your possession, doesn't matter how many days you booked your trip for.
Im not 100% sure whether getting your fish processed and shipped to your home while you are on your trip qualifies as removing them from your possession. I hope someone can clarify the legality of this..but I know plenty of people on fishing trips do this all the time to get around the possession limit restriction.
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July 8, 2010 3:22PM
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TheWeasel
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Kellya...Great point...
Halibut and rockfish off of Beale is the plan...
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July 8, 2010 3:23PM
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TheWeasel
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Edited to say...
''Grey'' area about how many fish you can possess...
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July 8, 2010 5:18PM
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cory
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I thought the dwelling of my home was excluded from the possession limit. ie if I had 5 springs caught from area 23 in my freezer during a fishing season I would be over my possession limit of springs and am technically doing something illegal. Thats not the way I understood it to be...I understood it to be enforced from the time you left your home till the time you get back. This means I could go bring back 8 salmon in July. Leave some in my freezer and go get 8 more in August and everything be perfectly legal although there might be 12 sitting in my freezer because I was only able to eat 4 inbetween trips.
Anyways this thread is getting off track but if we need more discussion regarding limits please feel free to create a new thread. The best way to get clarification is to call up the local DFO office and talk directly to them if the regs posted online are not clear (too often they are fuzzy!)
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July 8, 2010 5:47PM
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On the back of your license you are allowed 30 Chinook annually.
Which would no doubt end up at your dwelling.
If you don't eat them right away you would have more than the possession limit.
Do they have the right to enter your dwelling to check your freezer?
I don't think so.
I think the possession limit means from the point of catch en route to the point of personal residence.
30 annually is 30 annually for Chinooks.
They don't have an annual quota for Sockeye....you don't have to record the Sox you catch on your license either.
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July 8, 2010 8:04PM
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TheWeasel wrote:
Not going to say, on the open forum, what I do for a living...but I can tell you I do know my.... federal law , provincial statutes, municipal by-laws and shipping act laws...
I'm guessing you pump gas. 
The possession limit is what you have on your possession while on route or camping.
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July 8, 2010 8:50PM
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July 8, 2010 9:21PM
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We talked to DFO last year about the same issue. Your freezer does not include your possession (as it says on website).
So, how is the fishing now that the Sainers have finished? Has it come back?
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July 8, 2010 11:50PM
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It really never went sour siener opening or not. We have had great success every day so far at Nahmint, the only real deal has been making sure your out early enough when the bite is off it's like someone shut a switch off. Also sometimes there are some annoying individuals that feel it is a good idea to place there crab traps in the middle of the high traffic lanes.
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July 10, 2010 2:10AM
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Do sockeye bite at any other time then the early morning?
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July 10, 2010 3:29PM
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Caught 6 sockeye within 45 minutes this morning at Nahmint. Didn't lose one.
Then ran into a ton of salad, fixed my lines only to run into more salad. After that we hooked another 7 or 8 and lost all of them  then the bite died down and my youngest son got bored and wanted to go home so I packed it in.
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Spopadyn....I've gone for sockeye lots of times in the Inlet...and the earliest the lures ever hit the water was 6:30 a.m.
Then fished right up to 11 a.m.....and they were still biting then...
We start off at 35 and 50ft.......and then a little later go deeper...as far as 80 or 90 ft.....as the sun comes up.
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Spopadyn....When fishing for Sockeye in Alberni Inlet,
# 1 tip...launch and start fishing as EARLY as you can do so safely!(and legally)...alot of the time its over by 7am and then your picking up a fish here and there....
I have fished for in the evening a few years ago,and caught them, but its nothing like the mornings...weather permiting...
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July 11, 2010 8:59PM
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Thank-you for all the info. I will wake up the kids at 4:00Am and make it an early one!
Cheers
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July 12, 2010 5:13AM
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July 9..
Fished Nahmint/Hocking...caught 16 sockeye...lost around 15..
July 10..
Fished Nahmint/Hocking...caught 16 sockeye...lost around 8..
Depths were 37 and 47 feet deep..
All caught on a ''special spoon''....
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July 15, 2010 2:44AM
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Woke the kids up 4:00Am and got on the water by 6:00AM. We landed 4 south of china creek, but lost at least 20. (including 8 by the boat as my 8-12 year old crew was trying to net their fish). Oh well, they are learning - barbless is always tricky for the young kids.
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July 15, 2010 3:07AM
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spopadyn
Sounds like a GREAT time!!
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July 15, 2010 3:45AM
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It was fun. By the way, when that sockeye bite dies off - man what a light switch - double headers to zero in a minute.
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