Today, I went to the no. 3 pier at around 1pm, and it was my first time fishing in the area even though I've been living in B.C. pretty much all my life. It was even for first time targeting pink salmon since I'm not a fan of eating pink salmon, but I gave it a shot. I tried casting my 3.5 inch perch coloured Zzinger (chartreuse, pink, and lime) which was the exact same lure caught my first salmon (chinook) in near Horseshoe bay about 20 years ago. I fished the Zzinger for about 1.5 hours and it only attracted a large fish near the surface which looked like a salmon which came to investigate the lure, but it did not strike.
I also used a silver coloured Luhr Jensen Krocodile which got me no results, and I used it on the pier.
There were lots of fisherman near the rocks on the shore fishing, but there were two others fishermen on the pier. I saw two that caught salmon on the shore, but no one of the pier caught a salmon.
I should have fished on the shore with a spoon or a spinner!
Fishing on the no. 3 pier must be a bad idea when targeting pinks right?
I did see a few large pinks jumping at around 2-3pm, and there were lots of commercial fishermen near the no. 3 pier area too.
Lastly, I'm kinda shocked that a one year tidal water fishing license purchased today expires on March 31, 2014 which sucks - I knew about it when I was young, though I haven't spent a lot of time fishing these days.