FISHING EVENTS
Welcome to Our Fishing Events Page
South Vancouver Island Anglers Coalition believes in celebrating our passion for fishing and sharing quality time with friends and family in the great outdoors. Each year we hold events for our members, local anglers and the public to enjoy. These events are not only of social importance, but also raise money to support our society’s important conservation efforts and advocacy work.
South Vancouver Island Anglers Coalition’s Sooke Chinook Enhancement Initiative,
the sea pen receives profits from our fishing events
The Alpine Juan de Fuca Fishing Tournament is a one day salmon fishing tournament that will take place on Sunday September 8th, 2024. The event will be headquartered at Pedder Bay RV Resort and Marina. Rod tickets are $150 each.
Fishing starts at 5:30 a.m. and runs through until 3:00 p.m. when the weigh scale closes. Participants must be in the weigh scale line up by 3:00 p.m. to have their fish weighed. The sole weigh scale will also be located at Pedder Bay RV Resort and Marina – the scale opens at 8:00 a.m. and will remain open until 3:00 p.m. on event day.
Our fishing tournament is noteworthy for its significant $45,000 ALL CASH prize board, with the largest salmon taking a $20,000 prize. We are hoping to attract lots of the area’s elite salmon anglers to compete in our event.
This is the first “restart” of the historic Juan de Fuca Salmon Tournament formerly sponsored by Stew Young, the Alpine Group and many local businesses. Originally administered by George Wetherell and then by South Vancouver Island Anglers Coalition, the last running of the tournament occurred in 2017.
Proceeds raised will support our successful Sooke Chinook Sea Pen program and other potential Chinook sea pen projects. SVIAC, working with the community, has raised and released just under 5,000,000 healthy juvenile Chinook smolts since the project inception in 2017.
SVIAC’s Event Team is pleased to announce there will be another Salish Sea Spring Fishing Derby. Our popular one day salmon and halibut fishing derby will be held on Saturday March 30th. Perfectly timed to DFO’s winter Chinook fishing regulations that allow retention of wild or hatchery fish and at a time when the hatchery fish are plentiful. Fishing starts at daybreak and runs through until 4:00 p.m. when the weigh scale closes.
Cheanuh Marina have again graciously agreed to let us have the weigh stations and derby headquarters at the marina office as in the past. In keeping with our other derbies, there is a cash prize pool that will grow as more derby tickets are sold. And yes, even though inflation has troubled our local economy, SVIAC are again holding the rod ticket price at $60.00 each.
Proceeds support our Sooke Chinook Sea Pen Project where we have reared and released over 4,100,000 healthy smolts. We really hope you’ll come on out and join us for this great little derby!
SVIAC’s Event Team is planning to make this, our fourth year, organizing the Salish Sea Salmon Challenge, the best yet! This will again be a one day derby to be held on Saturday 2nd September. Perfectly timed to be when the big Chinook are still around and keepable too, as the regs change at the first of the month. Fishing starts at daybreak and runs through until 4:00 p.m. when the weigh scale closes.
Our good friends at Cheanuh Marina have again graciously agreed to let us have the weigh stations and derby headquarters there as in the past. In keeping with our other derbies, there is a cash prize pool that will grow as more derby tickets are sold. And yes, even though inflation has troubled our local economy, SVIAC are again holding the rod ticket price at $60.00 each
Exciting news, SVIAC’s Event Team is planning another Salish Sea Spring Fishing Derby to take advantage of the plentiful hatchery salmon and abundant halibut in our area. The event will take place on Saturday March 25th, 2023 between 5:45 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
This one day event will again be headquartered at Cheanuh Marina. Similar to our other derbies there is a cash prize pool that will grow as more derby tickets ar sold. Rod tickets will be $60.00 each
Back by popular demand the SVIAC Salish Sea Salmon Challenge is on again. Entrants can expect a similar format to last year and hopefully more contestants so the prize board will climb even higher. The prize for the biggest salmon and the random draw prize should exceed $2,500 each. This will be a one day event held on Saturday, September 3rd. Derby weigh scale and Event HQ at Cheanuh. Rod tickets are $70.00 each.
