Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: hickman on October 12, 2008, 02:12:03 PM
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Had an early start today, tried the mouth of the Mamquam and the BC Rail Bridge around 7.30. No fish around, not much moving into the Mamquam at all. I saw few guys on the Squish below the Mamquam but they had not caught anything at that point.
After an hour I decided to go up to the Cheakamus. Fished a nice spot with 4 other guys for 2-3 hours. Some risers but nobody caught anything. All methods (fly, float, wool, spinners & crocs, and different colours) deployed.... fish were not biting.
One Chum was accidentally hooked in the fin and quickly released - the thing was covered in sea lice.
This was everything I saw today in about 4 hours on the river... ???
Water levels were quite low, visibility very good in the Mamquam and 1-2 ft. in the Cheak.
On a different note: Lesser Garibaldi Lake was great yesterday - furious, desperate rainbows that try to get fat before the winter. Caught 3 pan friers within 20 minutes. ;D Garibaldi Lake itself was dead! No action - probably too cold. There was snow on the ground.
Hickman
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Hickman I must have just missed you ;)
(http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w216/derekerlandson/chummy1.jpg)
Still hardly anything coming through
tight lines
Derek
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I thought that all those rivers were still closed to retention of Chums-or does the regulation from last season not apply now?
That fish sure looks dead!
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You can always check the regulations first before speculating:
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish/Freshwater/region2_e.htm
Chrome chum Dereke! I saw dozens like that swimming by me, but none were interested in the spoon.
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Thanks Rod, haha yes I pay attention to the regs sam ;) :P
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I bet that was fun on the new combo derke!
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Derek,
yes, possible you missed me - I left just before noon. You probably know where I fished on the Cheak. Maybe we can hook up this season and have an outing. What are your plans for this week/ the coming weekend?
Nice fish you caught, but yes, the run is not full on yet. Maybe after the rain today...
Cheers,
Hickman
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thanks for the report on garibaldi i guess i wont be making the trek up there until next summer.
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I am glad to see Conservation officers are strictly enforcing these rivers up in that area . I was checked for licence and my gear that I was using . I asked why there are not as many officers at the Vedder checking the same and he told me they were busy investigating reports of bear poaching in the Chilliwack area and that was taking up all there resources ??? .
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Yeah they seem to be based out of the tenderfoot hatchery. I get checked or talk to them almost everytime it seems I fish the one lane bridge area on the cheakamus... ;D it is very nice to see!
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It would have been nice to see the officer there when this young native guy was there snagging fish with his treble hook >:( . We exchanged a few words . He wasn't keeping any , he just booted the fish back in the river as if no harm was done >:(
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i've always assumed natives could fish how ever they wanted, after all they use gaffs and nets too. not that i agree with it but you can't give the kid too much heck at least he's keeping out of trouble.
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Yeah they seem to be based out of the tenderfoot hatchery. I get checked or talk to them almost everytime it seems I fish the one lane bridge area on the cheakamus... ;D it is very nice to see!
The DFO officers are based in downtown Squamish on Hunter Place next to Sea to Sky Ford. The Provincial Conservation Officers are based out of the Parks office at Alice Lake. There is no enforcement personel based out of Tenderfoot Hatchery.
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Had an early start today, tried the mouth of the Mamquam and the BC Rail Bridge around 7.30. No fish around, not much moving into the Mamquam at all. I saw few guys on the Squish below the Mamquam but they had not caught anything at that point.
After an hour I decided to go up to the Cheakamus. Fished a nice spot with 4 other guys for 2-3 hours. Some risers but nobody caught anything. All methods (fly, float, wool, spinners & crocs, and different colours) deployed.... fish were not biting.
One Chum was accidentally hooked in the fin and quickly released - the thing was covered in sea lice.
This was everything I saw today in about 4 hours on the river... ???
Water levels were quite low, visibility very good in the Mamquam and 1-2 ft. in the Cheak.
On a different note: Lesser Garibaldi Lake was great yesterday - furious, desperate rainbows that try to get fat before the winter. Caught 3 pan friers within 20 minutes. ;D Garibaldi Lake itself was dead! No action - probably too cold. There was snow on the ground.
Hickman
Garibaldi seems to fish well in the early summer, there are lots of chrome and coloured fish around willing to bite. Come August, good luck even seeing a fish. I don't know how those fish survive, there's so little food in that lake. How big were the fish in Lesser Garibaldi? When I was up there last summer, they were all <12".
Interestingly about Lesser Garibaldi, the water 3 years ago was about 10m higher than it was last summer. It was like someone drained the lake. Too weird.
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The fish in Garibaldi lake are nice and big and pink. I'd say 12" if they are small. In summer, incl. most of August if the weather stays kinda warm, it is a feeding frenzy up there. But there are days when it's cold and windy and you won't get anything.
Lesser Garibaldi is funny. After a hard rain the water comes up quickly. I fished it in August after that weeklong rain and the water was probably 10 meters higher than last week. The fish are typically smaller - the bigger ones are around 12" - lots of small one but all are nice and silver.
The fish in Lesser Garibaldi seem to be going for flies more than at Garibaldi where I had better success with a spinner. Because it is alpine, the weather conditions have ahuge impact on the fishing even if the season is right.
Hickman
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12" at Lesser!?! You guys are lucky. I've only got 6~8" before. That lake is not deep most of the time (when I went anyways) IMO fish dies out during winter?
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I am sure the fish in Lesser Garibaldi and Garibaldi Lake do not die out!
Maybe you are talking about the first small lake, Barrier Lake, which looks less alpine. This one has small ones, and I have never caught anything there. But even this one is deep enough for the fish to survive.
Hickman
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Ya but if they don't die out and it's not a heavyly fished lake where's the big fish? :-\
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I know that the lakes do not get stocked. IMO the big fish are in the middle of the lake; Lesser Garibaldi is quite big.
Same thing when you fish Cat Lake - nothing from shore. In a little raft in the middle of the lake you get bites every second cast. They stay deep because they feed on water bugs there more than flies.
Hick
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I know that the lakes do not get stocked. IMO the big fish are in the middle of the lake; Lesser Garibaldi is quite big.
Same thing when you fish Cat Lake - nothing from shore. In a little raft in the middle of the lake you get bites every second cast. They stay deep because they feed on water bugs there more than flies.
Hick
What are water bugs?
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Probably meant nymphs and leeches as opposed to terrestrials.
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I know that the lakes do not get stocked. IMO the big fish are in the middle of the lake; Lesser Garibaldi is quite big.
Same thing when you fish Cat Lake - nothing from shore. In a little raft in the middle of the lake you get bites every second cast. They stay deep because they feed on water bugs there more than flies.
Hick
All the past years I've fished near shore. Will try again may be late next spring. :-\
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The lake is full of daphnia. This is probably what was meant by water bugs.
The lake holds some beautiful fish, but MOST often is much more productive with a bellyboat. That being said, the fishing can be spectacular even from shore at times, particularly in early season, when the fish are starving and cruising all along shore. Note the spawning area at the outflow is off limits year round.
As for late spring, I have hiked up in late June and found the lake drawn down and partially frozen.
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yeah, whatever these waterbugs are, leech type things in Cat Lake, for sure. I don't know too much about that I have to say. But when you open the fish up it doesn't look like flies... anyway.
Yes, Garibaldi Lake has a fishing boundary because there is lots of spawning, lots of fish. But you can catch those guys from share at other spots. As far as I know Lesser Garibaldi does not have any fishing boundaries...
Hick