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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Fish Assassin on September 26, 2009, 04:13:24 PM
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What a gong show ! Driving into Chilliwack over the Keith Wilson Bridge this morning there were cars everywhere and people elbow to elbow. Every run we fished had fishermen. As others have reported there pinks everywhere. I would say the vast majority were past their prime and not worthy of table fare but that didn't prevent people from retaining them. :( 95% of the pinks hooked that we saw were either foul hooked or deliberately snagged. Aside from the pinks we saw one chum and one chinook caught. A person doing creel reports said a 40+ spring was caught yesterday.
On another negative, one of FWR members and a few of his friends were out snagging and retaining pinks. >:( :( Sad
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I would call them out on the site if they are members, maybe a little public humiliation would do them some good >:(
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I was out with a buddy until noon today. We found a spot in the upper where we were all alone very peaceful all morning. Lots of pinks past their prime but we did get a spring jack and I lost a very chrome coho. Beautiful day to be out.
FA how do you know he is an FWR member?
On my drive back down I managed to see the gong show. All the usual spots were just packed with cars. Driving over the KWB I say the crowds lining the river.
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I would call them out on the site if they are members, maybe a little public humiliation would do them some good >:(
Don't even go there, for obvious reasons.
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Ya it was pretty busy on the river today, i was out with my buddy, mid/upper river. We tried the fly early on but soon gave up as it was resulting in snagging too many pinks. Turned to drifting roe and landed a nice jack spring.
Beautiful weather out there today, too bad the wife won't let me go tomorrow, would have liked to be there again to hunt for some coho and help with the clean up.
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FA how do you know he is an FWR member?
He posted a picture of himself with a fish on this forum.
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He posted a picture of himself with a fish on this forum.
Guess that was his mistake.
I don't know what to think of this. I guess some people are more desperate for fish than others. A person on this forum has no excuse for snagging fish as they are informed as this topic is discussed in great lengths. I dont even want to know who it is as that person already knows who he is and hopefully this thread will just wake him up and he changes his ways.
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That 40+ spring was more like a 35-37 pounder, But still one big fat hooked nosed pig. :)
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I had a pretty good day too.
I was just out for a couple of hours this afternoon...mostly scouting.
I dropped my 14 inch leader with fresh roe amongst the snaggers fishing without floats in a nice deep run and had a beautiful 6 lb Dolly Varden slam it. The roe was practically inhaled by it. It was nice to see the tongues hit the dirt when that happened.
What even got them going more was when I released it. 3 different people shouted at me why didn't I bonk it? I just looked at them and said, "do you not read the regs?"
Anyways....anytime I can get into a 6lb Dolly for the efforts of a few casts, its a good day for me.
Landed a nice Spring too (he also inhaled the roe).....let him go as well. I sometimes think that catch and release on the Vedder is becoming less common.
Seen many pinks dragged up on the sandy banks. They have to walk soooo far back on the shore because of their huge leaders.
People have no clue.... ???
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Also out today. Fished the full day. Morning was great. Got into numerous fish including a 4-5# wild ho. Lots of pinks today on roe.
The bite died off around 1030. It was a pretty slow afternoon. Things picked up again in the evening. Ended the day with two big springs.
It was by far the busiest I've seen it this year.
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First day on the Vedder this season and first time flyfishing for pinks. Fished the canal with buddy in the morning just up river from the highway bridge. There was tons of room; no crowds, no snaggers that I could see and very friendly guys down at that end. I was fly fishing with just a bit of pinky peach wool and had lots of pink action. Had lunch and then fished Allison Pools, lots of room there too. The pinks were really stacked up but it was difficult to get them to bite. At about 5:30 pm, we stopped by Lickman. Quite crowded (although people were just leaving) and a few people snagging.
Today, altogether, I hooked 20+ pinks (about 20% accidently snagged), landed and released 10+ pinks, and kept 1 pink near the end of the day from Allison pool. It was a male which was surprisingly fresh for an upriver fish with almost no hump. All of the canal and Lickman males had huge humps. My buddy kept one female pink from Lickman. I did not see anybody catch any coho or springs all day.
I saw on the other Vedder mouth thread from today made the comment that most pinks caught today were male and very few females. I noticed the same thing throughout the river. Hooked males outnmbered hooked females about 5 to 1. Is it just that the males are more agressive biters, or are we overfishing the females?
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I'm sure it has to have something to do with most people taking the females over males leaving more male fish in the system and the fact the natives raping the females for the roe isn't going to leave alot and look at the snagfest they have to make it through =/
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Fish the canal first light no ho's biting lots of pink and clean one to, Then Bump into one guys he claim he's a newbie in the vedder his second weekend, obvious cause of the way he cast. For 2 hours most people limit out but this newbie guys haven't caught a single pink and saying he'll be going home before 11:am ....it's 10:30 AM I decided to gave him some of my fresh pink. by 10:50 AM he was saying this is he's "Last Cast!" ..Then..Boom!!..a 38 lbs Spring jump in front of us with his hook on the mouth and manage to land it.... We all chock :-[
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Lots of people on this forum strongly support snagging springs in the Fraser, I can see no reason to be shocked by seeing them out snagging pinks in the Vedder.
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The migrating species of Pacific salmon travell in groups of males which are the first to enter the river,then followed by groups of females. This pattern of groups of males then females will be why we will catch groups of males for a time then females will get caught thereafter.
Later on as the Springs,chums and cohos are present,throught the day you will notice that fish will travel up river in the order mentioned ( springs,then chums, then cohos ). Males will alway preceed the females of the species.
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Fish the canal first light no ho's biting lots of pink and clean one to, Then Bump into one guys he claim he's a newbie in the vedder his second weekend, obvious cause of the way he cast. For 2 hours most people limit out but this newbie guys haven't caught a single pink and saying he'll be going home before 11:am ....it's 10:30 AM I decided to gave him some of my fresh pink. by 10:50 AM he was saying this is he's "Last Cast!" ..Then..Boom!!..a 38 lbs Spring jump in front of us with his hook on the mouth and manage to land it.... We all chock :-[
Are you seeing fresh chrome pinks still in the Vedder?
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I saw on the other Vedder mouth thread from today made the comment that most pinks caught today were male and very few females. I noticed the same thing throughout the river. Hooked males outnmbered hooked females about 5 to 1. Is it just that the males are more agressive biters, or are we overfishing the females?
Purely based on observation, I think that the males are much more aggressive than the females, especially when it comes to blades. I've drifted blades through pods of pinks (mostly female) in plain view and noticed that the males will sometimes attack the blade repeatedly, although not fully committing to the bite.
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Are you seeing fresh chrome pinks still in the Vedder?
I saw a few fresh fish caught yesterday. But for the most part they are past their prime.
I landed approx 10 throughout the day, none of which were fresh.
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Are you seeing fresh chrome pinks still in the Vedder?
Probably still a few in there but the ones I found were on the move and not holding in 1 spot, those ones staying in 1 spot are well past prime and most likely spawning.
Find moving fish!
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I was fly fishing for springs on the upper and actually had a few remarkably bright pinks hammer my flies in the tailout of the run I was fishing. Total surprise as I was fishing black muddlers and mickey finns. For the most part all of the visible pinks were well past the fresh stage.
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Oww. Woke up this morning and my right hand (can't make a fist) and forearm were sore and stiff. Casting flies and fighting pinks for 12 hours really did a number on me.
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Took two newbies and boy was it frustrating!Two guys across from were getting fish every cast and my buddies could not figure out why they were not hooking any.So I took them up top and showed them the guys were just snagging them.They would drift into a school and rip,fish on.It was funny to boot I kept hearing this one is ligit it's in the mouth.Just shows you ,you can dress up like a fisherman but it does not make you one!Then I took them down to the canal where I watch two asain guys snag and bonk pink after pink ::) geesh now i have to worry if my buds are going to end up that way?Any ways the weather was nice and I hooked and landed a few pinks and saw a nice spring pulled out just below me.Bring on the rain!
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Bring on the rain!
It's coming....
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We did ok yesterday. Got out early to our spot. Managed to avoid the big whites and for the most part the pinks. After hooking a few spring jacks, we started to get these:
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and then this:
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Between my friend and I, we managed about 10 coho hookups all on cured roe. The Ho's are big this year as most of the ones we caught were over 9 pounds. I took home two (8 and 11 pound hatchery does).
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8 and 11 lbs? Hmm. I weighed mine at 8 lbs (gutted) so I'm going to go with 9 - 10 lbs. The jack was 5-6 lbs. Can't wait to do it again Stratocaster!
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8 and 11 lbs? Hmm. I weighed mine at 8 lbs (gutted) so I'm going to go with 9 - 10 lbs. The jack was 5-6 lbs. Can't wait to do it again Stratocaster!
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Really? Ok 9 and 12 then ;D
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NEED RAIN ASAP! i was out yesterday for pinks on the fly, lots around, very agressive. river is still super low!
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LOL - I'm using a spring loaded scale - so there may be a +/- 25% error. Actually, I have no idea how accurate that scale is! :D
Careful about wishing for rain! We don't want the river to blow out!!! It's done that so many times when we wish for rain...
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Beautiful hos guys! Absolutely gorgeous. And from what I've seen, they are quite large this year. Unfortunately, my biggest has been a 5# wild.
As for the rain, I'm praying too. Not just for the vedder. But other flows are super low as well. There are rivers/creeks/streams that are literally dry. I know of 3 rivers right now with fish just waiting at the mouth and being picked off by seals and snaggers. Fishing should be unbelievable everywhere after the first solid rain we get.
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Going to the vedder before dawn really paid off I think around 10 to 12 lbs. My first this year on Rodney's roe recipe. Thanks! rodney, I just don't see many bite noon and early afternoon i don't know why?
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Beautiful hos guys! Absolutely gorgeous. And from what I've seen, they are quite large this year. Unfortunately, my biggest has been a 5# wild.
As for the rain, I'm praying too. Not just for the vedder. But other flows are super low as well. There are rivers/creeks/streams that are literally dry. I know of 3 rivers right now with fish just waiting at the mouth and being picked off by seals and snaggers. Fishing should be unbelievable everywhere after the first solid rain we get.
Thanks! A bit of rain would help but the coho do trickle in even when it is low. I just hope it doesn't blow out and become unfishable.