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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: cutthroat22 on September 20, 2010, 12:58:29 AM
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Hit a bar in Richmond today at low tide and wasn't expecting much when i saw how dirty the Fraser had become compared a few days ago.
First cast I caught a decent pikeminnow and the rest of the hour or so I was there...nothing.
These larger Fraser pikeminnow do put a scrappy fight!
(http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu44/cutthroat2222/Sept17-19019.jpg)
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Very nice. I was out for awhile in the evening monsoon with the fly rod again. First I had the 3wt, hoping to trick some peamouth chub but came up with nothing except a quick tug. Once I was bored with that, I switched to the 6/7wt so I could chuck some big flies. At first I missed a fish, then I saw a fin circling around with baitfish hopping out around it. I switched to a smaller minnow pattern that I used to catch this coho over a year ago (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/blog/?p=104) and immediately felt a tug on the first cast, but was asleep at the wheel. I casted it out to the same spot right away and it came back for it just as expected. This time I managed to set the hook but it was done poorly. The fish, looked like either a cutthroat trout or coho jack, exploded into a tail dance on the surface before the fly was spat back to me. I was not too surprised that happened. This was the fifth salmonid that has done this to me since last month. Tied up more flies tonight with sharper hooks, maybe tomorrow. :)
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Yup there are definitely fish around. Good point on the hooks. The pikeminnow tend to engulf the lure but the salmon/trout are usually, but not always, more subtle with the take.