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Title: Non-tidal Fraser River, August 19th 2011: Haig Scale Bar
Post by: silver ghost on August 20, 2011, 01:11:08 PM
was at the scale bar yesterday from 10 until 4. VERY slow compared to last weekend and monday. Saw fish being caught, but it wasn't like before. I only got one in 6 hours of fishing that I kept, along with a pink I released and 2 other foul hooked sox I released. My friend got her 2 but we both had to work very hard.

Maybe this is the commercial gillnetter opening shadow?

DFO came down there and gave out a couple dozen fines for barbed hooks, poaching, retaining a foul hooked fish and was confiscating fish too. Apparently there were undercovers there the whole day. I saw a guy get a $150 fine for failing to record an adult chinook on angling licence. probably the dumbest and easiest mistake one could make - remember to record your catches guys!
Title: Re: Non-tidal Fraser River, August 19th 2011: Haig Scale Bar
Post by: ynot on August 20, 2011, 06:54:19 PM
looks like you got the gap from tuesdays 6 hr opening of gillnetters. good thing dfo are going there.
Title: Re: Non-tidal Fraser River, August 19th 2011: Haig Scale Bar
Post by: noobfisher on August 20, 2011, 09:26:43 PM
was at the scale bar yesterday from 10 until 4. VERY slow compared to last weekend and monday. Saw fish being caught, but it wasn't like before. I only got one in 6 hours of fishing that I kept, along with a pink I released and 2 other foul hooked sox I released. My friend got her 2 but we both had to work very hard.

Maybe this is the commercial gillnetter opening shadow?

DFO came down there and gave out a couple dozen fines for barbed hooks, poaching, retaining a foul hooked fish and was confiscating fish too. Apparently there were undercovers there the whole day. I saw a guy get a $150 fine for failing to record an adult chinook on angling licence. probably the dumbest and easiest mistake one could make - remember to record your catches guys!

Thanks for the update, good to see DFO out and about, no sympathy for people that can't follow the rules/regulations.