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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: bobby b on April 27, 2016, 03:14:07 PM
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Caught my first Vedder bull yesterday.... Thought I had a steelhead on by the way it fought and jumped.... But got it to shore and realized it was a bull!
Caught right at the head of a run .... Low and rough water.
It just slammed on....thought it was a snag till it head upstream !!
Sorry no pics as I was by myself and it was hard enough to catch and release it, couldn't handle a camera too....
Time for a GoPro ...maybe ....hmm
It was prob 9-10lbs ... Put up a great fight .
The whole thing was kinda sureal ...It all happened right as a Raft full of ...'rafters' stopped on the other side .... All of a sudden out of the blue I had an enthusiastic cheering audience as I reeled in the fish ....I had to laugh...
2 mins later they were gone and it was peace and quiet again....
Just thought I'd post as it was a first for me ...
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That's a big bull.
Congrats.
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Were they cheering for you or the fish?
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bulls don't jump . at least i1ve noticed that for couple years of targeting them .... difference between coho and bull - cohos do jump ...
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bulls don't jump . at least i1ve noticed that for couple years of targeting them .... difference between coho and bull - cohos do jump ...
Whitefish don't jump either but tell that to the two I've had jump.
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bulls don't jump . at least i1ve noticed that for couple years of targeting them .... difference between coho and bull - cohos do jump ...
And yet this one apparently jumped like a Steelhead. Why not? There are always exceptions to the normal. Sure was a nice day yesterday to catch one. Sounds like it put on a great show. Nice one.
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congrats on the fish bobby b and Kudos for not forcing a picture and stress on the fish when it was not possible or hard to do.
wish everyone else had the same mentality. good job!
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I had never had a bull/dolly jump ever, out of the hundreds I had caught on the Skagit, Vedder, island flows, and other various mainland flows. Then, early this month, I had a 6 pound bull on the upper Vedder take me down the entire run and boost 3 times. I thought it was a steelhead the whole time. There are always exceptions to the rule.
Cool to hear you also found a spunky one, and a big one at that! I love catching them, they are always an awesome surprise when fishing steel!
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I've had them jump - often 3 or 4 times. Not very high out of the water and certainly very few do but it happens.
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shallow water sometime the only way they can go is up
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congrats on the fish bobby b and Kudos for not forcing a picture and stress on the fish when it was not possible or hard to do.
wish everyone else had the same mentality. good job!
Pics or it didn't happen - JUST KIDDING! I second the above post. Some day someone else might enjoy that fish!
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I agree pics of the mysterious fish actually jumping or it didn't happen ::)
I also wonder about the obsession of taking a pic of every fish caught ....
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The bull trout I have caught in the soon to be former peace river jump.
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I was fishing the Skagit early after opening last year. All of a sudden I heard a huge splash a couple of meters downstream from what I can only guess was a huge bull trout (not hooked, I was fishing upstream and had my fly in the water ahead of me). I highly doubt it was a rainbow, so most likely a big bull...