Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Sinaran on November 09, 2005, 07:24:17 PM
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got there at around 10am, light rain and a little windy too. fished near the mouth of squamish/mamquam, man the current was a lot faster than that at the Stave (where i fished the past few weeks)! don't have experience fishing that kind of water too. lots of people there today and all i heard from a group of locals was that they were gonna get something going against CN rail. not much jumpers and only two guys landed chromer cohos. most of the chums i saw landed were still silvery bright too, no boots like those at the stave. first cast i snagged into a huge buck on the dorsal fin and it sprinted all the way downstream and snapped my 20lbs line like a toothpick. thanks god there were no fishermen downstream from me.... that's it for the whole day. what a pity...
by the way, i was fishing with pink and white wools(the local preference) on a float.
on a side note, i really gotta admire the scenerio up there, seeing the mountains covered by a thin layer of fog and some big birds(eagles?) were drifting around in the sky... :-* one more thing, the tackle shop at squamish, the one near the rail road on mamquam river, was expensive. they r retailing fishing products at 15% more expensive than the tackle shops in vancouver.
tough river for me. :-\
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Appreciate the report.
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oh by the way, the crowd there seemed to be friendlier and of better etiquette than those at the vedder. ;D
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all i heard from a group of locals was that they were gonna get something going against CN rail.
Protest about all the recent derailments ?
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all i heard from a group of locals was that they were gonna get something going against CN rail.
Protest about all the recent derailments ?
yes.. especially the chemical spill back in august that killed all the fish in the cheakamus river. that fisherman (a local restaurant owner) mentioned that the spill has wiped out majority of the steelhead fry and wild trouts, it's gonna take a long while to restore the river.
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me and my gf are going up tomm moring to swumish to fish some chums
anyone else going up?
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Going up on Saturday or Sunday
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i think the crowd etiquette has something to do with the amount of travel and effort it takes to get somewhere,really. For most vancouver-area residents it takes a little longer and is more of a trip (thanks to the bridges!!) up to squamish than the vedder....people that are too lazy to fish "properly" are usually too lazy to make the trip, IMO. I never mind travelling for that reason!
And ya those were more than likely bald eagles up there! Such a nice area to be in.