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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: allwaysfishin on December 20, 2005, 03:03:15 PM
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was warm on the river today,most of the snow is gone, light intermittent drizzle. water has come up a touch and was flowing real nice, touch of colour but in my opinion , perfect flow for steelhead. Unfortunately i didn't hook or land any steelhead but will post pics of the two chrome coho i wacked from under the tamahi bridge. saw 2 or 3 more swim by and a few tomatoes. both fish took borax cured coho roe. Saw a fair number of other guys on the river and i fished boulder/slab. prison, tamahi, wilson and finished off at peach. was a cast and blast day. I don't have a digi cam so pics in my kitchen will have to do... will get back to you on that. Did not see any fish in the other runs i hit other than a ffew tomatoes at the prison. Did not appear that there was much action today for most guys but i did hear that on the way store weighed a 10 lb'er early this morning.
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nice report ;D
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Man when do the coho tottaly dissapear after December?
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It looks like your coho season ended two months too early eh Floate? ;D
Nice to hear some chrome coho are still being caught.
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cant wait to see the pics to see how chrome they really were ;D ;D
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I'll have to email em to rod then get him to post them, i don't have a clue how to do that.
my sis is on her way over with the camera... seen as proof seems to be required round here these days hehehe ;D
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http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/gallery/album34/tomsfish
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sweet, there ya go!
i think maybe i'm going back tomorrow hehehe ;D
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Holy crap thise are really chrome fish, Good job ;D ;D
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I made my first trip out to the Vedder this afternoon in search of an early steelhead.
Thought I would try prawn tails today so I robbed some from the fridge and mixed in some double red hot pro cure. While the prawns were developing their colour stopped for a quick coffee at Tims and read about the Leafs win last night. ;D
Arrive at the Crossing shortly after 1, head upstream a bit and park the Leaf Mobile hopefully in a safe spot away from the the car breakin guys. Parked it at 90 degrees to the road so anyone trying to break in can not duck down beside the vehicle when car traffic is going by. Do not know if this helps but it was a tip someone passed on to me.
After not being out on the river for a while it was good to be out there again, even if it was more of an exploring trip. The conditions were excellent no wind, 6 to 7 degrees celius and the water had a slight tinge to it, perfect for a steelhead on the first trip out. ;D Fished some nice sidestream water for a couple of hours but not a touch. Talked to a couple of other anglers who had nothing to report.
With the rain now pelting down and less than a hour to fish I head to a run below the Crossing where I saw Clay working the water. I fish my way down to him and we talk hockey, about the poor coho season,and fishing in general.
We are spending more time talking than concentrating on our fishing it seemed. I flip a cast to the far side of the run and my float is completly buried completly. I come back on it but there is no resistance at all and no prawn tail either. I am fishing fairly short so I know it was not bottom, I quickly slip on another red hot prawn tail wondering at the same time if that was a steelhead laying in wait for another prawn tail to drift by under the slight choppy waters above.
Of course Clay shows good sportmanship and does no cast where the steelhead or fish of some type is. On my next cast the float dips again but does not go under, I donot strike. A few more casts nothing. "Throw out there" I tell Clay. A cast or two later Clay gets a chance he too sets the hook and his roe bag comes back ripped up pretty good. We work the spot for another 20 minutes or so but whatever it was, a trout, whitefish, or coho does not give us another opportunity.
As darkness starts to set in we head back to our vehicles both of wondering was that a steelhead or not that had take our drennan floats under.
At least it gave us both a brief bit of excitement and we will certainly get us back out there in the next day or so in search of an early run steelhead as will many of you reading this report will I am sure. Good fishing over the holiday season for all that are able to get out on on their favorite river.
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Do you guys think next monday is a good bet for the river to be perfect? that's when im (MAYBE) going for my first steelhead trip in my life :P
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Are you entering the derby?
Well according to weather forcast it seems like a wet derby day. :-\
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those are nice fish. another nice reports chris. im heading for the derby :)
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Do you guys think next monday is a good bet for the river to be perfect? that's when im (MAYBE) going for my first steelhead trip in my life :P
All depends of course what the weather does, raining hard at the moment in CHWK.
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Wow!! those are great fish for this late in the year.
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dang! that's the derby day? damn i wanted a quiet river :P
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Try and keep us posted on vedder river conditions Chris.
Rain stopped now, 6 degrees should be ok timorrow I would think if it does not rain too much more tonight.
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It looks like your coho season ended two months too early eh Floate? ;D
Nice to hear some chrome coho are still being caught.
Oh i wont make that mistake next seasson actualy i may still get a ho this friday IF BS PMS ME BACK !!!!!!!!! :-[
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The water levels are starting to pull a J but I'll be out on the river tomorrow either way.
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The water levels are starting to pull a J but I'll be out on the river tomorrow either way.
Yes I see that. Up about 6 inches at the Slesse gauge.
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well as long as i don't gotta work in the a.m. , i'll be hitten it up again tomorrow too.
gotta check in at the office at 6:00 am....... i'll just keep my pinkies crossed.
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hope you have the same luck as last time ;D ;D
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You seem to be out fishing more with your current job than when you were working for Berry's :D
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:D good job nice chrome fish. maybe its not too late for another chance at a coho.hoho ho santa give me a coho ;D :D
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well today i had to work...... and yes, fish assasin, my new job kicks *ss. pays gross amount of money ;D and i don't have to work regular shifts.... i'm liking it.
i think i'm gonna hold off fishing till friday. on a side note, those 2 coho from yesterday were nice and silver but when filleting them up for the smoker, they sure were soft. oh well... christmas salmon candy comin up !!
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beauty fish thx for the report