Well, while everybody else was having dinner with their Moms, I was out fishing Sumas River (My mom will understand: she's dead...).
Launched the Walker Bay at the pumphouse, and had a little rainbow on in 10 minutes. Let him go and trolled and cast around for a while. Interesting boat retrieve by 4 VERY drunk teenagers - almost lost the boat off the trailer! Hope they DO lose it (and it's somebody's Dad's, who has no sense of humour) so they maybe don't get quite as drunk next time.
Got lots of little hits on the sparkle-bugger, a few pikeminnows, then decided to go downstream. Wanted to "stretch out" and do some rowing, so exchanged the flyrod for the drift rod with a small Croc spoon. Didn't get any hits until almost the convergence with the Vedder, one hit, missed it. Then changed back to the flyrod for the Vedder (flyfishing only). Nothing, and the current was a bit much. Time to head back.
Once back in the Sumas, changed back to the spoon. Got a hit: another small bow. Got another hit, missed it. Then messed around by the boatlaunch for a while, practicing my casting, got another little bow.
These bows are about 8-10" long - I guess they're steelhead smolts? (YAY, caught a steelhead on a 4wt!
). I released them as gently as I could anyway (too small to eat!) I was surprised to see bows in the river: I expected to be catching pikeminnows.
So, it was an EXCELLENT afternoon of rowing and catching fish: MUCH better to have a small one on the line than NOT catching a big one.
druid
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Topic: Sumas River, May 14 (Read 1060 times)