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[charles]

Today is a fun day.  We arrived at first light only found that there were about 50+ people in the canal.  No worry, we went a bit off, and away from people and fished a small pool.  And that seems to be the ticket.  I landed 6 jack springs, released 4 and kept two and lost about 8 of them before 1pm (hook pops, too much talking and not paying attention, etc). The first fish I kept was a bonus.  It was a red spring.  That is another first for me.  It is not a big fish but it was pretty clean and full of energy.  The best thing is we were fishing away from the crowd or my friend called it "the-meat-hole", and most jack springs were nice and clean.

Here is a picture of the red spring.  The lady in the parking lot next to the DFO truck came over and took some scale samples.


At the spot I was fishing, roe seems to be the ticket of jack spring.  But guys on Blade and Fly seems to pick up lots of Coho around me; some hatchery, some wild.  Oh yeah, pinks were still everyone.  I gave up using a blue fox after I foul hooked into 3 of them.

Well, have to wait another 7 days before the next outting...  Can't wait...

[Sinaran]

nice fish!!
the flesh is in great colour as well!  haven't caught a red spring yet, so i wish i could connect with one soon!
thanks for the report~

[DionJL]

Late start for me. Didn't get to the river till about 1pm. First cast hooked and bonked a 9lb hatchery doe. Got some nice roe ready to go for monday.

[charles]

Lucky you.   I have nothing but males this season.  Coho, pinks, white springs, and red spring... all males...

Now if Patrick can hear me, I need more of your magic roe

BTW, my family ate 1/4 of the fish and say the meat has a very nice favor in it.

[Steelhawk]

I had a fun day too at the Vedder. Not being a first light person, I did not bring my roe. The water has dropped much from a few days ago, and fish are not moving out of the pools and runs. Decided to use float blading as my technique for the day and it proves quite rewarding. Looked around for a good run with some bottle neck at its top. There was only one older gentleman there but he had no hookup with roe. Put on #5 silver colorado and dead drift the run. Float went down in first drift and a large coho swallowed the blade. It took a while and the old guy was trying to help land the fish with his net.  He is from Germany and had not seen float blading before and was quite amazed at its effectiveness. I gave him some pointers about blade size and presentation technique. Then I made another cast and a large spring inhaled the blade. At this point, the old gentleman was really excited to witness another effective fishing method that he had not tried before. After much fight, the spring was lost close to shore. Then I went on to cast and the old gentleman was intently looking at the float, which then dipped again and now he was fully convinced to want to try this technique. It was a jack spring and I gave him the fish which he helped landed. To thank him for helping netting my coho earlier, I gave him a home made blade and also gave him some idea how to make it. He was really happy to learn something new, and learn to use much lighter leader than the thick one he was using. It is quite amazing that an old fisherman like him had not seen this technique before, considering it is quite a common technique to catch coho. Any way  I wish him many happy fishing days ahead in his retirement days and left him. Later in another run, I hooked into another chrome coho as it flashes its silver body and jumped. Too bad the line went slack after that. Upon examining the blade, I found out the swivel attaching the siwash gammy hook had broken off in one end. If any one catches a coho with a gammy 2/O siwash hook attached to a broken swivel, that is my fish. LOL. Oh well, must be that the work of that large spring doing the damage to the swivel. Here is the pic for the coho:



Rain began to pick up as I was leaving, so Sunday may see dirtier water and fish will be on the move again. Also saw two COs working the runs around where we were fishing and they actually ticketed two guys. Nice to see them around.

[bentrod]

What kind of swivel do you use?  I've never broken a Rosco, Berkley or Sampo. 

[Steelhawk]

Good question. But if I reveal the brand, they may not be able to sell another swivel again - power of readership of FWR.... 
Seriously, I never worry about swivels. I don't fish halibuts enough to worry about this. This is the first time that a broken swivel cause me to lose a fish in almost 20 years, so I don'tthink I want to worry about that. I have landed a 44 lb spring in June this year as well as 7 others since on the same kind of swivel, so it may be just a lemon swivel among hundreds I used.