great ho's guys! can't wait to hear your report Rodney
Camera angle does wonders.
That fish was not 16lb, but only 16in.
Anyway, talking about losing sleep the night before the Vedder. Bwi Bwi should not have told me his success prior to my outing. I must have only gotten a couple of hours of sleep before the first light venture. Chris had chosen to fish with Rhino at a spot in the lower river as he said there have been lots of bites, but mostly from chum salmon. I chose to go straight to a spot in the mid river where I regularly visit. The first three hours I had nothing to show in the tailout of a run except a chum salmon.
As I was getting ready to leave, Rhino showed up after catching nothing except chum with Chris, so I decided to stay there a little while longer with him. We (or should I say, he) chose to fish the head of the run, which was only 40 or 50m upstream from where I was fishing. Immediately he landed a hatchery coho jack after missing a few tiny tugs.
I followed by losing a jack spring, then landing a jack spring (it might even have been the same one) and landing a jack coho all within five minutes.
Chris showed up soon after I landed the jack coho. I then had a snag and managed to yank it out. The bait landed in 0.5ft of water while I reeled in the slack line. Once I reeled in the slack line, I felt that I had caught on something else. I shook the line a bit and felt a headshake, a silver coho surfaced and shook a couple of times and spit the hook out! It had come in the shallow water and grabbed my roe.
It was a good laugh for the group at my expense.
Chris missed two good bites before heading off again, always on the run.
Two flyfishermen from Alberta fished just downstream from Rhino and me for the rest of the afternoon. An hour or so after Chris' departure, the lady hooked a leapy coho and proceeded to land it. It was a good sized hatchery male.
Her partner then landed a hatchery jack coho as well. The rest of the afternoon was pretty uneventful except a bite that I had in the shallow water again. I thought that it may have been a snag again so I gently lifted the rod up and felt a headshake. Another big coho sufraced and shook a few times before spitting the hook out!
Anyway, this Vedder coho season doesn't suck, the angler does.
Trips like this keep bringing many more sleepless nights.
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Topic: Chilliwack River, October 21st 2009 (Read 2772 times)