Hello everyone
I apologize in advance for "pushing" my way into this forum so as to ask for a speedy response from long-time members, but a visit from an old friend last week intercepted my fishing plans with my daughter for this month which I have been looking forward to for a couple of decades, and now I'm in a rush to catch up, as it were.
My ex and I, who are still super-close (he's rooting for us both from afar
), used to fish the Tree Bar in Richmond, and sometimes my dad, my old friend Al and my daughter, along with an assortment of other old-timers from one day to the next, all inhabited the "Big" hole. We cut the stairs out of the dirt on both sides in the first place because we wanted to make fishing easier for my Dad and Al. But the coho fishing declined for two years in a row in '97 and '98 and not long after that, life changed and we no longer went fishing.
Myself and my family have been back since then though, because OUR old hole is where my Dad wanted his ashes. When we went to do that, it was obvious that the hole hadn't been used in a while, and there was a "Private Property" sign tacked to one of the trees.
We did Dad's ashes anyways - after all, if anyone came to complain, who could deny someone who was there to do that?
Here is my question - is that spot "for sure" off-limits this coho season? My daughter and I would like to take another run at fishing for Coho (fantastic mother-daughter thing to do together), but first we have to place Al's ashes in "OUR" old hole because he also wanted us to place them there when he passed (and I do too), which was two years ago now.
I just want to confirm whether or not my daughter and I can, or cannot, stay there to fish afterwards.
PS - I ask because she lives beside Stanley Park, and I have to drive there from deep in the Fraser Valley, both of which take some serious driving time. I'm trying to suss out where we can fish once we have poured Al's ashes into the water. Both Dad and Al would be delighted to see us together again, fishing for coho, and neither of them would want to see us running around Richmond trying to find a "recently-built" Pier.
Here are my thoughts. She and I meet at the old hole and give Al his final send-off. If someone answers me about the Tree Bar and says it is off-limits, then we go to The Rocks or to the Dyke. Anyone who is already there might not mind all that much, because we may be a bit rusty, but we're not rookies.
All input is most welcome!
PPS - Anybody out there who remembers those years we spent at the Tree Bar is invited to join in remembering with us.
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