Thanks to those that posted after mine.
After a good nap back out on the river for the last couple of hours. A couple of things to report.
I do not think there was a fish caught in the run where all the action was yesterday, funny how things change from one day to the next. Ventured up to the run and the diving board fellow and his partner were there but saw nothing happening in the time I was there. I spotted on the other side of the river a float that looked like a Drennan so that made my mind up to drive around as the float was near my new hot
spot.
Before going around top the other side of the river I tried the run by the Leaf Mobile. As I worked my way down the run, float down, looks like a fish, next drift down again, solid, solid allright, a snag.
O for the life of my lucky Drennan as I apply tension to try and free her, snap, my greatest fear happened, TML Drennan floating downstream calling for help.
Well practiced by running down a thief lately and other floats from other anglers that have suffered the same misfortune I am off like a herd of startled cattle as I shed not one but two brood capture tubes from around my shoulders on the dead run. As I reach the end of the bar I have a bit of an angle on the lonesome looking TML Drennan. Just as the run starts to deepen I am with in reach and rescue it from a watery grave.
I retie up the Drennan that looked very happy to be aboard once again and be able to catch some more steelhead in the days ahead. I then head to the other side of the river and find the float is still there, not a Drennan but a very nice 4 inch balsa that I will most likely never use like the hundreds of different shapes and sizes I have.
I fish my favorite run that I did not this morning but came up empty. Around 4:45 just as I had to leave to get ready for A Fraser Valley Salmon Society meeting I see a fellow with a fish on above me. I continue fishing my run for about 10 minutes and he is still fighting it.
As I leave my fishing area and start towards the LM he still has it on. Even thought it might put me behind for the meeting I put my rod down and go to check this out, it appears to be a large fish. To late to tube if a wild but I never get tired of seeing the lovely fish a steelhead is.
The fellow is getting it to the beach when I arrive and we see it is wild. I ask him if he wishes a photo and he says "that would be great, I just got off work in Abbotsford so I thought I would pop out before heading home to White Rock"
I capture a shot or two as he beachs it and then a couple more of him holding it, a buck at least in the 18 to 19 pound range. I got the happy anglers e -mail and will send him the photo's and will post here later if he does not object.
It just proves you do not have to get out early and you never know when your float will go down with a monster like this on the end.
This has me fired up for tomorrow as today was the first time in the last number of outing I did not even have my TML drennan go down, no the snag that tried to steal my Drennan does not count.
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Topic: Feb. 10th Vedder (Read 3993 times)