just got back from a day trip on the thompson river. what a beautiful day. blue skies slightly overcast with puffy white clouds.
all in all a great day considering it has been pretty slow fishing due to the recent rain, debris in the river and poor visibility caused by flooding from the nicola river.
left this morning at 4am and at my favourite hole by 7am.
first hole (which usually produces) gave up zero steelhead. not even a trout bite so
my two buddies walked off to the next hole while i stayed behind and fished a bit more.
after a half an hour of getting nothing i decided to catch up with my buddies only to find out that they hooked two steelhead and landed one that was about 8 lbs. they also hooked into four large trout. as i started to fish with them, my buddy who hooked the 8lber gets another one a little bigger. i didn't see the last one but this one was very chrome.
after landing a small trout we decided to go to another hole.
at the next hole, the weather started to cool down and the wind started to pick up. after fishing for about 1/2 an hour one of my buddies moves to a spot we don't normally fish and he hooks into and lands a twelve pound steelhead. a beautiful fish except for the fact that his head was scarred up, like something (seal?) ripped the scalp off of the fish.
after fishing this hole it was now 12:00 so we decided to hook up with another couple of buddies who were fishing their favourite hole up river. just before we arrive they hooked and landed a 20lb chrome female drift fishing with a flame red spin and glow. no luck for us except a couple of suckers.
fished a few more holes only to end up where we caught our first three steelhead. as you might have figured out by now, i was skunked so far. however in the exact same spot my buddy caught the first two steelies, i finally hook one that takes my line and then....snap. mainline brakes.
and thats it. back at home by 6pm. all in all a great day considering the weather has been the pits, the river has been dirty and flooding and fishing overall has been really slow.
report: fishing in a group of three - hooked 5 steelhead and landed 3. (2 steelies smaller than usual but the ones i saw were nice and chrome. trout bite has slowed down. interestingly, all steelhead were caught drift fishing with shrimp, wool and a metallic red, silver and blue corkie or a metallic blue corkie. usually my favourite colour is hot pink, blue or chartruese but today for some reason all fish hit the metallic coloured corkies. coincidence???
my other two buddies were on their second day of fishing. on the first day they hooked two and landed 1. today as of 12:30 they hooked and landed 1 chrome 20 lb doe on a flame red spin and glow-drift fishing. will probably hear from them soon on how they did in the afternoon.
this time we did bring a camera and managed to snap a picture of two of the three fish landed, so when my buddy sends them to me i will try posting them.
well that concludes another year on the thompson. didn't get to fish it much this year (thats what happens when you have kids) but i am looking forward to hooking a few on the vedder.
cheers
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Topic: thompson river December 29th (Read 3135 times)