Hit the cap this AM, nice low water and coloreds up too...perfect conditions for huckin hardware. As per usual, fish were showing every where when I arrive. I thought I would start with a #3 blue fox spinner with a chartruese body. I was getting lots of followers...maybe 1/3 of my casts in fact. I tried all sorts of speeds, went all the way down to a number 1, weighted, unweighted, etc,etc. These dang fish would come up for a look but refused to commit.
Anyhow, moved on thru my selection of spoons (crocs, kitimats, and coho's) and had less followers but still some interest. Started to get quite frustrate.
10 minutes before I had to leave I decided go big or go home and out came may #6 blue fox
, well wouldn't you know it, 2nd cast with this huge honking blade...wham fish on. Good thing about BIG blades...BIG fish (well by cap standards anyhow). I had a 5-6lb fish at the end of my line and it was just going ballistic. I went to set the hook and the drag slipped...unfortunately, I think that was my downfall as I don't think I got a good hook set on this fish. I had it on for a minute or two and in typical cap coho fashion, it ended up at my feet but with plenty of life left in it. What do you do...pull it up prematurely, hold it at the surface where it usually ends up trashing about, you cant give it slack....dam, I wish these fish would just dive or run at this point instead of all this thrashy crap right at the shore line. Anyhow the fish eventually threw the hook and I went home empty handed.
Anyhow, I think the trick was getting down deep. I could feel the rocks ticking my blade so I was right on the bottom. Yesterday when i snorkeled the cap I noticed that most of the activity mid and upper water colum was smaller fish, all the bigger ones were quietly sitting down deep on the bottom. Picked a bunch of gear and line outta the run so hopefully we will all have a little cleaner drift now
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Topic: Capilano Aug 3rd. (Read 3382 times)