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[druid]

Hi,

(I admit I'm not on here much, but, well, maybe I should be!)

I haven't been fishing since July, and I want to get some kind of line wet this weekend. Where to go, what to target...?

I have fresh and salt licenses, but salmon tag only for "salt".

Am I correct in assuming the pinks are pretty much gone by now? Any hope in targetting Coho in the "tidal" Fraser, maybe with a bar rig or spoons?

Is it too late for the local lakes, like Rolley or Buntzen? My preference is flyfishing from a small boat, but I'd also be happy sitting at a river's edge with a worm on the bottom...

Too early for cutthroat in, say, Allouette?

druid

[lucky]

  With the bait ban being lifted on the lower Fraser this weekend barfishing for coho sounds like a pretty good idea, there are plenty of places to wet a line away from the crowds and with some good roe you stand a pretty good chance of catching something. And if it is trout you prefer, the local lakes always have fish to be caught and with the recent stockings fishing might be even better.

[druid]

Well, I had decided on Rolley, but forgot they close the gate in the fall! I didn't want to schlep my boat 1/2 mile, so I settled for Whonnock, where I have occasionally caught trout in the past.

This time, no trout, but lots of these guys:


I'm assuming yellow perch, but they don't seem to have the vertical bars the yellow perch is supposed to have. Can somebody confirm species, please? Rod?

They were too small to keep, which was too bad: I hear they're good eating! Didn't put  up much of a fight, though: I'd say less than a pikeminnow.

druid

[dead head]

That would be a crappie some like to eat those little boney guys.

[troutbreath]

You missed out on a good meal old boy. Beer battered Crappie aren't crappie. There only bad tasting if they eat too much Canada Goose dung. Good to hear you scored.