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Author Topic: Shuswap River, August 17th 2012  (Read 1275 times)

mzmann

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Shuswap River, August 17th 2012
« on: August 17, 2012, 05:20:30 PM »

Went out with the little girl today and tried out the Shuswap River. Started at Corner and Slide hole area, got there about 8am, 1 other gentleman roe fishing for springs as well (said he had one on for about 5-10seconds around 7am but that was it). Fished there for a few hours with no luck on any springs but got a couple squawfish on my roe/float setup and then a whitefish and a small bow when I tossed a small spinner around a bit. Moved down and tried a few other spots and holes along the river down to the kingfisher interpretative center just throwing a few casts in while the little one cooled off in the water a bit and got into a couple more of each again. Right at the interpretative center near the creek I got into a nice bow floating roe but he got off about 5ft from shore so was an easy release, lol...might have pushed 3 lbs maybe. Other than that I heard of a couple springs being caught at mable early in the am and I seen one biggun just flying by up river...seen a couple smaller ones go by as well but mainly was just resident fish around for the most part.

Even though there was no luck with the Springs today it was still a great day on the river once again and the little one (5yrs) even caught/reeled in and held her first fish today...Good times and great memories!
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Re: Shuswap River, August 17th 2012
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2012, 08:26:59 AM »

Yes Erkki it really doesn't get much better than seeing the little ones face light up when fishing. And yes indeed I will be down there this season...will be sometime in October after I get back from work (head to Chad Africa in a couple weeks)....going to try and make 2 - 1week trips down if I can this year as I want to head down just myself once and another time to bring my terminally ill uncle down to enjoy his first salmon period let alone fishing for em in the river. Will maybe get a hold of you when I come down myself if you want to hit the river together any of the days.
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