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[bigsnag]

Fished Saturday afternoon conditions still the same though water cleared a bit when the river dropped at low tide. Still the same fish then no fish movement. There were 2 seal working the water probably spooking the pinks.
Watched a guy using a floating line with a weighted fly hit fish consistently ( a lot more than Me). He said he uses the same technique on Coho. I'll try it next trip.

[milo]

Yesterday it was easy fishing when the pinks were in in good numbers. I had a five cast-five fish on series at one point. When you have four friends fly fishing next to one another and all four have a fish on at the same time, you know that fishing got stupid.

With each of us hooking into 20+ fish in less than two hours of fishing, it simply got ridiculous - to the point that we packed up and left.

[norm_2]

Milo, what shape are they in now?  Thanks.

[adriaticum]

Milo, what shape are they in now?  Thanks.

Good shape most of them.

[bbronswyk2000]

Chromers lots of them!!!!

[milo]

What Bobo said.
You don't need to work hard to get a chromer, but that will change in the next couple of days.

I say the run peaked this weekend.

[bkk]

I sure hope it has not peaked as the peak is usually around Labour Day. This has been fairly consistent for the last few cycles.

[hickman]

I don't think it has peaked in numbers. Last weekend was the first time they showed up in big numbers... both fish and fishermen 

[fic]

The traffic on Sea to Sky Highway peaked that's for sure.   

[milo]

I don't think it has peaked in numbers. Last weekend was the first time they showed up in big numbers... both fish and fishermen 

Correct.

I was referring to the average quality of the fish in the run, not the quantity.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Rodney]

What bkk said. The run typically peaks later in the month and early September, so you should be seeing more fresh fish moving into the system. I remember many years ago fishing in late August, encountering fish just as fresh as the ones caught in late July. Here's one from August 19th two years ago.

[FlyFishin Magician]

Hey Rodney!  August 19!  Yes, I remember that day! 

[mastercaster]

What bkk said. The run typically peaks later in the month and early September, so you should be seeing more fresh fish moving into the system. I remember many years ago fishing in late August, encountering fish just as fresh as the ones caught in late July. Here's one from August 19th two years ago.

Certainly does look fresh!  Nice fish, too~

A friend asked me to get him a couple of fish for a barby if I went today for his family visiting from Australia.  Lots of nice fish at mid afternoon when i first got there but I didn't want to keep anything until the last hour.  Sure had to weed through a wack a fish before getting a couple of nice one.....thought I blew it for him.  Was strange to see so many green/white bellied fish coming through when just a couple of hours earlier most of them were nice and bright.

[bigsnag]

It really depends on what triggers a particular group of pinks to enter the river from Daryl Bay. I've fished 4 trips this season and have encountered groups of really chrome fish,followed by a mixed group of not so chrome and coloured ones and dish plated humpies and white bellied does with green backs. In one school that passed I hooked into 3 silver sided ones that fought like they where possesed,peeled line off the reel running up stream... broke off before I got spooled.