If you've never bar fished before or it has been years since you have tried it, now is the time to do it. In the last week I have helped 5 different people ( 2 couples that had never fished the Fraser before and one died in the wool snagger) learn how to set up their weights and spinning glows, how to build their rod holders and generally what to look for in the water in my area and they all caught springs. The snagger had been bottom bouncing for four days without hooking up once, when he saw what we were doing he went home and built a rod bucket, grabbed a few old spinning glows out of his dad's tackle box, set up with a cluster of 4 betties tied together on a snagging line saver, shortened his leader to 2 feet and within an hour had hooked 2 and landed one. It's not rocket science, if you can just get that spinning glow sitting still out there and buzzing in the current you will catch a spring.
The one couple showed up initially with a one rod, a spinning glow and a float, not wanting to violate the DFO request that people not bottom bounce,after they saw how I was rigged up the wife sat on the beach and held the rod acting as a rod holder until her husband caught one
. The next day she showed up with her own rod and rod holder and caught one of her own.
The bar fishing is better than it's been in decades there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to be out there bottom bouncing and interfering with closed and in some cases endangered species, those people out there bottom bouncing right now are just giving all fishermen a bad name,when I drive by snaggy bar it looks like there is a sockeye opening on, makes one want to puke!!
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Topic: Non-tidal Fraser River, September 3rd 2015 (Read 3090 times)