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[aquaboy24]

 

Got there at 2pm with the dogs. Dogs dissappeared as my cousin and I slid down the bank and found a nice bar. Short floating with some peach wool, we watched the snaggers up river snag and snag and sang.....

at around 5pm...it just turned on. Hit after hit after hit. Chum mostly....all too old and tired, but fun none the less. My cousin pulled one in that just erupted in worms. Still haven't eated any food...it was nasty.

Did have a breif hook up with a coho....it did its little air borne dance as if to say...see how clean I am...now good bye...and that was that.

Never been tot he Stave..and I am in no rush to return.....not a very pretty river.....

[canoe man]

yeah it takes some getting used to lol
its alot nicer on the east side away from the crowds
but it is good for kids nice easy access but with that comes the throngs and gongs
cnm

[redlad]

I was on the Stave for a few hours this am and then again this evening.  Hooked several chum floating a colorado blade - only two clear takes.  No Coho for me but did a beauty 16" hatchery rainbow very plump.

[leaping steely]

My cousin pulled one in that just erupted in worms. Still haven't eated any food...it was nasty.

GROSS!

[canoe man]

i to pulled in a buck the other day that had worms flushing out of its gills
where do these come from, in past years ive caught lots of past its prime chum
with no worms at all, is it because of the warmer temps 
first time ive seen this
cnm

[TtotheE]

What kind of worms?  I released a spring in the Vedder that had these white tapered worm like things attached to the fins.  Very gross. 

[canoe man]

these were little black looking things stuck in its gills
and they came washing out while i was taking the hook out?

todays fish the 13th had no such thing they were fairly clean
cnm

[newsman]

I saw the same thing on a few of the Chum I landed last year. Sealice.

[mooha]

The first time I fished the Stave, I immediately hooked a BRIGHT silver fish about 5lbs. I had never flyfished for Salmon before, and I needless to say, I was pretty stoked.
A coho on my first cast!!!!???

Imagine my dissapointment when I brought it closer and saw these ever so small black bars at the anal fin..... DAMN! A CHUM!

Ya never know

[aquaboy24]

WOrms in gills aren't sealice...they are all the nasty worms that will hurt you big time if you consume them.

It seems (and I am away from my fish info book, so I can't remember the official name)...that when these little worms hit your stomach acid...they get cranky, and they try to burrow out ..through your stomach wall.

that is the painful part

so cook your Stave river chum well, or freeze it for over 2 weeks