Hit the Vedder for the first time this year for my first ever steelhead quest. Arrived at Fred's at 7am and picked up some roe sacks. Someone weighted in a 14.5lbs doe, sweet..... when i asked him where did he catch her, he pointed right at her mouth and said, right here. (good job dude, that's a fair hook then.
) i then hit the upper river, near the hatchery, fished there for an hour with roe sacks and nothing. went down to the Vedder crossing and fished there for a good 3 hours, still nothing, saw a guy across from river fishing up the cliff and caught one around 6 to 9 lbs, a quick pic and he released it. I then went to KWB, saw only about 5 anglers there, how different it is from salmon season! no one caught anything, i fished with roe sacks and pink worm for 2 hours at different spots up and down the river, but still couldn't entice any fish, guess that's common for first steelhead fishing trip ?
left the river at around 3:30pm, and arrived at my popular lake in coquitlam, fished with dew worms, first cast there, fish on! and landed it in just 10 seconds or so. the fish looked different from rainbow trout, not much spots, as shown in the picture. I caught two more rainbows in half an hour and left. When i was gutting and cleaning the fish at home, i found that the first fish that i caught has bright red flesh, it's a kokanee! i didn't know that lake produced kokanee too. since when did they stock it there eh!?
All in all, it was a good trip, tired as hell driving alone though. had my first steelie trip, and i feel that i am one step closer to my first ever silver bullet!
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Topic: Vedder River and then a lake in coquitlam February 6th (Read 3851 times)