Just got off the phone to a friend talking about the test fishery yesterday on the Fraser that saw around 22 boats doing a test fishery with 8 inch plus nets.

It ran for about 9 hours with each boat getting an average of 20 chinook and 20 sockeye each.

A problem for them was the seals that were robbing the nets. They would grab the fish in the throat area getting the choice part of the fish, the heart , the roe etc..

Is a seal cull needed in the river as apparently there is a colony of around 1000 off the lower part of the Fraser?

This would create some controversy I am sure but they most likely are taking way more fish than the sports angler are in river.

In my earlier post I thought fishing for sockeye would not heat up by Saturday but some how I must have got my calculation wrong by one day as I should have said Friday as the commercials were out of the river Tuesday evening so 3 days it would mean today would be good today. Sorry if I discourged anyone from coming out to Chilliwack.

Anyway the fishing really heated up yesterday as my contact limited quickly last night and even faster on a bar at the Island 22 area this morning.

So get out of the office early today and get them as apparently the Commercial opening for the lower Fraser First Nations starts tomorrow and the piolot sales in the Chilliwack area starts at 6 tonight.

I am getting myself enthused so I am thinking of rolling out and getting out for a little bar fishing today and maybe try DK's short floating method along Maple Leaf Bar for a sockeye.