Thanks also for reminding people of this.

 Selective fishing now means bar fishing although the Fraser may dirty up with all the rain we are having.

how can the temp of the river go up on one of the coolest days plus rain in the last few months??

At the mouth of th Cog. as I mentioned mostly sockeye, one chinook and no jack springs and i know there is lots in the system.

The ones we caught in the Thompson were full of energy and no sign of fatique.

Also the dead sockeye were still bright so had not made it up too far in the Fraser.

I think all the fishing pressure from all sectors they have faced also has some effect on them.

Hi all. I want to say that I am not a sockeye fisherman because I am not here during the summer months. I barfished for about 8 years until it got too crowded. No boat so no choice on where I can go. I agree that there should be selective fishing on th eFraser. I like reading the posts here but lately it has gotten rather ugly with the floss-barfish spiel. What I want to voice is that I wish you guys would lay off the term "Heroes" once and for all. It comes across as a derogatory term and it doesn't seem appropriate. Also, I have a problem with some of the guys who think they know it all. Please curtail your condescending remarks. Some of you wrote that you used to floss but not anymore. Well, how many years did you do it? And how many years was it before you realized that you should not be doing it? Obviously that took some years. Maybe some of the guys here will learn that too, if you give them the same number of years to realize that instead of trying to hurl insults at them to stop the flossing. It's not in the best interest here to tar everyone who floss as wicked people. Pretty soon you'll be telling me that if I don't use a centrepin I'm a nobody. Please be civil. there is no need to get rude. Whew, glad to get that off my chest.

Second thing I want to add is that the Fraser is obviously warmer than ever due to the record heat we have had for the last three months. You can include the last three years of virtually no rainfall or snowpack in the interior. Also one thing that most people never think of is the Kenney Dam, which was built for Alcan by the BC government, severely curtails the water flow from the Nechako river, which in turn flows into the Stuart river, and into the Fraser. More water flow could cool  the water temperature, but I doubt Alcan would do that.

As well, I assume that because the fraser is fed by hundreds of  lakes.  those lakes suck up a ton of energy and then dump it into the fraser.

 

Quote from: Gooey on August 25, 2004, 02:26:06 PM

As well, I assume that because the fraser is fed by hundreds of  lakes.  those lakes suck up a ton of energy and then dump it into the fraser.

 

I think he means that all the lakes, especially in the hot interior, absorb the sun's heat energy and warm up.  These lakes then eventually drain their warm water into the Fraser River.