Enjoyed a day off work today and spent it at the Vedder. Arrived at 1030 this morning and scouted about since it was my first time there. River looked good, colour was nice, but didn't seem all that high. Checked out my favourite spot last year upstream and a couple of anglers were already in the pool so I didnt bother fishing. Further upstream at the mouth of Sweltzer Creek, it looked like either a small squatting community was established, or perhaps just some people camping for a while.
I started fishing at Peach Road just to have a look around. Fished a nice looking pool but no takes. One fish did splash about so there were some. I moved further downstream and then something small and silvery inhaled my roe offering but shook the hook shortly after. I returned to the car and moved down to Lickman and noticed the gravel work proceeding along. I trust that the excavator is using a vegetable based oil in its hydraulics and the cloudy water did appear to be well contained by the gravel berm which separates it from the main flow. I guess a concern is if the water suddenly rises and fills the hole but if the river blows out, its going to be dirty anyway
The pools around Lickman looked good as always and it would be where I would recommend you to go. I saw numerous chum salmon showing and there were two springs caught - one probably about 10 and a bigger doe most likely close to 20. Rumours of large schools of coho in the Sumas as well waiting for a little more rain
. Thats about it though - it rained the whole time I was there but there did not appear to be an increase and visibility did not change at all. There are fish in, not in any massive numbers but like they say, a bad day's fishing is always better than a good day's work.
Just nice to be out and thanks for the rod fishforever.
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Topic: Vedder - September 20th (Read 6688 times)