Spinners never fail. Pink, gold, silver and green should work fine. Size 2 to 4 are ideal. These are the ones that I usually use.
Spoons should work too, but I have a tendency to connect with more fish on spinners than spoons. Usually I like to start out with playing with other methods first and only pull out the spinners in the end when everything else fails. I fish these with a medium spinning rod and reel, fitted with 6 or 8lb test line.
If you are float fishing, a piece of chartreuse, white, pink wool on a size 2 or 4 hook works well by drifting the float through moderate flows. Another good presentation that Itosh discovered a few years ago was a small gooey bob placed above the hook, with a tiny piece of white wool tied to the hook. These have worked well between January and March.
Roe and worm will of course work very well, but dollies or bull trout are so readily to be caught so bait is pretty unnecessary. In addition, because of their aggressiveness, they have a tendency to swallow the entire bait so we try to avoid using it at all.
For flyfishing, a large leech, sculpin or flesh pattern should work very well this time of the year. Starting around the end of March, you want to switch your patterns to minnows as juvenile salmon begin to emerge. Observe what are swimming in the water and match your patterns to those.
The fish are generally between 2 to 4lb, but big ones up to 6, 8lb are around.
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/articles/2005/1205_02.htmlFor anyone else who is interested and has never done it before, please remember it is a catch and release fishery in Southern BC. Chrome Mykiss and Itosh maybe able to add more information to the flyfishing part, as they have done well lately. See photo below.
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