Headed out to the beautiful Fraser Valley at around 5:45 am, it was a very foggy drive to Chilliwack today, met up with Xgolfman at 6:30 am and after a brief visit to Reaction we were on our way to the Vedder, excitedly awaiting the chance to try out my new Milner Kingfisher... finally
Started in the upper regions and found the water to be just about perfect, allthough it was a lot colder than I thought it would be
after about twenty minutes of flogging some real pretty water in between cleaning ice off the guides , I decided to head up river to hit some pocket water... I asked Xgolf to come with me but he was more interested in yapping with fellow fishermen
fellow board members in fact
I found some great looking water and proceeded to put on a nice big chunk of bright red Chum Roe, cast out into some nice slack water and thought about how lucky we are to have this kind of fishing available so close to home !! on my third drift through this fishy looking water my floats torpedo's down and is followed by a flash of chrome and a big smile on my face.. I am thinking to myself how great it was to catch this beauty on my new reel the first day out
after a few great runs , a couple of spectacular jumps and an attempt to break me off behind a boulder she came to hand.. a beautiful chrome wild doe !!
all the time I had this fish on I was screaming to Golfman so he could take a pic for me !! unfortunately because of his advanced age he didn't hear me and I had to snap a few with my camera phone !!
I realease her back to the cold river and head back downstream to see how Golfman is doing, a few minutes later Norm joined us and we all headed back up river, I left the area I got my fish to Golf and Norm and I headed even further upstream to some nice looking pocket water and within ten minutes or so I was into another nice fish this time a buck, slightly bigger and also wild !! after two or three jumps and me trying to get my phone out to take a picture he managed to get away
no worries I was happy just to shake hands with this Buck !!
We continued to pound this water for another hour or so and then headed to the mid river to check out some new water... all in all it was a great day , with some great weather and great friends.
TR