It must be the one on July 1st Canada Day at least 6-10 years ago. I clearly remember that day because I took a greenie fishing on that day. We first went to the Vedder for the big fish but found tons of people there without any fish. So we returned to the Cap which was flooding due to a few days of heavy rain. We went to the Cable Pool to check it out and found the river raging past under those rocks. It was high high and yellowish river. People were fishing and actually catching some fish. We saw quite a crowd above the cliff. I told the greenie that it is not worth the risk there. One wrong move means sure death. So we went down to the lower river and still caught our limit. Atlas, some one did fall in later in the day and drowned. Some one told me a few days later that, like Steelieman, he saw the Oriental guy slipped, and was trying to grab him to no avail. He told me he could never forget that last look of horror on that man's face.
The Cap is very dangerous because most people are used to its lazy flowing low flow most of the time. But when it floods, people don't take it seriously and got the worst of it. I once also met a fishing instructor who would not even talk about the Cap when he mentioned about the popular local rivers like the Vedder, Chehalis and Squamish. He admitted that he would not want to talk about it because his fishing buddy was drowned in that innocent little river. So, it happens more often than we think. Be careful of the Cap. No fish is worth your life. There is always another day to fish as long as you are alive. Fish in peace, and fish safe too.
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Topic: Capilano River July 2nd, 2007 (Read 19435 times)