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[Geff_t]

 Well I decided to finally make a trip upto squamish to do some fly fishing   . This was a make up trip as fridays trip got cancelled. This was also my first trip up to squamish but from what I have read it is an amazing river and I sure was not dissapointed. I arrived at just after 7:30 ( was having trouble finding my way) and made my way down to the river and threw my first cast in and nothing. I knew there must be something there as there where a couple of seals around. Second cast nothing, third cast nothing forth cast fishon. A bar crome doe to hand and gently released. I slowly made my way down river and caught 3 more in the first hour there. I then came across a beautiful spot where I could see lots of fish rising and my first cast in fish on. And then another and another and another and this continued until my arms where fried. The action was amazing   for three hours straight with the longest time without having a fish on was between 5-10 min. There where not that many people there today and they where not having as  much luck as I was but they where sure heading over to where I was after I packed up. I will post pics as soon as I get them up on my computer.

[dereke]

ya i was down there today as well and it was unbelievable. not many people out and must have gotten over twenty to shore. saw some dead fish for the first time since the run started. i still havent run into any boots yet with most fish being chromers.

tight lines
derek

[BladeKid]

thanks for the awesome report! what fly were u using? thanks

[Geff_t]

Pink wooly buggers, The ravor(Nicole's pattern. thx Nicole), as well as a lime green flashy bugger.

[BIG T]

Hey fly_guy,nice pictures,thank your partner for his wake up call this morning

[GoldHammeredCroc]

Yeah, very nice indeed. 

[stinkytroutboy]

Pink wooly buggers, The ravor(Nicole's pattern. thx Nicole), as well as a lime green flashy bugger.

hot diggaty flies

[Nicole]

Pink wooly buggers, The ravor(Nicole's pattern. thx Nicole), as well as a lime green flashy bugger.

Awesome fish! Glad the fly worked... It's always a producer for me...

Reminds me, time to tie some more up...

Cheers,
Nicole

[ejeffrey]

Any advice on fishing the Squamish? My sister just moved up there and we're thinking about visiting them this weekend. I've never fished there before and do not know the river at all. Thanks.

[Geff_t]

we where below were the mamquam runs into the squamish. Use google earth it will make it much easier to find.

[Rodney]

The section downstream from the Mamquam River mouth would be the most ideal place to fish due to the clean water exiting from the Mamquam River. The Squamish River itself is generally quite silty this time of the year so this clean water allows anglers to fish properly.

If you're flyfishing, avoid having the fly drifting through too deep otherwise you increase the chance of foul hooking fish. If you are drift fishing, the simple float setup with a piece of pink wool would do the trick.

This is strictly a catch and release fishery.

http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/xnet/content/fns/index.cfm?pg=view_notice&lang=en&DOC_ID=103154&ID=recreational

[DragonSpeed]

Sorry to derail this report any further...

My undersanding is that if you are not going to retain salmon you do not actually require a salmon stamp.... Correct?

[Arnie Salmonegger]

Dragonspeed, you're correct. Link is: http://env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish/regulations/salmon.html

[bentrod]

I would advise you to get your stamp however, no matter how well you handle the fish, you still stand a good chance of killing one.   

[BwiBwi]

If fish is hard to release just cut leader as close to fish as possible.  This will minimize mortality.