Headed out for first light this morning. The water looked pretty good, about 2 feet or more on the lower. Started out with a wool tie but nothin doing other than a bunch of taps from some smolts. Some fish started rising but not a whole ton of them, so I switched up to a brass colorado and second cast, float under and fish on. Coho came rolling to the surface and then gone. Darnit. After that a couple other float downs but nothing stayed then it died and nothin doin for a couple hrs. So I moved up river and noticed that the river had changed location since the last time I was there. After some hiking to find the river again, walked up on a nice run that was void of people and started chuckin some roe, but after an hr of that decided to change up to a blade again, not long after, float down, set the hook and almost had the rod pulled out of my hand by a big bastard and it wasn't long after that the rust in my game helped out with the big chromer spring in braking off my meager 8 lb test leader. Had a couple other float downs and one brief headshake, but that was it for the day. Was nice to get out again though. Didn't see a whole lot of action, one other guy hooked a Coho but soon lost it and another guy hooked into a spring that wound up pullin free after a spirited tussle.
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Topic: Chilliwack River, September 18th 2008 (Read 3490 times)