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[Nitroholic]

Ive been catching pinks on the fly at peg leg for a week now.I find they hold in slow water and are on thew move in fast water and tend not to be biting so fish the slack water and get your lure right in their face good fight on the fly rod.The pink this year have been quite small this year though 2-4 pounds are their jack pinks?

I don't think so, that would mean they would be a 1 year fish

[BCfisherman97]

Are you using a sink tip for your fly line and what fly are you using?

Thanks Nicolas.

[kaolinite]

Good to hear.

If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose Kaolinite for a handle?

It was the tittle of a homemade movie
going out tommorow morning looking for more, is their any local places i can take my pink salmon and get it smoked/turned into jerky? it was great on the bbq

[mr.p]

I've been out everyday this past week in the lower. 
Saw a few surface each day.

I was in the Langley area yesterday.  A couple of mini schools definately came through.
Saw dozens of fish surface.  And 3 were caught.

[bbronswyk2000]

Looks like a good high tide this afternoon. Going to hit it an hour before and an hour after to see what I find. I will report back with what I see.

[RG]

Any suggestions of spots along the Fraser for pinks? New to Vancouver, would love to give it a shot.

[Scott]

Yeah, I live near the mission bridge and have never fished for pinks before either.  Anyone got any suggestions for locations?

[Rodney]

Anywhere along the main channels of the Fraser River will produce pink salmon, or any migratory salmon actually. While any spot can produce fish, each one has a different timing on when fish would be passing by and biting. Your best approach would be to focus on the last two hours of the incoming tide, when salmon usually travel past the area. Each spot along the Fraser River has a different tide delay from the Vancouver tide chart, so it'd take a few times to get the timing right.

[kaolinite]

Got another chrome male pink this afternoon, cooking it as i type!
all the fish i have seen caught so far are males, any reason for this?

[Easywater]

"Sex ratios in pink salmon populations tend to fluctuate considerably throughout the spawning season. A predominance of males is characteristic among the fish first entering the stream and those first occupying the spawning grounds. As the season progresses, the proportion of females entering the stream and on the spawning beds increases. During the main part of the run the sex ratio tends to be close to 1:1, and towards the end of the run there are usually more females than males"

http://books.google.ca/books?id=I_S0xCME0CYC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=%2Bmigration+%2B%22pink+salmon%22&source=bl&ots=_uzzuH3hhY&sig=rLsf_J1G4367pir8Z_oy6c6V-SM&hl=en&ei=cmKVStumCJPWlAfE0fyvDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=%20migration%20%20%22pink%20salmon%22&f=false

[Easywater]

More from the book (website):

When returning pink salmon appear the the mouths of streams, they are usually seen swimming near the surface and often exhibit a characteristic leaping behaviour. Individuals leave the water, after a rapid swimming burst, in a forward leaping motion with their body initially oriented dorsoventrally, and then quickly rotated laterally, so the fish "falls" on its side or back.

Large numbers of pink salmon may suddenly migrate into a stream at once. Berg (1948) cited an observation of a mass migration made by I.F. Pravadin in 1926: "Although the weather was calm and sunny, an extraordinary noise could be heard coming from the middle of the river ... similar to the noise of boiling water splashing in a gigantic cauldron. .... the fishermen feasted their eyes upon a tremendous school of fish, wich went up the river, making a very loud noise, as if a new river had burst into the Bolshaya; the fish jumped out of the water continuously. The noisy stretch of fish was at least one verst long (1067m) and not less than 100m wide so that size of the school could be estimated at several millions specimens."

[Rodney]

Got another chrome male pink this afternoon, cooking it as i type!
all the fish i have seen caught so far are males, any reason for this?

Two males out of a sample size of two captured fish should not raise a concern. Just as when you toss a coin, it is not unlikely that you get two in a row. If you get 200 males in a row, then maybe it's time to change the lure to a brand that is more female friendly...

[DionJL]

If you get 200 males in a row, then maybe it's time to change the lure

Rodney's had this problem before. Then he hooked Nina.

[ahans]

The lure..."Rodney's special".

[Scooterguy]

Me & my kid were there from 11Am - 2PM. We did not see much going on but seeing the seal chased the pink. It was quite a scene.