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[calfisher]

Got to Poplar bar at Glen Valley park at first light.  Tide way out.  Few fish.  Moved up above island and wave after wave of pinks coming through.  It seems that the schools split around the island.

Cal

[Rodney]

There certainly wasn't a shortage of fish entering the Tidal Fraser River this afternoon during the incoming tide. We fished the south side of Richmond for a couple of hours and were unable to tempt these moving fish to bite. I managed to hook one that came off after 30 seconds. No complaints however, since the last time I had a fish on was September 8th! Pink salmon season is not close to over yet despite of what most are assuming, judging by the absence of anglers along the shoreline.

[rjs]

your right Rod... was out by the Alex Fraser in the tin boat and as high tide came in, there were lots and lots of fish!
my 5 year old son had a blast reelin and trying to net the fish !
I figure there should be a few more good days left !
I also think these 1's seem a bit bigger than the 1's a few weeks ago !

[fishseeker]

The river is still fishing well - thought it was supposed to be ending around now.   I have noticed that I have needed to be more inventive lately and pink/red sometimes do not fish as well as other colors.

This morning I had a nice one on my red/pink spin-and-glow and the bite seemed to stop completely after that.  After about half an hour of what appeared to be fruitless casting when it was clear there were fish around, I thought I would do something a little different and chuck around a sliver spoon with a hint of blue.  I had an immediate hit and limited out after 40 minutes.   (...I had the same thing switching to green a few days before.   This time I tried to use blue just to see how I would do with that and I was not dissapointed)

It seems to me that red/pink are good default colors but other colors can work just as well, if not better, sometimes.  I have also been playing around a lot with spin-and-glows and home spinners to see what I could learn from that - they work great and are a lot cheaper than store bought spinners. In general smaller seems to work better for me as do very slow retreives - any opinions on this?

Anyway here's the proof from today's outing (all my fish are going back now as I have caught more than I can handle, its been a blast!):

http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/gallery/fishseeker/P9200119



Good luck out there.

[FishOn]

Could've been a sturgeon too?

[Geff_t]

Could of been a chum as well as they are starting to come in also.

[Easywater]

I was out yesterday by the Alex Fraser bridge and had a good day - hooked about 6 and landed 3 - 2 males & 1 female.

Started out early with the high tide around 8:30am - fished through the slack around 10:00 with nothing.

Around 12:00, people started catching fish and I landed 3 in about 45 minutes.
Nothing showing on the surface but there seemed to be plenty below.

Packed it in and headed home around 1:30.

Tried a great BBQ recipe - small amount of sugar & salt, some sliced garlic and a thin layer of mayo - delicious.

[fishseeker]

just lost one spring today and it is totaly crazy with my UL trout rod geared with 4lb line....never gain any line back and fish still got away at the end without anything breaking...guess the bigger salmonoid is moving in

how do i know it's a spring?cuz i lost one female pink earlier and i can still see the fish surfacing, but that bigger one never shown and ran all the way to the middle of the river

I don't know 4lb line?  I would think a large pink could easily spool off that amount of line given the hard runs they are capable of sometimes.   I have had some pretty long and blistering runs from some of the larger pinks on my 10lb line (esp the bright fresh ones) - if I had been using 4lb with my lighter trout outfit I am pretty sure they would have taken it all off.

[fishseeker]

Got into a conversation with a very experienced fisherman last night and he tells me he always uses 4lb for pinks because of the better casting distance.   Personally I prefer to keep my spoons [8lb to 10lb for me.]

[bentrod]

IMO, you should always fish with as heavy of line as you can still catch fish with.  I'm not talking about horsing them in with a meat stick.  However, super light line means you have to play the fish to near exhaustion before landing it.  This increases the mortality rate of these fish.  It also leads to more breakoffs and injured fish with line and jewelry attached.