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itosh

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Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« on: September 23, 2009, 10:42:35 PM »

Having not fished at all in 2009 due to lack of motivation to fish spring stillwaters and then a ruptured achilles tendon, I was just itching to hit some moving water.  Usually by this time multiple trips to the T and Skagit have been done and usually a longer road trip to the Kootenays has been accomplished. 

2 weekends ago I had decided that my leg had healed enough to at least try a walk and wade, preferably on a smaller piece of water.  As I enjoy exploring new areas and waters almost as much as fishing, I decided to hit an indirect Fraser trib that I had visited in the past on a non-fishing trip.  I knew then I could hit a more familiar piece of water on the way back.  As I would be going solo, my usual flyfishing partner was was up north popping his Skeena cherry, I treated the trip as more of a scouting mission for the following weekend. As part of my scouting, I scoured through the regs to see if the creek I was intending on hitting was indeed open.  After not seeing any mention of the creek and double checking witheh Rodney, I knew I was ready.

The drive up was uneventful but the obligatory stops at Timmy Ho's, McD's and a quick pee and smoke break at a bridge over a river, I finally reached my destination just under 4 hrs later.

The piece of water I was to hit first was not very big at all, but I was aware of that.  I tentatively began wading the river, more focused on my leg than fishing, but that quickly changed as I totally forgot about my leg. The creek was not very wide or deep but there was very little obvious structure and riffly.  Targetting the slower seams and slicks, I finally got into a bully of about 16 inches and then a nice rainbow before I reached what was to be the only pool on the creek.  The pool had definite potential as it was nice and deep with the water funelling off a shelf at the head due to a nice logjam and then slowly broadening out with a nice tailout.  Also there was a whack of sockeye just milling about and you could see the grey shadows of the some nice bulls hanfing around.

The creek:


The reason for targetting said creek:



Some of the results of the initial scouting trip:




Scarface:


After landing 2 rainbows and 13 bulls and losing a bunch more, I headed off to Trib 2 but after such a successful scouting trip on my initial trip of the year, I found that I was not very motivated and more than a bit tired.  I did fish for a bit but found that the fishing was slow and was not able to land any fish.

Last weekend, I headed up again but this time with Chrome_Mykiss (CM).  As usual, when fishing with CM, you start your drive up when its dark and your drive back when its dark.  ;D ;D

After we reached our destination, I am disapointed to see that the water has risen and had a very slight bit of colour to it.  I also could tell that CM seemed a bit skeptical when we did not get into any fish after the first 20 mins or so.  The slower seams and slicks that were so evident a week ago were all gone due to the higher water and it seemed that the fish had either moved to different holding areas or had dropped back down.  But I was not too worried as I knew we were approaching the only pool on the creek.  In the meantime CM had managed to land a smaller bull.

CM playing first fish:



After reaching the pool, things thankfully picked up we both landed a couple of fish and lost a few more.

CM at pool:




After exhausting the pool, we quickly moved our way to the mouth of the creek and were quickly into some nice fish:









Altogether we probably lost as many fish as we landed.

Checking the time we realized that we need to head to Trib 2 if we wanted to have time to fish.  30 mins later we were at Trib 2 and although the fishing was not as fast and furious we were able each land some decent fish.

Trib 2



Untangling the leader from a branch and then still landing the fish:





Rainbow:



Fall is upon us and the fishing will only get better.

Shane
« Last Edit: September 23, 2009, 10:56:26 PM by Rodney »
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2009, 07:56:28 AM »

Great pictures and report thanks for sharing  :)
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2009, 10:57:47 AM »

great pictures.....
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2009, 04:46:51 PM »

Thanks for a nice read and great pictures of your nice catches. Looks like some fishing paradise with no crowd and lots of fish.  ;)
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2009, 08:24:28 PM »

very nice!  good to see that there i sstill some areas down there that are pcful!
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2009, 09:02:50 PM »

  Great pics and good on you for not disclosing your spot. Love fishing there this time of year!
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2009, 09:12:33 PM »

Beatiful pictues, Thanks.
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2009, 09:13:47 PM »

Nice report.
Lovely pics
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Re: Fraser River tributaries, September 13th & 20th 2009
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2009, 09:17:34 PM »

That's a nice part of the world.  The mouth gets hammered pretty hard with bait fisherman and such so nice to see a good number of fish taken on fly.  I counted the sockeye this year on that system and found where most of the bull trout ended up.  There is a small piece of holding water under the bridge in town that produces the odd bull trout too but otherwise its a straight sluice out into the lake as you mentioned.
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