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DavidD

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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #165 on: October 27, 2009, 06:46:29 AM »
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Which part of Stave is where people refer to as the "toilet bowl"?

The portion right in front of the Boat Launch (bottom right in the picture) - cause the water goes round and round and ...  :)
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #166 on: October 30, 2009, 05:24:44 PM »
how much longer can we fish for chum either at the stave or elsewhere they are such a fun fish,Im sorry just cant stop smiling ;D
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #167 on: October 30, 2009, 05:35:57 PM »
into a ton of chum and 2 dancing coho that didn't want to come shake hands yesterday up near the dam.... the producer was a black jig with a pink wool scarf tied around it - once I put that on, I had hookups EVERY cast for a half hour before we left - you're right, FUN FISH!
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #168 on: October 30, 2009, 06:31:53 PM »
Got two massive does today very quickly, plus got to kill 20 or so at the hatchery later what fun that is lol
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #169 on: October 30, 2009, 06:34:39 PM »
yeah buit I have no fishing partner for two :'( weeks how much longer do we have
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #170 on: October 30, 2009, 06:48:37 PM »
how far up do the boats go?

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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #171 on: October 30, 2009, 07:29:29 PM »
Quote from: leadbelly on October 30, 2009, 06:31:53 PM
Got two massive does today very quickly, plus got to kill 20 or so at the hatchery later what fun that is lol

I helped kill 20 coho today too! You wouldnt happen to know a rob?
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #172 on: October 30, 2009, 07:47:32 PM »
I was at Keeps, though im doing stuff for Arms as well ( fish counts) we did egg takes today
Ive seen boats right up to the dam
hard to say how much longer for fresh coho n chum, seems to me less and later every year esp coho
few weeks maybe though some fish much longer for coho
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #173 on: October 30, 2009, 07:50:51 PM »
Oh ok I was at Inch, were you sampling coho?
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #174 on: October 31, 2009, 03:08:42 PM »
So I've been reading quite a bit and understand that there are some coho @ the mouth...
I've talked to some anglers up there and said that Coho come up alot later
So when taking that into consideration...the Coho run really isn't over yet is it?
Haven't caught one yet...
I know I know... I've been hitting pinks and Chum all year..But i want to try and land at least one of everything..haha
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #175 on: October 31, 2009, 03:10:55 PM »
Plenty of time for coho still
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #176 on: October 31, 2009, 08:21:10 PM »
I got a nice one Friday mid-river on a Croc spoon - 9.5 lb hatchery doe. My first coho in 3 years.
My buddy Bill also took home a chum doe that still had sea lice. Not as clean as some posted from today but still a decent fish.
We also caught at least 10 more Chum in 4 hours on spoons, flies, and jigs. Best time was rising tide 1.5 hours after low.
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #177 on: November 01, 2009, 05:26:15 PM »
So sad....

I went there to look around today, at 1:00PM.    Ton's of people, shoulder to shoulder.   Lots of rolling fish, several hookups.   Most released.   One was kicked back...  It wasn't punted though, more like a "nudge" kick.   I didn't do any fishing, just watching.

The really sad part was that there were shoulder-to-shoulder people at the spawning channel at the east side (as marked by Rodney's map)!   

People did not know, or more likely, they ignored the new regulation.   I could see the white triangle boundary markers, but it was meaningless!    I forgot my cell phone.  I didn't call it in.    BUT, fisheries people should have been there.   Come on, it was the first nice weekend since the regulation change.       

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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #178 on: November 02, 2009, 12:46:11 PM »
If the fisheries people went to stave they would nail alot of people.
Every time i go there, there is people fishing the spawning channel and outside the boundary.
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Re: 2009 Stave River salmon fishery
« Reply #179 on: November 02, 2009, 01:43:40 PM »
I was out there yesterday with friends fishing jigs well above the bottom - no more than three feet down and noticed a significant slowdown in the number of bites I was getting compared to last week.   Tried everything from spoons to different color wools and find I could still get the odd bite on the usual purple jig - in the end I managed to hook up and land 1 male chum.   I was teaching my friend the short floating techniques I learnt on this site explaining why it is important to keep the jig off the bottom.

In the end I had to explain why the people around us were getting so many "bites" while we were not - its frustrating because I can't pretend to be a very experienced fisherman.   I can only hope my friend got the picture when she saw how many were being hauled in side on or tail first.  Unfortunately new fishermen heading down to the Stave are very likely to think this is the way to catch them - can't blame them entirely.

Anyway, this debate about the Stave is likely to go on and on until there is proper enforcement  :(
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