well.. back from the camp trip. Goldpan was flooded, and shiksa campsite was not near the water. We ended up camping up further near juniper beach. for the first day
Caught 2 trout at goldpan. Water was very fast and dirty
Also landed 4 massive largescale suckers just before sunset
Next day, we drove into kamloops, hoping to fish kamloops lake.. however that was filled with logs and was flooded bigtime aswell.
We continued onto Tunka lake apparently known for its amazing rainbow trout fishing, however just our luck, as we paid for our campsite, it started thunder showering so there was no way we were ganna stick around. we got our money back and headed down the coquihala highway.
We decided to make a quick stop at Wolloper lake, just as we got there, there the clouds started to thin out and the fish were going insane!
I quickly casted out and within a couple seconds had a nice 5 lber on.. it broke off my lure unfortunatly and made a couple ariel jumps.
we fished a little more and caught 3 12"ers and a nice 15".
We wanted to stay there the night but overnight camping was not permited so we drove to merrit and stayed at the monck campsite, I did not have any information on fishing this lake, so i tried a little bit of everything.. we managed to catch 20+ NP minnows on worms, jigs, lures, etc. I guess we werent fishing deep enough for trout. However that was very fun on light tackle.
Thanks again for the rising water warning but it was a still a great trip overall!
by the way I found a video of how much water is actually coming out of the thompson into the fraser.. over 200 million gallons per minute!!!! ridiculous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8CRwKPl2NQ&feature=related