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TheLostSockeye

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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #180 on: October 28, 2014, 04:38:34 PM »
water was very good this am. River looked very high still.


on a side note found this video today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVT-PpVw5b0
I hope when the snaggers get shamed like this that they will stop.
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chris gadsden

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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #181 on: October 28, 2014, 06:59:01 PM »
Even had a fish jump at the red top of the Maple Leaf Drennan this evening, a first for a coho or chum as I have had steelhead do it a few times over the years. Nice conditions all day.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #182 on: October 29, 2014, 08:35:47 AM »
Quote from: TheLostSockeye on October 28, 2014, 04:38:34 PM
water was very good this am. River looked very high still.


on a side note found this video today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVT-PpVw5b0
I hope when the snaggers get shamed like this that they will stop.

Whoever that guy is deserves to a medal and needs to keep filming and just start sending these tapes in right to the DFO And tell em to wake the hell up.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #183 on: October 29, 2014, 11:13:47 AM »
Does anyone have a link for a detailed precipitation forecast for Chilliwack?  I'm looking for something that would break it down to hourly, show expected rainfall measurements and maybe even have a graph.  The most detail I can get in "general weather" sites is just % chance of rain by hour.... like, 3pm = 30% chance 4pm = 60% chance, etc. 

Ideally, it would be great to have a forecast line built into the hydrometric graph for the Chilliwack river levels.  This only shows up to the present:

http://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report/report_e.html?type=realTime&stn=08MH001

Which is helpful, but it would be awesome to know what the future levels look like based on rainfall predictions.  I've seen such a thing for the Nooksack river in the US:

http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/river/station/flowplot/flowplot.cgi?lid=NSSW1

Any other tools you guys use to gauge conditions would be interesting too!
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #184 on: October 29, 2014, 11:26:20 AM »
the Weather Network:  http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canada/british-columbia/chilliwack

gives rain and wind forecasts. Coose the 36 hour tab for predicted precip

Environment Canada: http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-24_metric_e.html

Water gauge at Vedder Crossing: http://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report/report_e.html?type=realTime&stn=08MH001

Anything over 2meters is approaching flood level and makes fishing challenging
« Last Edit: October 29, 2014, 11:31:14 AM by RalphH »
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #185 on: October 29, 2014, 03:23:47 PM »
As long as there's visibility you can find fish. Fished it around 2.4 I think the last time out.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #186 on: October 29, 2014, 05:44:26 PM »
Big catchment area over 1000 square km.
Went out a couple days ago got 2 hatch coho.
However went today and watched as the water
Kept rising over the course of 3 hrs.
Fast and furious today. Even though it wasn't raining all
That water is still coming off the hills.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #187 on: October 29, 2014, 07:28:15 PM »
Showing some color at dark and it was on the rise all day, rain in the upper reaches was the reason.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #188 on: October 29, 2014, 07:55:56 PM »
Chris is the most optimistic water clarity informant I know ... if he says it's showing color, the river is toast ;)
That said, no rain at the moment here.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #189 on: October 29, 2014, 08:56:30 PM »
Good links, thanks RalphH.

Yeah, made the mistake of going up today and it was not good.  High and fast and about 1 foot of vis.  Did see a fair number of coho on the move (rolling) but could only get 1 to bite, and he came unbuttoned.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #190 on: October 30, 2014, 06:57:12 PM »
Water dropped overnight and hung on all day even through all the rain this afternoon, was chum city today.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #191 on: October 30, 2014, 09:07:14 PM »
Quote from: chris gadsden on October 30, 2014, 06:57:12 PM
Water dropped overnight and hung on all day even through all the rain this afternoon, was chum city today.

The coho village was nearby… ;D
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #192 on: October 30, 2014, 09:23:24 PM »
Quote from: A Frayed Knot on October 29, 2014, 08:35:47 AM
Whoever that guy is deserves to a medal and needs to keep filming and just start sending these tapes in right to the DFO And tell em to wake the hell up.
Unfortunately there's nothing in that video to indicate that fish was foul-hooked other than the cameraman saying BUSTED.
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #193 on: October 30, 2014, 09:28:57 PM »
Quote from: TheLostSockeye on October 28, 2014, 04:38:34 PM
water was very good this am. River looked very high still.


on a side note found this video today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVT-PpVw5b0
I hope when the snaggers get shamed like this that they will stop.

although I don't agree with snagging that tossing the gills bit was pretty funny  ;D
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Re: 2014 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #194 on: October 30, 2014, 11:05:35 PM »
Quote from: DanL on October 30, 2014, 09:23:24 PM
Unfortunately there's nothing in that video to indicate that fish was foul-hooked other than the cameraman saying BUSTED.

I was there and witnessed the whole thing. Before the guy started filming he bonked a wild coho that was hooked in the belly.
Got a lot of free berries from the guys up there  ;D
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