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[Murphy Sportfishing]

This Weeks Highlights

This past weekend we had the pleasure of hosting Kitty Kanhoffen and Rod Hsu. Kitty wrote her story about the day on the Sproat River with guide Kevin Barabash and it is now available online at www.fishingwithrod.com/blog/2015/02/04/sproat-river-winter-steelheading/

There is going to be a full video webisode posted in the coming weeks as well.
 
The big fish keep presenting themselves so often now that it has become a trend, not just an anomaly.Pictured below is guide Carey Evans with an absolute beauty Wild Winter Steelhead buck (male), it measured 37 inches and nearing maturity with its very telling colours.

Current Conditions (as of Feb 6, 2015 12:31)

The river is blown out now, its muddy and brown. We have cancelled our trips for Saturday and depending on rainfall in the next 24 hours possibly Sunday.

The river is rising quickly as warm temperatures mean no snow accumulation and all the precipitation is running through the valleys quickly.  You can see by the charts on our fishing report page where we are at already in the storm related to other high water events.  As of the time of writing there is another 80 mm expected before it settles down.  The brunt of the storm however is missing us and tracking a little south. Local weather experts think we may not get 80 MM but will see.

Remember the more rain, the higher the river further down stream. Try to fish near cleaner ribbons where clean creeks may be meeting the main river. Steelhead will move into the clean seams during high water events. Up size your gear in both size of bait/lure and more weight, a heavier leader is in order as well since there is more current to fight against.

If you take a look at the 90 day graph on our fishing report page it gives you a good idea of where we are in the long term trend. The last big rain event which looked marginal ended up being a great two days of fishing with high encounter rates.

One thing for sure is that with every high water event so far this season we have seen a good push of fresh fish in with it...

Stay tuned...will update again Saturday if conditions change.

Call us anytime for the latest conditions! We enjoy helping anglers plan their trips with or without guides.

Marilyn Murphy

For the latest info visit at http://murphysportfishing.com/site/fishing-report.html for river level charts, local weather expectations, and more.

Call anytime for updated conditions 250-723-8022
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