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Author Topic: 2015/16 Chilliwack River steelhead fishery information & water condition updates  (Read 344870 times)

SilverChaser

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Got lucky this morning!
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this is a hatchery ?
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this is a hatchery ?

You're giving a guy a hard time over fish handling skills but you can't tell the difference between a hatch and wild?  ???  :o
« Last Edit: January 17, 2016, 06:34:28 PM by Drewhill »
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Nice fish and nice smile

hope the river holds out for Wed  :-\hoping to get out there with the fly gear 8)

keep those water reports coming folks ;)
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You're giving a guy a hard time over fish handling skills but you can't tell the difference between a hatch and wild?

I am not giving nobody a hard time, just an observation, no blaming at all, we all could do better in handling fish...myself included.
That fish looks to me having the fin half cut.
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You're giving a guy a hard time over fish handling skills but you can't tell the difference between a hatch and wild?

I am not giving nobody a hard time, just an observation, no blaming at all, we all could do better in handling fish...myself included.
That fish looks to me having the fin half cut.
Hmmmm....  You`re say that this wild steelhead has his fin naturally cut?
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That fish looks to me having the fin half cut.

Of the mis-clips that I've come across, they've all been miscut vertically... that is half of the fin "vertically" is missing, or it looks otherwise obviously "unnatural". I've been excited many times by what I though was a hatchery... but upon closer inspection it's a perfectly formed adipose, just really small "horizontally".

I wasn't there but looks like a wild to me.

Congrats silver, nice fish.

OK, sorry...my 2 cents, back to conditions.
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Having tailed the fish for him personally, I can assure you the fish is of the hatchery variety, and what you see is in fact the healed scar and not a fin. As for handling of a dead hatchery steelhead, you're doing just fine Silver chaser and tight lines. 
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That is a nice hatch to me. Thanks for sharing it. Congrats.
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Nice steel Silverchaser. :)
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Alexi

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Thanks Silverchaser for posting these 2 fish, we all learn something. After  being skunked for the last 6 trips, you get my heart pumping to head out again !
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yeah dude . ty for pics , those will keep me motivated to head up to c/v and don`t give up :)
p.s. I know its cold , but I would shake your hand if you would keep those godly looking fishes in a water ... from pics you posted you have waders , go a bit , kneel down and hold it in a water dude . other than that good job :))))
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Got lucky this morning!

awesome, looks like your both smiling.
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yeah dude . ty for pics , those will keep me motivated to head up to c/v and don`t give up :)
p.s. I know its cold , but I would shake your hand if you would keep those godly looking fishes in a water ... from pics you posted you have waders , go a bit , kneel down and hold it in a water dude . other than that good job :))))

You want the kid to put the hatchery fish he has killed closer in the water when posing the pic?