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[MetalAndFeathers]

9 mile refers to the mileage markers on the Squamish Valley FSR. There is a power line crossing about 1 mile above the Cheakamus confluence. See google earth. That could it but I haven't been up that way in so long I don't know for sure

I think the 9 mile powerline is at the top of the run at fishermans park.

[Ambassador]

I think the 9 mile powerline is at the top of the run at fishermans park.

Funny how even Squamish regulars like us don't really know for sure. I called Barbara Mueller yesterday for confirmation but have not heard back yet.

9 mile refers to the mileage markers on the Squamish Valley FSR. There is a power line crossing about 1 mile above the Cheakamus confluence. See google earth. That could it but I haven't been up that way in so long I don't know for sure

I'm up there every other weekend and don't recall seeing any KM/mile markers before the end of the pavement.

[Rodney]

I called Barbara Mueller yesterday for confirmation but have not heard back yet.

Good luck.... lol

[Ambassador]

Good luck.... lol

Bahaha! I thought so - but had to try!

[fic]

So the gong show at Squamish is rivaling the Stave River's Chum season, minus all the fish 

[RalphH]

DFO description of fishing boundaries often seem opaque. But I'd think if it was the power lines just above Fishermens Park they'd say so & not reference 9 mile.

[milo]

Sad. 

Something tells me we are on the verge of witnessing a total collapse of the wild salmon sports fishery.
Greed and mismanagement combined with challenging natural causes can't have any other outcome.

[wildmanyeah]

Sad. 

Something tells me we are on the verge of witnessing a total collapse of the wild salmon sports fishery.
Greed and mismanagement combined with challenging natural causes can't have any other outcome.

Next year will be the deciding vote. If no fishery for sockeye next year we can call it dead.

[standalone]

Oh. mystery of 9 miles powerline.

[Easywater]

Pink numbers are finally starting to build.

Blinkhorn numbers (Area 12 - Port Hardy area) are excellent - 7000 yesterday.
7000 is about double the number of fish on the same day in 2015.

(Decent Chum numbers already in that area too - 288 vs 42 in 2015)

The numbers look comparable to 2013 as 2015 was not a great year.

If you want to check for yourself, go here: http://www.psc.org/publications/fraser-panel-in-season-information/test-fishing-results/#113-2015-1480720584

I open the "All Test Fishery Summary" spreadsheet that shows all areas.

You can then compare to the links lower on that page for 2015.
It's a little tricky relating the areas from the spreadsheet to the PDF docs from 2015.
"GN" = gillnet / "PS" = purse seine.

Waiting for some fish to show at Whonnock (Maple Ridge)  & Cottonwood (Albion).

Someone mentioned a week from Blinkhorn to the Fraser.

[ynot]

They might be squamish fish as most pinks come into the fraser in sept.   4 years ago the seine boats came to howe sound after about 40 yrs of no fishing, is this the reason for the down trend ?

[Ambassador]

Pink numbers are finally starting to build.

Blinkhorn numbers (Area 12 - Port Hardy area) are excellent - 7000 yesterday.
7000 is about double the number of fish on the same day in 2015.

(Decent Chum numbers already in that area too - 288 vs 42 in 2015)

The numbers look comparable to 2013 as 2015 was not a great year.

If you want to check for yourself, go here: http://www.psc.org/publications/fraser-panel-in-season-information/test-fishing-results/#113-2015-1480720584

I open the "All Test Fishery Summary" spreadsheet that shows all areas.

You can then compare to the links lower on that page for 2015.
It's a little tricky relating the areas from the spreadsheet to the PDF docs from 2015.
"GN" = gillnet / "PS" = purse seine.

Waiting for some fish to show at Whonnock (Maple Ridge)  & Cottonwood (Albion).

Someone mentioned a week from Blinkhorn to the Fraser.

[bkk]

9 Mile is the power line crossing the Squamish River about 2 km upstream from the Cheakamus River - Squamish River confluence. 9 Mile  gets it's name from the old 9 Mile logging road signs on the road to the upper Squamish which was 9 miles from the log dump on the Squamish estuary. This is also a prominent native netting site of the Lewis family. This is a well known landmark for all of the old Squamish anglers but not so much for all of the newbies.

The pink salmon angling on the Mamquam and Cheakamus River was closed on Aug 1st as per the recommendation of the Squamish Sport Fish Advisory board at the March 2017 meeting. This was proposed to try and stop the gong show which had transpired on these two rivers as pink spawning time approached. The first pinks generally start spawning by mid August.


They might be Squamish fish as most pinks come into the fraser in sept.   4 years ago the seine boats came to howe sound after about 40 yrs of no fishing, is this the reason for the down trend ?

[/quote] In a nut shell ...no. Both in 2013 and 2015 there was a very large spawning escapement after the fishery. The problem on the 2015 brood was they got severely impacted by 5 major gravel moving events when the eggs were in the gravel. A monitoring program on the Cheakamus estimated only 20% of what they had been catching on previous brood years. The returning fish are the results of those floods.

[ynot]

thanks for the info.bkk

[4TheKids]

thx bkk