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[am3ience]

Checked out the Vedder Canal today and yesterday. Not a fish in sight. Totally barren. I've seen a few guys out, but no reports at all.
Water is very clear, so any fish silhouettes or rolls should have been visible.

Man that's disheartening, I was planning on heading to the Vedder this Wednesday.

[sockeyed]

Save your gas as there are virtually no fish on the spawning grounds. Shovelnose Creek has 5 fish, Chuck Chuck Creek has 27 fish and the Ashlu has the most of a very poor lot but it is most likely only a few thousand. Last cycle at this time all of those areas were full of spawning fish with tons of fish pouring into those areas daily. Nothing like that this year. The Cheakamus is also very poor with only a very few fish around. The Mamquam has some fish but once again very few in relation to what should be there. Makes me wonder why the pink fishery is even open?

After seeing such poor numbers of fish this weekend, I am thinking it might be best to close pink retention as well. Hopefully the Fraser run is half decent.

[clarki]

Man that's disheartening, I was planning on heading to the Vedder this Wednesday.

Be disheartened not. We are still 2 weeks plus away of there being pinks in the C/V in appreciable numbers. The first waves of migrating pinks don't normally hit the lower Fraser until Labour Day weekend.

[RalphH]

Be disheartened not. We are still 2 weeks plus away of there being pinks in the C/V in appreciable numbers. The first waves of migrating pinks don't normally hit the lower Fraser until Labour Day weekend.

...or after. Sept 5-10th is the usual time range.

[brandooner]

Man that's disheartening, I was planning on heading to the Vedder this Wednesday.

Does not look there is an opening for pinks on the C/V yet...

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[cdjk123]

Does not look there is an opening for pinks on the C/V yet...

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I think he probably meant to say: "I was going to target....uhhh...pike minnow......on the vedder"

[Rodney]

Retention of pink salmon is closed on the Chilliwack/Vedder River, but you can still catch and release them. Some fish have made their way into the system already, but better fishing is still a couple of weeks away.

[am3ience]

so no spots for salmon fishing in the fraser valley yet?

[Rodney]

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/fresh-douce/region2-eng.html

[milo]

so no spots for salmon fishing in the fraser valley yet?

You can fish almost anywhere you want. What you can't do is keep them.

Save On Foods is your best bet. Fresh, cleaned and cheap. 

[wildmanyeah]

Fraser River pinks seem small this year, caught 3 so far this year at the river mouth.  Bright crommies tho made it a bit tough to identify them from small Chinook. Big sports on the tail and there slimy buggers.

all on a green hoochie

[ynot]

superstore cheaper  .4356 per 100 gr. for pinks

[am3ience]

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/fresh-douce/region2-eng.html

Thanks Rod! Might head down to C/V and try for some chinook.

Fraser River pinks seem small this year, caught 3 so far this year at the river mouth.  Bright crommies tho made it a bit tough to identify them from small Chinook. Big sports on the tail and there slimy buggers.

all on a green hoochie

Where in the Fraser River did you go?

[Easywater]

He's in the ocean.

[cdjk123]

Yes, he's talking about the mouth of the Fraser, not the vedder. Just to clarify