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[River Rat]

My 9 year old grandson asked for a spey rod last Christmas, so I bought him a 7 weight, Redington Dually. He has spent a lot of time on the Vedder practising. Sunday, he went chasing Bulls. Remember...this kid is only 9 and casting a spey!!

[mcallagan]

There is only 1 response for that!

WOW!!

[poper]

Nice work

[iblly]

Holy cow ! nice work. Nice fish ! He's hooked now.

[JustPuttsin]

That's just great!! WOW!!

[Ambassador]

Amazing fish for sure - but isn't the Vedder closed for fishing until June 30th?

[sbc hris]

He never said it was ON the Vedder 

[fullahead]

 Really nice to see, hooked for life!

[RalphH]

never said it was caught after May 31st either!

[vandenhooff]

Very nice catch there. Grandpa River Rat must be very proud!

[redside1]

virtually only 1 main Bull trout fishery on the lower mainland in June. Not too hard to figure out where it is.
That being said the fish could have been caught somewhere else in BC also.
Many other bull trout fisheries just not too many with silver bright coloration on them.

[Rodney]

Beautiful fish. As I mentioned in the different thread on FlyBC, while the Pitt River maybe unreachable for most anglers, you can encounter specimens (fat, shiny) like this in the Lower Fraser estuary too. The window of opportunities is just smaller, usually in March and part of April right before freshet begins.

[Robert_G]

Since these are sea run fish, as well as the Upper Pitt still having decent salmon runs....how is it that the upper Pitt still has decent fishing? All those fish have to run the lower Fraser gauntlet too. I realize they are pretty safe once they get to the lake but still.....surprised the runs up there are still decent.

[poper]

Since these are sea run fish, as well as the Upper Pitt still having decent salmon runs....how is it that the upper Pitt still has decent fishing? All those fish have to run the lower Fraser gauntlet too. I realize they are pretty safe once they get to the lake but still.....surprised the runs up there are still decent.

I didn’t know they were sea run fish, I always thought they would enter the river, then head back to the the lake when food sources were no longer in the the river. All thow there seems to be bulls in the upper Pitt all year, maybe there’s some residents?

[Rodney]

There are anadromous bull trout which go down to the estuaries and further (schools in the sea have been documented), there are also resident river fish, and there are fish that migrate between the lake and the river. All three populations' ranges overlap and they also interbreed with each other.