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NiceFish

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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #165 on: October 08, 2021, 06:45:55 PM »
Quote from: RalphH on October 08, 2021, 08:03:34 AM
so much for the big 2019 hatchery boost! Was it just a blip?

Haha... our again this morning in-between kwb and hwy 1. Much better today. 4/6. Left with 1 spring and 1 coho...bite would come in spurts which is to be expected.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #166 on: October 08, 2021, 06:52:40 PM »
Good to hear!
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #167 on: October 08, 2021, 06:58:14 PM »
Quote from: Phronesis on October 08, 2021, 09:31:35 AM
Was pretty good yesterday, saw some guy limit out on hatchery coho. I landed a hatchery Coho and a spring
And I ran into a red spring !! but couldnt land it - broke my leader when i thought it was ready to be landed on to the shore.

How do you know it's a red spring if you didn't land it ?
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #168 on: October 08, 2021, 07:01:06 PM »
Quote from: Fish Assassin on October 08, 2021, 06:58:14 PM
How do you know it's a red spring if you didn't land it ?

Red springs fight harder and are known to break leaders.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #169 on: October 08, 2021, 08:08:19 PM »
Quote from: NiceFish on October 08, 2021, 07:01:06 PM
Red springs fight harder and are known to break leaders.

Quote of the day!
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #170 on: October 08, 2021, 09:05:36 PM »
Quote from: Fish Assassin on October 08, 2021, 06:58:14 PM
How do you know it's a red spring if you didn't land it ?

Saw it while flipping near the banks...
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #171 on: October 08, 2021, 10:15:46 PM »
clarkii you should have come with me to the spawning channel.  A few fresh one rolled in.


Plus this 8 lber that got my hands all shaky.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #172 on: October 08, 2021, 10:19:59 PM »
Quote from: NiceFish on October 08, 2021, 07:01:06 PM
Red springs fight harder and are known to break leaders.

they fight even harder when hooked on the tail LOL
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #173 on: October 08, 2021, 10:24:18 PM »
Quote from: bigsnag on October 08, 2021, 10:15:46 PM
clarkii you should have come with me to the spawning channel.  A few fresh one rolled in.


Plus this 8 lber that got my hands all shaky.


6wt rod or 5wt?
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #174 on: October 09, 2021, 06:22:43 AM »
Quite a different year for the people I know and myself. It's been a non-clipped Coho kind of a season. Every outing is easily 90% wild Coho. Some days it's been 100% wilds. Last season I had limits of hatchery Coho days in a row. This year ? Barely any hatchery fish. I've seen boats all around me at the mouth put fish back and say the same thing. LOTS of non-clipped fish. I've tapped oit early this year.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #175 on: October 09, 2021, 09:41:44 AM »
Been out 3 times only a couple of hrs each time in the afternoon and have hooked 7 cohos. Landed 4. 3 hatcheries and 1 wild so far. Not bad.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #176 on: October 09, 2021, 02:14:02 PM »
the canal was the busiest i have ever seen it today. was fishing around train bridge and all we were hitting were wild. after seeing the canal i know why.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #177 on: October 09, 2021, 04:43:39 PM »
I showed up at the canal at 11am and it wasn't as busy as I have seen in past Thanksgiving weekend actually. I only had just over an hour to fish today. Coho salmon were plentiful, on everyone else's lines! ::) I ended up missing one, hooking two, both lost, and one of them was a rather big specimen. Great to see so many people out enjoying the day, and all fishing properly! It's quite amazing to see that many people hooking up below me and still able to get bites, just a constant stream of fish going through right now with the big morning incoming tide at the moment.

Fair amount of rain is expected tonight, so tomorrow could be very different. Enjoy the rest of your Thanksgiving weekend!
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #178 on: October 09, 2021, 06:42:06 PM »
for sure, alot of people were also using landing nets which was nice to see. did see one wild ho that couldn't be revived but it happens.
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Re: 2021 Chilliwack River fall salmon fishery information & water condition updates
« Reply #179 on: October 09, 2021, 08:33:54 PM »
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