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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: flyrod on December 26, 2006, 04:26:06 PM
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I went out today, rather late, 10:30 am in the derby. Started to fish just above the Allison Pools alongside of the road in a couple of runs but saw nothing. I bought a new Daiwa Luna 300. It casts like a dream. Quite impressed. I have Calcutta 400 and 401 TE which cast great, but this reel seems easier to cast and can cast farther. Just waiting to play a steelie on it so I can evaluate the drag system.
Fished below the Allison Pools on the long run there but nothing. The lower Allison Pool sure has changed. The side channel obviously took a lot of water during the flood and caused a bar that stands 6 ft above the previous one and extends further down the split than previously. The large pool at the end of the Allison Pools isn't there any more.
Fished just below the Tamahis Bridge for a bit, but nothing. Went to the Chilliwack Game & Club House to see the steelies caught. Only 4 hatchery with the largest 13 lb 5 oz. Stayed for a bit then left before things really got going there.
A short ways down the river from there where the river meets the road, I saw a guy on the other side of the run land a beautiful steelie. It looked somewhere between 12-14 lbs. Chrome and silver....awesome, too bad it was an hour after the derby deadline.
I am looking forward to more trips on the river. Have to learn the runs and pools since all the changes.
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thanx for the report, could not go today family commitments :( but chomping at the bit to get out, possibly Thurs and Friday. How was the water?
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thx for the report wonder how other forum members did!
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I went out and didnt enter the derby. Ended up hooking up with about a 10lb steelhead, at prison. Lossing it pretty quick after one jump. The funny thing about it was i meesed up my cast and left my worm drifting there and all of a sudden my rod took off and the fish was on. Also fished peach and ended up losing another one after a jump as well.
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Just got in as staking out a hunting spot for tomorrow. ;D
I see two threads going on this, will take the liberty of posting it here, I will make it brief as tired like many that took part. I will file a complete report, story later in the week.
To start is was wonderful to see so many FWR forum members taking part and having the privilege once again of meeting ones I have known for some time and other new ones including Kingpin and his brother. Kingpin and I spent about 15 minutes chatting mostly about duck hunting. Maybe it was the time we spent together is when I missed catching the Kingfish or was it that the Leaf logo fell off my Maple Leaf Drennan partly through the trip, actually Kingpin pointed it out to me. ;D ;D Once again what a great gang we have here on FWR, so much fun seeing them at a event like this that gives us the chance to mingle together, catching a steelhead to me is secondary to that. Congratulations of course goes to those that did, be it a hatchery, a wild or even the chance to have one on for does make the day complete.
One member, our own Searun much to Big Steel's chagrin landed the first fish of the day a 6.88 pound fish, he had it on the scales at 9:35. Not to be outdone his partner fly guy connected with a 12 pound wild and lost another fish. Guppy was busy guiding the boys into their steelhead, nice work fellows.
The Kingfish was taken by Maple Ridge guide Wade Gienow, a steelhead weighing 13.48 pounds. Well done Wade who is a reader of FWR, maybe he will start posting now. ;D
Todd McIntryre took second with his 10.66 pound fish.
Well known guide Rod Toth took third with a nice clean fish hitting the scales at 8.24 that he took on one of his jigs. I bought 5 before the derby but did not use them, darn it. ???
365 anglers took part with well over $10,000 raised for the real winner of the derby, fish habitat. Thanks to all that could take part, you all made the derby a success and are all winners. Pictures to follow later.
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FISHED FROM 7-2
(http://www.striped-skunk.com/pictures-images-photos/striped-skunks-02.jpg)
MY BUDDY WADE WON THE DERBY WITH A 13.5 POUND DOE !
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FISHED FROM 7-2
(http://www.striped-skunk.com/pictures-images-photos/striped-skunks-02.jpg)
MY BUDDY WADE WON THE DERBY WITH A 13.5 POUND DOE !
Yes a nice fish, good to meet you as well.
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good to meet u again today chris, also ran into adam(ribwart) briefly. fished all day. no luck. slooooow
need a partner for duck hunting tomorrow chris? ;D
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Had a great time fishing the river the past two days although my float never went down once we found lots of good looking spots for future trips. Was also great chatting with some of the forum members, highlight of the day was watching a fellow beside me land a beauty 10lb wild.
heres a pic of the derby winners.
(http://thumb0.webshots.net/t/54/54/9/59/45/2487959450099123620IiGNrn_th.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2487959450099123620IiGNrn)
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Did anyone snap any pictures of the water conditions?
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water 15-20'' vis below the banks, dont know about upper but imagine over 3 feet
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Good to hear a familiar name I know won it. Good job Wade.
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;D ;D Well searun, guppy and myself hit the check in at lickman at 6:30 and took a walk down to the river to see what the clarity was like and since it was about 12" we decided to stay away from the crowds of the upper and fish mid river. Well it paid off. At about 8:30 a nice little steely hits the pro-cured shrimp but after a short 30 sec fight the hooks pops out. Then at about 9:15 it was searuns turn on a roe bag. The nice steely hammers the roe bag and a little while later he has the hatchery doe on the beach. It gets bonked recorded on the licence and off he goes to the weight in. About a half hour or so goes by and he returns to tell us that his was the first fish of the day. About 1.5 hours later it was my turn again on the shrimp and a nice wild steely at about 12lbs was landed. We took some nice pics and released it back to the wild. It seemed that as the day went on the clarity got better. At around noon or so bigsteel, fish freak and bbronswick came walking into the hole but unfortunatly they had no luck there. Just as we where leaving one of the guys that was fishing there hit a beauty and it was big but just like my first fish the steely had won. It sure would of been nice to see what the weight was on that fish. I will post pics as soon as searun sends them over.
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l41/cohokiller/100_0335-1.jpg)
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l41/cohokiller/PC260021.jpg)
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Just got in as staking out a hunting spot for tomorrow. ;D
I see two threads going on this, will take the liberty of posting it here, I will make it brief as tired like many that took part. I will file a complete report, story later in the week.
To start is was wonderful to see so many FWR forum members taking part and having the privilege once again of meeting ones I have known for some time and other new ones including Kingpin and his brother. Kingpin and I spent about 15 minutes chatting mostly about duck hunting. Maybe it was the time we spent together is when I missed catching the Kingfish or was it that the Leaf logo fell off my Maple Leaf Drennan partly through the trip, actually Kingpin pointed it out to me. ;D ;D Once again what a great gang we have here on FWR, so much fun seeing them at a event like this and even though most of us did not catch a fish it is secondary to mingle with all the forum members.
One member, our own Searun much to Big Steel's chagrin landed the first fish of the day a 6.88 pound fish, he had it on the scales at 9:35. Not to be outdone his partner Fly guy connected with a 12 pound wild and lost another fish. Guppy was busy guiding the boys into their steelhead.
The Kingfish was taken by Maple Ridge guide Wade Gienow, a steelhead weighing 13.48 pounds. Well done Wade who is a reader of FWR, maybe he will start posting now. ;D
Todd McIntryre took second with his 10.66 pound fish.
Well known guide Rod Toth took third with a nice clean fish hitting the scales at 8.24 that he took on one of his jigs. I bought 5 before the derby but did not use them, darn it.
365 anglers took part with well over $10,000 raised for the real winner of the derby, fish habitat. Thanks to all that could take part you all made the derby a success and are all winners. Pictures to follow later.
Hey Ken! Care to own up to the fish that you caught yesterday?
(In confidence, Ken is ready to commit suicide, as he had a winner by a large margin....unfortunately the derby was today and not 2 days ago...sigh)_
My condolences Ken, I know the feeling...
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good to meet u again today chris, also ran into adam(ribwart) briefly. fished all day. no luck. slooooow
need a partner for duck hunting tomorrow chris? ;D
e-mail sent
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email sent back, though it may have come blank
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Good to chat with you again Chris ,as well as having a chance to meet other FWR members,it was a fun day on the river with good people to spend my day chatting with while helping out my son Guppy try and land his first steely ever but luck wasn't on his side today.Maybe next time.
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Ya it was a real good day even though I didn't hook any fish. Chris I was talking to one of your friends thinking it was you because he was wearing a leafs hat :D But he ended up correcting me. ;)
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Yes it definatly was great to finally meet Chris and see the leaf mobile up close. We also got to see three generations of leaf fans all with hats.
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Ya leafs hats,oh well even the best of people have their flaws. ;) ;) ;D
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you guys think wearing a leafs hat is funny? you should have seen chris's maple leaf emblem fall off LMAO! ;D just like the leafs mid way through the season
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Ya that would have been funny to see the leafs emblem fall apart ,kind like the leafs are right now, ;D,oh well ,I'm one to talk I'm a canucks fan :-[ :-[.
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Just e-mailed Rodney the pic of my wild steely from today and hopefully he can get it on here for me.
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Freak dont know if you remeber but at prison I was the kid who asked the 3 of you if you caught anything. in the green vest.
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Fishfreak e-mail sent. Thank you
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Nice fish ;)
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Photos by Chris. Please log in to view.
(1) Veteran angler working the flow.
(2) The four steelhead at the derby deadline.
(3) A Leaf fan looking at the winners.
(4) The Kingfish, a 13.48 pounder caught by Wade Gienow with derby chairman Don Kozak presenting the Ferguson Furnell perpetual trophy to Gienow.
(5) FWR forum members Guppy, Searun and Fly Guy were hauling in the prizes as well as catching one of the 4 fish entered in the 63 Annual Boxing Day Derby.
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awesome pics of the fish guys I'm jealous, now i have even more of the itch to get one this year :) . Ran into some members i new and meet some members for the first time it was nice to see and chat with you all :)
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great pics !!
thanks
EZ
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Good work, nice to see one of the well known forum members get one. Sounds like its gonna be a reely tough year! nice fish!
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Good work, nice to see one of the well known forum members get one. Sounds like its gonna be a reely tough year! nice fish!
Things will improve with improved water conditions. ;D
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Great waether and not bad river condition combined for a fantastic turnout.
Congrats to the lucky 4 who landed the fish.
Excellent turnout at the clubhouse and some really good deals in the silent auction. ;D
Good work done, Chris and all.
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Was a great day, with some fun guys!! Was also fun watching the freak perhaps realize taht steelheading isn't quite as easy as it seemed!!! ;D ;D Nice seeing all those that I hadn't seen for a while.
Congrats to all the winners, and Searun, you were do, great job man. I was saying all day, if anyone get's one, I hoped it was you. You had put your time in, and you deserved it. ;) Flyguy, nice fish as well, great job. :) I am 0-fer so far this year. But they will come. I hope!! ;D ;D Didn't feel so bad when I saw that only 4 fish were weighed in. ;D
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A update on the derby and fundraiser. After talking to the derby chairman he says 345 entered now down 20 from the previous number announced, profit was $12,573.42 plus $1,300 a fellow won on the draw and then donated it back.
Total profit then is $13,873.42. Well done Don and company from the Chilliwack Fish and Game Protective Association. ;D ;D
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over 13000 ,thats great to hear and 345 fisherman ,hopefully next year we will see over 400 attend,for me personally the boxing day derby has allways been a tradition and something i allways look forward to each year.
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GOOD TIMES, ALTHOUGH I DIDNT TOUCH A STEELY ! :-\
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The complete article I did on the derby is now on the Chilliwack Progress web page for anyone interested. I made an error that always annoys me when I see it the press.
In the cutline I put together for the picture I called Wade, Wayne :-[ :'( :o :( >:(what a beek I am, sorry Wade. At least in the article I got it correct. So much for having a proof reader.
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Did anyone snap any pictures of the water conditions?
yes i got some shots ;D