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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Every Day on January 24, 2015, 12:23:48 AM
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I've heard/seen people (even caught the off one myself), catching Coho this late - maybe even the odd "chrome one." I've also seen/heard of chinook at this time of year.
This one is a first for me:
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It was quite a surprise bringing in a super chrome sockeye on a steelhead outing. Not a big one, but then again this system is known for it's relatively small sockeye.
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That is one confused fish! I've seen a coho in fresh water in Feb but never a sockeye in the following year.
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Is that from the Stamp/Somass?
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That one took the short bus in, wondering where everybody was.
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A little off topic but I have seen fresh chums in the Vedder in mid February, and a recently spawned chum in March.
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Ive caught a mega chromer of a wild coho last year on a squamish trib in February.
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Caught a chrome pink salmon around the middle of Dec. 2014 in the Quinsam. Male around 5 lbs. Another fisherman said he also caught a bright pink. The hatchery staff had also caught clean pinks in Dec. while fishing for cutthroats. We did have an estimated return of 1.5 million pinks last yr.
In 1976 I caught a bright coho salmon near the Ranger run in the Chilliwack river on a pink rubber worm. That was in January.
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I caught a bright chrome coho on December 18, 1974. At first I thought it was a steelhead until Fred told me otherwise
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I caught a bright chrome coho on December 18, 1974. At first I thought it was a steelhead until Fred told me otherwise
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Over the years I've taken a few bright coho in mid-Dec. I have caught a few that were a bit gray in January with the latest on the 30th. I also took one in Feb one year that was sunburned.
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Is that from the Stamp/Somass?
Yes it was!
A little off topic but I have seen fresh chums in the Vedder in mid February, and a recently spawned chum in March.
Interesting Dave! That's a cool find. I mostly started this topic to see what kinds of salmon people had caught late... I am well aware that coho quite often are around right into January/February. I've seen them and caught them, some rivers on the island are well known for the fish running until now even.
Pinks were also an anomaly this year. I know of many that were caught in a number of systems right up until the first week of January. One buddy that does swim counts said up until about a week ago, every time they had a rain, there would be 1000 new pinks spawning in the tail outs.
With all that being said, this is still the latest I have ever seen, or heard of a sockeye. Curious to see if anyone else had ever seen one like this at the end of January before, or if all the salmon are just really messed up this year.
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I know a couple of you guys here on this site will remember the fairly large push of chrome Sockeye that entered into the Harrison River in January a few years ago! Made for some exciting times while fly fishing for cutthroat!
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This winter has been very warm and wet! Seems to be a trend of fish returning late every year.
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I've caught coho into March, and fairly fresh ones into late January, maybe even Febuary. But never seen a sockeye this late!
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I think the radiation is starting to get to them. :o
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In the spring of 1987 I caught an ocean bright Coho about a mile up from the train bridge on the Vedder.
the date was March 21st.
I had 5 year old my son with me and I was teaching him how to fish for Whitefish and Cutthroat Trout when the Coho hit.
I figured we either had a 7lb Steelhead or a whopper Cutthroat Trout as first.
In 1986 the Vedder had a tremendous return of "Expo Coho" which were planted 3 years previous so that tourists coming for Expo 86 would experience a river chocked full of salmon.
I guess the government figured it would help promote tourism in BC.
All of these fish had one of their side fins clipped that year as did the one I caught.
I guess mine was just a little late to the party.
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I remember that coho return in 1986 spoiler... unbelievable! Every ditch and side stream was packed - ocean survival was very high and I'm sure the Vedder will never see that many coho again.
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1986-Expo Coho. Turned the commies loose and we haven't had decent coho fishing since then. Trollers were stopped from fishing in the straight after that fiasco. Good old Jimmy, expo hero.
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My latest salmon caught is nothing out of the ordinary; have caught several between Christmas and New Years.
However, my latest seen is a different story. My son and I were fishing Hatzic Slough for cutthroat on January 24 last year and saw a lonely, forlorn, and somewhat beat up, coho holding in the culvert under the CPR tracks.
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In the spring of 1987 I caught an ocean bright Coho about a mile up from the train bridge on the Vedder.
the date was March 21st.
I had 5 year old my son with me and I was teaching him how to fish for Whitefish and Cutthroat Trout when the Coho hit.
I figured we either had a 7lb Steelhead or a whopper Cutthroat Trout as first.
In 1986 the Vedder had a tremendous return of "Expo Coho" which were planted 3 years previous so that tourists coming for Expo 86 would experience a river chocked full of salmon.
I guess the government figured it would help promote tourism in BC.
All of these fish had one of their side fins clipped that year as did the one I caught.
I guess mine was just a little late to the party.
Yeah, I remember those Expo 1986 coho there were so many that DFO raised limit to 6 adult coho. Fondest memories was using roe size of golf balls for them. I believed the Vedder had something like 120-130 thousand coho that came back.
Ahhh..... the good ol, days. ;)
Silex-user
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a lot of not good things started to occur after '86. Coho ocean survival started to fall - it went from 10 to 12% or so to around 2% at times. Changes in the Straight had coho moving outside to the West side of Vancouver Island. Hatchery production went down and the first cuts to FOC/DFO started.
The big increase in hatchery production was meant to improve the fishing in the chuck not the local rivers - most of tourists had gone home by coho time.
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a lot of not good things started to occur after '86. Coho ocean survival started to fall - it went from 10 to 12% or so to around 2% at times. Changes in the Straight had coho moving outside to the West side of Vancouver Island. Hatchery production went down and the first cuts to FOC/DFO started.
The big increase in hatchery production was meant to improve the fishing in the chuck not the local rivers - most of tourists had gone home by coho time.
Wasn't that also coincident with the collapse of herring stocks in the inside straight?
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Have seen sockeye before over the winter while fishing for steel in the Stamp, rare but it happens!
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Wasn't that also coincident with the collapse of herring stocks in the inside straight?
what was? When?
Herring stocks also collapsed in the 60s but coho simply ate other forage species like needle fish. Since the mid- 80s the Georgia Straight is warmer and less saline than it was before.
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I have a friend that showed me a picture of a bright chrome sockeye he caught from the SSS system, I think it was caught in feb or March. Are these fish super late or very early??
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I landed a hatchery coho jack in the Quinsam river. It was chrome, around 16 inches. I guess some of us lose track of dates but this jack isn't going to find one this time of year, Feb. 04/ 2015,
I hope this is a sign that there may be a good coho return this year. On the dark side ,ocean conditions were not to its liking?
There has been a lot of one year ocean steelhead returning to this system also.
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I'll add another bump to this thread...
We got another ocean bright sockeye yesterday, this time around 4 pounds. Would have posted another picture, but we lost it during tailing and getting the camera out at the beach.
Very, very odd. Hopefully a sign that the run will be huge ;D
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Back in the early 90's, while steelheading in the Vedder in the middle of December below the crossing, one of the guys I was with caught a sockeye that was about 6lbs and was as chrome as could be. He got it on a pink worm. We were all very surprised. It was the only fish caught that day for us.
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saw 2 chums sunday in a shopping cart creek while walking the dog
they werent moldy yet but were certainly coloured up
side note the banks on this creek have taken a beating this winter hopefully the sand hasnt buried all the salmon eggs from the falleggs
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We had Coho in the stream between Christmas / New Years behind my house in Burnaby, not uncommon for Stoney Creek.
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catch chrome coho most years into february on some rivers.
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That's nothing, I've caught coho as late as September in rivers. :o :o
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thats hypocrisy!
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What is early and what is late?
It soooo... Depends on the flow ::)
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That's nothing, I've caught coho as late as September in rivers. :o :o
Beauty!!
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Beauty!!
You can catch Atlantics year round in some stores. :P ;D
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Another one (sockeye) we caught last week!
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Not the latest now but how about the earliest? A Red Spring was killed recently😉!
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Not the latest now but how about the earliest? A Red Spring was killed recently😉!
Vedder?
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I think i read a report from 2010-12 of some one catching a red while steelhead fishing on the vedder.
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Vedder?
It would be obvious where if I said who caught it! Let's just say I'm not that surprised given that the rivers have been high recently! I used to start fishing for early coho mid-late February but those early runs have all but disappeared!
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Not the latest now but how about the earliest? A Red Spring was killed recently😉!
I think is no retention for springs after Dec 31st for the Vedder river. !!!!!!!!!!
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I think is no retention for springs after Dec 31st for the Vedder river. !!!!!!!!!!
That's exactly what I was thinking....
I was thinking more so the fact that salmon aren't open anywhere right now that I know of.
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That's exactly what I was thinking....
I was thinking more so the fact that salmon aren't open anywhere right now that I know of.
Capilano river is open