Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Floater on July 23, 2005, 02:38:13 PM
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Any word one when the sockeyes seasson is gona start isant it usualy on the first of every august?
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Usually around the first week of August.
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As I was checked on Grassy Bar today I asked the Fisheries Officer when he expected it to open. He replied by saying most likely in 2 weeks. He said roughly August 10th due to the numbers of sockeye already.
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Looking forward to it then.
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Overheard them at Freds saying they think the 28th but he said he really doesn't know.
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Any date that you've been given is simply a guess at this point.
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there is even talk with the low numbers they may not even open this year.
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It's all speculation at the moment whether DFO will open the fishery and if so, when
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huh?? i thought this year was gonna be a killer year. Some people said this was going to be one of the years with lots of em.
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??? ??? guess we wait and see.some sockeye for you and some for me. ;D :D ;D :D
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Please follow the new releases by the Fraser River Panel (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=7112.0) of the Pacific Salmon Commission. The early Stuart sockeye return number has been much lower than originally predicted, they are also late. Test fisheries have indicated that summer runs may also possibly be smaller and late. Opening is undetermined at this point, anything you heard is not concrete unless you read it on fisheries notices (http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/xnet/content/fns/index.cfm?pg=search_options&lang=en&id=recreational) of DFO Pacific. We'll also have the latest updates released by DFO and Fraser River Panel posted here and the fishy news (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/fishy_news) section of the website.
In the meantime, Fraser River conditions are excellent for barfishing right now for chinook salmon. Last week's test and recreational fisheries were very productive. Get out and enjoy the fishing while you can.
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it would be great if it opened on the first so we can get some long weekend sockeye fishing in.
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hmmmmmmm...........Stuart Sockeye are up to 130,000 now and there was a comercial opening today so My guess is that we'll see an opening within a week!
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i was not aware of any commercial opening in the river
please explain??
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I doubt they wouldent open it this year maybe in 2007-08.
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Mike, there were no commercial openings yesterday (July 24). The only net openings were communal and ceremonial openings in both freshwater and Tidal Fraser River and the target species is chinook salmon.
The early Stuart sockeye estimate has been raised to 130,000 fish but it is still only a small % of the original 258,000 estimate at 50% probability. The raise does not indicate that the fish are not in trouble but people should be cautiously optimistic.
The early Stuart run size has no relationship to the size of the summer runs so it does not indicate when an recreational sockeye opening would be issued.
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..... and if the early stuarts keep tracking late, and do not meet the 50% forcast, look for NO openings until dfo is satisfied that all the early stuarts are through the mission and hope waters
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to what Ive herd there might not be a sockeye season...:( >:( sockeyes are the best 2..... but if there is a season Ima gunna be there all the time ;D :D ;) :)
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i hope theres a season there should be anyways.. in the province it said that 12 million socks as an estimate... so i hope its goes on.