There were 9 caught near the mouth this morning.

Already hard enough to catch em in places they’re supposed to be, good luck trying where they shouldn’t

Very good post....
Those sunfish are everywhere

There are some cutty spots in that area. I would think the more productive salmon spots are "on the way" to the Capilano, Seymour, and Indian destinations.

Great great work! I like Ralph’s post. Contact my friend retired fisheries biologist Marvin Rosenau to come out and have a look. He’s a champion for local habitat protection and restoration.

This is great stuff though it makes me wonder what the cause of this dewatering is? Makes me think of Norrish creek and some action lead to a change.


https://globalnews.ca/news/11266236/norrish-creek-gravel-mining-halt/

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Did another salvage operation on Friday. This one a bit smaller in scope but we still netted several thousand coho, umpteen sunfish, some large sculpins, lots of stickleback, and this 17 cm cutthroat trout.


The haul...

Great work
Always happy to see this little productive river get some more help.
Always happy to talk about the Little Campbell
The Chinook you rescued might have been from the hatchery
That section of river has several disjointed water sources including a catchment pond controlled by the city and runoff from nearby Latimer lake, this being replenished by a pump station opposite the Tim Norton's on 192 .
Of course the other flow comes from Langley under neath 200th ST.
Both local governments should take a more serious approach trying to maintain the water flow .

I don't think the chinook fry was from the hatchery. It wasn't clipped and was salvaged 4-5 km above the hatchery.

But you're right about maintaining water flow. In Surrey, the city pumps groundwater into Elgin Creek (via the existing stormwater system) at 30 litres/second to augment low seasonal flows. I wonder if something similar would be feasible on the LC.

Interestingly, the Township of Langley, in their Fernridge Neighbourhood plan (the LC runs right through the Fernridge area), has adopted larger setbacks along the river. This is great news for the river but not so great news for landowners. One landowner we know has had his property devalued significantly because his home sits within the new setback distance.

Conversely, the City of Surrey is decreasing setbacks

Absolutely on the mark. These are points I have tried to make for years. In river it is a September fishery with a major peak mid month.

FWIW if you look at previous years test fisheries and hydroacoustic data it's pretty consistent that the first ones will show up in the Fraser sometime mid-august but not many. I dont have it in front of me, but I ran some numbers in previous years based on test fishery data and I recall that something like 10-15% of the run returns in Aug and the vast majority won't be until the first three weeks of september

Unless I'm mis-remembering, the largest 7-day rolling return period in the Fraser test fisheries is usually in the second week of September (ie Sep 7-14 +/-  a few days). It's not unusual to see 40%+ of the total test fishery sampled during that peak week. By the last week of Sep, the run is basically done in the lower Fraser.

Based on this, if there is an opening it seems that it's typically early enough in Sep that there will still be plenty of time for you all to hit the bulk of the run. Plenty of fresh ones to be had, especially if you are able to hit the lower Fraser or the salt.