spent more than a month trying to catch my first salmon here in lower river but to no avail., i was a bit frustrated, to give another try before the season near the end, i decided to visit the river where most of the big shows took place, the vedder.
headed out today, alone(how boring that can be driving that far alone) at around 7:30am and arrived at the KWB at around 9:30am. there were already about 20 fellow fishermen fishing just below and to the left of the bridge. that was the first time i was here~~very nice water level with decent water clarity, there were lots of springs surfacing and making splashes, a few hatchery coho struggling swimming close to the surface, pretty much coloured up though(very dark body). the DFO guy was checking from the bridge and see if there's any snagging going on. i was fishing from the shore, using roes sac with float , fishing just under the bridge. couldn't get any bite but snags after snags, lost two drennan floats in the first hour. Changed my setup and tried spoons instead, 20mins into casting, foul hooked a humpy and that took me 20 mins to land it, guy fishing beside me was being so nice and netted it and released it for me. he was fishing with wool and into action just 5 mins after we released the fish, he foul-hooked a small rainbow about 5 inches
released it right away .no action for the whole afternoon all the way till around 2pm, where my hot roc spoon enticed a small school of pinks and a nice chrome buck took it. bam! fish on! the fight wasn't as furious as expected, but all i cared was how to land my first ever salmon
took me about 10 mins to land it, around 7 pounds buck, barely humped up but found sealices around the belly though. yeehaa~~ 10 mins later i was onto another pink, a doe around 4 lbs, that took me 5 mins to land. a guy resting in the car came up to me and asked if i would give him the roes if he cleans the fish for me, sure i accepted the offer. fished for another 20 mins got no action so i called it a day. ( a day to remember )
not too much action other wise, a guy fishing at the beach caught a chum around 8 lbs(he claimed), i could even see the tiger strips from across the river, he didn't want it, but instead of nicely releasing it back into the river, he decided to just leave it laying and struggling on the beach
another guy just came by and asked and retained that fish. one other fisherman just few away from me caught a nice 35 lbs spring, took him half an hour to land it. as i was leaving the scene i went over to check out his fish and found two springs in the sac......i thought only 1 spring per day is allowed
after months of struggling in catching salmons, i finally caught my first two salmons ever.
yeah they are pinkies but i am like very satisfied with that, paid off for all the hard work and patience! thanks guys and good luck fishing out!
rod will post the pics for me. low resolution though, as i was taking them with my phone.
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Topic: First Salmon for me (Keith wilson bridge oct 4th.) (Read 5427 times)