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[ynot]

looks like commercial last opening monday-tuesday.in the fraser. no notice for sports except region 3 limit increase to 4 sockeye.

[Easywater]

What makes you think that it will be the last opening for commercial?

I heard that rec sockeye will be open until Sept 19th.

[liketofish]

From the latest official sockeye update, there is such a paragraph:

"Coho constraints such as the red zone closures in the Fraser River which start
Tuesday Sept 7 and the 3% exploitation rate limit will limit further
opportunities for Fraser sockeye."

What does this mean and does it mean some areas on the Fraser (where is the red zone?) will be closed to fishing starting Tuesday Sept 7?

[ynot]

from todays FN 774
(Coho constraints such as the red zone closures in the Fraser River which start
Tuesday Sept 7 and the 3% exploitation rate limit will limit further
opportunities for Fraser sockeye.)

sports should stay open unless coho are abused by beaching them and then releasing. so pay attention and if you see somebody with a coho tell them to release in the water.so far very few have entered the river.

[bigsnag]

DFO will soon implement measures to protect and conserve Thompson River coho. Usually its a bait ban and a request to selectively fish ( no flossing ) for socks. Look for a notice to be posted some time after Sept 06.  I heard that a few days ago that allegedly someone bonked a wild coho and a wild steelhead on a bar. Couple that tidbit with increasing catch #'s of coho and steelhead in test nets and it equals earlier implementation of coho protection measures

[ynot]

they increased to 4 sockeye in the thompson ,what happens to coho up there or do the sockeye stay away from from coho.

[arimaBOATER]

At 1 pm Friday at Steveston & near Gerry park & 2 miles down-river from there the SOCKS were jumping .
No matter where ya looked 5 fish jumped at the same time !!!
It was SO SO THICK with them...a sight worth seeing.
At Sandheads there was fish but they were not as thick as how they were up river.
(guess they came in the the tide push)
So many fish jumping "it was un-real"...seen it only once, one other time in that area ...aprox. 2004.
Still lots of Socks about !!1

[ynot]

17 million late run have not entered the river yet. they could stay 3 weeks or longer.some coming in river every day.strange year grey whale at ambelside ,halibut in horeshoe bay.

[Sterling C]

DFO will soon implement measures to protect and conserve Thompson River coho. Usually its a bait ban and a request to selectively fish ( no flossing ) for socks. Look for a notice to be posted some time after Sept 06.  I heard that a few days ago that allegedly someone bonked a wild coho and a wild steelhead on a bar. Couple that tidbit with increasing catch #'s of coho and steelhead in test nets and it equals earlier implementation of coho protection measures

Yesterday I caught a wild coho that was covered in net marks. 

[dennyman]

Very strange, as that would mean the equal amount of fish that have passed through in the past four weeks up the Fraser, would now be making their way up river very shortly. Interesting to see how DFO handles this in terms of closing the Sockeye fishery.

[bowriva76]

is there a timeline  the opening?does it close at 12 pm for example.

[ynot]

when it closes it will be 1hr after sunset on that day.

[gigahoo]

At 1 pm Friday at Steveston & near Gerry park & 2 miles down-river from there the SOCKS were jumping .
No matter where ya looked 5 fish jumped at the same time !!!
It was SO SO THICK with them...a sight worth seeing.
At Sandheads there was fish but they were not as thick as how they were up river.
(guess they came in the the tide push)
So many fish jumping "it was un-real"...seen it only once, one other time in that area ...aprox. 2004.
Still lots of Socks about !!1

Is there any point in fishing Sand Heads with all the commercial boats that are out today (Monday)?

[ynot]

i would give it a miss, nets everyware and hard to get fish to follow.