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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Big Steel on October 27, 2006, 06:43:46 PM
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Well, got to the river for first light, was all rigged up, then the sun came up and I realized that it was going to be tough sledding. The water had maybe a foot vis, but on the plus side, it was up what looked like almost 2 feet. :o
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Figured, whatever. I was here and I was going to see what I could get. Second cast with my special roe, bam fish on!! Spring. :-\ After letting that one swim away, got into another and saw that there was a lot of spring rising in the area, so not wanting to play with them much, I moved down river a bit to look for a better water. Found a stretch that looked a bit better, and tied on a Blade. Before long, float goes down and I am into something that felt a bit frisky, but only for a mount as it spit the hook. Not to many casts after that, the float goes down again, good hookset this time and a fish come rolling to the surface, looking to be in decent shape, after a spirited battle, this comes to hand, and after a quick photo op, the 10lb wild is back where it belongs!! ;)
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After that had no more success at that hole so I moved a ways down river and was able to have some success there with 5 more Springs, all in decent shape. But no more Coho. So I moved further down river, to the lower end, water down there had pretty much no Vis, so I looked for some of them ponds. The ponds are pretty much gone, but they are still holding fish. I could have sworn that I saw a couple Ho's Surface, but the only thing I could hook into was 5 Chum. All of them were in pretty good shape and put up a pretty good fight.
That was my day. From first light to 5 pm. But at least I was able to get into a nice Coho when it didn't look to promising to begin with. ;)
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Nice fish bs!!
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Good reprt BigSteel, might get out tomorrow. Anyone suggest, just fishing with blades? Did you get springs on the blades?
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2 springs on Roe, 2 on Blades and 1 on wool! ;)
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Good job Dave, tommorrow we will slay them :)
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Also got out today, managed a fairly nice spring and a 8 pound hatch ho! I have pic but cant find the cord for the cam!! ;D
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Hey Big Steel,nice looking coho you got,and thanks for the report,i will be heading out on sunday for more fun ;).
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Might see you out there, I believe I am heading out there again on Sunday!! ;)
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Also got out today, managed a fairly nice spring and a 8 pound hatch ho! I have pic but cant find the cord for the cam!! ;D
hey dan you hook up where we saw you or elsewhere? good job, i only got into springs today. fishing addict lost a couple of ho's but all in all pretty slow for us. how about your dad?
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beauty chromey B.S.
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Good Job. Nice coho
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Nice job bs. Can't wait till sunday to try my luck with the fly rod again. Maybe this time I can catch something a little bigger then last time. I am hoping the wife takes tomorrow off of work so that I can take a drive after the little guys soccer game to check out the water on one of the other rivers on my side of the fraser. I think I will hide the gear in my trunk so the wife thinks that I am just going for a drive ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D . Mind you she would never believe me if I told her that I am just going to check the water levels. Hope you can make it out with searun and I on Sunday for a little hike ;D ;D ;) ;) .
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hey big steel, me and my buddy want to head out sunday but i dont know where to go! I dont know the names of the spots on the vedder, and i only fish it for steelhead, this is my first year for salmon, do u got any places that u wanna share! Thanks if yes, oh well it was a try if no! See ya later and good luck!
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Good luck boys. I'm in the office for some more O/T this Saturday.
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blaydnr no not at that spot. Me n my dad did a lot of walking and manage only one ho. We saw lots though but werent intrested.
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Nice ho I'm still skunked.
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nice looking ho BS , the water levels are up quite a bit compared to last week about 2' on average.
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Well done im heading out on sunday ??? ???
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Can I ask how you guys set up your blades? Do you set it up like a short float set up, or what? Its been two years since I landed a coho on blades, and I am starting to wonder if I am doing it wrong.
thanks
Vince
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Trust me you cant be doing too much wrong. My first cast every using blades was this year around sept. 15 and I hooked into a 2-3lb coho. Definately got me believ'in, but wasnt so lucky with them after that. It showed me switching up your lure is worth the effort.
Also I got into my first 2 coho on blades with a 3o'clock cast to a 12 o'clock drift, so I definity speculate they go for the slow tossing of the blade underwater.
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Can I ask how you guys set up your blades? Do you set it up like a short float set up, or what? Its been two years since I landed a coho on blades, and I am starting to wonder if I am doing it wrong.
thanks
Vince
18" leader from the pencil lead. Float on the mainline depending on the depth of water you're fishing.
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a split ring two swivles and a blade, set it to about a foot off bottom, and when u drift it either free spool it in a pool and slightly hold back in a run. At the end slow swing it across the tail out!
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32" leader, sorry about that! ;D