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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: THE_ROE_SLINGER on January 22, 2008, 08:17:18 PM
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I was recently having a friendly argument with one of the forum members about the hardest fighting fish Pound for pound...It was between a sturgeon or a steelhead. Ovbiously sturgeon fight harder because they weigh way more..but pound for pound what is the hardest fighter?
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Wasnt this thread on here last year Danny? LOL add a poll to see, Id say chum pound for pound
haha may of been...Meh Ill just leave it at this ;D
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Are we talking about hardest fighting fish in BC freshwater??
Because if we include fish from all around the world and including saltwater species, apparently our prized fish would pale in comparison. Hopefully I will be able to find out first hand come November!!!
Shane
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bonefish or permit are right up there.
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Well thats a tough one,but i would have to say the hardest fighting fish would have to be the the mighty sculpin,Ive broken more than one rod trying to muscle those beauties in. ;) ;D :D :D
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Id definately have to say Largemouth bass. No offence but not these tiny little bass ive caught here the 10+ pound bass ive pulled out of lake oroville in california.
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Nothing in freshwater even comes close to the fish I caught in Mexico. 4lb Skipjack Tuna take you into backing in less than 5 seconds. They'd tow 20lb springs backwards.
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jack springs and coho.
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not that i have extensive steelhead experience or anything but a fresh squamish chum fight harder pound for pound than any local fish I have caught. My avatar is of a 42lb. spring I got and Id say the 20 lb. chum I have gotten on the squish out battled it for sure. cool because they are often quite acrobatic like a steely as well. lost many flies trying to hang on until they stop running.
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Chum also
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Sockeye... Get one to bite on the vedder then hang on..
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Sockeye get my vote.
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an excited 1000lb black marlin, or a monster blue fin tuna. I couldn't believe how hard my marlin pulled and it was only 200lbs, but i was using small light gear so it made it even more fun
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its really close i would say chum first , mother in law second
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I think Sturgeon put up the best fight, not just because of their size though, a few years ago I had a Sturgeon on that couldn't have weighed more than thirty pounds, that fish pulled so hard I couldn't believe how small it was when it got to the boat !! there is no way any Salmon or Steelhead could pull that hard at that weight !!
TH
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My goldfish. 23 grams of ferocity. His name is Otis and he rises to a Royal Wulff like no other fish. He broke my 10 wt Sage one day while I was swinging Intruders for him in my bathtub.
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My goldfish. 23 grams of ferocity. His name is Otis and he rises to a Royal Wulff like no other fish. He broke my 10 wt Sage one day while I was swinging Intruders for him in my bathtub.
We're talking pound for pound here buddy, not kilo for kilo. Get with the system! LOL
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in Freshwater I would say carp... hands down... 5 Lb carp will spool you if given the opportunity
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I love the sea run cutties on the dry fly. For the size of them they put up a good fight and carp are pretty good fighters too :)
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Pound fer pound I got to say Bone fish, you think your fighting a 5lb fish that turns out to be under 2, great fun on light tackle balls deep in the sunny salt... :D
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Fresh Chum
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in Freshwater I would say carp... hands down... 5 Lb carp will spool you if given the opportunity
unno about that, i caught one a in the 7-8 lb range on a 6 weight fly rod and after its second run, it was like reeling in a log ;D ;D ....oh ya i forgot to say which fish....that would be the chum for me, they're powerful and don't give up easily.
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I would say chum in the saltwater. And wild steelhead up north in the fresh. But the most fun for me is coho in both freshwater and salt. Those jumps and rolls they do get my heart going. I wonder what fish is the most fun for you to catch though?
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In term of salmon I think it all depends on the size of the water you hook them in. I've caught 25 lb. springs in little systems thinking you'd never be able to hold them in the pool but that wasn't the case at all. Catch that same fish in the Skeena, Fraser, or the Thompson and the fight is HUGE!
If I were to compare the fight of a 10 lb. fish of all 6 salmon species, all in the same condition, and caught them on the exact same gear, in the same river this is the order I'd place them in :
1. Chum
2. Spring
3. Steelhead (due to colder water temp.)
4. Pink and coho tied (that's if the coho didn't roll up my leader)
5. Sockeye
If the water temp was the same for the comparison I'd bump steelhead up a spot or two...the colder the water the more lethargic steelies get... that's why summers fight so much better than winter run fish. Also, I think a 10 lb. resident rainbow would give any of the salmon a run for their money as well.
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pound for pound i would say Chum too. I lost count of how often they broke my leaders up at the Squamish back in 06....
i remember back in Malaysia, there's a tropical fish called "Toman" , or "snakehead" in north america. Those r really terrifying fish to fight with.... not only they r strong and acrobatic, they have sharp teeth that will break your leader easily too.
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My goldfish. 23 grams of ferocity. His name is Otis and he rises to a Royal Wulff like no other fish. He broke my 10 wt Sage one day while I was swinging Intruders for him in my bathtub.
That was great.
Warm salt water fish are incredible fighters. Kingfish and Cuda's on light gear are a rush. Dorado, Tarpon,Tuna, Bones...................
I'm assuming that you mean BC.
Green QC salmon are wicked according to my bro who guided up there for 10 yrs.
It's to hard of a question to answer. It depends on the gear you are using (a 5 lb trout feels a lot stronger on a 4wt than a 6wt) and the water you are fishing. A Harrison Sockeye (which are unreal fighters. Throw away the meat sticks and use a fly rod for these fish) don't feel as strong as Fraser River Sockeye. The current adds to the fight.
I've caught 3 lb Bows in the mountains in PR that put most Interior 5 lb to shame.I've had a few trout spool me on one interio rlake in the 80's. That has never happened since.
Then there is the mighty Steelhead. One day I caught 2. One after another on my 4 wt in a tube while fishing for Cutthroat in a Fraser backwater. Holy crap what a fight.
I caught a large double digit Coho in the Vedder in Sept that went ballistic. Haven't had a strong Coho for awhile like that one. Springs are brutes. Certain strains of Rainbows are great fighters.
Pound for pound the best fighting fish for me usually means the last big one I caught.
A hot, chrome Squamish Chum on a fly rod is really hard to beat though. ;)
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I would have to say that Squamish Chum are in a catagory allon their own. They can be totally insane with acrobats and brute strength!
Hotrod
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In term of salmon I think it all depends on the size of the water you hook them in. I've caught 25 lb. springs in little systems thinking you'd never be able to hold them in the pool but that wasn't the case at all. Catch that same fish in the Skeena, Fraser, or the Thompson and the fight is HUGE!
If I were to compare the fight of a 10 lb. fish of all 6 salmon species, all in the same condition, and caught them on the exact same gear, in the same river this is the order I'd place them in :
1. Chum
2. Spring
3. Steelhead (due to colder water temp.)
4. Pink and coho tied (that's if the coho didn't roll up my leader)
5. Sockeye
If the water temp was the same for the comparison I'd bump steelhead up a spot or two...the colder the water the more lethargic steelies get... that's why summers fight so much better than winter run fish. Also, I think a 10 lb. resident rainbow would give any of the salmon a run for their money as well.
sockeye last? are u out of your mind? im not talking about a 10lb flossed sockeye from the fraser. a 10lb sockeye on the vedder will outfight any other fish you can hook including coho and steelhead
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are you guys serious? has anybody in here other than me caught a largemouth bass over 10-12 lbs??? or a striper??? and remember he said pound for pound
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Say no more...one of these puppies will tear your beer hand/casting arm off :o
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a391/troutbreath/fishpug.jpg)
though they taste like something the neighbors pooch left on the lawn
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Snakeheads are pretty strong, a fraser sturgeon will pull forever and I have to say tuna are up there too! The fish in my opinion goes to a fish here in Japan called the ISHIDAI. They feed off seaurchin and when you get one on they dive down into the rock buff. Here's a link of what I'm talking about:
ISHIDAI (http://www.sabalo.co.jp/diary/20060710/TR3d_miyake.html)
Nigelman ;)
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In term of salmon I think it all depends on the size of the water you hook them in. I've caught 25 lb. springs in little systems thinking you'd never be able to hold them in the pool but that wasn't the case at all. Catch that same fish in the Skeena, Fraser, or the Thompson and the fight is HUGE!
If I were to compare the fight of a 10 lb. fish of all 6 salmon species, all in the same condition, and caught them on the exact same gear, in the same river this is the order I'd place them in :
1. Chum
2. Spring
3. Steelhead (due to colder water temp.)
4. Pink and coho tied (that's if the coho didn't roll up my leader)
5. Sockeye
If the water temp was the same for the comparison I'd bump steelhead up a spot or two...the colder the water the more lethargic steelies get... that's why summers fight so much better than winter run fish. Also, I think a 10 lb. resident rainbow would give any of the salmon a run for their money as well.
sockeye last? are u out of your mind? im not talking about a 10lb flossed sockeye from the fraser. a 10lb sockeye on the vedder will outfight any other fish you can hook including coho and steelhead
Over the last couple of decades I've hooked several very large Adams R. socks while fishing for springs on the Thompson...they weren't anything special....Also Birkenhead R. fish and they can be in that 10 lb. range...once again no big deal. What makes the vedder fish so much stronger??
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the lowly carp
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Havent caught a tuna but mackrel for their size outfight salmon.
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In term of salmon I think it all depends on the size of the water you hook them in. I've caught 25 lb. springs in little systems thinking you'd never be able to hold them in the pool but that wasn't the case at all. Catch that same fish in the Skeena, Fraser, or the Thompson and the fight is HUGE!
If I were to compare the fight of a 10 lb. fish of all 6 salmon species, all in the same condition, and caught them on the exact same gear, in the same river this is the order I'd place them in :
1. Chum
2. Spring
3. Steelhead (due to colder water temp.)
4. Pink and coho tied (that's if the coho didn't roll up my leader)
5. Sockeye
If the water temp was the same for the comparison I'd bump steelhead up a spot or two...the colder the water the more lethargic steelies get... that's why summers fight so much better than winter run fish. Also, I think a 10 lb. resident rainbow would give any of the salmon a run for their money as well.
sockeye last? are u out of your mind? im not talking about a 10lb flossed sockeye from the fraser. a 10lb sockeye on the vedder will outfight any other fish you can hook including coho and steelhead
Over the last couple of decades I've hooked several very large Adams R. socks while fishing for springs on the Thompson...they weren't anything special....Also Birkenhead R. fish and they can be in that 10 lb. range...once again no big deal. What makes the vedder fish so much stronger??
not sure.. were the fish you hooked chromers? the ones out of the vedder were ocean fresh.. and they were crazy.
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For our waters,
Chum...On the Squamish, it's the only fish that regularly broke my 15lb leader on the fly...Had to go to twenty finally to land one...
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jack springs, try feeder springs in the salt.
but carp will strip ya.
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Speaking strictly from my own limited experience:
In BC...I'd say fresh chum.
Worldwide...tough call between bluefish and snook (robalo).
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Snakeheads are pretty strong, a fraser sturgeon will pull forever and I have to say tuna are up there too! The fish in my opinion goes to a fish here in Japan called the ISHIDAI. They feed off seaurchin and when you get one on they dive down into the rock buff. Here's a link of what I'm talking about:
ISHIDAI (http://www.sabalo.co.jp/diary/20060710/TR3d_miyake.html)
Nigelman ;)
Good to see there is now an active tagging and catch & release program going on for ishidai in Japan. Ishidai's deep dive indeed makes them one of the toughest fish to handle. The ones in the photos are way below average size unfortunately. When we targeted them, fish were weighed in at 5 to 10kg range, sometimes bigger. It's also a fantastic eating fish, therefore releasing them was sadly never an option back then.
My choice of hard fighting fish is the yellowtail kingfish. Nigel would know what I am talking about. Yellowfin and bluefine tuna are up there too. Take a look at these yellowtail kingfish video clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Cp6yFhSrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=898XbEceUnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CTyfjDeGc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LEXf1oLDE
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Rodney I totally agree about those yellowtails. My third trip out I got a 10kg one on a jig that was a great fight!! Now comparing that to a V.Island 33lb spring I'd say it all depends on what your tackle is. In Japan I use premium PE line with a 60lb leaders and a short 6 ft jigigng rod. In BC it's knuckle busters with 20lb leaders which makes the fight much more tougher on the angler.
Here's an old video I made for youtube about yellowtail jigging. Sorry about the video quality :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P91fPI_Vmw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P91fPI_Vmw)
But I do have to say a yellowtail will dive deeper and harder compared to salmon but they tire pretty quickly when you put the pressure on. I guess the debate continues....
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It's tough to be fair when comparing the fighting quality of these forementioned species of fish. Water temperature is probably the biggest factor. Fish hooked in tropical waters have an advantage compared to Northern colder waters.
We have two tanks in my classroom, one's a tropical and the other a salmon incubator. We took one of the tropical fish, put it in a 1 litre bag of it's tank water (21 degrees) and immersed it in the salmon tank (7 degrees) and let it acclimatize to the same temperature. The tropical fish moved down to a rock and stayed there the whole time we left it in the tank. I reversed the process and in no time at all that tropical fish was zipping around like I would be right now if I was in Hawaii.
Just wondering if anyone has ever hooked a tuna up here in the Pacific northwest when they follow the mackeral up and if the fight is noticeably less due to the colder water conditions. Of couse the only time they come uphere is during El Nino which makes the ocean temperature up here warmer anyway so in this case the point might be moot.
Water depth is also a factor....a bone fish has nowhere to go but horizontally whereas a fish hooked in deeper water can sound. Personally, I like hooking trout and such in shallower water because you tend to have more arials than in deeper water. And another variable is wether the fish is being played in still waters like lakes or oceans or in a current (rivers).
For me the best part of playing the fish has always been the hook set and feeling those first head shakes especially if it's sight fishing: fishing with an indicator, a float, or a dry fly.... coupled with that first run with my single action reel screaming....that to me is the biggest rush of fishing.
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albacore tuna are caught 35 miles out on the west coast of vanc island.
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The hardest fighting local fish i have caught so far are:
1. Chrome Chums
2. Smallmouth Bass
3. Petrale Sole (Brill)
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Kamloops trout in the early summer from the lakes around Merritt, when they're out of the water so high you have to look up out of your float tube and shaking so hard they sound like a babies rattle I don't know how you can compare that to any thing else pound for pound.
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There's a reason no one fishes tuna, kingfish or permit with a centerpin, they'd never get one in. BTW, the marlin is the fastest swiming fish. I also don't believe water depth has anything to do with how hard they fight or if they jump or not. Marlin and Tarpin go nuts in the air with more than 1000 feet of water below them.
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Marlin definitely is a contender. Although not an exciting fight after the first 10minutes, a 155# marlin took 3 of us a long time to land (over 2hrs), albeit it was me and two fishing noobs playing it. I've had sturgeon of the same weight category landed in under 10minutes
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warm water fish are by far and away tougher to drag in than any cold water species. This thread would have been a little better if it was about BC species not so generalized.
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Fighting a pink with 2 wt fly rod and 4lb leader can be very challenging. And fishing for 70lb spring with merling setup can be boring.
Personally I like fishing for carp with hand pole with 3lb leader. It's fun and challenging.
Or 2 wt fly fishing for kokanees would be fun too.
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Then again, I have seen footage of African tigerfish On a line - the meanest things I have ever Seen for sure.
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Then again, I have seen footage of African tigerfish On a line - the meanest things I have ever Seen for sure.
haha i saw a video of people fighting that fish pretty nasty teeth there
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5-6 lb Small mouth will fight you in the boat. Much longer duration of the fight than Lg . mouth. But around here Chum hen about 6-8 lbs is tough
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I have been lucky enough to fish for many salt and fresh water species and personally I found that the Roosterfish and Yellowfin Tuna are the clear winners. If you are matching gear with species you will have to seriously up the rod and line class for both of these fish. If you were to try to land a 40lb tuna or roosterfish with a salmon set-up you would never get one to the boat unless you had a ton of line and lots of time on your hands.
While in Ixtapa a couple of years ago we hooked into a 250lb blue marlin and with the very same rod an 80lb yellowfin a couple of hours later. The Marlin took 30 minutes to boat and the tuna over an hour. We also went for roosters the next day and a 20lb rooster took over 25 mins using heavy tackle.
my .02
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i agree with kingpin a properly hooked sockeye are great fighters.one day last year on the vedder i could not keep them off my line,i was even catching them on pro cured roe 8)
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i agree with kingpin a properly hooked sockeye are great fighters.one day last year on the vedder i could not keep them off my line,i was even catching them on pro cured roe 8)
I landed 4 sockeye last year on my fly rod using a blue fly for trout.... 2 of them even came up and grabbed it right off the top, I thought sockeye dont bite guys ;)
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i agree with kingpin a properly hooked sockeye are great fighters.one day last year on the vedder i could not keep them off my line,i was even catching them on pro cured roe 8)
Yeah ...they can be a pain when your targetting reds on the vedder to!
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no its just painful to see you wearing that coon skin hat danny
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Why do people say Socks don't bite when people are hooking them on roe and flies? Just another excuse to start bottom bouncing lol ;)
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Kamloops trout in the early summer from the lakes around Merritt, when they're out of the water so high you have to look up out of your float tube and shaking so hard they sound like a babies rattle I don't know how you can compare that to any thing else pound for pound.
I agree - for local freshwater fishing, Kamloops trout, pound for pound, are tough to beat! Ahh - my favorite type of fishing has to be the quality stillwaters of the interior!
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no its just painful to see you wearing that coon skin hat danny
You still waering that?
Steelhead in my opinion are the hardest fighters, mind you with only getting out once this year, I may have forgotten how they fight. ::)
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burst:red dot in my tropic hometown.
endurance:maybe chum.
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In my opinion, a Thompson River Steelie puts up the best fight!
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Hot female Chum in this area is still the toughest. Small mout are a close 2nd
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BS or DWM
Where the hell have you been? ;) One of our most contributing members disappears and randomly shows back up? I thought you would have been slaying them that whole time... but you only got out once? ;D ???
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BS or DWM
Where the hell have you been? ;) One of our most contributing members disappears and randomly shows back up? I thought you would have been slaying them that whole time... but you only got out once? ;D ???
I've been around, but working so much I haven't even really had time to be a lurker!! And yeah, I only got out once all year. But I did get one about 7-8 lbs on that trip, so at least I didn't get skunked for the season. :D
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Sockeye and although Idont fish much for small lake trout they seem to be very aggressive fighters.
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no its just painful to see you wearing that coon skin hat danny
You still waering that?
Steelhead in my opinion are the hardest fighters, mind you with only getting out once this year, I may have forgotten how they fight. ::)
haha Dave!! I thought you took up golf or something ;D ...I wear it the occasional time ;) ..were gonna have to go fishing soon!
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Bella Coola Chums are Bulldogs. They don't give up.
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rainbow trout
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I remembered reading this and I couldn't help thinking about the African Tigerfish. After a quick search on utube I dug up this link. (There were a few others but this one was probably the best of them in my opinion).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBKi9FlDXs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBKi9FlDXs)
From what I can see they seem to fight a lot like my first chum last year - not breaking the surface a lot just a lot of stamina and power.
When I was a kid in South Africa my parents took me to the Zambezi once. I remember seeing swirls on the surface and lots of small fish jumping so I threw out a spoon to see what would happen - after the first cast there was a big swirl right behind the lure and a wrenching thump as the thing hit. Probably exagerating but it felt like my arms had been pulled out of their sockets. The power of those Tigerfish is really something. Sad to say I did not get that one and I was unable to repeat the attempt but it is not something I have ever forgotten.
If I had the money and the time the Zambezi River would be THE destination for me.
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I would go with Squamish Chum on this one the initial power is insane!!
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pile perch or milkfish
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Rainbow Trout... Whether they are in a lake, river, or come from the ocean, they all fight good ;D
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In term of salmon I think it all depends on the size of the water you hook them in. I've caught 25 lb. springs in little systems thinking you'd never be able to hold them in the pool but that wasn't the case at all. Catch that same fish in the Skeena, Fraser, or the Thompson and the fight is HUGE!
If I were to compare the fight of a 10 lb. fish of all 6 salmon species, all in the same condition, and caught them on the exact same gear, in the same river this is the order I'd place them in :
1. Chum
2. Spring
3. Steelhead (due to colder water temp.)
4. Pink and coho tied (that's if the coho didn't roll up my leader)
5. Sockeye
If the water temp was the same for the comparison I'd bump steelhead up a spot or two...the colder the water the more lethargic steelies get... that's why summers fight so much better than winter run fish. Also, I think a 10 lb. resident rainbow would give any of the salmon a run for their money as well.
sockeye last? are u out of your mind? im not talking about a 10lb flossed sockeye from the fraser. a 10lb sockeye on the vedder will outfight any other fish you can hook including coho and steelhead
Over the last couple of decades I've hooked several very large Adams R. socks while fishing for springs on the Thompson...they weren't anything special....Also Birkenhead R. fish and they can be in that 10 lb. range...once again no big deal. What makes the vedder fish so much stronger??
not sure.. were the fish you hooked chromers? the ones out of the vedder were ocean fresh.. and they were crazy.
I hate having to insert these long quotes... I agree with Kingpin. I accidentally hooked 4 last year on a blue fly that were ocean fresh chromers and those things go ballistic. One of them even snapped the hook on my fly in half, Sockeye are a close second to rainbows still though.
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I must admit, Chum do seem to be pretty impressive.
Thanks to some good advice on this forum I got my first one, actually my one and only, Chum salmon on a fly last year and it was murder getting it in - not even a fresh Chrome one either. The fight went a lot like that tiger fight I posted - below the surface all the time and lots of power.
It was about 12 lbs so it's hard to compare with the smaller fish I normally catch - there was also a pretty strong current to contend with. I would say a carp of the same size with the right temperature conditions could be just as impressive but I have never caught a carp that size or under strong current conditions.
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nothing touches tuna (bluefin)..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttSzJYFALE&NR=1
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that little tuna turned a baitcaster into a nuckle buster? holly crum, imagine what a 1000lb bluefin would be like? Freshwater i'm gonna put down, sturgeon or chum. Saltwater i'll take the black marlin hands down and then bluefin tuna
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And people say fishing isnt a sport ??? ::)......... Did you see the guy at the end of the movie wipe sweat off of his forehead, I bet half those people that say that fishing isnt a sport would be in for a real surprise when they couldn't finish reeling a fish like that in :o
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I don't know what that guy was expecting, horsing in a fish like that within 7 minutes on that gear..
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Yeah OK that was quite a performance. Not sure why the reel was turning into a knuckle buster like that - pretty hairy with one of those on the end I think :o. Somehow I don't believe it would be manageable on a fly rod and reel.
..but I don't know the tigerfish just looks so much meaner and it was smaller too :)
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Yeah OK that was quite a performance. Not sure why the reel was turning into a knuckle buster like that - pretty hairy with one of those on the end I think :o. Somehow I don't believe it would be manageable on a fly rod and reel.
..but I don't know the tigerfish just looks so much meaner and it was smaller too :)
You better have a massive arbor on your reel, lets say 500 yards of line or more ::). I guess you never know until you try it though ;D
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From my experience, not only does species matter, but also location. For example, any of the anadromous species from the upper Fraser would have great fighting abilities since through genetics they have the ability to make it over significant distances through some treacherous water.
I believe that the July red springs on the Vedder are an upper Fraser strain (I could be wrong on this). What I do know is that they put up an absolutely incredible fight, particularly if they are on the move upriver when caught. My landed to hooked ration on these fish is about 10:1. Also, I see mention of the sockeye on the Vedder. I wonder if those are native to the system or transplanted from elsewhere - the upper Fraser perhaps?
The same could be said about the legendary Thompson River Steelhead. Incredible stamina and blistering speed.
I've hooked a few of the mammoth Steelhead on the Kispiox, and whilst they fought well, they were just that, mammoth. So they don't get my vote on a pound for pound basis.
With regard to the Squamish Chum, they do fight very hard if you get them fresh out of the ocean. In terms of numbers, this has to be the species which I've caught the most (never kept one mind you). However, on a pound for pound basis, my vote goes to the Vedder red Springs.
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Vedder River sockeye are not transplanted into the Vedder river. They are originals from Cultus and Chilliwack Lake. The hatchery refuses to raise them because they can get a disease in captivity which would mean killing every smolt the hatchery has at the time and a full sterilization which would not go over well. As far as Vedder Reds go, yes the fight like crazy... Ive only ever hooked around 15 and only landed 4, but from what I got they are a ton of fun, although a few of the ones Ive hooked have just sat in one spot and used a lot of their weight against the current, a few have gone crazy on me. Reds also are the best tasting fish ;) Good (tasting) fish + Good fight = Lets go fishing !!! Only 10 more days to wait :)
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...My landed to hooked ration on these fish is about 10:1. Also, I see mention of the sockeye on the Vedder. I wonder if those are native to the system or transplanted from elsewhere - the upper Fraser perhaps?
10:1 LANDED to hooked ratio??? Now thats impressive. How do you land 10 fish for every one you hook? LOL
Too funny.. I think you meant to say 10:1 HOOKED to Landed ratio. ;)
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Buntzen lake Northern pike minnow.
Enough Said!
;)
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Freshwater i'm gonna put down, sturgeon
this coming from a kid who wanted to go sturgeon fishing so bad the other day with me because he had never hooked one.
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Buntzen lake Northern pike minnow.
Enough Said!
;)
im gonna have to disagree with you on that one peter. the tidal fraser pike minnows i find fight much harder than the ones at buntzen, hands down.
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Freshwater i'm gonna put down, sturgeon
this coming from a kid who wanted to go sturgeon fishing so bad the other day with me because he had never hooked one.
:o :o :o
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North Central Harrison River Stickleback between April 3 at 12:01PM and April 4 at 1:14 AM will tear anyone up.
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oh my gosh, CARP ;D
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North Central Harrison River Stickleback between April 3 at 12:01PM and April 4 at 1:14 AM will tear anyone up.
O man I gotta wait till next year now lol ;) How do you find them in the pitch black like that?
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I load my huge spinning reel up with 100# tuff line and tip the largest crippled herring I can find with glow paint. I then take a mattress, poor gas all over it and light it on fire for the light to see. Cast as far as you can, rip it back as fast as you can and hold on. By the looks of things, it appears this method is also very popular on the Vedder.
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I load my huge spinning reel up with 100# tuff line and tip the largest crippled herring I can find with glow paint. I then take a mattress, poor gas all over it and light it on fire for the light to see. Cast as far as you can, rip it back as fast as you can and hold on. By the looks of things, it appears this method is also very popular on the Vedder.
Lol... sounds like a certain method I know of... :-X
Havn't seen the matress on fire yet in the Vedder though, that would be cool to watch ;)
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Fresh Squamish pinks on the fly got my vote. They tend circle around attempting to release them at about 2' of water. Fraser sockeye - thrashes about like crazy.