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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: troutbreath on October 19, 2009, 07:39:39 AM
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The closest I got to a fish, was the sound of pinks getting a back massage from my motors prop.Tried trolling the Sumas which was cow dung in colour. On the bright side managed to haul in at least $60 worth of good floats. Well worth the effort.
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I knew the river would be a blown mess on Sunday but I just had to get out there. As I got to the river things did not look good, usually Id just get back in the car and come back when the river was in better shape, but I had nothing else to do so I thought Id give it a try anyway and see if I could hook something in the mud. I thought about some spots that would give me a good chance in the high water and decided to head up river. I got to my spot, and started fishing a back channel that was only inchs deep before the rain, but no luck. After this spot I moved into a deep slow flow and casted and retreive the biggest Koho spoon I had, but no luck there. After almost 3 hours and no fish, I went for a walk looking for a path where fish were moving. I came across a spot where I watched some fish passing through and just ahead of this spot there was a nice slow slick behind a boulder. I baited the hook with big gob of roe, set the float to 10 inchs, and started casting. 10 minutes later, float down and fish on. I beached the 8 lb wild hoe within a minute of being hooked, and now Im a believer of dirty water fishing.
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Where did you put your boat in troutbreath?
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The closest I got to a fish, was the sound of pinks getting a back massage from my motors prop.Tried trolling the Sumas which was cow dung in colour. On the bright side managed to haul in at least $60 worth of good floats. Well worth the effort.
They are my floats, leave them alone. ;D ;D
How many drenans?
I found 2 cleardrifts and 4 DNE's along with a rare cork float Dion likes today. ;D
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I was out Sunday afternoon as well - fishing just above On The Way. There were sure lots of fish moving along the edges but none taking anything I was offering. I must have seen 150 fish come single file around the boulder below me, then head up past the one above me with a minute or so. Tried Procured roe, spinners, spoons, short floating, short leaders, every colour of wool I had in the dispenser (trimmed it 3 or 4 different ways) - NADA.
They came up and laughed at me every once in a while but seemed keen on getting home. That lot was starting to get a bit rosy, but Very Nice Coho!!
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A group of us tried the upper river as well. Same results. We tried everything and not a single bite. Water was just too brown. Like fishing in coffee with cream.
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Where did you put your boat in troutbreath?
Barrowton boat launch on the Sumas.
I only got one drenan Chris so your doing a good job of finding them. Mind you it was my favorite weight 11 grams. 14 DNE's and I only took a few other ones. After a high water floats are easy pickens. :)
I have had good fishing trolling lures in the brown stuff but the current was pretty brutal Sunday.
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Barrowton boat launch on the Sumas.
I only got one drenan Chris so your doing a good job of finding them. Mind you it was my favorite weight 11 grams. 14 DNE's and I only took a few other ones. After a high water floats are easy pickens. :)
I have had good fishing trolling lures in the brown stuff but the current was pretty brutal Sunday.
Nice work on the drennan. I broke one on the rocks today after missing a fish but thats OK as I have about 3 doz. left. ;D