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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: CohoMan on January 17, 2010, 02:11:30 PM
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Got to the river at Lickman parking lot by 8:30am. It was a bit high but the colour was fishable.
As I stepped down the river bank, I saw someone playing a fish and his buddy using a net to scoop it in. It was indeed a small hatchery of about 7lbs.
I tried fishing the strech down below for about 3 hours but to no avail.
The 2 that caught the fish came down and the guy that caught the fish continued to fish. I was surprised and someone actually spoke to them about that. The guy pulled out this "regulation" that says that he can keep 2 hatchery steelhead. Not sure where he got that information but the last time I checked, it is still 1 hatchery steelhead.
Well, that will be my report.
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Thanks for the visuals.
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Cohoman: you are right you are allowed to keep only one hatchery steelhead/day on the Chilliwack/Vedder River. You also have to log the catch on your license. The regs clearly state that so that guy is blowing smoke. Would have served him right to get a warning or a ticket for continuing to fish. There have been other posts about the decline of Steelhead stocks, so as sportsfishermen whenever we go fishing we have to know how to read and interpret the regulations. If that person was in doubt, he could have called one of the local Fish and Wildlife offices, or even stop in at the Fish and Tackle shops in Chilliwack and they would have informed him of the legal limit for the Vedder River system.
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Caught somewhere in that neighbourhood. Put up a respectable fight. She was 10.1lbs, caught on fresh steely roe from last weekend's Stamp trip. Lots of water to out there to fish this weekend. And no... I was not the guy who continued to fish post catch.
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its one hatch fish, and your done after you decide to bonk one. Nice fish Justin.
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My perseverance paid off for me today
In a river:
27 inches around 7 lb
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20 inches around 3 lb
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Are those hatchery fish jon5hill?
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I hope so.
Nice reports, guys. I can't wait to get out this week. ;D
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I can't wait to get out this week. ;D
Same ;D
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The fish were both hatchery, and both fish were released. Might be worth mentioning that they weren't caught on the Chilliwack River as the initial title of this post was "Fishing Report, January 17th 2010" and didn't specify a location. I took the fish out of the water, placed them gently down next to my rod and snapped a photo with my cell camera. It's hard to prepare your cell phone to take a picture with a steelhead on the rod in the other hand! They were out of water for less than 20 seconds, and both shot off into the water no worse for wear.
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The fish were both hatchery, and both fish were released. Might be worth mentioning that they weren't caught on the Chilliwack River as the initial title of this post was "Fishing Report, January 17th 2010" and didn't specify a location. I took the fish out of the water, placed them gently down next to my rod and snapped a photo with my cell camera. It's hard to prepare your cell phone to take a picture with a steelhead on the rod in the other hand! They were out of water for less than 20 seconds, and both shot off into the water no worse for wear.
you are gonna get Sh#t for that! nice fish to all!
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The fish were both hatchery, and both fish were released.
And thats where you shot yourself in the foot. If you plan on releasing any fish ALWAYS keep them in the water, I don't care if your using a cell phone camera or whatever your excuse is. Then don't take a pic of the fish if your going to treat them with disrespect like that. Besides your cell phone camera isnt good anyways, pictures don't even look good.
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Nobody wants to see fish treated like that for a picture especially Steelhead.
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Jon5hill, glad you got some fish, but as others have pointed out, PLEASE don't lay live fish on the ground to take photos if you're planning to release them. If you want a picture, do so in the water and have the fish out of the water for as short a time as possible.
Tex
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If my intention was to treat the fish with respect, I probably wouldn't trick it into biting something that is very sharp and pierces a hole its face, then pull it against its will on a line so that I can get it close enough to take a picture.
However, I understand your concern for the fish, but I lost myself in excitement. My next investment - camera and tripod.
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If my intention was to treat the fish with respect, I probably wouldn't trick it into biting something that is very sharp and pierces a hole its face, then pull it against its will on a line so that I can get it close enough to take a picture.
However, I understand your concern for the fish, but I lost myself in excitement. My next investment - camera and tripod.
correct me if I am wrong but you are saying that you don't respect steelhead? yet you want to be involved in the brood capture program! good luck ;)
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I've devoted my life to studying the ecology and conservation of pacific salmonids. If throwing my life towards their best interests is considered disrespectful, then I've failed as a human being. I understand that their probability of survival is reduced if they are held out of water for a long time. In the interest of taking a photo, I minimized this time by preparing my camera with the fish still on the line, then holding the fish under water while I laid out my rod. The fish were taken from the water, placed beside the rod, and a photo shot in a very short time frame. I know that I did little to harm either of those fish as I was gentle, prepared, and fast. As you can see by the crappy photo, I didn't even look at resulting quality of it until the fish was back in the water.
I find it alarming how much people can claim to know about how a fish was handled when they weren't there to see it through. You're behaving as if I dragged the fish onto the rocks, then toe punted it back into the water.
J
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Let's stop the blood hound mentality here and give merits to posters who made an effort to cheer up your fishing day with their posts. I trust that most folks daring to post here have good ethics and knowledge of what they do to the fish, particularly steelhead. Not many who can successfully hunt and land a steelhead are greenies or ignorant fishermen. Let's give the posters their due and trust their words for it. Who want to come here to self incriminate just to get every one pounding on yourself? There are not many Simon Cowell. ;D ;D
Congrats to all posters with their nice catches. Cheers and fish in peace. :)
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Let's stop the blood hound mentality here and give merits to posters who made an effort to cheer up your fishing day with their posts. I trust that most folks daring to post here have good ethics and knowledge of what they do to the fish, particularly steelhead. Not many who can successfully hunt and land a steelhead are greenies or ignorant fishermen. Let's give the posters their due and trust their words for it. Who want to come here to self incriminate just to get every one pounding on yourself? There are not many Simon Cowell. ;D ;D
Congrats to all posters with their nice catches. Cheers and fish in peace. :)
Well said.
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i've taken plenty of camera phone photos. they dont need to be full body shots for them to look good.
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Camera phone fish on the rocks = dead
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No blood hound mentallity, its people trying to educate other people. Maybe they weren't worded the way you wanted, or very nicely but they get the point across. Live fish do not belong on the shore and then back into the water!
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Let's stop the blood hound mentality here and give merits to posters who made an effort to cheer up your fishing day with their posts. I trust that most folks daring to post here have good ethics and knowledge of what they do to the fish, particularly steelhead. Not many who can successfully hunt and land a steelhead are greenies or ignorant fishermen. Let's give the posters their due and trust their words for it. Who want to come here to self incriminate just to get every one pounding on yourself? There are not many Simon Cowell. ;D ;D
Congrats to all posters with their nice catches. Cheers and fish in peace. :)
Thanks Steelhawk, I couldn't agree more.
J
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Iv never taken a picture of a wild steelhead or pulled it out from the water and Ill keep it this way. I would only consider taking a picture if I had someone to assist me in a quick flash. There is no reason for a fish to ever hit the rocks or come out of the water unless you plan on retaining.
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J it was your words not mine, "if i intended to respect the fish........" I don't mean to be a blood hound by any means but you do have to admit that you incriminated yourself. Heck people get mad if you use a tailing glove!!! much less put a Steelie on the beach for a pic and then back again.
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I just think it's a bit of a paradox to both respect and actively fish for them.
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It's getting to the point in here where you're almost better off not postings pics at all.... I bow to all you "purests"
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It's getting to the point in here where you're almost better off not postings pics at all.... I bow to all you "purests"
Oh? I thought that we already passed that point two years ago...
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