Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Long_Cast on September 06, 2010, 12:51:08 PM
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Anyone here fished the Brunette River lately for rainbows and cutthroats?
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Check the reg's.... I live on it... I havnt popped down there in quite awhile i must say tho the fish that are in there are in trouble and there are not too many at all... there also very small.
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Years ago I recall the river being somewhat rehabilitated, or efforts to that effect, then some a-hole emptied his swimming pool in a storm sewer or some idiot did a radiator flush riverside--it's hard to keep urban rivers healthy, unfortunately :'(
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Here's some info about the river, its location and restrictions.
http://www.nwpr.bc.ca/parks%20web%20page/brunette%20hike.html
I heard that the majority of the rainbows are wild and they strike really hard on dry flies. It'll be interesting to know if it's still true right now. The last person I heard who fished the Brunette only caught a crayfish.
http://domesticallydisabled-cantbe.blogspot.com/2010/08/fishing-in-hume-park.html
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The brunette river is a great place to fish it is only 20ft wide in most spots.
You can fish from cariboo rd all the way down to the railway bridge below hume park.
*no fishing above cariboo rd.
No fishing for salmon, Release all steelhead, all fish under 30cm must be released, trout with adopise fin must be released.
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If there are any hotspots where big trout abound in the LML, then its almost certain that there locations haven't been posted up on the internet for everyone to read...
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Brunette, home of the 3 clawed crayfish, but dont wory, no pollution in that flow, really it's just so sad :'(
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Brunette, home of the 3 clawed crayfish, but dont wory, no pollution in that flow, really it's just so sad :'(
Do you get more fish using the 3 clawed crayfish for bait?
Kidding aside it is pretty sad the amount of garbage you see out there these days.
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There are numerous streamkeeper organizations working very hard on streams that drain into the Brunette system. The Brunette is also home to the Nooksack dace (Rhinichthys cataractae), an endangered cyprinid minnow belonging to the chehalis fauna. The Brunette is one of three systems in BC that support these cool little fish. I had the opportunity to do some mark and recapture work this summer with them out in Langley.
Elmer Rudolph of the Sapperton Fish and Game club will be speaking about rehabilitation of the Brunette next week at the Jan. 13 meeting at 7:30pm at the Clinton Elementary School library.
If you are interested in knowing about the populations of fish that inhabit the watershed, nobody knows better than Elmer. He's been volunteering for ages, and runs a hatchery nearly by himself to support the Brunette.
Cheers,
Jon
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Small streams with even smaller numbers of fish shouldn't be talked about on the internet. ::)
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, nobody knows better than Elmer. He's been volunteering for ages, and runs a hatchery nearly by himself to support the Brunette.
Cheers,
Jon
I know more about that stream than Elmer. and I have lived 2 blocks from it for 38 years.
the person nobody speaks of that use to watch over the creek was Walter Walker, long passed away.
lived on craig st for 60+ years , even planted the 2 cedar trees just upstream of the north rd bridge, they are now 40-50 ft tall.
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I know more about that stream than Elmer
Wow ::) I worked with Elmer on this system back in the early 90's , sampling fish by electroshocking, measuring contaminants. He was very helpful and knew the system inside out.
So JBJ, what are your thoughts on the Brunette?
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I know more about that stream than Elmer.
That's quite the statement (and insult). Do you have anything to back it up other than the geographic proximity of the Brunette to your house?
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i tend to believe jbj, he doesnt post without thinking like some guys
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i tend to believe jbj, he doesnt post without thinking like some guys
;D ;D ;D
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No worries i won't be fishing the Brunette river anytime soon.Funny you brought this topic up because lately if been driving home from work via the freeway and as i pass the river i think "that looks fishey".
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That's quite the statement (and insult). Do you have anything to back it up other than the geographic proximity of the Brunette to your house?
not meant as an insult to Elmer, but he's not the only one that knows that river.
if he was not so set on JUST raising coho and chum that river could be more productive.
kinda sad, all the work everyone else did on that river and when they write a story about it you rareley hear about the others.
I could say more but I dont think I need to explain myself to you Dion.
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purplehelmet mentioned about chemicals that get dumped in sewers & make it's way into the Brunette R.
Worked at a site right at the mouth of the Brunette R. back in the 70's for 2 yrs. A sawmill called Lamford Cedar..I think the owner also had a mill near Sooke.
Anyways the mill was built right over the river...logs being pulled up into the mill from the Brunette R.
Also looked at the river just east of the mill & the bottom had like rainbow colors. At one time a pallet of paint cans must of be dumped into the river (accidently???) Ya could see the cans as well.
When working as a commercial floorwaxer ,made sure I dumped the janitor bucket that was full of stripper chem/removed old wax/floorsoap etc.... into the toilet.
It takes longer & sure enough some gets spilt so one has to clean the outside of the toilet. Sadly many many floorwaxer crews are dumping full buckets of soap/stripper chem/old wax removed from floors or even new left over sealer or wax right into the sewer drains in the parking lots. Or they will fill their bucket 3-4 times with fresh water & rinse out their mop heads...then dump water into the parking lot drain. Goes on all the time. :o
Floor crews are out there late at night & no one is seeing them do this !!!! :o