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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Rodney on October 06, 2010, 03:11:06 PM
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What a great day on the Vedder! If you like fish watching. ::)
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The water level is pretty low right now, eh?
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The water level is just fine.
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I think I know what you mean Rod, after one fish first light yesterday it seemed almost impossible to entice a fish to bite. Lots showing but no takers. Maybe tomorrow will be my day.
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were the big fish jumping everywhere and not taking your presentation? I experienced that view all day yesterday. lots of bruisers splashing but none taking my offering...except for one zombie chum that I lost
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It would have been more exciting and less frustrating to sit here and moderate the forum today. ;D
My dad and I arrived well before sunrise because we were so excited today. ::) Both Chris and Nick regularly feed information to me by phone everyday (this is how work does not get done) and yesterday's reports of fish sights (not catchings) were good. We sat on the bank at the chosen spot in darkness, listening to splashes around us. Judging by how big they were and how they were jumping, I guessed that most of them were coho. I thought, this was going to be on spoons today because it has worked out this way before with the same scenario. ::)
Once it was light enough to fish, both of us were casting spoons for them risers. I had a couple of quick tugs at the beginning but there were nothing to show. Nick showed up at the other side of the river an hour after we started. He drifted roe and immediately was into a big silver spring just as he wanted. He landed it, dispatched it, returned to fishing and was into another fish in no time. He later landed another spring. Meanwhile, big silver coho, which I would estimated to be up to 15lb, were just leaping all over the place between both banks. Spoons, spinners, roe were all not working their magic. Nick later told me at lunch that coho were just stacking up on his side and busy heading upstream. They were not biting at all, most likely because of big springs that were taking over the area.
I briefly connected with a coho jack near the end by floating roe, but might as well have caught nothing considering how many fish were in front of us. ::) My dad had one brief hook-up, it was a spring that spat the hook when it leaped out of the water. He also foul hooked another spring that took forever to come off.
Other than that, today was one warm day on October 6th! Lunch was excellent at Cookies as usual, the usual consolation prize after a day of skunking. :P
Water condition in my opinion is as good as it can get. We intend to make the best out of the next two days before heavy rain ruins it.
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My experience was similar but I took the Leaf Craft #2 for a trip. We had lots of bites but I lost every thing I hooked except a 5 inch steelhead smolt, clipped. I lost a coho jack that hardly pulled the float down, became airborne on the strike and fell off. ::)
I played a large chinook salmon for 5 minutes that I should have chased with the boat but it broke off. Lost two other fair sized fish as well.
A good trip to Cookies was the best part of the day as Rodney said with his dad and Nick too.
Jennifer from the Chilliwack Progress joined us to do the story for the October 16 cleanup on Fraser.
I have some video to share of some action, that's if the dunking the camera received in the Vedder River lets it down load. What a beak I was on this one.
Got to go, as the Leaf Craft wants an evening trip as she says success is coming close for the first adult coho of the season and she does not want the trip with The Master tomorrow to do the trick. ;D
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Hey Rodney, it was nice to meet you this morning, sorry about the mix up with the location, the spot I thought you were talking about was the spot from a few years ago that used to be further upriver. I fished further upriver with the crowd and hit 4 jacks, 1 hatchery, lost 2 bigger chromers but didnt get to see what they were before they popped off, all hooked surprisingly close to other anglers, must have been hiding in the angler's shadows lol.
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Fished the lower from about 10 til 4. Kris and myself hooked into over 20 jack coho, 10 jack springs, maybe 12 springs and 2 aduld coho with a couple of chum in the mix. At one point a t about 3 oclock the bites were coming fast. Every cast resulted in a fish :o. Roe was the ticket, even my crappy old orange stuff worked. I haven't had a day like today in a loooong time. Epic!.
Hey Chris, we were fishing right across from you, you shouldn't have left, the bite was on from noon on ;).
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Fished the lower from about 10 til 4. Kris and myself hooked into over 20 jack coho, 10 jack springs, maybe 12 springs and 2 aduld coho with a couple of chum in the mix. At one point a t about 3 oclock the bites were coming fast. Every cast resulted in a fish :o. Roe was the ticket, even my crappy old orange stuff worked. I haven't had a day like today in a loooong time. Epic!.
Hey Chris, we were fishing right across from you, you shouldn't have left, the bite was on from noon on ;).
Lunch at Cookies was better and we had to do an interview with the Chilliwack Progress about the Fraser River Cleanup for October 16.
Tonight? ;D
Well my wife is cooking a fish right now. ;D ;D
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Well my wife is cooking a fish right now. ;D ;D
Now we know who the real fisher in the family is ;D ;D
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Now we know who the real fisher in the family is ;D ;D
Yep, she caught a 15 pound chinook salmon on her first fishing trip 45 years ago when we were just married. The good old days. ;D ;D There was a photo on my photo page of her with the fish but Rodney lost them all, I think. :-\
The fish is now ready I am told. ;D Tomorrow will be a good day lots of fish with the Master and a Leaf win too.. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Too bad most of you will be working. ???
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slowest day ever.
i could not believe how bad it was today. sheesh. (not being sarcastic).
hiked all over the place too.
fish got lockjaw or not there ;(
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1633/fishlessoctober2010.jpg)
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Fish cooked to perfection, time for bed and dream about all the fish The Master and I will catch tomorrow, well he will anyway. ;D
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Hooked a ton of coho at the Tuesday hole took home 13 pound hatch
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I missed fishing Monday but hooked a few Wednesday in the Friday hole.
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what is a friday or tuesday hole?
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what is a friday or tuesday hole?
Its a long story but long ago when and when I worked I had Fridays off. I was out steelhead fishing and hit a a good number of steelhead in this run, hence the Friday Hole. ???
In our circle of anglers a number of runs have names, some peculiar to say the least, ::) ??? The Shoe, Lew's, Twin Cedars, Double Header, Blue Cup, The Sassy, Ridley's Rocks, The Chum Run, Gun Barrell, Squished Tin, Dog, The Log, Beako Begone, and an old one The Drag Line. When we exchange fishing reports among ourselves we then know where we were fishing. Oh, we have a new one this year, The Thursday, it will not be long until each day of the week will be named. :D
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I prefer the Canuck Run, and Burkie's Follies. ;D
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Its a long story but long ago when and when I worked I had Fridays off. I was out steelhead fishing and hit a a good number of steelhead in this run, hence the Friday Hole. ???
In our circle of anglers a number of runs have names, some peculiar to say the least, ::) ??? The Shoe, Lew's, Twin Cedars, Double Header, Blue Cup, The Sassy, Ridley's Rocks, The Chum Run, Gun Barrell, Squished Tin, Dog, The Log, Beako Begone, and an old one The Drag Line. When we exchange fishing reports among ourselves we then know where we were fishing. Oh, we have a new one this year, The Thursday, it will not be long until each day of the week will be named. :D
Don't forget the diving board run! Pretty good steely hole.
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Don't forget the diving board run! Pretty good steely hole.
Yes and that has a story too. ;D ;D
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red toque run? the curtains?
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the red toque has even been spotted canvasing the upper reaches of the river now. thought he was pretty well glued to the lower!
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red toque run? the curtains?
I loved the Red Toque, how could I forget it. I named it after a chap wearing a Red Toque who would fish there hour after hour mostly with a spinning outfit. He drove everyday from the Lower Mainland, I helped him land his first steelhead in this run. He brough me an expense bottle of drink of some kind the next day. A number of us had many memorable days there with several fish taken for brood stock
Red Toque thought we were teasing him about this name but over time he loved it and felt honoured to have a run named after him.
Maybe one day the Red Toque run will return to its former glory when the river shift during a flood.
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thanks chris, and i as well fished that run. that was a wicked run. you could get sometimes three fish just working through that run once!! and that chap is frank, great guy. would offer you to sit down and share an extra appleif he had one. just to be sociable. need more people like him at the river.
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thanks chris, and i as well fished that run. that was a wicked run. you could get sometimes three fish just working through that run once!! and that chap is frank, great guy. would offer you to sit down and share an extra appleif he had one. just to be sociable. need more people like him at the river.
Yes a great chap, I had forgotten his name, he sure had lots of perseverance too.