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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Bently on March 20, 2011, 06:20:03 PM
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Fished the upper reaches today, hooked two, quick fight each, lost two.....I suck :D.
Saw a young fella land a beauty up there as well, probably 15 lbs or so. :o
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Fished the upper reaches today, hooked two, quick fight each, lost two.....I suck :D.
Don't be so hard on yourself spent the whole day at the river with my brother and not even a sniff. Actually didnt even talk to anyone that had seen evidence of steel ( except for freds tackle where one 14.5 lb buck had been brought). Here I was telling myself it was just a slow day at the river, guess it was just me :(
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i have yet to meet a fisherman who've never lost a fish let alone a steelie...the fact that you've found and hooked them shows that you're doing something right.
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i loose 2 or 3 for every 1 that i land lol
loosing 2 is better then nothing though :)
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saw 2 hooked up there as well and my buddy saw another 6 today. I also saw one guy who bonked no less than 18, yes, EIGHTEEN white fish and a few rainbows mixed in there. My dad was amazed too. Whole damm garbage bag full of em. isn't there a limit for white fish? if you're allowed to keep them at all...
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Yap..... you can keep 15 of them legally.
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i loose 2 or 3 for every 1 that i land lol
loosing 2 is better then nothing though :)
Man, you need to work on how you play your fish. My landing ratio for steelhead this year is 75.8% (I keep a detailed fishing log).
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Man, you need to work on how you play your fish. My landing ratio for steelhead this year is 75.8% (I keep a detailed fishing log).
ya i know, except usually the lost ones are right on the beach when my dad goes to tail em and spookes them and then line goes under a rock and fish gone :(
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spent the whole day at the river. hooked nothing and didn't even see one. very slow day...
at around 3PM and after I saw dramatic ugly changes in mid river .... chocolaty river...while upper was still gin clear... and when I was driving home at around 5:30 canal looked OK at KWB..
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ya i know, except usually the lost ones are right on the beach when my dad goes to tail em and spookes them and then line goes under a rock and fish gone :(
usually when i've identified a hatchery, i'll play it out until it turns on it's side...that's when you know the fish is spent...horsing a steelie to shore is the biggest mistake you can make, especially when your adrenaline is pumping.
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usually when i've identified a hatchery, i'll play it out until it turns on it's side...that's when you know the fish is spent...horsing a steelie to shore is the biggest mistake you can make, especially when your adrenaline is pumping.
i release everything so i dont really care if its lost or landed
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Man, you need to work on how you play your fish. My landing ratio for steelhead this year is 75.8% (I keep a detailed fishing log).
Also depends a lot on the water thats being fished. If you're fishing slow water or small flows with not much current, its a hell of a lot easier to land fish compared to fishing faster water, pockets, seams, etc.
I myself average 60-65% landing ratio consistently over the years. Unfortunately, its seems most of the fish that get away are the trophies!
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Also depends a lot on the water thats being fished. If you're fishing slow water or small flows with not much current, its a hell of a lot easier to land fish compared to fishing faster water, pockets, seams, etc.
I myself average 60-65% landing ratio consistently over the years. Unfortunately, its seems most of the fish that get away are the trophies!
so true always the nice ones gone
but i also class a good bite has a lost fish, but when there on there on and about 65% of the time with a handshake
i fish upperriver from prision camp up in the fast water
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I also saw one guy who bonked no less than 18, yes, EIGHTEEN white fish and a few rainbows mixed in there.
I haven't heard of that many whitefish caught in one day on the Chilliwack for at least 25 years. It would be nice to think they are making a comeback. Strange you can still retain 15 rmw when anyone who fishes this system knows that (at least till now) they are not plentiful ??? And now 18 fewer.
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I was thinking the same thing Dave.
I grew up in Yarrow and fished the lower vedder a lot as a kid. I remeber 15 or so years ago catching a fair amount of whitefish as bicatch, some actually quite large ones too. We always just released them. I haven't caught or seen one on the vedder/chilliwack in a long time, until this sunday. I caught one about 13-14" in the upper river.
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i release everything so i dont really care if its lost or landed
maybe so and i respect the fact you're strictly c&r...but any fisherman will tell you how disappointing or frustrating it can be to lose more than you land...but if you say you don't really care about your landing ratio, all the power to you. :)
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no BS here.. i didn't believe it either until my dad told me to come over to have a look.
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I have lost 8 steelies in a row. This is getting to be the repeat of 1985 when I lost 13 in a row then went another 1o years without losing one. Life can be a challenge for the steelheader. Some guys talk like they never lose any ever!!! Love the day and enjoy the company, that is my never ending motto.
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I feel your pain, lost 12 landed 8 ::)