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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: bigblue on March 28, 2011, 11:36:32 PM
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I was fishing a nice run today and on the first cast I get a brutal bone jarring hit from a steelhead.
The impact was so strong and quick that it snapped my 12 lb Seaguer leader like it was nothing.
I just stood speachless for a moment as I had never experienced anything like this even when fishing for spring salmon.
Wasn't using blades or pink worm, just a single artificial egg with a tuff of yarn.
It was a steelie with one mean temper.
Never got a peek at the fish, but I would guess it would have been bigger than anything I landed so far.
If the steelhead are going to show no respect for my tackle, I am going back to using Ultragreen 15 lb as leader.
Let them try to snap that! ;D
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Not a surprise that the Seaguar broke. :-X
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May have been a springer! there were a few confirmed reports of springs landed a few weeks ago in the lower. That is crazy though to snap 12#
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I had one of those brutal bone jarring hit today and it snapped my line too, but it was just a twig... ::)
Other than that, the top of the float remained pretty dry today. :'(
We did watch a spey guy hooking and landing a small one from a high bank on the other side, it was quite a show. :)
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Yeah - I found f/c leader (Seaguar) can fail quite easily depending on the water conditions and fish. There are times when it works really well though! However, I've lost lots of fish inlcuding a nice steelhead the other day on 8 lb Seaguar - like HOOK said - I should learn my lesson by now... ;)
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fish 8 or 10lb UG....really i have not found a difference
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I have a sppol of 12lb P-line Flouroclear and while i find its strong i have also found it will break pretty easily. I bought it for swinging flies and after it breaking to many times i have gone back to 10lb Ultragreen ;D
FFM - guess you should have taken a piece of 10lb UG before you hit that spot like i offered eh ? might have been the difference between landing and not :'(
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May have been a springer! there were a few confirmed reports of springs landed a few weeks ago in the lower. That is crazy though to snap 12#
Didn't know that red springs were already in the river.
Could very well have been a big spring or large steelie on the move.
I am just as surprised that my #12 leader failed so quickly as it was newly tied and float was down streaming.
I had no problem landing a 14 and 12 pounders in the past week using the same type of leader.
In both cases, I did put a lot of pressure on the fish early on the fight with no problem what so ever.
I am also going to have the drag of my Luna checked to see if any problems in that end.
fish 8 or 10lb UG....really i have not found a difference
I am also starting to think that steelhead are not really leader shy in the choppy or semi-turbid water conditions that exist on the Vedder today.
Unless fishing clear slow moving water, beefing up the leader might very well improve odds of landing a fish without affecting hookup.
I have been eyeing my 12lb UG spool this morning. ;D
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Red springs are already entering the vedder? I thought it wasn't until late may?
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there is an extremely small run of winter springs and by small i mean less than 100 and sometimes a person will hook one up. I have seen one landed over the years, had one on that took me to school :o and have seen a few pics of them. They are more mysterious then steelhead ;D
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My close fishing buddy swears by 12lb P-Line flourocarbon for leaders. He's got over 120 fish to hand this season and he says he's only broken one or two off.
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yes thats all fine and dandy but i was being cheap and bought the Flouroclear not actual Flourocarbon line. it works great for drift fishing but seems to not be so good for swinging the fly where it probably bumps rocks and such more often ;)
the two lines are different in the Flouroclear is a flourocarbon coated copolymer line and straight Flourocarbon is just pure flouro
If im going to buy proper Flourocarbon then i buy Frog Hair because it rules ;D i have tried a bunch of kinds fly fishing and found this best but its very pricey at $45 for a 100m spool :o
Oh and i wasnt breaking off fish, I was breaking off flies on rocks and such that UG would have pulled away form with my hook destroyed instead
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Just a reminder regarding these early red springs, they are closed for retention and must be released.
Excellent post FF.
Too often certain reports stir the pot of the uninformed.
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There fixed it for you. ;D ;D ;D
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Speycaster needs to upgrade his forum coding skills. ;D
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Excellent post FF.
Too often certain reports stir the pot of the uninformed.
That is a good point. But, what if they do BBQ only? ;D ;)
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were you fishing round borden creek, saw a guy yesterday up that way on the other side of the river hook one and it just snapped off the second it hit, i ended up catching probly the same one later that day about a 18 lb wild buck :) also lost 2 more in the same run and farther down landed about a 8 lb wild doe and a 10 lb buck. and today landed a 12 lb wild doe, a 14 lb wild buck and lost 2 more. all on my pin, got casting down i can cast all the way across like its nothin :o very few guys out this week, and the warter got ugly today at dark around a foot vis at thurston meadows. Also on sunday fishing a side section i got a 3ish lb dolly on my fly rod, still up there till sunday :)
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were you fishing round borden creek, saw a guy yesterday up that way on the other side of the river hook one and it just snapped off the second it hit, i ended up catching probly the same one later that day about a 18 lb wild buck :) also lost 2 more in the same run and farther down landed about a 8 lb wild doe and a 10 lb buck. and today landed a 12 lb wild doe, a 14 lb wild buck and lost 2 more. all on my pin, got casting down i can cast all the way across like its nothin :o very few guys out this week, and the warter got ugly today at dark around a foot vis at thurston meadows. Also on sunday fishing a side section i got a 3ish lb dolly on my fly rod, still up there till sunday :)
Holly s***, you are having a hell of a day up there steelie-slayer! ;D
I did fish the borden creek area yesterday, but did not hook anything there.
Looks really fishy up there, but just can't seem to hit the right spots there without boulders chewing up my tackle like pacman. ;)
I need to get better glasses or something as I am beginning to feel like a blind old man. LOL
I am certain there are big fish in there but no luck so far. It's like Thompson Park rapids for me.
The one I lost was more down stream from there, around noon or so.
Have a great week and tight lines! :)
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Holly s***, you are having a hell of a day up there steelie-slayer! ;D
I did fish the borden creek area yesterday, but did not hook anything there.
Looks really fishy up there, but just can't seem to hit the right spots there without boulders chewing up my tackle like pacman. ;)
I need to get better glasses or something as I am beginning to feel like a blind old man. LOL
I am certain there are big fish in there but no luck so far. It's like Thompson Park rapids for me.
The one I lost was more down stream from there, around noon or so.
Have a great week and tight lines! :)
thanks bigblue :) and i know around borden creek very well, i know all the pockets and riffles through there ;)
we musta just missed you then lol we started up there at 7 yesterday till 8:30, and came back at 10:30 and left like at like 11, haha maybe next time well bump into each other
and i dont wear any kinda glasses, i just stand on a special big rock look out and know the spots in the run like my hand.
Sadly tho were spending the night at some friends in chilliwack so we wont get first light :'( if your goin to the river on wedns-sun send me an email i usually fish fromjust above the prision to then ranger run, ill show where to cast cus i know itsa big spot and can look intimidating,and i found out a new secret thing to use :-X
and i got a cure for the snag problem as i had that up there to, i now use slinkies i make where some big non removable splitties in a shoelace with melted ends and a clib onto a 3 way swivel, works wonders and you rarely get snagged or loose anything
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My close fishing buddy swears by 12lb P-Line flourocarbon for leaders. He's got over 120 fish to hand this season and he says he's only broken one or two off.
If we include whole december and up to now, that makes about 120 days for fishing for steal,if your friend have fished everyday he would have to get a "MINIMUM" of one fish per outing,even when the vedder has had a super run of fish like this YEAR i find this record hardly possible,not to mention you said he had 120 to HAND??????? ::)
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If we include whole december and up to now, that makes about 120 days for fishing for steal,if your friend have fished everyday he would have to get a "MINIMUM" of one fish per outing,even when the vedder has had a super run of fish like this YEAR i find this record hardly possible,not to mention you said he had 120 to HAND??????? ::)
I agree. Where's the BS button, I want to push it at least a hundred times anyway. ::) ;D
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If we include whole december and up to now, that makes about 120 days for fishing for steal,if your friend have fished everyday he would have to get a "MINIMUM" of one fish per outing,even when the vedder has had a super run of fish like this YEAR i find this record hardly possible,not to mention you said he had 120 to HAND??????? ::)
hmmm....good points. A good gauge would be a retired guy who fishes the canal lots and is probably out just about every fishable day, usually twice a day (morning and evening) As of a week ago he had hooked 105 and landed 83, this is no bs and considering the amount of time on the water I find its believable. Maybe Dion's bud is retired?
Also have another fella I know who has had many multiple days this year with one of them bringing 8 fish to the beach! He was at around 45 fish to the beach about a month ago.
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If we include whole december and up to now, that makes about 120 days for fishing for steal,if your friend have fished everyday he would have to get a "MINIMUM" of one fish per outing,even when the vedder has had a super run of fish like this YEAR i find this record hardly possible,not to mention you said he had 120 to HAND??????? ::)
I would have said BS too...until last week.... Now I think anything is possible. I hooked 24, landing 17 in 3 days.
After a developing a circuit in the early season, you start to return to the spots which produce, you begin hooking 1 or 2 or 3 fish each outing. Then you have those legendary days that happen a few times each season. The numbers really start to add up.
120 doesn't seem too far fetched. Especially if most of the fish have been caught on a smaller, easy to fish flow which is also having a banner year for returns.
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I would have said BS too...until last week.... Now I think anything is possible. I hooked 24, landing 17 in 3 days.
After a developing a circuit in the early season, you start to return to the spots which produce, you begin hooking 1 or 2 or 3 fish each outing. Then you have those legendary days that happen a few times each season. The numbers really start to add up.
120 doesn't seem too far fetched. Especially if most of the fish have been caught on a smaller, easy to fish flow which like the vedder is also having a banner year for returns.
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I was going to say 120 isn't far fetched at all.
I'm at 26 fish for 29 trips and I wouldn't even consider myself that good.
The other day me and a buddy hit 7 fish in 6 hours. If I were spending more time on the river I think I would have many more (being able to follow fish, etc).
Kinda hard when the last time I fished was Feb and the time before that was December.
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I would have said BS too...until last week.... Now I think anything is possible. I hooked 24, landing 17 in 3 days.
After a developing a circuit in the early season, you start to return to the spots which produce, you begin hooking 1 or 2 or 3 fish each outing. Then you have those legendary days that happen a few times each season. The numbers really start to add up.
120 doesn't seem too far fetched. Especially if most of the fish have been caught on a smaller, easy to fish flow which is also having a banner year for returns.
holy! you have those days on the Ved or smaller flow? thats crazy
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120?!?!?!...Because fisherman would never lie about their catches... ::) ::) ::)
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On the Ved dude and all on jigs!!!! Pretty insane. 3 epic days which I will never forget. The weirdest thing is that the conditions were not ideal by any means. Water was dropping and in a few of the spots I fished it was gin clear. The one factor that was to my advantage was the water temp. Coincidentally, my previous single day best was also after a rise in water temperature.
There always seems to be a handful of days within a season where for whatever reason the river is on fire. Just gotta get lucky and be there when it happens.
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So that's why I have been skunked all season u have been catching all the fish