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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: DragonSpeed on July 04, 2011, 03:55:31 PM

Title: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: DragonSpeed on July 04, 2011, 03:55:31 PM: http://www.theprovince.com/Rescue+saves+fishermen+drifted+Fraser+River/5047125/story.html

Yikes.
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: Dogbreath on July 04, 2011, 04:32:36 PM: I can understand using a canoe on the Fraser late summer or even early fall but not now-too much water.
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: bbronswyk2000 on July 04, 2011, 05:28:10 PM: In a canoe during freshet, and not wearing PFD's. What a couple tools!!!
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: Fish Assassin on July 04, 2011, 09:53:50 PM: Dumb and dumber.
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: troutbreath on July 04, 2011, 11:02:15 PM: "This was very much a co-ordinated effort between the First Nations Policing unit, our general duty members and, of course, the two heroes involved," said Const. Tracy Wolbeck, from the Upper Fraser Valley detachment.

I have no idea who did what. Or who was in the canoe. Kinda like they were trying to cover something up. :)
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: YetiHunter on July 06, 2011, 10:04:12 AM: No floatation on a canoe in the Fraser? These guys must have had a death wish.
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: Kype on July 06, 2011, 06:09:23 PM: Could be in the running for the Darwin awards .... clearly a good candidate for the evolutionary extinction theory! ;D :D ;D

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/ ......... ::)
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: Sandman on July 07, 2011, 12:54:44 AM: Maybe the boating course should be mandatory for canoes too?
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: buckjr on July 07, 2011, 12:32:16 PM: I think they forgot to mention that the "fishing" was being done with a net.
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: Sandman on July 07, 2011, 05:15:38 PM: Quote from: grantswish on July 07, 2011, 10:30:28 AM
No pdfs back then I think.

No PFDs either...
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: arimaBOATER on July 08, 2011, 01:23:08 PM: NO PFDs + canoe + Fraser R = ....................................mY computer just crashed ...Hjkebfa jionty nutr ::)

This is what ya call "live & learn"
People we do not have 9 lives......some guy near Kelowna RECENTLY... standing on the roof of a veicle as his "FRIEND" drives down some side road...guy goes flying off = DEAD. OR another recent story...motorbikers in NY State protest manitory use of helmets...during the protest one rider hits the brakes HARD...he goes flying over the handle bars ...hits his head on the pavement = DEAD. Doctors at the hospital said he would be alive IF he wore a helmet. (pedal bikers we should wear our helmets too...could save your life)
Good both guys survived :)
Too close for comfort...as the log jam was just ahead. :o
Title: Re: How NOT to fish the Fraser
Post by: milo on July 08, 2011, 05:30:33 PM: Quote from: grantswish on July 07, 2011, 10:30:28 AM
No pdfs back then I think.

It's PFDs, BTW.

True. There were no PFDs back then, but McKenzie had the common sense not to navigate the Fraser in full freshet.

Oh, and by the way, McKenzie never got to the LML. He only explored the upper reaches of the Fraser, never venturing south through the canyon into the LML.
Why? Because it was in-navigable!
Simon Fraser tried, but even he couldn't beat the river, so portaging was the order of the day.
Trust what more experienced and intelligent posters than both you and me have said above: Canoeing down the Fraser in full freshet is a death wish and only to be attempted by the suicidal or (as is the case here) the stupid.

Your comment makes it sound as if you are condoning their stupidity, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

FTR, I am glad that the two twits survived, but I would seriously recommend them to undergo a vasectomy.