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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 05:48:10 PM

Title: Are there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 05:48:10 PM: I was fishing with my Son today on the Fraser and we were catching some crappie I think, I have never caught them before so I am unsure. Are there crappie in the Fraser? Are there sun fish in the Fraser?
This is a picture of one of the fish we caught.
http://photobucket.com/tumbleweed1973
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: marbles on August 20, 2011, 06:18:59 PM: there was one close to shore that much I know ;D
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 06:31:46 PM: Quote from: marbles on August 20, 2011, 06:18:59 PM
there was one close to shore that much I know ;D
That is not nice!
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: Banny on August 20, 2011, 06:38:10 PM: That is a Pumkinseed sunfish but you could find crappie as well.
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: leaping steely on August 20, 2011, 06:55:55 PM: Curious as to where this was. Tidal, non-tidal?
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 07:03:55 PM: Just below the mission bridge, so it would be tidal.
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: cutthroat22 on August 20, 2011, 09:01:32 PM: Pretty sure that is a pumpkinseed as well. How many did you catch?
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: Fish Assassin on August 20, 2011, 09:22:50 PM: Don't know if there are crappies in the Fraser but there certainly is alot of crap in the river.
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: summersteel on August 20, 2011, 09:27:48 PM: yo mean-ARE there crappie in the river!
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 09:56:31 PM: Quote from: bug pumper on August 20, 2011, 09:27:48 PM
yo mean-ARE there crappie in the river!
LOL.....Yes that is what I meant to say.
Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 09:59:07 PM: Quote from: cutthroat22 on August 20, 2011, 09:01:32 PM
Pretty sure that is a pumpkinseed as well. How many did you catch?

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Title: Re: Is there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: Sandman on August 20, 2011, 10:14:29 PM: Quote from: tumbleweed on August 20, 2011, 09:59:07 PM
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There are plenty of Crappie in Haztic which is connected to the Fraser so they are in the Fraser too, not sure where the pumpkinseed come from.
Title: Re: Are there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: marbles on August 21, 2011, 05:57:55 AM: are you sure you caught that tumblefur??your good at photoshop I here ;D
Title: Re: Are there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: Hook, Line and Sinker on August 22, 2011, 01:24:35 PM: Tumbleweed, there's tons of those pumpkinseed sunfish hangin' around the mouth of Kanaka Creek too. They love to steal your worms. They won't follow a hook to the surface, so unless you manage to land one of the little fellers you're unlikely to ever see one. But as soon as you get the worm on the bottom of the bank about 6 feet down, you can feel a piranha-like feeding frenzy going on - half a dozen or so of them tear your bait off in tiny, rapid chunks.

Lost more than a few containers of Berry's Bait and Tackle dew worms to those little &*%%&. But when you pull one up it's like, "WTH? Did someone let loose a goldfish in here?"
Title: Re: Are there Crappie in the Fraser?
Post by: Preliator on August 22, 2011, 10:36:47 PM: Quote from: Hook, Line and Sinker on August 22, 2011, 01:24:35 PM
Tumbleweed, there's tons of those pumpkinseed sunfish hangin' around the mouth of Kanaka Creek too. They love to steal your worms. They won't follow a hook to the surface, so unless you manage to land one of the little fellers you're unlikely to ever see one. But as soon as you get the worm on the bottom of the bank about 6 feet down, you can feel a piranha-like feeding frenzy going on - half a dozen or so of them tear your bait off in tiny, rapid chunks.

Lost more than a few containers of Berry's Bait and Tackle dew worms to those little &*%%&. But when you pull one up it's like, "WTH? Did someone let loose a goldfish in here?"

Back in my Ontario days (where they are everywhere), they made it difficult when targeting Yellow Perch and Crappie. But on light gear, they can be fun.