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Title: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: CohoMan on October 16, 2011, 03:55:13 PM
Fished the lower canal and it was pretty slow today. Got into one hatchery and thats all she wrote. Yesterday was a good day but I guess they all moved up a bit to the Cottonwood run or above somewhere.

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Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Big Steel on October 16, 2011, 05:23:47 PM
Still a real nice fish man, and some awesome weather. Not really fishing weather tho..lol  Minni Me and I were out today again as well.  Along with one of his friends.. there were some coho caught.  I got nothing on blades to start with, so changed to roe and got a wild ho.. not that big at all.  Then nothing on roe for a while so I moved around a bit and hooked 2 more on blades again.  Landing one of them.  Nice chrome doe.  Now I have some nice roe for wednesday and some fresh fish for the BBQ.  Minnie me's friend got a small hatch buck... and Minnie me well, he hooked a couple but it didn't work out. lol

(http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g307/DMW73/HatchCoho2.jpg)
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Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: minnie-me on October 16, 2011, 06:42:24 PM
Whatever ;)
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: summersteel on October 16, 2011, 06:42:33 PM
hey kid! That is an absolutely great picture! Nice job on the coho!
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: bbronswyk2000 on October 16, 2011, 07:05:33 PM
I got a couple this afternoon.

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Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: BwiBwi on October 16, 2011, 07:34:48 PM
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Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: chris gadsden on October 16, 2011, 07:57:47 PM
After all the fish around yesterday today was a bust. Went before church and after and not a bite, guess I should not fish on Sunday. ;D

Found a couple of dozen floats and a $8 worth of tins so that was OK, will change locations tomorrow.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Floater on October 16, 2011, 09:04:21 PM
Lost two very chrome cohos this morning, one was almost in my hands but managed to slip away. Im sure half of chilliwack heard my frustrations. That put me to 4 hooked and zero landed this season.  :'(
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Rodney on October 16, 2011, 09:15:03 PM
will change locations tomorrow.

About time.... ;D
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: milo on October 16, 2011, 10:22:40 PM
A bust for me on the fly (had one single coho on for all my efforts), but my buddies bb and Tadpole put on a clinic short-floating wool.
I did however end up taking home an ocean-perfect 25 pound marbled spring courtesy of my buddy Tad. 
Never seen a spring so fresh in my 12 years of fishing the Vedder. ;D
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: bigblue on October 16, 2011, 10:42:11 PM
Went to the Chilliwack today to check out some locations.
Along the way also went to the point in canal where Rodney recently had his coho limit to survey the situation.
All I can say is most guys either did not see the video or did not look at it carefully as most people were fishing the wrong place to target the fresh run cohos which everyone wanted to catch. Most of them were battling off-coloured springs as a result. ::)
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Steely on October 16, 2011, 10:44:54 PM
Well, got a later start then normal. Started at around noon and fished till dark. Ended up with 5 coho, 2 wild about 3-5 pounds each, chrome as could be. 3 hatchery, two about 6-7, other about 7-8. All got the rock shampoo ;D Had a handfull of springs on but didn't land any as I didn't feel like working that hard ;D Saw a couple of chum caught and a handful of flossed pinks caught, all in full spawning colour. All fish caught on roe and blades, here is a pic of just the first two hatchery fish as I didn't take one of the third. Twas a good day ;D
(http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac204/steely16/P1050035.jpg)
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Stratocaster on October 16, 2011, 10:51:11 PM
Definitely slower than it has been.  Only had two hatch in my honey hole and had to move upriver to round out the limit.

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Fish were not as chrome as earlier in the week.  All caught on Roe.  Maybe the cold and sunny weather had something to do with it.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: hookme on October 16, 2011, 11:05:00 PM
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Your right bigblue nobody paying attention

Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: FlyFishin Magician on October 16, 2011, 11:10:48 PM
Definitely slower than it has been.  Only had two hatch in my honey hole and had to move upriver to round out the limit.

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Fish were not as chrome as earlier in the week.  All caught on Roe.  Maybe the cold and sunny weather had something to do with it.

HEY!  Looking at the background and "rocks" - I know that location!  OK - seriously, it was slow this morning!  Fortunately, I went 3 for 3 for chrome hatchery coho in the morning, then later went upriver landing 3 coho (2 hatchery and 1 wild...all released).  Good times again Stratocaster.  Until next time... ;)
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Stratocaster on October 16, 2011, 11:13:50 PM
HEY!  Looking at the background and "rocks" - I know that location!  OK - seriously, it was slow this morning!  Fortunately, I went 3 for 3 for chrome hatchery coho in the morning, then later went upriver landing 3 coho (2 hatchery and 1 wild...all released).  Good times again Stratocaster.  Until next time... ;)

Yep.  The old driveway run.  Hope nobody clues in and crowds us out!
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Rodney on October 16, 2011, 11:36:58 PM
Along the way also went to the point in canal where Rodney recently had his coho limit to survey the situation.
All I can say is most guys either did not see the video or did not look at it carefully as most people were fishing the wrong place to target the fresh run cohos which everyone wanted to catch. Most of them were battling off-coloured springs as a result. ::)

Your right bigblue nobody paying attention

;D ;D ;D

I guess the water is low enough again for it? :) Time for the weekday crew to take over. ;)
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Oilcruzer on October 17, 2011, 08:07:17 AM
Lotsa springs, kept one big male chum.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: bluenoser on October 17, 2011, 11:44:14 AM
That last picture looks like my side walk...feel free to leave coho on it anytime Stratocaster.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: BCfisherman97 on October 17, 2011, 05:05:54 PM
Great day for me, we landed 4 coho, 3 hatchery and one big wild, along with 6 silver chum and 1 showing some bars. Lost a dozen or so coho along with a few springs. All fish caught on blades and one nice hatch doe on a blue fox, all in the lower. Pics to follow after I find my camera cable :P
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Preliator on October 17, 2011, 07:50:19 PM
There was a man last night who was convinced that Chums were closed and telling others that it was, and that if he saw them retain one, he was going to call DFO and have their vehicles taken away. It was sorted out with a trusty smartphone. Just a reminder to everyone to check the regs themselves before heading out and not to rely on people out on the water.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: typhoon on October 18, 2011, 03:13:35 PM
There was a man last night who was convinced that Chums were closed and telling others that it was, and that if he saw them retain one, he was going to call DFO and have their vehicles taken away. It was sorted out with a trusty smartphone. Just a reminder to everyone to check the regs themselves before heading out and not to rely on people out on the water.
Not sure where you checked but Chum retention is 0 on the Chilliwack River.
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/fresh-douce/region2-eng.htm
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Rodney on October 18, 2011, 03:15:51 PM
Not sure where you checked but Chum retention is 0 on the Chilliwack River.
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/fresh-douce/region2-eng.htm

I'm almost sure that up until a couple of days ago when I checked it, that table still says 1 per day for the daily quota of chum salmon. It must have been changed recently...
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: staffy on October 18, 2011, 04:13:16 PM
I was fishing the upper river yesterday at around 11:30am, 2 officers show up to check the licence and the lady officer told me chum retention is one per day ???
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Nitroholic on October 18, 2011, 05:20:08 PM
I'm almost sure that up until a couple of days ago when I checked it, that table still says 1 per day for the daily quota of chum salmon. It must have been changed recently...

they changed the stave too for coho from 1 to 4 with 2 over 35cm
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: nickredway on October 18, 2011, 05:40:28 PM
Good to see that they are on the ball!!!!
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Fish Assassin on October 18, 2011, 07:50:15 PM
I was fishing the upper river yesterday at around 11:30am, 2 officers show up to check the licence and the lady officer told me chum retention is one per day ???

Another example of conflicting information by DFO >:(
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Rodney on October 18, 2011, 07:53:04 PM
As I suspected, the information was changed recently.

http://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/xnet/content/fns/index.cfm?pg=search_results&lang=en&ID=recreational&Year=2011

That also explains why some officers were not aware of the changes (usually the notice gets faxed over).

Last week, I requested the Fraser River salmon daily quotas to be updated because they haven't (discussed in a thread in the general discussion area) and the manager said an email was sent to the person responsible for changing/correcting the content. I guess there were other changes needed beside the Fraser River section.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Rodney on October 18, 2011, 08:06:29 PM
You mean they changed it to 1 from 4 a day, right?  Not back to 4 from 1?

Back to 4 from 1. Previous daily quote of 1 must have been a mistake as the change has never been talked about the Sport Fishing Advisory Committee.
Title: Re: Chilliwack River, October 16th 2011
Post by: Nitroholic on October 18, 2011, 09:53:59 PM
You mean they changed it to 1 from 4 a day, right?  Not back to 4 from 1?

yeah