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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: CohoMan on October 18, 2012, 03:10:45 PM
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I was out today in the morning fishing up and down the canal vicinity.
I am very surprised that I did not see my float go down once nor did I see any "V"s moving upstream.
Anyone have better luck?
(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/steelieman/photo1-2.jpg)
Picture taken by the lovely wife.
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The picture is almost painting-esque! Very nice. Too bad the fishing was slow.
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The picture is almost painting-esque! Very nice. Too bad the fishing was slow.
It IS a nice picture, but geez, did she take that picture with a toaster or what? Haven't seen a low-resolution photo like that since the '90's :)
Again, very nice pic though :)
D$
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Yes, very nice picture, but what about the salmon? Where is it? :-\
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She "Instagram" the photo from her iPhone 5... ;)
No fish though today. The water condition was just perfect but I am surprised at the lack of fish moving.
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Had the exact same thing today except I hooked into a wild jack. Only saw one fish jump the entire 6 hours I was there too.
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excellent my plan is working nicely
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Man you really need to stop fishing the canal all the time, Theres a time and a place... lol
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:) :) :)
Today was a good day.
I know it's better with photos but I was solo.
Finally landed my first coho on the Vedder. Actually 2 of them... wild, about 5-6 lbs chrome.
I was on the Lower Vedder, arrived at about 10:00 am. Had the run to myself with 2 other fishers across the river to keep me company. Perfect.
Third cast, float disappears. Not to be negative, but I'm so familiar with being skunked since early September that I'm kind of in shock, and I react way too slow. Reel in and my roe is gone. I re-roe and drift back to the same place... float goes down and I'm ready this time ... fish on.
It kind of sits at the bottom, I see so many dark chum jumping around, I'm assuming it's one of them. "think it's a chum" I say across the river. Bring it in closer and it's silver. Wild coho. It inhaled my hook/roe very deeply. I tried my best to be gentle and quickly cut the line, but there was a bit of fumbling on my part trying to get at my scissors.
No action for a bit, moved up the run a bit to fish around where I had been standing in the water. Drifts by literally where I was standing, my float goes down and I pull. I thought I had a snag at first because I wasn't sure if it was where I was standing --- which is ankle deep --- or the drop off a foot over. My drag goes, it's a fish. Thought I had it, but the hook flies back at me. Darn.
Nothing for a half hour... are you suppose to fence post with salmon fishing or work the run?
Anyways, I move down to where I had caught a wild steelhead last season. Bench sitters are watching from across the river. First drift, I'm not paying attention because I'm looking at the people across the river. Where's my float? I pull and the rod bends. Fish on.. reel it in.. trying to figure out where to land the it. See that it's wild as I look down the steep bank. Again, hook/roe inhaled. Cut my leader.
Sweet.
Started to rain, couldn't feel my fingers. Went to Tim Horton's as i hadn't eaten all morning, and was surprised to see it was 3:30 pm. I had been fishing for 5 hours?
Didn't really want to go back out after eating and being warm, but it's a long drive from Vancouver.
Out I go to fish another run I had caught a steelhead on. It was late, so no fence posting. It felt like steelheading, not a soul on the run. Float goes down..... and this time it's ... a "toxic tiger" as my buddy like to refer to them. 10 lb gnarly male chum.. bless aggressive hearts. Thankfully, perfectly hooked on the snout... released with no fuss.
My Pautzke's roe (first time cured and used on river) held up like a champ. Very impressed with it's longevity.... and it caught fish. Short floating, good roe, sickle hooks, 8 lb Seaguar... two thumbs up. Stuff works. Kept dry, lean and mean, everything worked efficiently. Roe box on wading belt is the bomb.
Learned a lot. It was a good day.
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On a separate note, to those experienced.
I followed Pautzke's instructions and roe has been in a jar for 3 days (going on 4). I have quite a bit of it. The roe I used today, I cut into fishable chunks, dried them on a rack skein up for 5-6 hours (while sleeping), then tossed the chunks in fresh borax (shake and bake style) and put the pieces in my roe box in fresh borax once coated.
I'm not going to freeze what I think I'll need for the remainder of the season.
My question. Since I have quite a bit of cured roe, should I:
A) cut into chunks, dry/follow above procedure first, like I did, store in borax and put in freezer? Then thaw in fridge when needed and just use.
B) put cured skeins directly in freezer in airtight container with no borax, maybe wrapped individually in saran wrap ... but no borax. And dry/follow above procedure the night before use.
C) full skein, borax, freezer... dry the night before use.
The reason I ask, is that I find once skeins have been in borax, and thawed... they get mushy very fast.
Probably being pretty anal.. but good roe is hard to come by. I'm sick of relying on the stuff they sell at the shops.. if you can get it.
Thanks in advance.
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Ya! I agree, get away from the canal.
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No... Stay there... That's where ALL the fish are... Yes...
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I was all over the river today with a friend, and we found lots of willing chum and even springs. Coho were there, too, but they were uncooperative (too many chums for coho comfort).
Landed a couple chum, a nice spring, but no chrome joy for me today. We fished both fly and gear.
The canal was dead, and so was the the lower river. The mid river was slightly better, but not much. It seems all the action has moved up river - there were easily 100 cars between Tamahi and the hatchery. On a Thursday in pounding rain. ::)
The river was holding up in terms of clarity and colour until quite late, but she started coming up in the last hours of the afternoon. With the way it is raining, it will be blown out tomorrow.
Time for the honey-do list.
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Consider yourself lucky. I covered lots of water today and didn't touch a coho. I didn't even see one landed the whole day.
Good on you for having success on a day when most people left the river skunked.
As for the roe, I can't help you with that, but I am sure our resident goo experts will chime in soon.
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You should write a book !
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Option A
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Hit the river around 3pm, got to my spot just as it was starting to rain. No one in sight. landed my 4 coho but lost 8 on top of that. Then the river blew out ;D
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Hit the river around 3pm, got to my spot just as it was starting to rain. No one in sight. landed my 4 coho but lost 8 on top of that. Then the river blew out ;D
Chris: "Must be flossing."
Milo: "Must be using roe, feeding fish, no skills."
Me: "Where?????????? Tell me, tell me, tell me."
:) :) :)
That's a good day indeed! ;) Sometimes, for me anyway, after the float hasn't gone down for so long and it finally does, you question it for a brief second in your head. ;D
They are also found in the most ridiculously shallow parts of the river sometimes.
I usually go with option C, but I don't add borax before freezing my roe. I take mine out from the freezer the night before, so it defrosts and dries a bit more before it gets tossed in borax in the bait box. I usually cut them as I fish, sometimes I cut them into pieces just before I start fishing.
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Chris: "Must be flossing."
Milo: "Must be using roe, feeding fish, no skills."
Me: "Where?????????? Tell me, tell me, tell me."
That's a good day indeed! ;) Sometimes, for me anyway, after the float hasn't gone down for so long and it finally does, you question it for a brief second in your head. ;D
They are also found in the most ridiculously shallow parts of the river sometimes.
I usually go with option C, but I don't add borax before freezing my roe. I take mine out from the freezer the night before, so it defrosts and dries a bit more before it gets tossed in borax in the bait box. I usually cut them as I fish, sometimes I cut them into pieces just before I start fishing.
Yes he would have learnt how to do this from a chap that is now on the Island and now does his trade there. ;D ;D
As I told you while we fished Gwyn's the other day the coho season is done for the most part on the Chilliwack Vedder especially with the high water that many asked for and now have their wish. along with the unfavorable clarity situation we are now faced with.
Time for you to get ready for your baby duties anyway. ;D ;D
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Chris: "Must be flossing."
Milo: "Must be using roe, feeding fish, no skills."
Me: "Where?????????? Tell me, tell me, tell me."
Excellent moderating Rodney! I can imagine how many pages of posts would have followed BigFishers post.... nice summary. ;D
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I got 2 coho last night, countless chum and a jack. Sounds like you need to change your spot.
All caught on a #4 hamered nickel blade
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Time for you to get ready for your baby duties anyway. Grin Grin
You mean any time now.Is it going to be a blue or pink ;D ;D
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Milo: "Must be using roe, feeding fish, no skills."
X2
Oh, wait...I am Milo. :D
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As I told you while we fished Gwyn's the other day the coho season is done for the most part on the Chilliwack Vedder especially with the high water that many asked for and now have their wish. along with the unfavorable clarity situation we are now faced with
It's funny some of the people that think because the conditions in the canal are not optimal, the season is done. There are plenty of fresh, chrome coho around, and the canal islands being slightly underwater is far from "high water" ::)