Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: ICA on September 25, 2013, 04:13:28 PM
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Any of you fine fishermen know when the real fresh run begins and normally where ie. does the Squamish get them first? Thanks in advance fellas!
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stave gets a decent run starting in october not a lot of access now due to the dam construction
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The Squamish run is slightly behind the Vedder but many of those chum there are chrome or near chrome. You have one of those and you want to throw back most of your Stave chum.
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Also, there's plenty of room to fish,unlike the Vedder. Just remember that one hour after high tide is best time to fish
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I landed a chum sunday on the Vedder. it was already to dark to take home ???
I have caught them so bullet chrome in the Vedder you cant tell what they are until they are tailed, this of course is not the norm
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The Squamish run is slightly behind the Vedder but many of those chum there are chrome or near chrome. You have one of those and you want to throw back most of your Stave chum.
Just a gentle reminder that the Squamish and it`s tributaries offer zero retention of chum salmon, it is strictly catch & release. However, there will be coho in the system as well, and you can keep one hatchery coho per day. Cheers!
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Just a gentle reminder that the Squamish and it`s tributaries offer zero retention of chum salmon, it is strictly catch & release. However, there will be coho in the system as well, and you can keep one hatchery coho per day. Cheers!
EXCELLENT REMINDER for the uneducated and the "forgetful".
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I got a chum yesterday at vedder to was not so chrome near chrome
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I gotta chum the other day on the vedder too
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http://www.psc.org/info_testfishing_summaries.htm
I was just looking at the data for the last few days, and I found it interesting (and a bit exciting) to see the coho and chum numbers steadily rising. The chums are outnumbering the pinks at this point, and almost up to 100 per day.
So are chum readily catchable in the tidal fraser like Pinks are once the numbers are there? Is there a strong run up Pitt River?
Whats a good method for targeting chum?
Any suggestions on locations? I have been to the Sapperton Pier in New West, but nobody seems to be catching anything there lately.
Thanks!
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The chum are much farther out, closer to the middle of the river, unlike the pinks which travel closer to shore. Try the Stave, Squamish, Vedder or Harrison River if you want to get into chum, your arms will be sore.
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What about the mouth of the Coquitlam River? I was thinking about going for a walk through the bushes or along the Mary Hill Bypass to get out to the mouth (I only have a salt water license right this moment, and dont have the money for a fresh water for a few weeks.)
Is the mouth of the Stave River accessible? Just to make sure, its boundary between salt and fresh is the railroad *right* at the mouth right?
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Not sure about the mouths or boundary's, I usually stick to fishing the river itself. How do you access the coq river? I live near it but have never been there?
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Its generally quite easy to access the Coq river. A big trail runs right beside a lot of it, its beside Lions Park in PoCo, You can get to it almost anywhere off Pipeline north of the mall... There is plenty of options. The boundary for salt is the bridge on the Mary Hill bypass, so I figured that gives me a small chunk of the mouth I can fish between the Fraser and that bridge. If I can't find a path through the trees or anything, there is a pretty decent looking shoulder on the road I was thinking I could probably walk along on the road...
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Its generally quite easy to access the Coq river. A big trail runs right beside a lot of it, its beside Lions Park in PoCo, You can get to it almost anywhere off Pipeline north of the mall... There is plenty of options. The boundary for salt is the bridge on the Mary Hill bypass, so I figured that gives me a small chunk of the mouth I can fish between the Fraser and that bridge. If I can't find a path through the trees or anything, there is a pretty decent looking shoulder on the road I was thinking I could probably walk along on the road...
There is a trail from the boat launch parking lot up to the mouth.
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with the construction - first the new bridge, the improvements to the M_H bypass and now taking the old bridge down, the trail has been closed for some time.
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Actually I was there a few weeks ago and the trail starting from colony farms to the mouth is still open. At high tide there is not much room to fish mind you.
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How long is the walk from colony farms?
Where would I park my car?
I am familiar with the area some-what, as I do live around here, but dont really spend any time around Colony Farms...
Also, that would put me on the west side of the river right? I would have to see it up close, but it seemed to me there is more room on the East side?
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How long is the walk from colony farms?
Where would I park my car?
I am familiar with the area some-what, as I do live around here, but dont really spend any time around Colony Farms...
Then go down there and spend some time...
Come on, seriously...
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I was on the East side of the river, walking along the boardwalk along the Fraser, just off Shaugnessey like two days ago. Thats when I got the idea of trying to forge a path through the bushes or just walk along the Bypass to the bridge...
I mean Im not familiar with Colony Farms so much, as I never have any reason (until now, perhaps?) to go in there. Used to ride my bike around there as a kid, but that was 15 years ago, not much use to me now.
Looking on Google Maps, I can see a small parking lot off Colony Farms Road, and a pathway that appears to lead from there to the west side of the river mouth. Is that correct? I am a fulltime student, with kids, and a job, I dont have a tonne of time to just go exploring, thats why I ask here. I figure why spend time exploring when I could be spending that time fishing...
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yes drive down Colony Park rd park in the parking lot.
The beach is small and the water is slow and quite shallow at the mouth, waders are recommended.
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Leader Bar is at Maquabeak Park (just west through the trees) and there is lots of room to fish there. All the fish that pass the Coquitlam Mouth go past there. There is also some pretty fair water off Argue road just east of the Maryhill Bypass Coquitlam River Bridge. From there you can walk over the bridge to the trail to the river mouth. I used to work in Poco and fished some of these places fairly frequently. It's really not that great but worth a few hours for the outing. Colony Farms Park contains a mile or 2 of the lower Coquitlam River and I often walked or biked there. Never saw anyone fish there - tells you something.
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I used to live right off the Coquitlam River when I was a kid - almost 20 years ago now.
We used to go to the river during salmon time, and catch them by hand. Just find a skinny deep flow to stand over, and wait. So there certainly USED to be lots of fish up this river, although I hear about no retention along the river in the freshwater, and think maybe the stocks are not what they used to be?
Im going to check out what I can get to from the path out of Colony Farms, and then later see about getting through the bushes from Argue Road to the opposite bank of the river. It looks like there is more space to stand on the East bank, but there doesnt seem to be any trails leading there.
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Just a gentle reminder that the Squamish and it`s tributaries offer zero retention of chum salmon, it is strictly catch & release. However, there will be coho in the system as well, and you can keep one hatchery coho per day. Cheers!
Not much point in going to target hatch coho in the Squamish system, there aren't many.
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I'm curious about fishing for chum in the tidal. Particularly around Langley, if possible. I've never tried this fishery, but now that I have a small boat, I'd love to be able to put in locally and give them a try.
Spoons? Roe? Trolling? "plunking" from a boat with roe/spin glows and stay anchored?
Are the chum still pretty bright up this far?
Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm curious about fishing for chum in the tidal. Particularly around Langley, if possible. I've never tried this fishery, but now that I have a small boat, I'd love to be able to put in locally and give them a try.
Spoons? Roe? Trolling? "plunking" from a boat with roe/spin glows and stay anchored?
Are the chum still pretty bright up this far?
Any help would be appreciated.
Yes you can get some clean chum in the langley area. Try twitching jigs, casting spoons or drifting jigs under a float.
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I'm curious about fishing for chum in the tidal. Particularly around Langley, if possible. I've never tried this fishery, but now that I have a small boat, I'd love to be able to put in locally and give them a try.
I'm not sure if this is any help but I inadvertantly managed to land a few chum last year plunking with roe. I was bar fishing with roe for coho in New West. It was crowded along the beach so I went to cast from another angle, trying to position my roe on the sand bar. I think I ended up just past the shallow bar a bit and was in deeper faster water just outside and landed 3 chum..but no coho.
oh.. I was using Pautzke's Fire Cure Red chum roe.
Prawn tip jigs under a float are my go to for chum but if that doesn't work because it's too deep, you may want to find a bar fishing spot and plunk just outside of the lineup..???