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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Long_Cast on October 12, 2013, 06:22:20 PM
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I fished New West for about 2 hours from 12:15 - 14:15 with spinners and spoons and I had zero bites and zero fish followed my lure. Other fishermen caught nothing too. I believe the sunny skies and somewhat clear water contributed to the difficult fishing conditions.
I'm still on my quest to hook a coho for this month.
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We had a pretty good day landing these 2 bucks - 1 was caught on a homemade spinner (nickel blade/metallic blue body) and the other was caught on a black Pen-Tac spoon with orange tape. 1 was caught an hour before high tide and the other was an hour after high tide. We each lost a couple others and saw a bunch surfacing, despite the strong wind and 12 commercial gill netter boats just downstream from us. Good start to the weekend!
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Nice cohos!
How fast was your lure retrieve? Also, did you let the lures sink near the bottom and started the retrieve, or did you just started reeling when the lure hit the surface?
When I was fishing today, most of the cohos were visible near the centre section of the river.
Did you hook them near the shore or closer to the centre section of the Fraser?
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Very nice Dr. Backlash... :)
most of the cohos were visible near the centre section of the river.
Most of those are chum salmon.
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Lure retrieve is as slow as possible to maintain the "thump thump" vibration of the spinner blade - it depends on how strong the tide is ripping or if its slack - the main thing is to keep the "thump thump" going. Most of the time I like to let the lures sink for at least a few seconds and sometimes I wait until it hits bottom before I start reeling; unless I'm casting right along the shoreline in very shallow water, then I start reeling almost immediately after it hits the water so I don't get snagged. I've hooked them almost immediately after I start reeling, but most of the time it seems that they like to follow the lure for a good ways and I hook them relatively close to shore. Hopefully today will be as lucky as yesterday. Good luck everyone!
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water is filthy, vis was only 3 inches, fishing was crap.
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water is filthy, vis was only 3 inches, fishing was crap.
Today?
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Spent most of the day by the dog park. Seen one zombie swim by but that was it. Bait produced nothing but bullheads. Otherwise, it was still a nice day on the river.
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yup...Langley area.
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Today?
Ditto (today)
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I almost called you to go there today Roy.
Stayed home and nursed my head cold instead.
Too bad it has coloured up.
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A nice, all be it wild doe still seemed to find my roe in the dirty water :) Fish was caught at 12:30 in the Delta area.
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Nothing for me for today after a hour of fishing during high tide.
Water was definitely very muddy and murky.
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I almost called you to go there today Roy.
Stayed home and nursed my head cold instead.
Too bad it has coloured up.
Bruce, it was pretty crappy, albeit a beautiful day, 4 hours and not a sniff. 2 days ago I got into 3 in just over an hour. gonna have to give it at least a few days. I did hear the sturgeon fishing was pretty damn good though.
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I ventured out to my usual Pink Salmon fishing spot (Richmond / Delta area) yesterday (Oct 13 2013). I hit it right around high tide. No fish were showing. Water was about 3 - 6 inches of visibility.
Lost 2 (long line release - I didn't even see the fish), and one 8lb wild Coho to the beach (carefully released). The hot lure was a blue & silver Koho spoon. The fish were not close in like all the Pinks I caught this year, they were waaaaayyyyy out there.
I will see how today is.
John
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Fished near the mouth of the Coquitlam River from 1.30 to 3. Lots of jumping fish early on, none by the time I left.
Fished spoons and spinners, nothing caught. Two others tossed metal for like30 minutes with no bites before moving on.
Three boats set up shop for a while at different intervals. No fish for them that I saw.
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Fished near the mouth of the Coquitlam River from 1.30 to 3. Lots of jumping fish early on, none by the time I left.
Fished spoons and spinners, nothing caught. Two others tossed metal for like30 minutes with no bites before moving on.
Three boats set up shop for a while at different intervals. No fish for them that I saw.
How was the water clarity? I'm assuming it was today you were fishing and not oct 12th, yes?