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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: yoda on October 13, 2013, 10:23:33 AM

Title: Squamish
Post by: yoda on October 13, 2013, 10:23:33 AM

Has anyone been to the squamish lately?
Just wondering if they will be opening for chums. The numbers are up for the fraser, but there is not a lot of info on the squamish.
Maybe(hopefully) they rebound like the pinks did there.
Any info would be appreciated. I noticed commercial openings for chum in a lot of the other ocean areas(commercialy)

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: silver ghost on October 13, 2013, 12:27:49 PM

It's still too early to tell. An in-season decision will be made later in the season. With the low numbers trending for that season, an opening is unlikely.

Personally, I hope it doesn't open at all even if more show up than usual... chum in squamish still need time to recover.

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Humpy on October 13, 2013, 12:43:11 PM

just hit up the stave for chum. I'd rather not fish the squamish because of the previous the poor returns

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: chronic_topdawg on October 13, 2013, 01:18:01 PM

pffff not much here, floated a jig for two hours got 1,  Go home no fish here. 

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Kever on October 13, 2013, 08:32:52 PM

Yep, a friend reported poor fishing. Some zombies, a few tight lipped springs and the odd coho if your lucky. The only fish he saw caught today was a small coho.

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Hugo on December 07, 2013, 09:45:08 PM

How big is chance to catch hatchery coho in Squamish ?

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: TheFishingLad on December 07, 2013, 09:57:45 PM

From reading above id say slim

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Knnn on December 07, 2013, 10:27:19 PM

Currently there are very few coho unless you target the spawning fish further up, which would be pretty bad form.

Based on the numbers I have seen and/or heard about, the ratio seams to be at least 10 wild to 1 hatchery or possibly more like 20:1.  So even when fresh running your odds are pretty low.

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Hugo on December 09, 2013, 08:46:43 PM

Yes, you guys are right , in total 19 coho in two weekends, no one hatchery marked  :-\
I guess, didn't get twentieth, which definitely shall be hatchery marked  ;)

By the way, it was total fun, fishing between floating ice (last Sunday)  ;D

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: zap brannigan on December 09, 2013, 09:09:18 PM

Later run fish seem to mostly be wilds, odd hatchery fish but don't get your hopes up.

Title: Re: Squamish
Post by: Ian Forbes on December 09, 2013, 09:26:50 PM

It is good to hear that coho have returned to the Squamish in reasonable numbers. When I lived there in the 1970s we could always catch a limit of fresh fish in October and early November. If we got a break in the weather we could always catch Bull trout in the winter. There were side channels off the main-stem river where the coho spawned, but excessive logging wiped them out after every heavy rain. The government was never interested in protecting those crucial places.