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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: dave c on October 14, 2014, 12:47:01 AM
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Arrived first light with the hopes of bagging a few doe chum. With the tide came the boats. Lots of fish rolling none taken. On the way back to truck saw a guy cleaning a coho while his buddy fought a chum. He didn't want the roe from his coho so I gladly took it off his hands. Decided to throw a few casts. Second cast with a bronze and orange croc brought a silver bullet hatch buck to the beach. Two casts later had another coho on but lost it due to a poor knot. DUH. coho were a pleasant surprise. I am heading to the vedder tomorrow. I hope it isn't blown out with all the rain we've had tonight.
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Everything is going to be blown today I think.
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I hit the Stave yesterday too and got a couple nice chum does for the smoker and to top up the roe supply. Didnt see a coho taken in the 4-5 hours I was there.
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Stave Coho numbers seem to be down from the same time last year. I've managed to hook a couple but by this time last year, first light was very good this year it is okay at best. There are fish but no guarantees.
When I look at the number of fish inch creek stocks in the Stave I see the following:
Stave R, 2010 Brood Year Stave R Yearling Smolt, 227,356
Stave R, 2011 Brood Year Stave R Yearling Smolt, 73,557
Based on those numbers I am guessing we will only see about 1/3 of the fish. What I don't know is timing of returns.
Can anyone help? My assumption is 2010 fish would have returned in 2013 and 20111 Brood year fish in 2014?
Is that correct?
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I'm seeing Stave Coho releases of:
223K in 2010
228K in 2011
74K in 2013
76K in 2014
I don't think the 2013 smolts will be returning this year.
http://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/DocumentsForWebAccess/HatcheryReleaseReports/ReleaseReport.aspx?IDValue=150
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Can anyone help? My assumption is 2010 fish would have returned in 2013 and 20111 Brood year fish in 2014?
Is that correct?
That's correct.
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Thanks very much Rod.
So I guess seeing less fish this year makes sense. It is strange. I hear they are reducing the nubers stocked because the work on the Dam was going to reduce pressue. I was their yesterday and it seems to be having little impact on pressue.
Although - The RCMP and tow tricks were there towing away cars.
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only tried one spot but, saw more coho around and caught by others than chum, only saw one chum show itself. Jigs and spinners let me down today lol but i did get there late~