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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: markyboy on October 11, 2015, 09:10:06 AM
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Bar fishing the incoming tide in the evening along with six others. Very quiet, I had a few small bites but no hookups. Three guys were spinning but got no bites, only one roe fisherman caught : one wild jack, the other a dolly.
I know it's a small sample size (of one) but this time of year at this spot is usually a hot spot. Pinks in the lower were significantly more scarce this year, hope the coho isn't the same.
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the big northerns are scarce up north from what i've been hearing so far as well as the coho have been very scarce off sooke/port renfrew (at least in comparison to other years) and just starting to come in a bit better numbers last few days but not much of any size yet still.....hopefully they are just late but having some doubts....definitely still some around but thinking the numbers are not going to be very good.
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Quiet this early morning too. Only one bull trout by spinner.
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3 hos(1 was wild) yesterday + 1 dolly , on 10th . fished outgoing from 7 to 10
3 hos (all wild) , 1 jack (hatch , I lost it just before landing) , 1 dolly , on 11th. fished all day from 7am to 7pm . saw only 1 fish bonked . was pretty dead today compare to yesterday .
roe in all cases , from yesterday`s fish I had some fresh roe - worked really good .
lots of fish showing themselves , but looks like they pretty spooked to bite ... they barely barely touching roe ... very tighny nibbles ....
good luck
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Expect to see poor numbers of coho coast wide this year.
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Nice work hyrena! Ps spell check on the iPad keeps changes your alias to hernia, then 'here a' and finally on the third attempt I got it right.
Fished the incoming again tonight and my landing net is still dry :(
Eleven !!! people fishing tonight, one wild coho caught and the ten of us skunked. I saw a couple of hookups missed - one guy had 50lb braided line on [for coho ??] and just tried to drag it in without any finesse - needless to say the fish escaped (hopefully uninjured).
I hear you on the tiny nibbles, some of the biggest fish I landed last year were from nibbles that barely moved the rod tip - this year the guy that is catching (today and yesterday) probably has the lightest setup on the bank.
Will try the incoming tomorrow if I can do better. Good to know someone is catching out there.
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where do you fish ?
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Was fishing the North Arm. After an early start today produced nothing (four of us fishing - two left when the rain was coming down hard), headed over to the South Arm. Much better there, I wasn't there too long but landed a wild coho. Good to see lots of other fish being landed today. Will probably skip North arm for a little while and hit up the South arm again this week.
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Bar fished Langley/Abbotsford area today 8:15-3:45 on the outgoing tide. Only 1 jack for me which I lost while very close to shore and my brother had a larger one on that he lost as well. Saw quite a few wild coho landed, mostly by roe fishermen, a few were landed by spinners.
I had lots of tiny nibbles as well..on 2 occasions my line went slack when the fish took the bait (one of which was when I hooked the jack, the other, the fish made off with the bait).
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marky I think north is no productive this year .
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Out Sunday morning for a few hours in the rain not too far from Dyke road at hight tide. Nothing landed but a few bites and one quick battle that ended with a quickly spit hook. Had a sweet ho chasing my bag right up to the end of one drift - but no luck getting her to lip it. The Mighty Fraser skunkings continue...
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Fishing the south arm for one hour after work, only got one bull trout by Koho.
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Fished south arm from high tide in the morning, all the way down to low tide. 2 jacks caught both wild. Think everyone caught one or more fish today (all on roe) though it was overall quieter than it was the day prior. Not many fish showing all day, most of the bites were for the first couple of hours after high tide and the last couple of hours were dead.
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Fished Richmond middle arm in the evening after work..chucked lures. Had 1 solid hit on spoon..lost it due to bad hook set. Quite a few risers seen as well.
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It's been a great year for us so far, getting fish every trip on Chum roe, 3 hatch adults last night and 2 wild between 2 of us, lots of actoin.
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All mine were on spinners (chrome or brass or copper), all in Ft. Langley area, and ALL wild!
Tues 9:00 - 11:30 incoming-high - caught 2 - 6-8 fisherman around, mostly roe, all seemed to catch one or two
Thurs 9:00 - 11:00 - incoming-High slack - caught 3 - 12-15 fishing, mostly roe, not much action that I saw for them
Fri 8:30-12:00, high-high slack - skunked - 6-8 fisherman around. Half roe half hardware - I only saw 2 come in, both on hardware.
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from my buddy :
since 7am - till now , was about 6-7 people , 2 bonked , 2 let go , 1 chum snagged was let go too ... :( pretty much sucks ... will give it a try tmrw and post results
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Had some spare time late this afternoon so drove around my usual spots at south arm but was pretty full so decided to try back at the North arm though the tide wasn't quite right.
Had quite a few bites and there were definitely some fish showing but only hooked and landed one wild jack. Had a couple of huge rod bending bites but nothing there when I struck.
There were four people fishing, two roe and two spinners, everyone landed one but think there was only one keeper - medium sized hatchery.
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Was out in the Langley/Abbotsford area again; fished from ~10:45-6:15 with roe from high to outgoing tide; got skunked yet again..had a few bites and nibbles but no hook ups. It was slow overall for most people on the bar- saw only 2 fish landed the entire time I was there- 1 wild jack and 1 wild coho, both on roe. Heard from others that the early morning fishing was just as bad too.
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marky give me a call tmrw :) ill be close to north arm :)
6048358475 alex , will fish from 7 to 3-4
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I've been waiting for a report on water clarity but everyone seems to have left out this critical piece of information lol...
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water was less then 6 inches today in ridge area.
Cheers
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Around one foot at Richmond.
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around 6-8 inches in the Langley/Abbotsford area
about 1.5-2 feet in the Middle Arm (Richmond) yesterday.
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visibility in Richmond depends on how many and how often tugboats are going by :D
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North Arm, by Foreshore had pretty good visibility Friday PM (sorry a little late) with around 2.5 to 3 feet of visibility.
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Red letter day for me today (Sunday). Fished the incoming flood tide on the North arm with chum roe.
Day didn't start too well when the first fish threw the hook as I was reaching for the landing net. Was a decent sized fish and after that my fellow fishermen all took turns helping me land subsequent fish. Thanks again guys.
Thereafter caught nine coho, seven were hatchery and none of them jacks. Bonked a buck and a doe. All were a decent size though the largest was a wild.
Probably another seven or eight people fishing, only one spinning. From what I saw everyone seemed to get one fish perhaps two. Was strange that the guys either side of me were fishing almost the identical spot (our bait was between ten and twenty feet away most of the time) and all with roe but with very different results (one had a dolly, the other a hatchery coho). I put it down to 80% luck plus 20% chum roe - for me at least Berrys chum roe seems to do well in the lower fraser this time of year.
Just heading out now to get a lottery ticket.....
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Gonna be busy there tmro lol
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Well..we can count on the fact that this forum has somewhat restricted access..
Anyway congrats markyboy..sounds like you had a fantastic day. :D
I'm still waiting on landing my first cohos of the season..gotta put more time in!
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fished today with my buds , 7h hos bonked (1 jack) , about 20 let them go ( majority jacks , 2-3 were nice size hos ) , no dollys .
few people beside us were snagging and bonking chums and wild hos :((( I tried to tell them that it`s not right to bonk wild ones , but they pretend they don't hear , 1 guy after I saw him landed wild ho on a sand , after he bonked it , clip fin off and yelled at me that it`s hatch :(((( sooooo sad to see people do this ... there are tons of hatches and they do bite ... why snag or bonk wild ones ? :((((((((
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fished today with my buds , 7h hos bonked (1 jack) , about 20 let them go ( majority jacks , 2-3 were nice size hos ) , no dollys .
few people beside us were snagging and bonking chums and wild hos :((( I tried to tell them that it`s not right to bonk wild ones , but they pretend they don't hear , 1 guy after I saw him landed wild ho on a sand , after he bonked it , clip fin off and yelled at me that it`s hatch :(((( sooooo sad to see people do this ... there are tons of hatches and they do bite ... why snag or bonk wild ones ? :((((((((
Did you report them?
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Did you report them?
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I did called few times , and nothing , also from what I read on this forum majority times they don't show up .
Just look at snagfest at Seymour mouth and cap , look at cap now , look at stave , look at vedder . they just don't care .
I told those guys that it was wild , and they knew that , but after my friends left I stayed with my bud and oldman . I prefer to stay away from people like those , and I don't want to ending up in unequal fight .
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I did called few times , and nothing , also from what I read on this forum majority times they don't show up .
Just look at snagfest at Seymour mouth and cap , look at cap now , look at stave , look at vedder . they just don't care .
I told those guys that it was wild , and they knew that , but after my friends left I stayed with my bud and oldman . I prefer to stay away from people like those , and I don't want to ending up in unequal fight .
Thanks for calling. Officers don't respond to snagging calls, but they do respond to poaching ie. keeping wild coho, keeping salmon over retention limits. And it goes into their database so officers know where to target in the future. Thanks again for saying something to the violators and calling RAPP.
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In response to, they don't care.. I've been checked twice at the Cap at least. Once it was under the Highway 1 bridge. There were 2 of them and they were watching behind the trees for a while to see what people were doing before coming out to check licenses and such. They also will look down from the bridge above sometimes. I've been checked in many places I've fished in the past few years: Squamish R, Furry Creek, Cap River, South Arm Fraser R, Weaver Lake, Browning Lake, Campbell River. They do come out.
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Not to highjack the thread, but in my experience they do take action to check people to follow the regulations although they don't respond to an instant reporting. In the past, I had been checked at around 4:30 in the early morning when I was fishing for sturgeon at the tidal Fraser, also had been checked twice at the same spot, same evening within 3 hours. Many times at White Rock and Belcarra when crabbing, some of them were undercover officers. This year I had been checked twice during the Pink season. I had reported people using more than 2 hooks or using barbed hooks in the tidal Fraser, keeping undersized crabs, they do ask me the details and I was told by other anglers that they do send officers to check in the later days. I agree that they may not respond to some certain call immediately, but if we keep reporting these violations to them, those violators surely will be caught one of these days.
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The important thing to remember when calling RAPP, is that they do not have an abundance of staff, that is there is not someone sitting by the phone ready to run out the instant a call comes in. What they have are people out in the field and their ability to respond to your call will be determined by their proximity to your location at the time of your call and their availability (they may already be responding to a call, or a half a dozen calls, when your call comes in). If they are close by, and they are not already responding to earlier calls, they may show up within the hour (as I have seen happen at the Stave). Never assume your call will be ignored...it will certainly go unchecked if you never actually make the call.
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Never assume your call will be ignored...it will certainly go unchecked if you never actually make the call.
Sandman nailed it. They record all the calls and use the data/stat to allocate their resources. Thanks for calling. You did your part. Now back to the topic.... How's visibility in the maple ridge to Langley area these days? :D ;)
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Sandman nailed it. They record all the calls and use the data/stat to allocate their resources. Thanks for calling. You did your part. Now back to the topic.... How's visibility in the maple ridge to Langley area these days? :D ;)
The last time I checked was around 6-8 inches in the Langley area..that was last Saturday.
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Vis is not great, milky and less than a foot. Walked through Derby to The Fort yesterday and back, ton of rods at the day use area and every campsite had one or more out, saw no action or fish etc.
Not one person using a bell either, If I was there for a few days all comfy by the fire I think I would need a bell lol.
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Vis is around 1 foot in Richmond
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will fish tmrw afternoon
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about 1 ft. or so in the North Arm yesterday (Friday) evening.
Will be fishing Langley/Abbotsford today.