Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Brothersage on December 03, 2015, 10:10:01 AM
-
Hit the canyon at first light water was really low but gave it a shot anyways. My buddy and I didnt get into any coho and only saw a handfull sitting there. We did get into 4 nice size cutties on a jig. We then decided to walk down river below the hatchery and saw more fish in some deep water. Managed to hook 2 fish but only landed 1 hatchery coho on roe. Slow day but it was nice to get out.
-
Really did not see may fish in the canyon at all this year.
-
Yeah i was a bit surprised at the number of fish up there. Even the chum numbers are down. We hiked atleast 3km down from the hatchery before we saw anything and even then the numbers were low.
-
....pretty sure it's the lowest #s I've ever seen in my years fishing there....counting in singles and tens instead of hundreds...
-
Haven't seen many on the cam either
-
The lower was completely infested with chums a month ago. Absolutely full of them.
I kept one for the first time, not as bad as people say. very similar to pink
not a lot of cohos though...
-
It's to bad cuz it's such a beautiful river to fish. Its been a weird year on that river. Usually the chum are up in the canyon too. Hopefully the steelheading will make up for the coho fishing.
-
It's to bad cuz it's such a beautiful river to fish. Its been a weird year on that river. Usually the chum are up in the canyon too. Hopefully the steelheading will make up for the coho fishing.
I doubt it. I heard they accidently killed the hatchery fish that would be returning this year.
-
I have to agree that the numbers of fish I saw this year were well below what I've seen since I've been fishing it (not saying too much as I am a lot younger than most of you). I remember seeing piles of fish in some areas that would only hold 10-15 fish this year. But at the same, I had my best year by far. To think of it, fishing really was amazing this year with no too much pressure at all in the areas I fished. At the same time, I did not see many fish caught by others at all. Saw one guy catch 3 on the other side from me in October and two younger guys land 2 in the tail of the section I was fishing and that was it. A lot of the guys I talked to weren't touching fish. And again, saw virtually a handful of fish in the several times I walked into the canyon in the afternoons.
-
I doubt it. I heard they accidently killed the hatchery fish that would be returning this year.
They weren't killed, there was a mishap at the hatchery and due to the incident all fish were released into the Stave instead.
-
I doubt it. I heard they accidently killed the hatchery fish that would be returning this year.
Excuse me Dion - who's "they"???
-
They weren't killed, there was a mishap at the hatchery and due to the incident all fish were released into the Stave instead.
Can you elaborate on this? This is the first I've heard. (Not that I'm in the know)
-
Can you elaborate on this? This is the first I've heard. (Not that I'm in the know)
Heard it through the grape vine...
Basically there was a possibility that some Stave fry ended up in the Chehalis fry (or vise versa) while a count or some sort of assessment was being done to the fry.
-
Shitty.
-
Heard it through the grape vine...
Basically there was a possibility that some Stave fry ended up in the Chehalis fry (or vise versa) while a count or some sort of assessment was being done to the fry.
*grapevine
-
*grapevine
;D
-
Coho on the stave was decent for me this year ;D
In early October the hatchery had about a quarter tank of coho while multiple other thanks were full of chum so hopefully enough not to create a cascading effect then..
-
I had not fished the Chehalis for more than 12 years. It sad to heard that there hardly coho around. I first pounded this river back in late 80's when the first hatchery coho came back. It was truely awesome fishing back then. Used to drive my truck up to Easter Seal gravel bar and on good day I used to catch more than 30 coho a day using small gold corkie.
Silex-user
-
I had not fished the Chehalis for more than 12 years. It sad to heard that there hardly coho around. I first pounded this river back in late 80's when the first hatchery coho came back. It was truely awesome fishing back then. Used to drive my truck up to Easter Seal gravel bar and on good day I used to catch more than 30 coho a day using small gold corkie.
Silex-user
Yep. That and the old run below the hatchery used to be phenomenal fishing! Good fly water too, if you didn't get crowded out by the gear guys. But then I became a gear guy too! :) Those were the days... :-\
-
There is still a pretty good run of coho, but I imagine it isn't even close to how it was before. 30 fish days are still pretty possible, the thing I've noticed is that only certain areas get fish fish pulled out of them consistently where others rarely hold a fish even if they look good. There are a few sections of a few holes that almost always hold a good amount of fish that you can count on. I can only imagine how good it was back when you guys fished it. I remember tagging along with my dad when I was really young, when it used to flow right out of the hatchery channel (back in the day where guys used to line up on that little point just outside of the hatchery trail to floss fish. Really crazy how much that river has changed and just the amount of trees it has piled up down in the lower end, can only imagine how much force is in that water to be able to do that. Really wish I could have seen the river back in the "glory days" when you guys used to fish it.
-
Once this river blew out through the forest , it went down hill from there. I remember hiking up and down the log jams seeing lots of coho trapped in pools sread all down the new channels . Season after season I seen the same thing . The water would come up and trap more and more coho . I rember seeing fresh coho dead all down the fingers of the river . Then the attempt to bring in heavy equipment to carve it back to the original channel was a big failure . I heard the money ran out and the job wasn't completed but that is just hear say . I think most of the coho are going up the hatchery channel from the Harrison .
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k532/Armytruck2010/go%20fish%20102_zpscdpsz1xj.jpg) (http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/Armytruck2010/media/go%20fish%20102_zpscdpsz1xj.jpg.html)
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k532/Armytruck2010/go%20fish%20100_zpspgtspqrc.jpg) (http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/Armytruck2010/media/go%20fish%20100_zpspgtspqrc.jpg.html)
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k532/Armytruck2010/go%20fish%20099_zpshvinqtan.jpg) (http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/Armytruck2010/media/go%20fish%20099_zpshvinqtan.jpg.html)
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k532/Armytruck2010/go%20fish%20095_zpsl6gylvfl.jpg) (http://s1114.photobucket.com/user/Armytruck2010/media/go%20fish%20095_zpsl6gylvfl.jpg.html)
-
Thanks for the old pics, such a shame as it looks like prime gravel beds for spawning.
I stopped in last week with the wife on our way to Harrison Hot Springs and walked along the hatchery channel to where the thick brush starts and it looked kind of bleek, we did see a healthy black bear off in the distance chewing on what I assumed was a chum and turned around before it got a sniff of us. Even less eagles than usual.
-
was def a poor year at the chehalis this year. the weather wasnt really on the weekend warriors side. before the last storm was in the canyon and was into 6. landed my biggest fish of the year on the last trip. got some sic pics.
(http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g365/bigblockfox545/20151129_133055_zps6wjqfk5e.jpg) (http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/bigblockfox545/media/20151129_133055_zps6wjqfk5e.jpg.html)
(http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g365/bigblockfox545/20151129_154307_zpsgqeiqmmf.jpg) (http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/bigblockfox545/media/20151129_154307_zpsgqeiqmmf.jpg.html)
(http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g365/bigblockfox545/20151129_102155_zpsy8oxu2iq.jpg) (http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/bigblockfox545/media/20151129_102155_zpsy8oxu2iq.jpg.html)
-
I only fished the chehalis once this season, and I didn't land anything. I don't fish with roe for the most part and that was the problem. I had a few hits on spoons, and had a nice little cuttie come close but lost it. I was sitting at a cut bank and I could see all the fish but wasn't having any luck. This nice guy from chilliwack was walking and I waved him over to the cut bank. He hooked up with 3 Chrome coho within 30 minutes on roe.
This was mid October, and the numbers looked low to what I have seen in the past.