Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: scales on September 06, 2004, 09:45:22 PM
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Read an article some time ago stating that the Vedder river hatchery was trying to introduce a fall red spring run. Heard of a few caught in Sept/Oct in the last couple of years at the Vedder, perhaps we will see more fall reds in the system in future. :D
Remarkable summer red spring returns this year. Drop by the hatchery to view and appreciate the summer returns.
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Fall run red springs being introduced to the Vedder? I haven't heard that yet but who knows. I agree with Doc, you don't see many Red's in sept, the ones you do get are usually old summer fish (Bowron stock). Is there such a thing as a Fall run Red Chinook?
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If there is such a thing as fall run red chinook fishery it's a big secret. All the chinooks I've caught from the Vedder have been white.
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It's hard to believe a fall run of reds but I've heard this too many times now and seen the odd chrome Oct. reds to 20#. I'll have to dig deeper into some old literature to find the answer. Better yet a call to the hatchery should verify this. :o
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Upload the pictures to http://www.dotphoto.com
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I've inserted it in his original q, about 3 or so above.
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Nice Jack Doc! What's the date on that one? It doesn't look like a summer red that you get in July.......that's a chromer all right.
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I never thought much of them introducing Harrison whites to the Vedder for as far as I know, they were never native to the Vedder in the first place.
I personally hate em when they get in the river and crowd out the coho.
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I know that for the last three years a small run of red springs comes thru between the first and second week of October. Usually I don't keep Vedder springs but each year at that time I'm into nice bright fish and we were quite surprised they were reds. Now I keep an open space on my licence for that one last red. Those are picked up in the canal on a single orange jensen egg and have ranged from 12 - 28lbs.
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Nice little bonus no doubt. I killed one myself a few years back, a jack in late sept. I thought it was more of an anomoly than a run of fish. The Jack had orangey-marble meat & was definitely not a White.
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Yeah, I caught one of them last year. It's about 9lbs. I thought that, for some reason, the summer red must have somehow interbred with the fall whites.
What exactly is the story on this? ???
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last year some of the member brought this topic up already,of coarse there are always has some non beleiver .but they are here in the fall.(small run).cause every year i did caught 1 or 2...beleive or not ;)-remember you have to put a lot of time in the river ;)
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3 or 4 years ago, I got a red spring about 15 lbs under the highway bridge in February on a colorado spoon.
I was expecting a steelhead (first on a spoon) until I got it close to shore. Maybe this fish was headed to the upper reaches of the Fraser and got lost? I guest that in the grand scheme of things going 4 km out of your way for a bit isnt a big problem. ???
Ive got a few jack springs in late Sept, all marbled and a guy I fish with got one about 8 lbs, marbled as well. ??? I dont think Ive ever got a pure red beyond the one in the canal.