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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: THE_ROE_SLINGER on September 01, 2005, 06:11:07 PM
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When fishing with roeman and a friend today at the lower fraser. Fished from 3:30 till 5:15. In totall hooked about 8 pinks and landed 3. Thought one was a buck but turned out to be a big female. ROE!!
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roe, yes really, I had some females but wasn't sure to keep the roe or ? use it for sturgeon? another guy say it's the best for eating, fill me in....
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Pink roe = Coho Bait Pink roe = Steelhead bait
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Today was our last day of the Introduction to Fraser Estuary classes at the youth fishing camp. Finally! If I have to touch another chub..... :-X ;D
Anyways, beautiful weather it was! Calm, partially sunny, perfect weather for pier fishing.
We started out the day with some bullhead action! ;D
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/050901/DSCF0856.jpg)
Check out this biggy! :o
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/050901/DSCF0863.jpg)
Kids were having a blast finding those big sculpins by casting out far, I almost wanted to try it too! ;)
In the end, we had a variety of fish again. We had a few sculpins, dozens of shiner perch, a few peamouth chub and norther pikeminnow. :)
After that, I headed off by myself to do some pink salmon fishing.
The tide was low when I arrived at my spot. One fish hit the lure several casts after I started, but a miss. ::)
Perch and his dad soon arrived, and his dad quickly landed a nice size pikeminnow. ;)
Perch moved down to where his dad was as he thought there were more pinks down there. ;D I stayed where I was and soon realized there was a school of pinks moving through.
I was getting numerous hits but no definite bites. Finally a hard take on the lure, the hook is set, the fish rolled a couple of times and out came the hook again! >:( Next cast, fish hit again far out, another hook set, another loss! >:( Another cast, no takes during the retrieve until the lure approached shoreline. One feisty pink took the lure hard, the hook was set, fish on! It took a couple of quick runs and out came the hook again! >:(
Hmm... Maybe a hook change is needed? ;D ::)
A quick hook change and I walked to another spot to meet up with fishersak. No action for at least an hour beside badboi's pink that got away. :P Fishersak left, I was fishing alone. Bwi Bwi came and visited me, chatted for awhile and left. Soon after, Rick from Spirit Bear Boat joined me. Just when Rick started fishing, I hooked a large doe. Rick must be good luck, as fishersak hooked a large doe as well when Rick arrived yesterday. ;D I played this one carefully. ;) It took some long fast runs. Once I started guiding it to shore, I extended out one arm with my net. First scoop, fish flipped out. ::) Second scoop, the fish perfectly swam into it. ;D I took a look at it, a fairly large fish, but I was tired and didn't want to carry the fish back to the car and then gut it. Back into the Fraser it went. ;D
Few things to remember
- You need a tidal sportfishing licence when fishing in the tidal Fraser River.
- You need to purchase a salmon conservation stamp if you intend to keep your pink salmon.
- Daily quota for pink salmon is four fish in tidal Fraser River.
- Daily quota for chinook salmon is four fish in tidal Fraser River, but only one maybe over 50cm.
- You may only keep four salmon (mixed species) in total per day.
- Only a single barbless hook is allowed on the lure.
- You must release any sockeye carefully.
- Pink salmon have large oval spots on their back and tail. Sockeye salmon do not have spots. Chinook salmon have tiny black spots on its back and tail.
- Complete tidal Fraser River salmon regulations can be found on this page (http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish/Tidal/fraser_e.htm).
- Report all fishing violations to DFO Steveston 604-664-9250.
- Make sure you have a good fillet knife to clean your catch and a cooler with ice to keep your it fresh.
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went to the albion around 3:00,broter cought 1,no limit time 4 me. pretty slow tonight.
well same time friday.
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Was out again today for a couple hours. Bought 2 new crocs, just to mix things up:
This one
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_focr.gif)
And
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_pfsc.gif)
Within the first 4 casts, I had a strike! It was so close, I saw the fish before I even felt the strike. 4 more casts later, and I was snagged. No amount of tugging would loosen my lure, so $4 down the drain :(
Lost the other new lure too :(
So I gave my old standby a shot:
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_hbfs.gif)
No luck at all. Saw some sculpins chasing it around on retreival, but that's it.
I even gave my brightest Trout Killer a chance
(http://www.hotspotlures.com/graphics/apex/312.gif)
Still nothing. No snags at least! The sculpins really loved this one.
Still, it was nice to be out there with my GF. Lots of sockeye jumping, and seals checking us out. Those bullfrogs can get quite annoying though, and losing 2 brand new lures is never fun >:(
Oh well, back out tomorrow I guess.
Oh yeah, Berry's doesn't exactly have a great selection of crocs anymore.. And crappy tire is always low... Anyone know of a good place to pick up some lures like this? Preferably in Richmond or Vancouver
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So you do like pinks, eh, Rodney?
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Was out again today for a couple hours. Bought 2 new crocs, just to mix things up:
This one
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_focr.gif)
And
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_pfsc.gif)
Within the first 4 casts, I had a strike! It was so close, I saw the fish before I even felt the strike. 4 more casts later, and I was snagged. No amount of tugging would loosen my lure, so $4 down the drain :(
Lost the other new lure too :(
So I gave my old standby a shot:
(http://www.fishingvancouver.com/gibbs/images/croc_cchart_hbfs.gif)
No luck at all. Saw some sculpins chasing it around on retreival, but that's it.
I even gave my brightest Trout Killer a chance
(http://www.hotspotlures.com/graphics/apex/312.gif)
Still nothing. No snags at least! The sculpins really loved this one.
Still, it was nice to be out there with my GF. Lots of sockeye jumping, and seals checking us out. Those bullfrogs can get quite annoying though, and losing 2 brand new lures is never fun >:(
Oh well, back out tomorrow I guess.
Oh yeah, Berry's doesn't exactly have a great selection of crocs anymore.. And crappy tire is always low... Anyone know of a good place to pick up some lures like this? Preferably in Richmond or Vancouver
Try Angler's West in Vancouver
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So you do like pinks, eh, Rodney?
Yep, hooking a few per day keeps me sane as we are still in the crazy season (until September 7th). ;) Landing them is not a big deal, it's that first few seconds when the fish hits... Yesterday fishersak said, "You can always tell when Rod misses a bite, he always has this huge grin on his face when that happens." ;)
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Nikka in Steveston might have some. Bob's Tackle in Burnaby (off Hastings) was having great prices on crocs a week ago. Don't know if he's cleaned out though.
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Oh yeah, Berry's doesn't exactly have a great selection of crocs anymore.. And crappy tire is always low... Anyone know of a good place to pick up some lures like this? Preferably in Richmond or Vancouver
I stopped by Berry's Bait and noticed that they have 140 pegs of different crocs. I wonder what they are missing that you need. Scratch maybe Army and Navy, they most likely have the best day in and day out selection of Crocs on the lower mainland. Hub's sports does a lot of custom colors, but Berry's has the by far and away the largest selection. If they are missing a color that you like, they will order it in for you.
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Oh yeah, Berry's doesn't exactly have a great selection of crocs anymore.. And crappy tire is always low... Anyone know of a good place to pick up some lures like this? Preferably in Richmond or Vancouver
I stopped by Berry's Bait and noticed that they have 140 pegs of different crocs. I wonder what they are missing that you need. Scratch maybe Army and Navy, they most likely have the best day in and day out selection of Crocs on the lower mainland. Hub's sports does a lot of custom colors, but Berry's has the by far and away the largest selection. If they are missing a color that you like, they will order it in for you.
They just don't have a lot of the colours I am into, in the sizes I want. They have plenty overall, I agree. But after having 1 strike in 4 casts on one lure, and 0 strikes on the subsequent 359 casts that evening, I'd like to pick up that same type of lure some time ;)