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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: mark on October 02, 2005, 08:57:34 AM
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Went out to look at the river and the conditions were as I predicted it is now perfect color today a little clay still so the fish won't spook as easy , but still clear enough for the fish to see the bait. So lets here those good reports.
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Went out this am and was pretty quiet til' about 11:00, for me that is. Managed to hook up with a good size spring that decided to release itself about 12 feet from the beach. Had many other hook ups but only landed one Chum and one jack spring. Did manager to "save" a 40-50lb spring that got itself into trouble in the shallow water. Have a great picture but don't know how to post on this site.
There was another fellow who was putting on a clinic beside me. Caught four jacks and one large spring. All were released. This was done in a span of about an hour. Only heard of one Coho caught in the area I was fishing.
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hey hawg..were you using roe or spinners? thanks.
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Bug pumper, my dad, and I headed out this morning....very slow start to the season. With 2.5 hrs of fishing in the canal, my dad had 2 connections with just one chrome jack spring to the beach. Saw 2 snagged fish tear down the river from the beak fest under the bridge but other than that it was quite there too. As reported, water was very clear.
Went up river to to a place that was good to us this summer and hammered them there once again. All springs but it was really consistant fishing for 1.5 hrs - nice to have a bend in the rod. Unfortunately it was all spring action; in all we beached 2 jacks, a 14 lb doe that turned pretty quick and a really clean, almost chrome 25+ doe. Water in the upper river was maybe 2-3 feet with a clayish tinge, all taken on roe with double red seemingly being the preferred color.
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Het redtide, I was using roe sacks in natural and double red. The red seemed to fair better. Also tried pro curred shrimp, something that worked lat year but to no avail. Also tried globs of roe, but no luck. The fellow fishing beside me had curred pink roe and it seem to be irresistible. Tossed a few spinners earlier in the day also to no avail. I also had luck on a goey bob as well.
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Hmmm, where are all the reports? I saw so many people on the river today! Well i only had 3 hours to fish, I started in the upper river and ended up hooking 1 pink and 2 ok looking jack springs of about 10 pounds. After landing my second jack spring right after the previous, some guys moved in and took over my spot, so off i left. The next spot I tryed was the lower, saw some guys walking away with heavy garbage bags :) so i went down and tryed my luck where they had left, and ran into 2 friends. We talked a bit and they told me they have been pulling out big springs all day. Third cast and BOOM big fish, wasn't nearly as strong as i would exspect it to be, but was a good 30 pound white which I released. Between the 3 of us we played about 7 more 30 pound springs and then headed home by 1. The river was in primo shapo, just enough for the fish to hide.
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Went to check out the river with some of my 11 erbs & spices roe, but to no avail I got nothing hmmmmm. I saw alot of springs and chum rising but that was it.
Where I was fishing there was a fella bottom bouncing for fish and I looked over and he had a fish on, he played it for a bit then landed it and bonked it. I was now thinking yeehaa. A little while later this fella got his stuff together and left, but the only problem was he had no fish to carry HMMMMM. So when he left I decided to go over and investigate and to my surprize it was about a 20lbs spring but it was a black boot. The roe was taken out and the fish left ERRRRR. The guy should have not killed the fish if he wasn't going to keep it thats poaching. I say gut him and leave him and see how he likes it. Some people make me sick with their ethnic way of fishing. I got the plate # but it will remain anonamous here, but it was a white chevy suv. >:( >:( >:( >:(
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He could have been charged with wasting fish. :(
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That's a sad story mark, unfortunately it seems to be happening more often than before. Sadly, this would be the driving force for a bait ban.
Hey, ethnic way, or ethic way? ;)
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Oops fishing without any ethics. ::)
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Yes too bad people just kill the fish for the roe. >:( Yesterday I saw 3 fish with the same thing done to them, one chum and two pinks. :'(
Went out for a little over a hour this evening, did not even get a bite.
Water was perfect tonight. Will have to scout around tomorrow morning to see were the coho are hiding, they have to be somewhere.
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The day started early as the alarm sounded at 4:00am I was up in a flash put on the coffee and waited for Bobby B. to arrive at 5:00am. We loaded our gear into his van and it was off to the Vedder with anticipation of what lay ahead. After the hour drive we arrived at our predetermined spot in mid river. We parked and headed right to our spot, excellent nobody there but the water just didn't look like coho water to me so I left Bobby to ply the water with his blue fox spinner as I headed up river a little.
I got to a little spot that we passed on the way in, but there was 4 anglers already hard at it when I arrived. So I started about 100 yards below them. I baited up with my double red hot stuff spring roe and adjusted my float to around three feet then sent my offerings out to the calm water. On my fourth cast my "Randog" float takes a deep dive, fish on, after a short tussle I released a spring Jack. Another ten minuets pass and down she goes again another spring jack, quick c&r and I'm once again fishing. Not a couple of casts and bang, the unmistakable pin wheel of a nice chrome coho. My Silex was screaming that sweet purrrr that only a Silex can make. After several leaps she spit my #1/0 gammy and swam free. Not a bad start I say to myself. After 2 more jack springs (I kept one as he was bleeding badly) and one more coho to the beach, the anglers from up river saw some of the fish I was hooking and decided to investigate what I was doing, so I figured it was time to go so I went and got Bobby B. and we went to the pointa Vista for breakfast. ;D ;D
After talking to the owners I found out that today is the last day they're open. Yep the ol' Pointa Vista is officially gone. After years of steak and eggs and the works omelet there, I'm going to miss going that place. Here's a picture of Me(Randog) Penny, Bonny, and Bobby B.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Randog/100_3183.jpg)
(note to self: WASH YOUR WADERS)
After breakfast we headded off to Freds tackle to drop off some donations to Peter M. who will pass them along to Chris Gadsden for the SDA event this Nov. 18th.
Then it was off to the lower section of the river to hunt down some more coho. No luck on the coho, and was a little disappointed to see all the people doing the "quick rip" hook set. Not needed people as coho WILL take bait.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Randog/100_3184.jpg)
So Bobby B. and I found some more "Sweet water" and we short floated roe and connected with several more fish but I only managed to beach this girl.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/Randog/100_3188.jpg)
All in all it was a good day on the Vedder, and my new Super Silex got it's first of may workouts.
R'Dog
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Nice fish randy. looks like you'll have some roe. You missed out on my beautiful pink roe. used 2/3 of it and cured the rest. Neways i got tuesdays and fridays off now. Wanna fish? i get off school at 12.
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Randy... carry a towel, that roe stain is nasty... They actually let you into the store with that?! hahaha... ;D
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Good report Randy. Sorry to hear that the Pointa Vista restaurant is closing. Going to miss their steaks and eggs. Where am I going to eat now ??
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A good day for you Randy, good to see the "Randog Float going down a number of times for you. ;D Yes, I heard just yesterday that the Point was closing down. I had my last steak and eggs there a week ago. I wonder if anyone else is going to take over.
Thanks very much for the 4 items you donated today that I picked up from Peter this afternoon, very generous of you. This will certainly help make the SDA fundraiser in November a success. We are all working on getting as many prizes as possible.
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Did you get the "brown paper bag" ? Peter had his eye on that ;)
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Randy... carry a towel, that roe stain is nasty... They actually let you into the store with that?! hahaha... ;D
Yah thats a real good idea i stole it from one of your pics rodney. ;) Its hell handling even borax roe with no towel.
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Did you get the "brown paper bag" ? Peter had his eye on that ;)
Yes, still intact. ;D
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Fishon and I hit the lower river today from early afternoon till dark. Landed a number of jack springs and chums. Had so many bright chums for a while in one spot that it felt like early November on the Squamish. Fishon also kept a spring of about 15 pounds that turned out to be a red! :) The river level and clarity seemed perfect. There were a fair number of people around but we had no trouble finding nice water to fish. Lots of fun. ;D Next time I've got to get that first coho of the year.
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nice fish randog,
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I'll add my 2 cents... couldn't wait to get out there and try the new gear (Sage Rod and Islander Reel). Got into quite a few pinks and one chum - so the equipment works well, the operator still needs some training. Decided to switch back to my drift rod for an hour before I called it quits. Caught a spring jack (~3-4lbs) on a Colorado Blade - it was in excellent shape, chrome and get this ... it was red ???. Was it lost or just extremely late...bizarre.
Way better outing than on the morning of the previous day on the salt water in the West Van area...crazy busy. We had one on but the faulty down rigger clip wouldn't release and we lost it.
Cheers
Justin
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nice fish randog...I couldnt go this week ..roe man had practice at 7 in the morning.
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:D nice fish randog i didnt make it out this weekend as was havin back problems again. oh well soon enough i need a coho ;D ;D ;D
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Haven't been to the vedder since last year this time :(. Has the river changed much this past year, or are all the holes re-arranged like they were from the year before? Thanks, BR
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nice fish!
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nice fish,m8.