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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: kellya on October 16, 2005, 12:19:55 PM
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Finally thought it would be worth posting an island report. Ive been fishing the rivers a bit the last couple weeks with decent succes but no coho. Yesterday the river was blown out and not fishable. With no rain yesterday or last night it was again fishable and new fish were entering. After looking at another river and seeing 25 people in a 200 foot stretch of river i deceided to skip that and try somewhere else. After drive we got there around 9:15 pretty late but i could see alot of fish riseing and jumping. The river was just a bit to high and coloured and it was raining hard. First cast with a bluefox a nice coho followed but didnt hit. Next cast a bit deeper and bam fish on. After a good scrap on my small 8lb spinning outfit(use for hardware) i landed him. Snapped a few pics then revived him and off he went. After that i tried another spot and 5 minutes latter landed a nice coho jack and 2 cutts around 14inch by the end. Didnt fish to long as the bite went off and it was pouring. Here are the pictures of the fish today and a few dark ones from last week. The chinook in this river color up before even entering the river thats why they are so dark in the pictures. All of these were caught on blue fox spinners(my go to lure) #3 silver and #2 orange and brass worked best.
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/NICECOHO.jpg)
6 or so pound coho
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/fightingcoho.jpg)
coho fighting
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/jackcoho.jpg)
Little jack coho (bad pic)
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/boospring15lb.jpg)
Dark spring around 13lb
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/101_0060.jpg)
Small chinook or jack chinook about 5 lbs
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/101_0063.jpg)
Chum
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Nice to see a variety of species caught. :)
Hey Kelly, you need waders. ;)
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Haha i need to wear waders! I have them but i left them in the car they bug me :P Ill wear them next time it will help landing.
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Nice fish!!
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Excellent fish porn Kelley ;)
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i love chum, but DAMN theyre ugly, hey? Blue Fox rox!
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White belly ? ???
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Yup good ol blue fox. Im sad to say chum out fought them all easily. He was a handful on such a light rod.
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Lol wouldnt find him on my dinner plate. I saw some chum that were as bright as that coho last weekend. You couldnt even see faint bars or anything. But it was like 1 in 1000 fish that were like that i would say i would keep 1-100 that only had the faintest color.
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nice COHO man those are nice ;D ;)
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It was not as dark as it seemed just cloudy rainy
Heres another cool pic from this week at a river on the west coast of vancouver island. This was a small channel going into the hatchery. If you look on the right near the first little waterfall you can see salmon carcases. The bears stand there and grab chum swimming by and pull them out. Tons of bears in the area but couldnt get a pic of one.
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/longchannel.jpg)
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Damn fishing is good but i wouldent wana risk being killed by a bear. :-[
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Yea i did not fish that river today actually i never have. Maybe this week if i go back and ill get some bear pics (carefully).
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Nice grab bag of fish! Did you float around in the tire? ;)
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Thats a nice float tube you where using ;D
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in bass lakes thats called cover :)
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Nope its the nitnat. I was not fishing there though just worked. Haha the tire was a good landing platform although an eye sore. It got washed out yesterday from the high water today so i now land them where that coho was landed.
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Hey Kellya , I was there last week and it was great for springs and coho (but coho just opened this weekend) You are right about the bears we were fishing with 8 bears at the most at one time there . today my buddy from Naniamo went and couldn't get his kids across the river , too high ! (and rising) but he managed a 14 lb. coho to go home with .... Zeek
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Yup its high it was blown when i was there. I worked at the hatch and saw some 20lb coho. 1.3 million chum are returning so they are very thick through the river. Ill be back this week hopefully. Were the springs u got mostly dark? they are just wrapping up most we saw were very dark
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(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b308/kellster43/Scarredcoho.jpg)
Got a few more this one from this afternoon had odd scars ???
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kellya has his own secret bushy spots :P
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Tough to find this spot :P
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nice fish. has nice battle wounds. way to go
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I predict a great fishing future ahead for you Kellya. Good job!!
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Thanks im still not sure about the scars i have heard ideas ranging from net to sharks. Im thinking it may have been a net although there is no netting in the river and no netting in the ocean withing 200km so it may be an old net wound.
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it could have been when it was a small fry it cvould have wrapped in old fishing line?? just a guess :D
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Looks like gill-net marks or might even be from a deep-sea drift net. Those marks stay with the fish for years. So where's a good spot to see bears on the nit-nat? My g/f would love to snap some pics. I have never been on the river...driving up from victoria.
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I didnt get to see much of the river. There are bears around on the roads/logging roads and probaly along the riverbank.
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Try just below the confluence pool (where the little Nitnat joins in)
Lots of bears there, but be careful,
Dano