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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: fengyuanfei on January 16, 2006, 11:35:20 AM

Title: Stamp January 15
Post by: fengyuanfei on January 16, 2006, 11:35:20 AM
Headed over to the island yesterday 4 of us to join the Steelhead frenzy heating up. We had booked jetboats with Murphy's that can by greatly recommended. Arrived at the River about 9:30 after taking the first ferry out of Horseshoe bay. The boats were all ready and we hit the river by 10:00. Our guide Kevin was great, he operated that boat superb, not easy with the water being up still quite high but dropping. Visibility was great, water being crystal clear. Kevin had prepared huge loads of bait, roe bags, deli shrimp, roe skeins, plenty for the whole day. We made contact with fish early, but didn't manage to land those early ones. I am too inexperienced telling whether it is a snag or bite and probably didn't set the hook right before the fish was gone. There were a number of other boats on the river, quite a bit of traffic, not sure if that scared the fish off. Saw people fishing off the shores too, wonder how they get there sometimes. My buddy was into a nice fish around lunch time, and after a 15 min fight I got to scoop it out of the river, nice chrome hatchery male in the 12 lbs range ;D. Nice Keeper! We had gone down the river with the boat couple of bends with the fish one, Kevin handled the boat very safely, seemed not an easy job to me. I will email a picture of the fish to Rodney so he can post it. We made 2 more contacts but that was it for the day. All afternoon not a single bite. It was great fun nevertheless, being on that river on a nice day as yesterday. I would want to do it again even though it's not cheap, with all the ferry, charter, gas makes it a $300 day, but worth it. My buddy rewarded my clean scoop with a nice fillet that's sitting in the cooler next to my desk here. Wondering if anyone has some good recipe to share?
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: Fish Assassin on January 16, 2006, 11:42:58 AM
Thanks for the report. I love fishing the Stamp.
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: Rodney on January 16, 2006, 11:44:27 AM
fengyuanfei's photo (you're required to log in to view it).
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: Fish Assassin on January 16, 2006, 11:55:23 AM
What photo ?
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: Rodney on January 16, 2006, 12:00:28 PM
See it now?
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: fengyuanfei on January 16, 2006, 04:06:58 PM
fillet is still sitting in the cooler hoping someone tells me what the best way is to cook it up before dinner time...
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: Big Steel on January 16, 2006, 04:15:35 PM
Beauty fish Fengyuanfei!!  Great Job!!  As for cooking it, I would have to say that the best way that I have had steelhead yet is with a garlic and herb marinade!!  Just let it soak in the Marinade for about a half hr, then cook the steelie fillet in the oven at about 350 degrees F!!  Soud only take about 20-25 min. to cook.  But check it, you don't want to over cook it!! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: cohoslayer1 on January 16, 2006, 05:11:19 PM
Nice fish,  i love seeing steel ;D ;D
Title: Re: Stamp January 15
Post by: cohokid on January 16, 2006, 06:01:26 PM
nice fish