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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: chris gadsden on January 26, 2006, 09:02:47 PM
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Another day, another day on the Vedder after some more steelhead, how the days fly by when you are fishing and having fun. 8) :-[ more on that later.
As always a warm welcome to forum members and guests to my daily fishing journal on FWR.
My fishing day starts of course on the "Starting Run" and the angler who picked up a hatchery steelhead yesterday is entrenched there when I reach the run. The wind that was blowing yesterday and last night has diminished some but it is still cool. I look upstream at the "Above Run" and see sthslayer and Ross working the run.
I work all possible locations on the run for a while other anglers arrive in the area. I finally have a chance as the "new" Maple Leaf Drennan ( Got up too late this morning to put on the rescued one) makes its first downward motion, I strike but no contact. I know it was a fish of some sort as I know the run like the palm of my hand and it never bottom in this area as I am at least a foot off bottom.
Whatever it was it becomes tight lipped for me as no second chances are given to me. Time to move to a lower run or two but keeping a eye on the other anglers for the tell tale bend on a rod. When I see this time to forget fishing and get to the scene of the action hoping for a wild fish for the brood capture tube. sthslayer as a tube also and I know he will have his area covered.
I am anxious to get one as have not been able to angle one or get one from a donator for over a week now. Word has it they had 25 as of yesterday according to the Master.
I find nothing in the lower runs and are very careful to keep away from that snag that tried to steal the Maple Leaf Drennan from me yesterday. As I walk upstream I run into sthslayer and Ross and they have no positive report and are moving on.
I return to "The Starting Run" and the "Successful One" from yesterday says he rolled one. ;D
I have no luck after many more casts and finally around 10 I tell Peter who arrived after me " I think I better leave you guys as I am jinxing you with my tube". ::) As I pack up my tube and head towards the Leaf Mobile I see the Successful One" coming back from the "Above Run".
As I slip over the hill of the gravel pit, 2 to 3 minutes from the river I hear a yell, it is Barry that is walking on the dyke motioning with his arms, pointing towards the river. I know that means fish, I race to the top of the dyke and there is the "Successful One" with a fish on, right where I had just vacated. ??? :o I start to move towards the sidestream hoping maybe it could be a wild, but the "Successful One" for two days in a row has a nice chrome steelhead bouncing on the gravel bar. Not bad, two hatchery for him his first of the season. ;D How could I not have enticed that fish to bite my succulent roe bags. I shrug to Barry as I again head for my vehicle thinking, just when you think you are doing things right you can quickly be jarred back to reality. I remember my dad telling me never ever think you know everything about fishing as that can give you bad luck for a while. :-[
As I get to the Leaf Mobile I see Terry has slipped into the area as his truck is parked near mine.
( on my return home he has informed me he got a wild, I guess I left to early ::))
I head to town to catch up on a few chores and visit Nick who is working today in Chilliwack Dart and Tackle and invite him for lunch where we catch up on all the latest fishing news. How time passes when you are with "The Master" as he is so positive about fishing and has so many interested stories.
He is back to work and I go for a look at the KE run as had not ben there for a few days. It still looked ok. Pappy is there before me, always have a good visit with him. He tells me he had rolled one in another run. He like me has not seen much today.
I then go and do some exploring to an area I have not checked out this year. It is nearly 2:30 tubing over for the day so leave the tube in the LM.
I work my way down one of the arms but not much fishable water. I decide to take a picture of the Peach Road housing development that I said I would do in an answer to Chronic on another forum. It is a shame that a housing development is allowed so close to our precious rivers. They seem under attack in one form or another all the time. :(
As I pick up my rod and move back towards the river all of a sudden I am airborne. I try to regain my balance in the rocks but I continue to pitch forward and dive headfirst into about a foot of water as my sage goes flying. ::) My mind goes blank at this time as I come up sputtering. I have sort of a funny feeling and a strange taste which I really can not describe. Afterwards I release I must have inhaled some water up my nose. I felt OK except I had banged my knee cap that is hurting as I file this embarrassing event.
It comes more embarrassing as I hear a voice "are you OK", I turn around as I drag myself dripping wet out of the water to see a fellow angler 5 feet away. He of course saw it all. :-[ :-[ :-[ After making fun of the fellow that broke his rod last week it was my turn to look bad. Serves me right for making fun of him not once but twice in my journal.
I sit on a log to collect my now dampened spirit. The fellow after we talk for a while about my moment of glory, trying for a 10 diving mark finally asks me, "are you from FWR" I say yes. "Thought I recognized that Leaf hat" he says now I know there is no way to now disuse who I am in this most embarrassing moment. He identifies himself as dboy from FWR and the Fish BC Forum. He tells me he reads my daily journal, I am thinking if he reads about me catching a few fish this season he would not expect to meet me diving into the river. As I pick up my pole dboy says the Maple Leaf Drennan looks a little crushed. I would be a little crushed if it was broken as after lunch I had but it back on. It would be sad after rescuing it yesterday to see its life end here. It is OK put the eyelet on my top guide as come loose And I fiddle with it but can not get it in properly. I am glad my camera and cell phone are both in a sip lock bag and are dry. A tip to consider if you do not put them in a bag like this incase you too try to go swimming.
Dboy heads down river but before he leaves he snaps a picture of your truly soaking wet, may send it to Rodney to post if he wishes and a picture of the pool I dove into. dboy said he may give his perspective of the event as he had a bird's eye view of the worse fall I have ever had.
As I prepared to leave and start fishing again I see what tripped me up. A darn embedded stick that my foot got temporay caught in, that what prevented me from regaining my balance I guess.
I see Pappy once again on the other side of the river, I ask him if he had seen my performance but he had not. ;D
I fish and explore but find no steelhead as does dboy when we separate.
I leave the river at 4:45 and as I limp with my now throbbing knee back to the Leaf Mobile I see the snow lower on the mountains than it has been all year. I feel a chill in the air, is winter coming or is it I am just cold from my attempt at swimming with the fishes, one of lifes most embarrassing moments. ::)
PS Chronic if you read this you owe me a lunch getting this picture for you as I would not had this happen if I was not getting this picture as I said I would of the Peach Road housing developement. Maybe Rodney better post this on Fish BC so he can read it. ::)
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I am really sorry I missed the "swim." :'(
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good reports, always good to take a refreshing dip. ;)
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Seems like Chris and the Make Beliefs both took a dive today. ;D Glad you're OK Chris.
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Glad it wasant too serious chris.
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Always enjoy your reports and I know how that feels when that certain embedded stick send you tumbling/flying/swimming.
I've seen guys much younger than ourselves take some nasty nasty falls. :'(
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Glad your alright. Thanks for the report as usuall. Once again my float will be going down faster then the Canucks will be knocked out of the playoffs tomorrow.(That's if they even make it) ;D ;D ;D
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good to see your allright Chris,don't feel bad ,usually its me laying on my back listening to bigsteel and gt laugh their heads off.
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Thanks for the report again,hope you are ok.
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Seems like Chris and the Make Beliefs both took a dive today. ;D Glad you're OK Chris.
:D :D :D man that's as cold as poor chris must have felt...
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Fished the rapids section in mid river starting at 1:00pm. Water was much lower than I fished last week, but in nice green colour with good visibility. Worked all the way for about 2 hrs without a take. Tired legs and tired arms. As I walked back to my car from the high dyke, I saw a piece of very tempting pocket water that had somehow been missed. MY tired body said walked on, but my steelhead instinct said got to try cast to it. So, there was the dumb compromise - without moving down to the edge of the spot, I casted 30 ft above the water on the dyke to a spot 30 ft out. My gosh, the float hit the sweet spot right by an anchor rock and it disappeared. My long hook set only rolled the fish up to see a moment of chrome, then it broke off. Gosh, I should have known better after all these years of steelheading but I guess when you worked 2 hrs w/o a hit, the doublt starts set in. However I am glad at least I hunted down one grey ghost in a relatively slow day. But what was worst was that I hanged around that area for an extra hour trying to rehook that beauty. It never came back. I have rehooked many steelies before in similar brief hookups but not this one, and it wasted my whole afternoon. I think I will head down to Chris lower river territory to claim a hatch next time. ;D
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Have you checked out the Realtor with the "exclusive listing" for the Webster Rd. development? Great read Chris, and hey we've all had those not so graceful moments to be sure.
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Looks like Chris is getting desperate now for one of those wild fish. Desperate enough he had to dive in to grab a fish, which was unsuccessful. They now know not to bite a roe bag with a blue leaf above it.
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;D thanxs for posting the pics . chris sorry about the mishap... might be prudent to note that this is taking place very close to the rearing ponds,as well... :-[
any way gonna be out on the lower all day maybe catch up with ya.... :)
been meaning to try cookies .. 8)
cheers chronic
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Thanks for the report chris...In the summer when i was pink fishing, I was fighting one close to shore and right at my feet it popped off....So i jumped in the water and tryed to grab it....Till this day I dont know why i did it....i guess it was instinct :)
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good to see your ok chris. how cold was the water! :o :o. bbbrrrr.
like 4 or 5 summers ago, my dad and i fished a secret run on the vedder for red springs. he ended up hooking one about 30lb.s but it zoomed down river, under a tree crossing the river and it came off. so we were walking back, and i was a little younger so my dad carried me over this small ankle deep stretch of water, and he was wearing running shoes which doesnt make a good match for the slippery bottom. so then he says the kiss of death ::) : "Your lucky I have good footing". BAM next step and we fall in. o crap he ruins his cell phone, wallet with money is all wet, sage rod lost into the drink. so being that we are completely soaked, he swims down to the small pool below us and brings out his rod. tip broken, but lucky it was a sage with the warranty ::).
so yes, in the summer, the water is nice and refreshing.
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I'm sorry to hear about your trip Chris!! But it happens to the best of us, as searun knows!! He didn't fall in the water last week, but after hooking his fish, he went to sit down on a log, and went over backwards, with feet in the air!! I'm still chuckling about it know!! ;D ;D I am sure though, that you will continue to produce some wilds for the Brood stock program. I alsp hope that your knee is feeling better today. :)
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Good report chris and nice to meet you..
I've been reading your reports for awhile.... I have to admit, I had assumed you one of the top rods on the Vedder. Never thought that I would meet you face planted in the river, lol ;D ;D ;D. I guess everyone has their bad days.....
Seriously though, nasty spill, I am glad you were able to keep your head protectected and get up before getting completely soaked.
Thanks for the tips as well, good day on the river, nice day too....
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I wasint fighting a fish when went down I was going to untangle line and as doing so triped over a rock in the water and got soaked. was not a very pleasent feeling ::) nice report.