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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: ratfish on February 23, 2006, 02:02:55 PM
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Hey guys I just recently moved from up north and was wondering what is the record for largest spring caught in the lower mainland and if any of you guys have caught any really big ones? I have caught them in the fifties but was wondering if their are any around here that big. Thanks
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Thanks for the info Birdman. A vedder white up to fifty sounds like fun. Still looking for an official record though. I caught a white vedder spring last fall about 18 pounds. Was bright chrome when I landed it but turned to a boot in about 15 minutes. Back home the whites didn't do that.They stayed silver forever. Gonna get smoked this weekend so i will see if it tastes ok.
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Well i did bleed it out and cut the gills out but that was after the 15 minutes when i looked back and seen it turn black. Up north you can leave them for an hour or two before you have to worry about bleeding them. They just seem to stay the same.
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Well what about harrison whites because isn't that where the vedder whites came from? Do the harrison whites turn boot right away too? Oh yeah still looking to hear what the record spring is for the lowermainland.
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caught a 43lb'r last year, didn't boot up all..only boots were boots later in the year.
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/golfman65/IMG_1067_001.jpg)
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Wow, Nice fish golfman65!!! Must of been a good fight eh. How early did you catch him?
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63 pounds eh, I wouldn't mind that pulling on my line. That isn't to far of from my hometown record either which is 78 pounds i do beleive.
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I caught the 18 pounder in mid october
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Hey that's huge Ratfish!! What did you catch the beast on?
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35 on my 6wt; not what I wanted to do on my 6wt, but once she hit I just had to land her.
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I've seen a 75 lb fish taken in teh summer from the chuck up North, lodge record is 82 lbs I believe.
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whites on the vedder are a dime a dozen, when there in the vedder im usually fishing for coho, in which i find them a nusince, they were introduced in the vedder which wrecked the coho fishery, on the fraser for reds my biggest is 32and a half i only fish with 12lb main and 10lb leader and number 2 hooks for springs, and i dont loose very many cause you have miles of bar to walk, whites down here if they are bullet crome will still turn a bit in color, that dosent mean anything you could take news paper wrap them in it and they will turn back to crome most guys throw them back unless they are does for the roe, i find they are great eating just like the reds and the marbles are great tasting fish also the average size for the whites on the vedder are about 15lbs-19lbs the average size for the reds are 12lbs-17lbs a little smaller average but there are still plenty of 25lbsers for both species
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sounds like your cooking your fish in ****t
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I dont mind whites at all, there expecially good smoked.
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Wow, Nice fish golfman65!!! Must of been a good fight eh. How early did you catch him?
caught him on 10/2 last year, it was like trying to land a car. he went up river for awhile at a walking pace, then jumped once and headed down at a walking pace again, took me way down river but i finally got him when i walked him way up on a gravel bar. i had on 15 lb test and couldn't budge him at all.
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This one is my biggest (chrome ::)) spring to date. Unfortunately, I never got to weigh it. Any guesstimates based on this picture? My guess is high 30s, maybe 38.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v131/milivoj/BigRed.jpg)
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I dont mind whites at all, there expecially good smoked.
I had my stomache pumped from eating smoked white in 2000. It had gone bad and I got really really bad food poisoning. As a result I dont eat fish anymore, I can't stand the smell of fish cooking, and I'll projectile puke if I smell it....
Largest Spring, for me, was between Keats and Gibsons in 1991 and it weighed 64 3/4lbs.
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if some one want to post a pic for me I have a picture of a 64lb red from the fraser my younger brother got, its a fricken hawg. The harrison boast springs into the 70lb range but they are all whites, catch and release only, a great fishery though. I can email the pic
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if some one want to post a pic for me I have a picture of a 64lb red from the fraser my younger brother got, its a fricken hawg. The harrison boast springs into the 70lb range but they are all whites, catch and release only, a great fishery though. I can email the pic
Just get a Photobucket.com account and post it yourself :)
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Photo for tnt is attached to this post (log in to view).
Hmm... Big fish... :o
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whites on the vedder are a dime a dozen, when there in the vedder im usually fishing for coho, in which i find them a nusince, they were introduced in the vedder which wrecked the coho fishery, on the fraser for reds my biggest is 32and a half i only fish with 12lb main and 10lb leader and number 2 hooks for springs, and i dont loose very many cause you have miles of bar to walk, whites down here if they are bullet crome will still turn a bit in color, that dosent mean anything you could take news paper wrap them in it and they will turn back to crome most guys throw them back unless they are does for the roe, i find they are great eating just like the reds and the marbles are great tasting fish also the average size for the whites on the vedder are about 15lbs-19lbs the average size for the reds are 12lbs-17lbs a little smaller average but there are still plenty of 25lbsers for both species
15lbs - 19lbs average for the whites???? :oare you kidding??? ::) I don't think I caught one under 20 lbs last year with most being easily in the thirties!!!!!!! and believe me we caught a ton of them.... we were trying to beach some smaller ones and there wern't any :-\
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You know when the whites swim by. You can smell them :-X Nothing that a strong flavor inhancer won't cure.
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WOW now that's what I call a HAWG. nice pics tnt. My largest Fraser red to date is 38lbs and my largest white to date is a 36lber from the Cap.
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Milo my guess would be about 32-35lbs
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Wow!!!! tnt that is awesome. That 64 pound red is awesome. Thats something dreams are made of. I would love to land a pig like that. I guess the lowermainland does have a few pigs around which excites me. I can't wait for this years return. If anyone else has pics of large springs caught here locally please share.
Tight lines
p.s.
what did he catch him on tnt
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hey Filletsniffr
I caught him with a blue hootchie and blue spinglo under my dink float. The blue hootchie worked numbers for me last year. I was hooking springs like crazy even though i only landed the one. Back home thats all we use for springs in the river is hootchies and spinglos however they have to be the small hootchies, not the bigger ones you would use trolling in the ocean. I think they are 2.5 inches long.
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I've seen a 75 lb fish taken in teh summer from the chuck up North, lodge record is 82 lbs I believe.
Hey Spud..remember the general week that 82 lb fish was caught...that was a heckuva week at Langara..I broke 50 twice and 40 3 times that week. That was the best biggest fish week I have ever had...Remember those weeks and general time of year..there'll be more big un's in about 6/7/8 years after that one.
I have a guest that may have broken that 82 lber off...it had Gami's in it didn't it? He was onto the fish for about an hour and we got a look at one..that was the largest fish I have ever seen alive.
In the Whonnock River in River's Inlet, I had a very lucky opportunity in 1994 to fly in on a float plance with a DFO researcher, a lodge owner, and another DFO scientist and have a look. I saw the spawned out carcasses of fish that were in excess of 90 lbs. That was an estimated weight through a formula.....I believe the girth measured 35.4 inches and it was about 59 or 60 inches long. There was another than had decomposed some but I believe it was bigger..we didn't get any measurements on that one.
The 10 year record for Vancouver area saltwater is 61 lbs which has been reached twice in the last 10 years. I believe local derbies of the days of the old Vancouver Sun Derbies may have surpassed that..but my father remembers witnessing several in the high 50's caught in Howe Sound.
:)
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about 4 or 5 years ago mass from m&m charters had a party out of the research station in west van and hooked and landed a 63 spring. if i remember it was either late aug. or early sept. down around 60 feet on a green hot spot flasher and a anchovy
Fish was 61 lbs I think..not 63.
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I have seen a few fish in the vedder that were easily 50lbs. My brother landed a red spring out of the fraser last year which was 52lbs. A bullet which remained a bullet, just like a fish should be.
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That fish was taken "before my time," sorry couldn't tell ya when, but they do coem in waves, as soon as we hear of one come in, everyone gets in their boats.
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my brother got a 60lb white on the fraser 2 years ago
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This was one of my biggest, not sure how big he was, but sure did put up one hell of a fight!! :)
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album23/Mighty_White.jpg)
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Having fished the B.C. coast for many years, both commercially and as a charter operator, have witnessed takes of many behemoths, the most consistent place for my eyes has been Dundas island,although my personal best fish hooked was when i worked at Peregrine lodge in 94 battled a monster for two and a half hours only to lose it at the boat. A guest of mine landed a 72, in 2004, a huge buck of the marbled variety, I would post some pics if i knew how, still a little pc challenged.
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My biggest red was 44.5 lbs, taken on July 7 2004 at Laidlaw. i've caught whites in the Vedder that were probably bigger, but released them all.
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Working the WCVI as much as we do, me and the Ladz get in on some rather sizey catchs from time to time. Seems that the last couple of years have been kind in the spring's direction, as the numbers of those behemoths last year was quite good. One of my buddies guided seven folks to monsters that topped the magical 60 mark out on the chuck!! Bodes well for this coming season for sure!!!
Here's a pix of one a tad better than 60, taken off a troller now converted to a KILLER sportsfishing platform:
(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Tracks/BigSpring.jpg)
And another, landed after a battle better than an hour, 25 lb test mainline, anchovy, 16 year old Young Gun's best to date at 63 pounds!!
(http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Tracks/60lbs_2.jpg)
We will again be out there this year, searching HARD for Walter and his buddy's. Going out by yourself, or with one of our areas excellent guides presents a very real possibility of hooking into one of these true giants! I know that I am certainly looking forward to helping make a few folks' Fishing Dreams become REALITY!! ;)
Tight Lines,
Nog - although not quite sated on steelhead yet, actually looking right forward to battling a few springs in the not to distant future...
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the biggest spring i have heard of was on the skeena. a friend of mine's brother works at the hatchery up their and a few years back they found a spawned out male and it was just over 100 some lbs. and it had been dead a couple of days. they figured that in it's prime that fish would have been around 110 lbs prime. but i sure if i'm wrong F/M will correct me since he such a KNOW IT ALL
Hey..I wouldn't go that far to call me a know it all that would be a compliment..I don't know JACK!
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The biggest spring I've ever seen caught was off the "Wall" up in Rivers Inlet.... it tipped the scales at 65lbs. My biggest up there is only 38 lbs., but it took over an hour and a half to land and I ended up having to handline it in, after mistakingly cutting the wrong line of about 5 that were attached.... thankfully it was only about 20 feet from the boat by then. I've caught some monster whites on the Vedder..... easy 50 lbs. and several years ago we were catching 40+ pigs on the Stamp.
If any of you guys have ever been at Pacific Coastal's check-in area in the South Terminal, they have (or had) a replica of a Spring that was caught in a commercial net, that apparently weighed something like 120 lbs!! I believe it is the world record.
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50-60lb. whitey tightey on the vedder