Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Spudcote on June 05, 2004, 03:21:24 PM
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This may have been posted before, but I'm not sure.
We've all been fishing for some time now and have collected a vast list of memories and experiences during our time on the water, and for the newbies just getting into fishing, it won't take long before you get some great memories and experiences out of the sport.
What is your most memorable experience while fishing ? (first fish, biggest fish...etc)
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I think it just might be the picture on the left of this post. My one and only steel to date - A wild beauty. I knew where she'd be holding and hunted her down...It was great! You can tell by my smile ;D
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Caught a mola mola (sunfish) about 200 pounds one year during the el nino current. never caught one of those previous, let alone see one. i too, had a cupcakes-eating grin.
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Lil' Randogs first fish (caught by himself), a Stave river chum at age 5. He was quite excited and droped the fish back in the water with the hook still firmly embeded in its mouth. After a quick chase down the rocky beach I managed to get the rod back before it went Bye Bye ;D
Then after that we were fishing for pink salmon from my boat at the mouth of the Vedder R. in the Fraser R. Lil' Randog was casting a Blue Fox spinner and was getting fish on almost every cast. I think that turned him into a believer ;D
I'm trying to groom him into a true fisherMAN, ;)
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I started the thread and didn't even reply to it...hehe
My most memorable fishing moment was when my dad and I visited a lodge in the Queen Charlotte Islands, we'd never been to anything like it before. We were able to get a great deal for the two of us to get up there. We had a guide and showed us how to rig up and fish effectively. We were there for 2 and a half days, and were the only guests to get a tyee each, I got a 31 lb fish, but dad had to beat me by a pound with a 32lb fish. When we laft the lodge, neither of us wanted to go at all. I left with more than a memory, I was to work there the following summer. All in all, an absolute kick-a$$ trip.
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One memorable fish was a big cutty on the Alouette,broke my new 4 peice graphite travle rod(great on the bike) was funny tryin to fight a fish with 1/2 a rod in the water ;D
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I've had many memorable fishing experiences, but this one beats them all. Last year in early september me and my friend went to the vedder for the day and everyone was catching pinks and one guy caught an early chum. Not to mention, the water was low and the fire ban was still in place.
On every cast I was catching pinks and then suddenly I hook into a fish and I knew that it wasn't a pink. The fish just took off into the air and it was a white spring in the 35-50 pound range, anyways, it was huge. What's even more amazing is that I landed it on a 10 pound leader and 15 pound mainline. The 15 pound mainline part isn't so amazing but the 10 pound leader is. well atleast I think so. ;D
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Caught a mola mola (sunfish) about 200 pounds one year during the el nino current. never caught one of those previous, let alone see one. i too, had a ****-eating grin.
Did it take your bait. where did you catch it. idd it fight ;)
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another one was sturgeon fishing from slaughterhouse bar, was,what else, collecting lost lead n stuff when I turned around to check my rod in the distance. :o No Rod! Oh crap.Ran back down the dike and down the rip rap to my holder-nothing,finally spotted my rod halve in the water caught up on a branch! grabed it and made a hook set-Bam right in the center of the river a fairly massive fish erupted with a spash,taking me for a good drag down the beach before breaking off.I allways regret not seeing my rod actually fly out of its holder,must have been a sight.
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For me it has to be long lining west of Triangle Island. long days and hard work but an awesome experience for a prarie boy. We were fishing for snapper and later halibut but in addition to catching these we caught lots of dog fish, the odd salmon, a couple wolf eels, ling cods, 2 octopus (one ~30lb another 50+ lb), rat fish and i think some others but can't really remember. we would steam for about an hour west from the island starting before sun up and fish right to sun down then steam back and anchor for the night.
I don't know the area but it's north of Vancouver island not quite to the Queen Charlotte Islands. this is the other area we fished. we would anchor at some island for the night and as often as i could i would sit on deck with a cup of tea before bed and just take it all in. Awesome beauty is the only way i can describe what i experienced without writing a book. though i am no seaman i did lean how to stear and navigate as like everyone else on the boat i had to take my turn at the wheel. we also made a few trips through the inside passage ( Vancouver to Port Hardy ). all i can say about this is if you have never been, you should make the time. I have spent a great deal of time out doors in southern Saskatchewan, central and norther Alberta, north east BC and a little time in the NWT. all very beautiful but the west coast is special. this region has an increadible capacity for life and variety of.
jt.
(sry....not trying to hijack)
btw Rodney.....i saw your personal section and kudos to you for using the web in such a great way with you field of study. I moved to the west coast to study marine ecology and when i started the internet was just becoming a public forum. a friend and myself started making a taxinomical database that could be used online. this project turned into another then another and before i knew it, i was no longer in school and just working with technology. At the same time another friend who was studying environmental sciences made a database for a project and ultimately dropped his studies to work with computers. He's a millionare now.
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my best experience was when i was a kid, and had bought a new rod and spinning reel and some silver spinners. went fishing at the lake (Kootenay Lake) off of a dock in the evening. the lake was a mirror, except for the thousands of Kokanee fish jumping on the surface. i cast out and got a 3 lb kokanee that took me about 5 minutes to get in. gawd i miss the kootenays!!!! ;D
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man i have EVER so many lol... *that phrase sounds so good in my head* lol
my nearest one ... as many of you may have known... was that my 12ft shimano rod was trolled into the water and never recovered... may it rest in peace :'(
anyways... the 1st fish is always 1 of the most memorable... umm wat eles.... oh when i caught a dead dogfish that had like 3 sea stars feeding on it that was pretty cool.... hmm what eles oh heres my fav.
this chinese tourest once came to the pier with these 2 ladies. the lady asked the man... what im fishing for. because of my slim and light action fenwick rod. the guy quickly replied to the woman.. that i was a kid and i have no idea what i was doing. this was of corse said in canto... but because im half and half. they had no idea i understood every word that came out of their mouths... next the guy came near me and started taking picture holding my equipment while i was preparing my set up etc... after i very politly asked him to move out of my space. i fired my line out there and landed a bullhead. the woman then quickly rushed in with the man and asked me in english "what kind of fish is this" then i replied in canto... *translation* "like you said, i dont know how to fish, how would i know?" the man was in complete shock and he quickly backed off and embarrassingly walked back to his car... i think that was the funniest one yet :D
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Did it take your bait. where did you catch it. idd it fight
i caught it when i worked on a troller in the late 80's. i was just a kid but was casting off the boat while we were packing up for the day with a pink hoochie to see if i could goof around and catch either a sockeye, a blue shark that was coming up to surface for old bait that we were throwing away, or maybe even some basking sharks that were all over the place at that time. the mola mola took my hootchie as it was very close to the surface of the water. it didn't fight at all....it was like dragging in a massive log. it actually looked so 'cute' i tried to unhook it right away and drop it back into the water. they don't really swim...it doesn't really have a tail, just massive dorsal and anal fins so it sort of glides really slowly in the water. their teeth are similar to those of parrot fish.
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i must add another report to my experience...(this is back in the late 70's (i was eight) when it was legal to use a winch and huge shark hooks for sturgeon fishing, and you could keep them too) .
The same week i caught my first kokanee (fish), one of the old duffers at the Gray Creek General store (hiway 3a, south of crawford bay), was phoning everyone to come down to the boat ramp behind the store. One of the locals had been out all night, fishing 1500 yards of 500 LB test stainless braided line, with a barbed shark hook about the size of a two liter bottle of cola, a 10LB downrigger ball and a dead rotten chicken for bait. he had rowed out about 1000 yards out and dropped the weight/hook and bait into the water and when it hit the bottom(that lake is freaky deep) he attached a couple of 5 gallon pails with lids for floats. he then rowed back and spliced his line into the winch line on his Dodge. about 0530 hours, the floats started moving and then disapeared. he fired up the truck and roared off the boat ramp and up the hill to set the hook. he then had gotten out and felled a tree with the chainsaw, to block the wheels. he turned on the winch (the first WARN winch made!!) and started hauling the line in. took awhile but he had caught the biggest white sturgeon in Kootenay lake. when we all got down to the dock, there it was. after weighing and measuring (1187 LBS, 21' long, 3' wide at the belly), the sturgeon was dragged back into the lake with a boat and released. it slowly swam off and then sped away.
i'm trying to get ahold of some old neighbours in the kootenays to get a picture.
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back when I was about 8years old,my dad and uncle finaly allowed me to go down to the river fishing with them.As was and still is the way the workers on the estate( this was in Scotland)were allowed to fish on the Duke's water only on a Wednesday evening.as the water was below a certain level they had to fish with the Fly(juviniles were allowed still to fish using worms)Dad decided to show me how to "tick tock" cast. as usual coaching was fairly vocal ie:pay attention to the timing watch your back cast after a while I was considerd competent enough to be allowed to have a go on my own while they sat on the bank to have a smoke and give me pointers.by this time I'm bored my arm is tired and I was having trouble keeping my back cast high so as not to drag the fly into the high grass.My dad seeing this decided to come over and take the rod from me. just as I made another vain attempt to keep the backcast up,not checking my back cast I felt the some resistance being tired and a bit put out I gave an extra tug of the rod (I thought I had tagged the grass again)then the oaths started I HAD HOOKED MY FIRST 150 POUNDER RIGHT BEHIND THE EAR."The old Boy"
took a while to appreciate that day I do now Dad is 78 and does not fish now"ALWAYS WATCH YOUR BACK CAST" still rings in my head even today.
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oh man you must been running fer your life after that!!! ;D
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It's a toss up for me between a few different occasions, funnily enough some of the things that come to mind for me aren't the biggest or most fish landed trips, it's been other things....
* Trip to Painter's Lodge last year with my family and watching my son land a huge Spring.
* Catching mackerel with a spin rod setup on Chesil Beach in the South of England. Normally I used to beachcast for mackerel with feathers and pull them in 3 or 4 at a time. One day they came in so close I was able to switch tackle and landed fish after fish on ultra light spinning gear.
* Landing a 16lb carp out of a small pond the UK - my biggest fish at that point by about 15 lbs and I still remember the panic in getting the fish into the net, and the bend in the rod.
* and lastly, a trip with my buddies when we were about 14. We all jumped on our bicycles and set off across the Tay Road Bridge in search of some serious fishing. The weather was glorius, we caught a few fish and explored the coast all day stopping to find bait, and then fish before moving on.
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25poundsmiley, you can catch blue sharks in bc? ???. where?
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25poundsmiley, you can catch blue sharks in bc? . where
Slayer, yes you can catch blue sharks between Tofino and Ahouset...but i am sure they are pretty much anywhere deep on the Pacific Coast. The fishermen I worked with used to carry guns to shoot them as they would come after the salmon that were caught in the trolling nets. They were more of a pest than something sporty to catch....the ones we on occasion caught we probably about 6 ft long and up to 80 pounds....like dogfish, they're not very heavy for their length. The odd thresher shark would be around as well as tons and tons of dogfish.
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threshers are a pain in the neck >< been to cali once... once the wrap their tails around ur line ur pretty much screwed. even if you have superlines.
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"1187 LBS, 21' long, 3' wide at the belly"
what an insane story!
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yo JT...yea that lake is deep..........there is several spots that exceed 1500 feet............the sturgeon there get HUGE!! , although in the last ten years that is'nt the case.
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at first i thought to myself, you must have been going after godzilla. then i saw the word lake... i thought it was for ogopogo... but after reading.... no idea it was all about a strugeon.. lol
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The first rainbow I caught on my very own hand tied fly! That was cool.
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mine was when I was 10 or 12 in surrey on the old pier and I caught a sweet 3 foot sturgeon asked the people around me what I should do. did not know too much about fish then so I let it go. at that time it was retention over 3 feet
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Hi otto, no the old boy was more mad at my uncle who thought the issue was hilarious, at first I thought I was going to be murderd, but not ,Dad didn't say much about it, guess he felt sorry for me.
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Have to say one of many memorable trips stands out and it always will. And as this is fishing the Cap time there's no better time for a Capperooo. I was with my brother Tim about 6 or 7 years ago fishing the Cap, nothing going on, no fish, the other five fishermen had left, it was about 7PM. Well at 7:30 all hell breaks loose. The planet's must all of been aligned perfectly because we started catching coho after coho. We both ran out of roe and started picking up discarded roe and
using it and still caught fish. This continued till dark and
we had to leave but the final tally was 38 coho for Tim and 29 for myself, give or take a digit here or there. A night we will never ever forget, great fun. :)
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May have posted this before some where.
Back in the 1960, July 20th to be exact ( just checked my log book I started in 1958) when I was still 16 years old my aunt and uncle took me and my cousin to look at the birds on Middlenatch Island off Powell River. While touring the Island saw hundreds of coho chasing herring almost on to the rocks.
I rushed back to the boat ( did not tell any of the others as I had learnt early never to ask others where you caught them, find your own spots ;D) got my spinning rod with a knobbly wobbler on it. I imagine most of you have never heard of them but I found them deadly for cut's as well. They were made by Lure Jensen and are not manufactured now. I remember I bought a full card of them 20 years ago, the last time I saw them for sale.
Back to the story. On the first cast where I had first seen them I saw 3 or 4 coho chasing the spoon but no hook up. Next cast fish on and to the beach a coho around 6 to 7 pounds.
Excitment to a 16 year old. Hey I would be excited if I saw that even today. ;D Back to the rest of them to show it off.
As my cousin did not have a spinning rod out in the boat in a hurry.
This is no fish story. You could hardly see the bottom for the swimming mass of coho.
#2 knobby's (what a name for a lure) quickly attached with a couple of split shots for weight.
In no time we were into fish and my cousin even got a spring about 15 to 18 pounds. I believe we limited out and came back the next day and got more. My log book shows I got 7 in the two days not sure what the limit in those days was. We were back for a third day but they were gone just like they are now. Why have we lost those teeming runs of coho that we once had?
I guess overfishing (maybe we were guilty too) polluting our waterways, an over population of seals and seal lions and the big one the loss of so many fish bearing streams. The jury is still out if the hatcheries are causing problems but this idea does not get my vote even if it is a uneducated one.
You residents of Vancouver would be able to list the numbers I am sure of all these small streams lost to developement including covering them in with fill and the use of closed in culverts and loss of the precious spawning gravel the returning spawning pairs so badly require to continue the runs.
Many of you are working to bring some of these lost streams back and should all be applauded for your work.
However some are gone forever in the name of so called progress.
I am getting to long winded I am sure for Fish A. but my other memorable experience was mooching and landing a 50 pound Spring in 1986 in Alberni Inlet. Will leave the story for another day as hope to have another adventure tomorrow as time to return to the flow after being away from it for 6 days as we have been swimming in water in our own house after the pipe broke spreading an inch of water to some of the rooms. I have felt like a fish the last couple of days. ;D ;D
The dryers are now going so I will roll out somewhere tomorrow. The Fraser is in full freshet now, which I knew would happen as Leaf Craft is nearly out of sick bay.
I will find somewhere to fish and have a good feeling for my second chinook of the season somewhere, Middlenatch Island? ;D ;D
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Hockey season is over. Time to renamed your Leafcraft to the Lionscraft as we roll to another Grey Cup in November
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Got to like it F.A.
Roar You Lions Roar
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Did not take long this morning to connect. A short report to follow as need a nap. ;D Getting a fish very quickly makes it a memorable experience. ;D so have posted here.
The Drying fans from our water problems made sleeping difficult last night so hit the road at 4am and as well I had to be home by noon to attend a funneral early this afternoon. :'(
About 12 minutes into the trip float down and a miss with most of the Pro cured ghost shrimp gone. With only part of the tail left tried a drift to no avail.
Fresh bug attached by thread and about 3 to 4 minutes after the first bite the Thompson Float ( we call the balsa ones this name, don't ask me why) slips nicely out of sight.
I set the hook and the spring comes out of the water almost as high as the rainbow that spooled me last week. No worries about this happening here with lots of line on the Avon reel that my dad bought for me many years ago in England. ;D
The 7 pound buck the same size as the Middlenatch coho mentioned above actually jumped a number of times trying to shed the hook.
In the space of another 5 miutes I had fresh fish on the beach.
On my return home my wife is still asleep, a note is left that there is fresh fish in the fridge for breakfast for her. She likes fish for breakfast but I will wait to enjoy it at supper tonight. I can taste it now. ;D ;D A quick and rewarding trip that was worth rolling rolling rolling right along for at an very early and quick trip. ;D ;D ;D O By the way Max I was wearing the Leaf hat so the jinz has been broken, Stanleys coming home next year. ;D
Now for a 2 to 3 hour nap. ;D
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cool story about the sturgeon Norm, thats why its so hard to leave,anything can happen.Before I was born my dad used to bring the odd sturgeon home to supplement the grub steak,and both my uncles fished em when they where young,one of em got dragged all up and down the river at Langely bar(Derby) by a biggen and my other uncle has a story about dragging one home on his bike,tail dragging in the gravel all the way home.Good times 8)
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the one that dragged the boat around was far to big to land, this was back around 60 years ago when there was a few around what haven't been dragged up on the shore by a tow truck,just pulled them around all morning,the one on the bike was touching ground on both sides of the handle bars ;D