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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: fishmonk on August 06, 2016, 01:23:00 PM
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Fished from 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM...about 20 anglers and 1 fish caught and I saw 1 jumper after that. They are not stacking up yet. A little late but maybe next week or 2.
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Appreciate the report. Was thinking of heading out tomorrow. Think I'll just sleep in tomorrow.
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I was fishing in a boat along shore around the same time. Pretty dead out there, not much action. Has anyone been fishing in the river upstream lately? Any good action there?
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Went up river on Saturday. Water is really low, even the big pools had nothing holding. Wait for the fall.
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It wasn't that long ago that the Coho stacked up in the salt in June.
Man we can sure mess things up in a hurry.
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Natives netted about 50-60 coho starting this first light. Some real nice ones too
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In the weir traps?
I was there last weak after a high tide watching them harvest at the weirs and saw them with like 30 beautiful chrome coho, all roughly 3-4 lbs mostly. Looked like fun down there :). I wonder if they get many Chinook in those traps?
All caught in the traps then netted. I watched during outgoing tide and about 1 fish caught every 30-50 minutes. I saw a picture of a steelhead bonked last week, but no springs. Beach was slow today for those wondering
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I was out a couple days this weekend on the kayak with no salmon landed. Did land a couple nice sole and my first (3) dogfish. They were rather interesting to land the first time (and dare I say rather cute looking). Even caught a couple crabs on my rod in about 5 feet of water! they didn't want to let go of my herring :P All females like every other crab at Ambleside these days (commercial traps in full effect).
As for the coho in the system upriver - we stopped by a few holes yesterday that seemed devoid of fish - but the hatchery was jammed with many beauties. Plenty of fish are making their way past the weirs (and most guys fishing at the beach).
(http://i.imgur.com/JFeQ90X.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/7fYgidl.jpg)
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Those fish in the Hatchery have been there since the few rains we had in June. It has been stacked tight in the hatchery and cable pool since then. I doubt many have been getting up in the low water. Maybe a few :).
Quite a few chromers mixed in which tell me a fair number are still getting through - but yeah - I've seen a bunch stacked up for a while at Cable Pool awaiting a water release from the dam.
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There have also been a fair amount around the beach from my time out there, not many willing to bite, though they have had no problem jumping 5 feet from me, and flipping me the fin :)
That's normal for Ambleside, lots of jumpers, but few biters. They rarely bite, but it could turn on for 10 minutes and then turn off again for hours. I will join the gong show there on Saturday for the first time this season.
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Not much changed today. Few jumpers, saw no fish hooked.
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Similar result on Friday morning. We fished the low by the breakwater from 5:30-9:30 and got skunked yet again (other than 1 small cuttie and a sculpin on spinner). Saw only 1 coho landed and my buddy lost 1 on buzz bomb.