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[Rodney]

Mark, Vince and I spend a couple of hours at North Arm last evening to catch the incoming tide. We were just fishing for coarse fish, which were really plentiful and entertaining, especially for Vince's kid. In the two hour span, we had a few dozen peamouth chub and a few pikeminnow. Water clarity is improving, in fact it should be clear enough to do some spincasting with spinners and spoons already. There were a lot more salmon moving through during the incoming tide than last week.

[Steely]

Rod, are those salmon catchable from this low down as I fish from the delta area and can't wait for pinks but if I could catch other salmon species from that area that would be awsome. I am just looking for something to do as I don't get up Chilliwack area very often.

One more thing are those Pikeminnow of any size or are they just littler guys? Thanks

[Rodney]

Majority of these fish that surfaced were most likely sockeye salmon, but there are probably chinook salmon mixed in between. Spincasting for chinook salmon is doable, your chance of getting one is just a lot slimmer than what you would experience in the pink salmon fishery. The number of fish is much smaller and water clarity also cuts down the opportunities for the lure to intercept a fish. I've only seen chinook salmon being caught on lures down here a couple of times, most of the time they are caught on roe. All of the fish caught are usually in late August. That being said, it's always worth a try. I'm actually considering doing a little bit of it after seeing the amount of fish going by yesterday during the incoming tide.

The pikeminnows that we caught were pretty small. There was only one that gave the reel a bit of work, but it popped off before I brought it to the surface.

[Steely]

Thanks rod I think I will give it a try. If anything I will most likely hook up with something it just might not be a salmon