hit the chilliwack today with my fishing partner Flyguy,after seeing the water conditions have been better lately and the weathernetworks promise of good weather and calmer winds for today our hopes and anticipation were high for a successful trip out.
we decided that we wanted to start out at first light in the lower river ,on our drive out the temperatures seemed to be good and the wind seemed to be very minimal until we pulled into the parking area ,the wind in the lower end was quite strong and really not conducive to a good drift or proper presentation of our offerings,at this point we decided to try some of the runs up river a little in hopes of getting out of the wind.The water up river was in excellent shape and we fished some beautiful fishy runs with no takers,after hitting this area for a couple hours we decided again to go back down river in hopes that the winds had subsided a little,as it turns out it was windy but not quite as bad as first light so we decide to give it a try,at the area we were fishing the water was in perfect shape and to my surprise the river had changed considerably ,producing several classic steelhead runs.We fished several runs with no success for either of us but we did see two fish taken and heard there were 4 caught earlier in the same area,there didn't seem to be allot of pressure in the areas we fished today and we pretty much had access to all the best water without having to compete with others for the prime spots,on our way home we decided to stop and take a look if the river had changed much in one of our most favored areas,we didn't fish it because we had to get home but we found the river had some subtle changes for the better and we bumped into Chris doing his rounds,after a nice chat we head er for home,even with the winds and our lack of success it was still a very enjoyable day on the flow.
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Topic: Chilliwack River, January 24th 2009: A blustery day on the flow (Read 2698 times)