It would have been more exciting and less frustrating to sit here and moderate the forum today.
My dad and I arrived well before sunrise because we were so excited today.
Both Chris and Nick regularly feed information to me by phone everyday (this is how work does not get done) and yesterday's reports of fish sights (not catchings) were good. We sat on the bank at the chosen spot in darkness, listening to splashes around us. Judging by how big they were and how they were jumping, I guessed that most of them were coho. I thought, this was going to be on spoons today because it has worked out this way before with the same scenario.
Once it was light enough to fish, both of us were casting spoons for them risers. I had a couple of quick tugs at the beginning but there were nothing to show. Nick showed up at the other side of the river an hour after we started. He drifted roe and immediately was into a big silver spring just as he wanted. He landed it, dispatched it, returned to fishing and was into another fish in no time. He later landed another spring. Meanwhile, big silver coho, which I would estimated to be up to 15lb, were just leaping all over the place between both banks. Spoons, spinners, roe were all not working their magic. Nick later told me at lunch that coho were just stacking up on his side and busy heading upstream. They were not biting at all, most likely because of big springs that were taking over the area.
I briefly connected with a coho jack near the end by floating roe, but might as well have caught nothing considering how many fish were in front of us.
My dad had one brief hook-up, it was a spring that spat the hook when it leaped out of the water. He also foul hooked another spring that took forever to come off.
Other than that, today was one warm day on October 6th! Lunch was excellent at Cookies as usual, the usual consolation prize after a day of skunking.
Water condition in my opinion is as good as it can get. We intend to make the best out of the next two days before heavy rain ruins it.
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Topic: Chilliwack River, October 6th 2010 (Read 6564 times)