got off work early and decided to hit the Stave river for the first time today. Got to the river by 11am, cars were parked alongside the west entrance. Guess one of the "no parking" sign was torn down by angry flossers
There were only 5 fishermen on the west side, and nearly 20 flossers in between. I started floating jig near the entrance, the first hour produced nothing. Switched to blade, fish on on the second cast, guess what, an old and dark humpy~ back it went to the water quickly. switched back to jig and on the very first cast, float took a quick dive. After a timely hookset, a rather good-size fish was on the other end of the line.
about two minutes later, first chum of the season was landed~~ an OK condition doe of about 13 lbs. Released, as i didn't plan to keep any fish today. Around 3pm, another fish was on but it lasted only a few seconds, gone along with my precious jig... so i just packed up and called it a day. Next week we should see decent number of fish in the system, hopefully we will see more fish than flossers then!
there was an interesting sighting on my way out though.. when i was driving along 287th. toward Hwy 7, i saw a bear crawling across the street, toward the residential area on the westside of the river!!
I know black bears frequent that area in the late autumn quite often, but this one was in a bit of a hurry maybe. i reported this to RAPP, as this might pose threat to the nearby residents. We just gotta be aware of fisherbears here on this river i guess
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Topic: Stave River, October 9th 2011 (Read 8642 times)