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chris gadsden

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Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« on: August 21, 2014, 05:32:45 PM »
With another successful corn sales in the books it was time to try and find some chinook salmon jacks.
It is good to be in Gold Country once again leaving the activity of the Fraser behind and all that is associated with it.

The sockeye are here in great numbers and doing some filming of the dip netting I captured one dip yielding 3 sockeye. As it was 4 years ago and so many sockeye it seems to affect the jacks, maybe chasing them from the pools or maybe they cannot see the bait through the schools of sockeye.

Also thunder storms have been making it unpleasant and the Thompson River rocks of course are very slippery when wet.

I have been doing more filming than fishing so far including dip netting, a person gold panning with nice results along with an interview with Steve Rice re the steelhead opening. I will get these clips up later.

Certain areas of the T. open tomorrow so should make a trip to see if I can get one of the thousands of sockeye in the system to bite, I have some bugs and they do work at times.

Also adult Chinooks open in the same area so may be worth a try.
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Re: Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2014, 01:15:41 PM »
Been counting the days until I can go back and enjoy the Thompson once again. Hope the jacks start cooperating  ;D
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Re: Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2014, 09:11:37 PM »
Quote from: BCfisherman97 on August 22, 2014, 01:15:41 PM
Been counting the days until I can go back and enjoy the Thompson once again. Hope the jacks start cooperating  ;D
Blanked on this trip again, only hooked two adults.Too many sockeye in the holes that seems to effect the jack fishery, same as 4 years ago. Even though there are thousands of sockeye going through they donot bite, roe anyway. ::) F/N doing well with their dip netting, will get a clip up later that I filmed as just got in from the 4 day trip.
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Re: Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2014, 04:23:26 AM »
Filmed gold miners on the T. while fishing there, thought I would post it here as I believe they give a good explanation about mining gold. Part 1 of 3. http://youtu.be/tYU-01vYFBc
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Re: Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2014, 02:14:18 PM »
Just what we need on the Thompson. As if a pulpmill, fair size town, oil from the roads and other spills we don't know of isn't enough.
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Re: Thompson River, August 19th - 21st 2014
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2014, 11:28:42 AM »
In my humble opinion this operation has very little if any impact, the freshet every year would have more impact but is a natural thing.
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