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[Fish or cut bait.]

With a two year cycle that(Pinks) are the most adative species and roam ( as already stated)
There is an article on this.
I'll try to find it....Maybe, as time and memory allows.

[Blackrt03]

Fishing for pinks is extremely fun! I love taking out people who have never fished before and they have a blast catching pinks. I do however see terrible ethics everywhere I go on the lower vedder its pretty bad in certain spots.

For example look at some of these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CknWashZVvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWgD45vpEG8

The first video that guy gives out fishing reports seen one of them
The first video that guy gives out fishing reports see one of his videos

[RalphH]

I have read a bunch of books from 1850 to 1950 you would be surprised at how many small systems did not have salmon or did not have money salmon in them. Yes humans have devastated stocks but have also enhanced lots of streams that never even had Chum,Coho,Chinook runs.  I am sure you probably heard about the legendary fishing that took place for Exbo 86. When the government pumped tonnes of money into hatcheries in the years before (sent water bombers to seed harrison lake ext...).

I believe they did also introduce a successful run of pinks in the indian arm as well tho i cant find anything on it

Re: every 'point' you made above - sorry but I don't think so.

Cheers

[Dave]

Re: every 'point' you made above - sorry but I don't think so.

Cheers

Agree Ralph.
Fertilizing Harrison Lake ... really?  I don't remember that happening and wonder how that would that have helped coho production?  For sure though, many more coho smolts were pumped out by DFO hatcheries, and the returns were at an optimum time for ocean survivals. 

Oh, for 10% survival rates again

[sugartooth]

the kitimat river has pinks every year man. they were especially abundant in the 90's.... I am from there as well, and fished it for 25+ years before moving to vancouver. still fish it yearly when I visit family..... So not sure why your saying that? maybe your quite a bit older than me and this was occurring in the 60' and 70's? maybe the run was just tiny? I literally grew up on hirsch creek, I lived on smith st..... I caught pink, chum, springs and coho every year since I was 10 there.

When I fished the kitimat river in the 70's and early 80's the pink run was every other year. Clearly something has changed.

[wildmanyeah]

Agree Ralph.
Fertilizing Harrison Lake ... really?  I don't remember that happening and wonder how that would that have helped coho production?  For sure though, many more coho smolts were pumped out by DFO hatcheries, and the returns were at an optimum time for ocean survivals. 

Oh, for 10% survival rates again

Pretty sure it was fertilized for sockeye smolts

[RalphH]

As there was no sport fishery in fresh water as today or much of one in saltwater what relationship would fertilizing Harrison Lake serve?

Some lakes have been or were fertilzed to boost the size of young sockeye- Great Central Lake and Long Lake near Rivers Inlet are 2 but never heard of Harrison. It is so large and the inflow of the Lillooet Rover causes so much flushing it would be difficult to make it work.

[wildmanyeah]

As there was no sport fishery in fresh water today or much of one in saltwater what relationship would fertilizing Harrison Lake serve?

Some lake have been or were fertilzed to boost the size of young sockeye- Great Central Lake and Long Lake near Rivers Inlet are 2 but never heard of Harrison. It is so large and the inflow of the Lillooet Rover causes so much flushing it would be difficult to make it work.

solid points, just something I heard 

[NothingToSnagAbout]

Do youths need a license and have daily retention quota?

[Noahs Arc]

All that info is in the synopsis.

[NothingToSnagAbout]

Thanks guys, great info

[clarki]

Do youths need a license and have daily retention quota?

That is a really important question to you
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=40381.msg380719#msg380719

[NothingToSnagAbout]

Ha, my memory is going

[Tenz85]

Still a few months away but any reports on the forecast or is it too early to even guess?

[Blood_Orange]

DFO's scuba divers are still out at sea, manually counting the fish. Could be a while yet.