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Re: Are the pinks here yet ?
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2025, 03:46:14 PM »

5 Dollar pinks at the supermarket again.  Cheaper than some fishing spoons  ;D
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Re: Are the pinks here yet ?
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2025, 03:49:22 PM »

Have you seen the shape they're in ? No wonder it's five bucks.
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Re: Are the pinks here yet ?
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2025, 03:33:20 PM »

Test fisheries should start late June with Whonnock starting earliest (2024 was on June 28).

Whonnock is one of the best test fisheries for Fraser pinks as it is located north of Glen Valley between Maple Ridge and Mission.
It should show when the river is loaded with fish.

Earlier test fisheries (as in the fish arrive earlier) are Area 12 is the north end of VI and is a good early indicator of Fraser spawning fish.
Area 20 which is the south end of VI - a certain (fairly small) percentage travel down the outside of the Island.

Purse/Seine tend to be more accurate than the gillnet counts - wrong size mesh, etc.
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Re: Are the pinks here yet ?
« Reply #18 on: Today at 12:17:12 PM »

looking at my notes from 2023 august 12 I caught some nice brights ones off bowen island, west van trolling the usual pink hootiches.   

Fraser the numbers don't matter only the politics do.  So save yourself a brain aneurysm and don't look at the test fisheries.

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Re: Are the pinks here yet ?
« Reply #19 on: Today at 12:34:49 PM »

Changed my mind.
« Last Edit: Today at 05:13:37 PM by Easywater »
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