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[canucksfan233]

Curious if you guys find if the fish will swim close to shore if there is a lot of log pilings along the river. Fished middle arm a couple days ago since the south arm was looking like sockeye fishing and thats the logging channel. Didnt see any fish jump and was wondering if the logs pushed them out more towards the middle.

[Fish Assassin]

Still a few being caught this morning in the Lower Fraser

[fic]

Lost 2 landed 1 today in the Lower Fraser.  Definitely not as plentiful weeks ago but it's still possible to hook up.

[wildmanyeah]

15 mill past mission with over 1 million harvested seaward. puts the run now over 16 million

[Fish Assassin]

3 more days before the tidal pink season ends. Still quite a few fish moving through. As expected, not as crowded. Fishing still decent; at least a dozen caught.

[scruffy]

its nice when its like that, nice and peaceful

[Fish Assassin]

Last day of the tidal pink fishery. Still fish moving in. My buddy caught 3 this morning.

[scruffy]

gonna miss the quick afterwork runs to the lower fraser

[wildmanyeah]

How would you rate this years pink run?

For me it would be an 8 out of 10. Pretty steady though out the opening, not lights out crazy but steady.

[RalphH]

Hmm interesting.

What was positive:

at 18 to 19+ million, largest return since 2011. Of those close to 18 million fish passed Mission and a few are still coming.

at this point looks to be the 6th largest return since 1959

exceeded the average annual return of 11 million by about 80%

the tail of the run was long and sizable, providing pretty good fishing right to the end of the season

huge numbers of people got to participate

despite everything that has been lost on the Fraser fishery, the summer chinook fishery and the fall bar fishery etc, it made us realize how good it can still be

What wasn't so positive:

The pre-season forecast of 27 million was out by close to negative 10 million

The high pre-season forecast was used to hype the return far beyond the actual result. Also demonstrated once again the pre-season forecast is useless as a planning number

The final in season forecast of 10.5 million fish was low by + 8 million fish. Proving again the forecast system isn't that reliable

The return was remarkably early. By my figuring the peak (50% of escapement ay Mission) was Sept 4th. The river was low, warm and dirty on the Fraser, which put a damper on catch results.

Fishing conditions were exceedingly crowded. Huge numbers of people participated.

Reminded some of us of everything that has been lost on the Fraser fishery. Not too many years ago we could be looking forward to the Fall bar fishery which often got rolling in the last week of September.

I went out 3 times. Once I got a limit. Once I caught a fish and once I got skunked. I decided that was enough and pursued something else that was for me more enjoyable

I don't think 8 of 10 is unreasonable but I'll call it 7. Not close to any of great years I recall like 2011, 2003 and 2001.

[Fish Assassin]

Consistent is the word I would describe the fishery.

[Wiseguy]

Tons of fish around the Hope area bars. The challenge was getting them to bite up there. The water cleared up nicely as the season went on. Was hoping to fish lower Fraser bars where the fish are more bitey but there was way too many people for my liking.  Hoping for some more rain and a good coho season this October.