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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: chris gadsden on October 03, 2008, 01:50:44 PM
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I got up early today and instead of making my own coffee I headed to Tims and caught up on some newspaper reading over my early morning brew.
I wanted to get to the river early incase the bite was earlier than it has been. I was still looking for my first adult coho of the season. They seemed scarce to most of us but the amount of coho jacks I have found should prove that next year should be good.
I got away later than I wanted as got caught up in a fairly touchy email that I wanted to send out before I left.
A 5 minute drive had the Leaf Mobile at the parking area and in short order I was skipping my way to the run where some of us had success yesterday.
Dog walkers and runners were also enjoying an early start to their day as I reached the Rotary Trail. Horrors, as I look in the direction of the run I wanted to fish I see splashing at the crossing I would also be making. I see 3 figures making their way across the flow, they seem to be uncertain of the crossing in the breaking daylight.
I quicken my steps as I am being a bit of a beak as I want to beat them to the spot, if they are heading to it. ??? ::)
I quickly wade a little lower down than usual so cutting a little time off the route.
As I see the run as I climb over a bit of rise in the river bank I see a solitary figure barely outlined against the trees on the otherside of the river. Thats OK as room for 3 or 4 anglers to be able to cover the best part of this excellent piece of coho water.
Next I hope this chap is not fishing in a way that so many practice this day and as I reach the run I am greeted by a "good morning". Maybe I was not as cordial as I should have been, I was out of breath in my rush to beat the others to the run, a beak I was being in more ways than one. ???
I settle in 25 feet or so below the other angler and are pleased to see his setup is similar to mine. On goes my first piece of roe and as it hits the hot spot on the run the Maple Leaf foam float is swimming below the surface. (I broke two Maple Leaf Drennans yesterday :o on the rocks after missing fish hence the foam one)
I strike and I am rewarded with a nice battle with 12 to 14 pound hen chinook that is released back to the pool.
Boy looks like the bite is going to be good and early today but things do not happen that way so I talk to the other angler and find out he, Whitedevil is from this forum so we have something in common and we have a great time chatting, waiting for the bite to come on.
Finally there is a bit of a flurry and by the time I leave shortly after 9 we have had a few bites and I have landed two clipped coho jacks and a white chinook jack Whitedevil said he would post his results as he was going to continue fishing.
I bid goodbye to Whitedevil and head for a little breakfast before I do a few errands in town. I decide to check out the Bell area on the way home and pickup another clipped coho jack on my second cast that I retain but nearly loose it to some juvenile seagulls as I put it on gravel bar a few feet away from me, I shoo them away as I want it for dinner not their lunch. I miss another fish in the 15 minutes I fish the Bell.
I decide to cleanup some garbage at the Diving Board run and in cleaning it up I see 1 chinook, 4 chum and one nice coho on the beach. I meet some friendly anglers as I cleanup a bit of litter and I am rewarded by $2.50 of tins too. ;D I spot a Drennan lodged between two rocks but I am too lazy to cross the river to get it, maybe later today after a nap. :-\
All in all an enjoyable day catching a few fish and meeting another great member of this fishing web site, what could be better. O by the way this was a sort of The Journal written quickly as a nap calls.
I hope the weather holds for the weekend anglers as the fish are there even though the coho are hard to find but that fishing, isn't it?
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Hey Chris,
I guess we just missed you as we left the run at 11:00. The Drennan at the Diving Board Run was my friend's (FFM on this site). He got too close to the trees ;D. Anyhow, things were slow as we both only hooked three fish each on our primo roe. The only good thing was that we have more roe for future trips. We paid a visit to the hatchery and saw quite a few coho in the channel. Not one which I consider to be chrome which is unusual for this early in the year. Anyways, good luck with the rest of the season.
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Nice report Chris. Great read as usual. Hope the water holds up for tomorrow. Is it raining there?
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It was raining pretty good when I left around 2. Rained pretty much all the way home....
Nice report Chris, unsure if I am going to make a go at it tomorrow as well.
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Nice report Chris. Great read as usual. Hope the water holds up for tomorrow. Is it raining there?
Only light rain at the moment, will give another weather report on General Discussion later.
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Hey Chris,
I guess we just missed you as we left the run at 11:00. The Drennan at the Diving Board Run was my friend's (FFM on this site). He got too close to the trees ;D. Anyhow, things were slow as we both only hooked three fish each on our primo roe. The only good thing was that we have more roe for future trips. We paid a visit to the hatchery and saw quite a few coho in the channel. Not one which I consider to be chrome which is unusual for this early in the year. Anyways, good luck with the rest of the season.
Now that he knows where my Drennan is located - it may end up with a maple leaf on it! :D
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Don't feel so bad FFM, he broke three yesterday. ;)
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two words : Cleardrift Floats! ;)
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Left at six, water level still same as Wed. Clarity is however down to 1~3ft
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Ill be out there tomorrow!! Not sure where this run is chris is talking about downriver from the rotory trail,,,, but i will find it!! ahahha
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Worked the fly today with Will (Sabre).
Those coho in the gravel extraction holes are jaw-locked. :(
They were splashing around all day, but nobody touched one, not even the guys with spinners and spoons.
Fed up with the hole, I switched to my multitip and fished the main flow below Peach.
I was rewarded with a nice hatchery clipped coho jack (all of 33 cm long), but let it swim to grow up a bit. ;D
So, technically, I popped my 2008 coho cherry. ::)
Other than the little coho jack, nothing for us today. Those coho jumping in the pond were sure driving us nuts!
Taking a break tomorrow to attend a wedding, but will be back with a vengeance on Sunday.
Tight lines,
Milo
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Were you at the Peach one ??? Can't beleive I didnt see you, was there from like 6:00-6:45 with my idiot friend who was wearing yellow shorts and a t-shirt ::) I had one hit that I promptly missed, little rusty on the spoon fishing still ;) Hopefully tomorrow will produce some results :-\
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You probably didn't see me as I was flogging the main stream with my sinking tip at that time...I had gotten frustrated by those coho showing me the fin every few seconds yet refusing to take my fly - and, man, I got some really good coho flies.
Hopefully this rain will stir them up. They are simply stale.
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You probably didn't see me as I was flogging the main stream with my sinking tip at that time...I had gotten frustrated by those coho showing me the fin every few seconds yet refusing to take my fly - and, man, I got some really good coho flies.
Hopefully this rain will stir them up. They are simply stale.
O you were the guy standing in front of the snaggers in waste deep water ;D I hope you caused a few lost fish ;D
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O you were the guy standing in front of the snaggers in waste deep water ;D I hope you caused a few lost fish ;D
Yup, that was me.
I didn't exactly make them lose fish...but I sure caused some tangles among the beaks, which kept them busy untangling their monstruos contraptions instead of snagging. ;D
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Hi Chris, I am so happy to fish with you and learn lots of good advice from you. There was no bite lately after you left, then I changed my roe to Berkely power roe It works well and caught a 14 pounds spring in the first cast. Retied my line and caught another spring for about 18 pounds and that is it for the day. I might fish again next Monday and hope can see you again..so much fun! Cheers!