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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: bigsnag on August 11, 2013, 10:21:40 AM
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Fished Saturday afternoon conditions still the same though water cleared a bit when the river dropped at low tide. Still the same fish then no fish movement. There were 2 seal working the water probably spooking the pinks.
Watched a guy using a floating line with a weighted fly hit fish consistently ( a lot more than Me). He said he uses the same technique on Coho. I'll try it next trip.
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Yesterday it was easy fishing when the pinks were in in good numbers. I had a five cast-five fish on series at one point. When you have four friends fly fishing next to one another and all four have a fish on at the same time, you know that fishing got stupid.
With each of us hooking into 20+ fish in less than two hours of fishing, it simply got ridiculous - to the point that we packed up and left.
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Milo, what shape are they in now? Thanks.
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Milo, what shape are they in now? Thanks.
Good shape most of them.
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Chromers lots of them!!!!
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What Bobo said.
You don't need to work hard to get a chromer, but that will change in the next couple of days.
I say the run peaked this weekend.
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I sure hope it has not peaked as the peak is usually around Labour Day. This has been fairly consistent for the last few cycles.
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I don't think it has peaked in numbers. Last weekend was the first time they showed up in big numbers... both fish and fishermen ;D
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The traffic on Sea to Sky Highway peaked that's for sure. ;D
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I don't think it has peaked in numbers. Last weekend was the first time they showed up in big numbers... both fish and fishermen ;D
Correct.
I was referring to the average quality of the fish in the run, not the quantity.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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What bkk said. The run typically peaks later in the month and early September, so you should be seeing more fresh fish moving into the system. I remember many years ago fishing in late August, encountering fish just as fresh as the ones caught in late July. Here's one from August 19th two years ago.
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2013/130812-1_zps71dabbb8.jpg)
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Hey Rodney! August 19! Yes, I remember that day! ;)
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What bkk said. The run typically peaks later in the month and early September, so you should be seeing more fresh fish moving into the system. I remember many years ago fishing in late August, encountering fish just as fresh as the ones caught in late July. Here's one from August 19th two years ago.
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2013/130812-1_zps71dabbb8.jpg)
Certainly does look fresh! Nice fish, too~
A friend asked me to get him a couple of fish for a barby if I went today for his family visiting from Australia. Lots of nice fish at mid afternoon when i first got there but I didn't want to keep anything until the last hour. Sure had to weed through a wack a fish before getting a couple of nice one.....thought I blew it for him. Was strange to see so many green/white bellied fish coming through when just a couple of hours earlier most of them were nice and bright.
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It really depends on what triggers a particular group of pinks to enter the river from Daryl Bay. I've fished 4 trips this season and have encountered groups of really chrome fish,followed by a mixed group of not so chrome and coloured ones and dish plated humpies and white bellied does with green backs. In one school that passed I hooked into 3 silver sided ones that fought like they where possesed,peeled line off the reel running up stream... broke off before I got spooled.