Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: mdc8427 on August 20, 2013, 08:30:11 AM
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Anyone been to the vedder lateley hows she looking any pinks show up yet?
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I would imagine its a little early for pinks yet. I drove along side it the other day for a long stretch. Not to many guys out there. But the water levels seems to be how i like them. Gravel bars are showing and pools are forming . It has changed a little bit since last year when i was out for reds 2 weeks ago.
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Was out there on sunday. No sign of any pinks, a few others out who had said they ha no luck.
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Would you guys think it would be "fishing rod suicide" to use a 6wt on the vedder for the pink and coho runs next month? I assume for pinks it's fine, but what are your thoughts on the coho season?
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the Vedder is partly cloudy today with 40% chance of precipitation
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I would imagine its a little early for pinks yet.
When do they usually start to trickle in?
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Wouldn't shift work give you more varied times to check out the river? I would see that as being a good thing for fishing.
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Would you guys think it would be "fishing rod suicide" to use a 6wt on the vedder for the pink and coho runs next month? I assume for pinks it's fine, but what are your thoughts on the coho season?
All I use for coho is a 6wt, works completely fine.
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When do they usually start to trickle in?
It varies a lot. I look at the test fisheries, and see is going on there. Remember pinks are small so they tend to sqeeze by them as well. When i start seeing some numbers i will head out.
However, i will be there 1st week of sept if that helps. I have to take one weekend off to get more jigs tied.
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Already caught a couple at the crossing this week!
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All I use for coho is a 6wt, works completely fine.
It does in frog water, but good luck if you hook into a fish in the double digits and it takes off into the current.
I don't go under 8-weight for any salmon, but each to their own.
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Already caught a couple at the crossing this week!
Me too. They were making out under the bridge and I told them to get a room. :P
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I use a 7wt, light enough for pinks but enough back bone to bring in average vedder coho. However anything above average I'd going to be a challenge. If say they are super thick by 2 week of September however idk about you guys but I don't target them as they're not great table fair by the time they hit the ved.
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I was at the vedder both on sunday and Today. Sunday I was there from 6-10am from the gravel bar down to the canal. Only saw 1 other fisherman, and no hook ups. Standing on the Keith wilson bridge for 20 mins wasn't able to spot ANY fish swimming in the clear water.
Today i was there at 5:30am- 12:00noon same area, 12 fisherman spotted, and lots of voyeurs from about 9:00am on. 5 fish were spotted from the bridge, 2 of which were dark with radio tags :) No hook ups seen from the bend by the gravel bar all the way down to the highway. Spent 20 mins on the bridge saw no fish coming up either :(
The water felt colder this morning which was great!! so perhaps in another week or week and a half we could see some numbers coming through? Go fish BC sent a FB notice out to watch the whonnock gillnet reports, and they suggest when their numbers of pinks reported get into the 100"s the pinks are here basically. I have checked the reports daily and have yet to even see double digits maybe 1-2 days there was on there report? Hope this helps