Came across a kid yesterday who had 4 pinks 2 sockeye. I questioned him and he insisted that it was legal!  Did i miss something?

an example of not understanding how to read the regs. 4 salmon per day period

Came across a kid yesterday who had 4 pinks 2 sockeye. I questioned him and he insisted that it was legal!  Did i miss something?

That a pre-season big forecast is dashed by actual returns yet people think there will be some last minute turnaround has happen before.  It is almost Sept and by now they have a good idea how many fish have come through the marine approaches and possibly what number is waiting in area 29.  A big late recovery is not likely.

The modelling is showing 12.5 Million Pinks for the Time being, but that'll change if either the marine tests spike again or the steady stream of fish keep moving passing Mission in large numbers.  Either way, this year will be record setting in certain ways.

Seems fishy to me...I went back 30 years and there was not a pink run that came in this early this large.

I still wonder if the sockeye/pink ratio is correct and % is more sockeye then they estimate.

all armchair of course

if pinks they did dna for pinks there would be more answers guess will see when they hit the spawning grounds

I also looked at the average run timing and it lasts about 10 days so if this run is early the lower fraser fishery could be over in the next 5 days.

https://www.psc.org/publications/fraser-panel-in-season-information/fraser-river-panel-information-package/ 

Aug 29th update.

In season adjusted to 12,500,000 which is preliminary until approved.

Not as many fish showing as in the past couple of days but still pretty darn good fishing. Amazing how fishermen tend to congregate to their kins. Walk 50 feet and you're  in no man's land and the fishing is still good.

I'll tell you why. Private messaging another member, let alone meeting others in real life, requires determination, social and emotional intelligence, and above all, at least decent communication skills. Based on my observations, the initiator of this thread has none of the above.
This person often posts on impulse, without taking into consideration the effect his words might have on the collective. The tone used is dismissive and abrasive, without contributing anything significant to our common piscatorial cause. It is people like them that have discouraged me from forums and social media in general.

"common piscatorial cause"  . Milo you have quite the witty demeaner, and your comments are always fun to read.

1 Million swam past Mission yesterday based on Hydroacoustics-based.  Sockeye Decreased to 61900 from 200K the day before.  Looks like counters are being hit by mostly pinks now.

I fished at Mission and the river was by no means alive with  pinks. Most other people commented how much better the fishing was the previous 2 days.

At 4.5 million it suggests the run is approaching the 50% mark. Remains to be seen what happens on local rivers that are open or if the whole season may just fizzle out after the weekend.

I thought I remeber reading in 2023 that a good portion of the pink return was from above hope as most of the population below was hit hard by the floods.

Wonder if that’s true for this year as well

as I recall:

Historically the biggest segments of the Fraser pink run are:

1) the Fraser between Chilliwack and Hope
2) Interior streams mainly the Thompson (and tributaries) and Seaton
3) the Harrison - which is the largest run for a single stream or river

the Fraser and Harrison pinks did not seem to be much affected by the Nov 2021 floods.

other runs like the Chilliwack are relatively small. It seemed to me the 2023 return was noticeably lower and I wondered if it should have been set to no fishing or c&r