May have posted this before some where.
Back in the 1960, July 20th to be exact ( just checked my log book I started in 1958) when I was still 16 years old my aunt and uncle took me and my cousin to look at the birds on Middlenatch Island off Powell River. While touring the Island saw hundreds of coho chasing herring almost on to the rocks.
I rushed back to the boat ( did not tell any of the others as I had learnt early never to ask others where you caught them, find your own spots
) got my spinning rod with a knobbly wobbler on it. I imagine most of you have never heard of them but I found them deadly for cut's as well. They were made by Lure Jensen and are not manufactured now. I remember I bought a full card of them 20 years ago, the last time I saw them for sale.
Back to the story. On the first cast where I had first seen them I saw 3 or 4 coho chasing the spoon but no hook up. Next cast fish on and to the beach a coho around 6 to 7 pounds.
Excitment to a 16 year old. Hey I would be excited if I saw that even today.
Back to the rest of them to show it off.
As my cousin did not have a spinning rod out in the boat in a hurry.
This is no fish story. You could hardly see the bottom for the swimming mass of coho.
#2 knobby's (what a name for a lure) quickly attached with a couple of split shots for weight.
In no time we were into fish and my cousin even got a spring about 15 to 18 pounds. I believe we limited out and came back the next day and got more. My log book shows I got 7 in the two days not sure what the limit in those days was. We were back for a third day but they were gone just like they are now. Why have we lost those teeming runs of coho that we once had?
I guess overfishing (maybe we were guilty too) polluting our waterways, an over population of seals and seal lions and the big one the loss of so many fish bearing streams. The jury is still out if the hatcheries are causing problems but this idea does not get my vote even if it is a uneducated one.
You residents of Vancouver would be able to list the numbers I am sure of all these small streams lost to developement including covering them in with fill and the use of closed in culverts and loss of the precious spawning gravel the returning spawning pairs so badly require to continue the runs.
Many of you are working to bring some of these lost streams back and should all be applauded for your work.
However some are gone forever in the name of so called progress.
I am getting to long winded I am sure for Fish A. but my other memorable experience was mooching and landing a 50 pound Spring in 1986 in Alberni Inlet. Will leave the story for another day as hope to have another adventure tomorrow as time to return to the flow after being away from it for 6 days as we have been swimming in water in our own house after the pipe broke spreading an inch of water to some of the rooms. I have felt like a fish the last couple of days.
The dryers are now going so I will
roll out somewhere tomorrow. The Fraser is in full freshet now, which I knew would happen as Leaf Craft is nearly out of sick bay.
I will find somewhere to fish and have a good feeling for my second chinook of the season somewhere, Middlenatch Island?
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