Name: Flyguy
Email:
Location: Semen Mouth
Date Posted: 31-Aug-99
Comments:
Flyfished the mouth for 2hrs today,Between 10:30am & 12:30.Hooked into two pinks.A 4lb male with full hump & jaw that fought like a wet sock & lost a clean one about 3 lbs.Only 3 fish showed the whole time.Lucky I brought rain gear

Name: Sandy
Email:
Location:
Date Posted: 30-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the Skagit Fri/Sat. The river is in great shape. On Friday the upper river was excellent brought 9 to hand. Largest a 17" bow. All on a dry, either a Goddard Caddis or an Adams both size 14. All sorts of hatches happenning from a very large stone fly to tricos. Saturday brought a weather change and hordes of fishermen. Got two 14" both on a stone fly nymph. No rises and far fewer bugs hatching. Interestingly I got a number of splashy refusals on a skated caddis. It was almost as if the fish knew it was Saturday and that those weren't really bugs. Mosquitos are bad, bring lots of bug juice.

Name: Cade
Email: ccade@velocityinc.ca
Location: Seymour
Date Posted: 30-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished sundown and no jumpers, Had one hit but the fishing was real slow. Saw nothing get caught.

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Falls Lake, BC
Date Posted: 29-Aug-99
Comments:
Just got back from a great bit of aerobic exercise packing the tube into and out of Falls Lake today. Arriving bright and early around 8:30AM we loaded our gear and hit the trail up to the lake. Beware, though, that the trail is in need of some repair with a few large deadfalls blocking the way, and as well, one of the bridges is out, so it's posted as Hazardous at the trailhead. Arriving at the lake we were greeted by the blissful sounds of wind in the pines and the slurping of hungry trout. As usual, most of the action is at the outlet creek logjam and by carefully walking out on one of the larger logs you can see schools of hundreds of trout holding down in the tangle of sunken brush and deadfall. A few larger cruising fish were also apparent as well as hundreds of the smaller trout that usually hang out there. Rigging up with our 3wt. and 4 wt. fly rods, we hit the water and judging from the number of small midges flitting around above the surface of the quieter water over towards the far side of the outlet bay, we decided to tie on size 16 Adams emerger patterns and sure enough we proceeded to get some action on the first casts. Between 9AM and 10:30AM it was somewhat slow with plenty of rises and taps at the flies as well as a few nice bright 12 inchers to hand, the majority of the fish were small. But around 11:30 to 1:00PM the wind calmed down a bit and it was pretty well a fish a cast for about an hour, and we managed to hook a few of the bigger cruisers which really put a bend into our light flyrods. We tried altering flies to larger dry flies but the fish seemed to be keyed in on the smaller flies and anything size 16 or smaller, grey or olive with a gold rib was getting all the attention. Quite a few people showed up just after lunchtime including a family whose father had the longest, biggest telescoping spinning rod I've ever seen. It looked like something you'd use surfcasting for bluefish at Martha's Vinyard. A few ounces of weight helped him get some nice long casts and we steered well clear of all the flying hardware. A group of four other tubers showed up as well and they managed to get into some fish just off the logjam as well. Conditions got a little crowded with all six of us in tubes in the little outlet bay so I went off for a while with the full sink line and a brown leech, which produced a couple of nice fish out in the deeper areas along the shorelines. By 3:00PM the waves were breaking over the back of our tubes and everyone else had been blown off the lake earlier, so we called it a day and packed our now sodden gear back to the truck. Another "lost count" day on Falls Lake. Although a few people show up from time to time, nothing beats the sub-alpine scenery, willing trout and fresh air you can find up there. Cheers.

Name: Rob Jones
Email: rsjones@acncanada.net
Location: Barclay sound
Date Posted: 28-Aug-99
Comments:
August 22-25 Fishing in Barclay Sound unusually spotty for this time of year. Lots of springs marking on sounder but none biting, although we did salvage the trip with one 40 pounder taken at Whittlestone. Springs are biting at the 20 mile reefs if you can get out there.

Name: slug
Email:
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 28-Aug-99
Comments:
went to the vedder for a few hours today just to scout out the river for the coming fall season. River is in great shape (if a little too clear). Some of my favorite holes have changed a bit. Went up to the limit hole (don't usually fish there) and tried out my new rod and reel combo. Hooked and released a red spring of about 12 pounds (put up a good fight). Good way to break in my new gear. Left after an hour.

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: Sheridan
Date Posted: 28-Aug-99
Comments:
Try French lake it has big bows,6.5lbs on green flat fish.

Name: Rob
Email: sharob@interchange.ubc.ca
Location: Indian River
Date Posted: 27-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the Indian River this morning for four hours. Randy is right about the seals, at the estuary we counted at least a dozen chasing about. Went upstream a couple of km's and the pinks were thick in the water (as in there were places where we couldn't see bottom)! While we didn't see any chromers they are still good and fresh. Most have some colour but very few had begun to develop any sign of a hump. The main bite happened between 6-8:00 AM but slowed considerably after that.

Name: Happy Hooker
Email:
Location: Seymour River
Date Posted: 27-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the mouth this morning. Hooked 3 pinks

Name: Cody
Email:
Location: Sustut R.
Date Posted: 27-Aug-99
Comments:
Bill, I didn't try dry flies...when guiding you only get a bit of an opportunity to fish, so I always went with the wetfly! One guy I guided used dries in the afternoon at Bear River run (the run right where Bear dumps into the Sustut). Was that ever exciting! He had it rise about 8 times to the fly! He started with a #12 dry and ended up hooking it on a #18!! Then he proceeded to lose it after about1 min. from being hooked! This whole thing took him about 1/2 hr to finally hook it! Dryfly fishing can be really good, just remember to have about 3' of slack line in your hand and let the fish take it out on it's own (the fly gets sent to the corner of the mouth for a better hookup) I'ts also best to try dryflying in about 4-6' of water, and a steady current at about walking pace. Good luck, have fun and let me know how you do...sure wish I could be joining you up there you lucky $^%&**^*!!

Name: bert
Email:
Location: seymour river
Date Posted: 26-Aug-99
Comments:
fished the mouth around 6pm high tide and saw no action at all. just a seal swimming about.

Name: Phil
Email: philips@attachmate.com
Location: Peterhope Lake
Date Posted: 26-Aug-99
Comments:
Garth, You asked about Peterhope Lake and whether it was open. I tried making reservations at the resourt several weeks ago and the booking agent told me that it is closed this year for renovations. Yes, they are remodeling everything and making it private cabins, from what I remember. The campground is still open and accessible. Not happy with the privatization, but what can you do?

Name: RANDY
Email: randyparrish@attcanada.com
Location: indian river
Date Posted: 26-Aug-99
Comments:
To many seals up there, not worth going, but a nice cruise.You can see them chasethe fish right under your boat.

Name: Cody
Email:
Location:
Date Posted: 26-Aug-99
Comments:
Well, looks like the Fraser's closed until Oct. Anyone been out to the Chehalis or Vedder lately? Went out there a couple of days ago and hooked into one and lost it just as fast, but nothing else!

Name: Rob
Email: sharob@interchange.ubc.ca
Location: Seymour
Date Posted: 25-Aug-99
Comments:
Sounds like the morning tide is working better than the evening. Fished the mouth of the Seymour Monday and Tuesday evenings. At least 18-20 people fishing at any one time and only saw two fish hooked. Heading to the mouth of the Indian River for first light on Friday. Any tips?

Name: TONY
Email: TDEON@CANADA.COM
Location: SEYMOUR
Date Posted: 25-Aug-99
Comments:
i was at the mouth of the seymour 10-12 this morning ,only 6 people fishing ,saw 6 pinks caught, on pink lures.

Name: chad
Email:
Location: Skagit
Date Posted: 24-Aug-99
Comments:
Well went to the Skagit on sunday morning arrived around 7:30am started fishing by the suspention bridge wadding is difficult so be carefull the water may look shallow but it can be desiving stated fishing #14 Adams as my freind was using a yellow bodied huppy fished for about hour with no succses there was plenty of mysquito's and bees around but know fish we surfacing.I decided to switch up to a #10 brass beadhead stonfly with a 3lbs 10ft leader my second cast instant hook up a 14 inch hard fighting Skagit bow after we found out what they keying in on we were into fish for the next hour or so with 7 fish in between 10 to 15 inches in size.Basicly great day on a great river good luck and tight lines and conserve our waters.*

Name: Ed Dickson
Email: Ed_Dickson@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Skagit River
Date Posted: 24-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the Skagit on Sunday the 22. Bright sunshine put the fish down and coupled with clear but higher than normal water levels made fishing tough. Hatches were sporatic and localized with trout not keying on any one item. Another fisherman I encountered had some luck fishing pools with a pheasant tail nymph. I bounced a halfback and beadhead gold ribbed hares nymph through some riffles with only a couple of light bumps to show for it. As shade began to fall on the west side of the river, a few risers started showing, and I managed to catch and release 2 prime rainbows on a size 14 yellow may fly tied with a deer hair wing. Still a fun day on a great river. Take the deep woods off!

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Skagit River
Date Posted: 24-Aug-99
Comments:
It's tough to recommend a specific set of fly patterns since there are a lot of different bugs hatching up there right now and you have to be prepared to read the water and go with the flow. This is basic fly fishing technique. The only consistent thing that a number of people have indicated is that anything with creamy yellow or yellow seems to attract more interest than other flies. Sizes 12 to 18 are a must. River is still high, so wading will be tough and the runs will be pretty fast- not too much quiet water yet. Cheers.

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Lower Fraser
Date Posted: 23-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the Lower Fraser throughout the weekend. Had a blast with the peamouth chub fishing. These little guys are biting really well either during the day or at night. Fish in shallow water, close to shore, and you can not go wrong. Most fish range between 25cm to a foot long. Use light tackle (2 to 4lb line). There are also many small sturgeons around (2 to 3 feet long), catch and release only of course. If you plan to go, the No. 3 Road jetty (South Arm) that was burnt down last year has been rebuilt with much better facility. There are these bright lights at night so you can fish in the dark and still feel like daytime.

Name: peter
Email: BCflyfish@aol.com
Location: south island rivers
Date Posted: 22-Aug-99
Comments:
all the rivers are low. you can get salmon and cuts at the mouth of the san juan and gordon.good luck blake

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmai.com
Location:
Date Posted: 22-Aug-99
Comments:
went to the cap the other day fished from the cap to pt atkinson used everything saw a couple jumpers probably pinks,neway picked up one spring on army truck ,stay long in the leader department,60 inches. ian oh yeah the spring was white just under 20#

Name: Ken Kristian
Email:
Location: Harrison River
Date Posted: 21-Aug-99
Comments:
Fellow anglers, The Harrison River is now producing well on clean sockeye. The best areas have been around Kilby and above the Hwy 7 bridge. Keep your eyes on the surface for moving and schooling fish. Best baits have been fresh or Pro-Cured (hot pink) krill. Fly and drift fishermen are also doing well with various shrimp patterns (mini Squamish Poachers)and a little Pro Cure shrimp oil. Fraser's Tackle has fresh and died krill. Good Fishin'

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Fraser River Mouth
Date Posted: 21-Aug-99
Comments:
REGULATION CHANGE FOR SALMON IN THE FRASER TIDAL WATERS Effective August 20 until further notice the total angling closure implemented on August 9 has been changed to a salmon angling closure only in the Fraser River Mouth (also known as the "Banana") and in the tidal portion of the Fraser River (downstream of the CPR Bridge at Mission). Plenty of other fish you can catch right now beside salmon. Squawfish and peamouth chubs are biting quite well in the Fraser River Mouth. This year the fish showed up much later due to the snow melt. These fish are fun and easy to catch. Best areas are: Garry Point Park, No. 3 Road jetty, River Road... Richmond.

Name: lipripper
Email:
Location: seymour
Date Posted: 20-Aug-99
Comments:
went to the mouth of the seymour today after dinner with my uncle. I caught a nice three pound pink. I saw 2 other pinks hooked. Only one was landed.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder/Chehalis
Date Posted: 20-Aug-99
Comments:
Ok y'all, heres another one of my infamous fishign reports. Arrived at the Vedder yesterday, river is crystal clear, clean and beautiful and in excellent fishing condition all around. River is about 4-6 inches above a normal high. I went to the hatchery, saw many many red springs there. Many in the channel, about a good 100, all mostly adults of a nice 12-15 pound size with spawning apparel. There was also more in the fish way as well. This run isn't expected to be huge every year, but my opinion suggests that this year it is actually quite big, the fishing is just slow becase its a late run, and also because the water has prevented great fishing conditions. Anyways, I moved to the limit hole or hatchery hole and took a look around. River was very crowded here, about 7 guys, so I moved down to the Ranger run. I saw one other angler fishing, he hadn't any luck. I moved to the bank and I looked down into the water just below me on the sides of the main rapids and I could see rainbow trout going by every so often. Some quite small about 10 inches, but every now and then I'd see the odd 16-18 incher!! I saw about 10-12 different rainbow trout go by me in the time I was there! Anyways, Started fishing close, on the close side of the rapids in the seam of the fast current/slower current. NO luck, I specifically stuck to red/white wool today. I then survey the water a bit more while I'm casting, and I notice a red spring surface (to attack something or even take a fly) right accross from me, on the other side of the river accross from the bank. Basically in the tailout of the ranger pool where the water lacks current. I cast over there for quite a while, 2 minutes later, I see another red spring surface, and then a minute later, I see another surface! 3 different red springs surface in about 5 minutes! So I cast over there for a while, but to no avail none of them would bite what I'm sending their way. I worked the spot for a while moved down a bit, kept making casts, even changed to colorado spinners, but nothing came of it! I moved back to the hatchery hole after fishing the ranger pool for a good 2 hours, and it was still too crowded. I didn't see anyone there with any fish on the bank, but there was quite a few anglers there for quite a long time (same ones)..kinda fishy dont you think? They probably let em all go! Anyways, I packed up my stuff, and headed to mcdicks, and then proceed to head over to the Chehalis (which is about 45-50 minutes away if you speed like a mother....). A word of advice, dont ever drink a medium iced tea and a 950 ml bottle of gatorade in under 10 minutes when your next pee break is about 45-50 minutes away. I did this, and I got caught behind road construction and well, had to basically fill up the gatorade bottle while i waited at a dead stop in construction traffic for a while. Keep that in mind for your next trip ok? Anyways, I arrived at the Chehalis and found it wasn't super crowded, but the usual crowd was there. River is low, and crystal "f...ing." clear. Beautiful shape. Anyways, I had the whole bottom half (downstream of the hatchery channel) to myself, while the upper portion the anglers with waders took. Apparently one of them hooked one just before I got there. Anyways, As you know, the hatchery hole holds fish until night when they run up river or in rain, because the rest of the river is quite shallow. Anyways, I looked into the water, surveyed the hatchery pool before fishing. River is clear as I mentioned, about 5-6 feet deep max at any point in the hole, and the pool has a very very slow drift to it, at least in the back section of the pool. At any one point within 5-15 feet of me, in the water, with my polarized glasses, I could see 3 red springs, 1 summer run steelhead, several small cutties (of about 8-10 inches max) and I could see white fish (well, they looked like catfish, and they were sitting on the bottom of the river, about 5 of them). From what the other anglers were telling me, at the head of the pool (because I couldn't access it it was too crowded, and I needed waders), there was about 7-10 red springs holding. Now, I got all these fish in front of me, that I can almost grab, so I start first off with red/white wool. I held it right in front of the Springs faces, and they wouldn't bite it! AT ALL!! I think its because they were too close to spawning possibly, or maybe because they just stuck with that hatchery lockjaw. From what I know, when fish sense danger, they emit a fermone/hormone in the water, and other fish pick it up and basically they just shut their mouthes. The summer run steelhead wouldn't chase it, or anything either. the White fish were too busy sleeping on the bottom. I then moved to a colorado spinner. The smolts and fry seemed to really like it and would chase it, but again, the springs and steelhead would just laugh and not bite at all. I could see them look at it too man!! The cutties would chase it and then kinda take off, I think it was way too big for them (only size 3 too) I then moved to an ironhead 2/3s of an ounce silver spoon. Same kinda reaction. These fish stick with their hatchery hole reps I guess! Anyways, my suggestions for fishing the Chehalis are, arrive early in the morning, wear waders if possible..you can access som killer holes that way, and the river is very wadable, wear some polarized glasses. If you dont arrive early in the mroning or sometime before noon, around 2 in the day, all the early off work anglers arrive and they just crowd the river. I mean I arrived there at about 12:45 and fished until about 2 and when I left, turds of anglers were coming in..I mean hurds, sorry. Also, dont be afraid to try different things, and be patient, and DON'T SNAG! hey, I could have gotten frustrated and snagged 3 red springs a summer run steelhead, several cutties and white fish, but no, I just bowed my head, left the river and let them follow what their instincts tell them so they can complete their life cycles. Also, I think they might be easier to catch in the morning because of the lack of fishing pressure over night. Hope I've helped anyone. Talk to you all later, Scott.

Name: tony
Email: tdeon@canada.com
Location: ucluelet
Date Posted: 17-Aug-99
Comments:
for steven bozzetto i would try wya pt for the tail end of the robertson creek run. then portland pt . should be lots of feeder springs on the banks nr the bottom is best. fishing is hot right now.good luck

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location:
Date Posted: 17-Aug-99
Comments:
went up indian arm hugged close to the shoreline searching for pinks but there was nothing from deep cove to the river. hope these will show soon.the run is expected to be extremely late. tight lines ian

Name: jigisup
Email:
Location: campbell rv.
Date Posted: 16-Aug-99
Comments:
Well the big fishing trip of the year has come and gone once again.For those who do not no me I love to jig for springs and coho.My favorite spot is to go to Pacific Playgrounds in black creek b.c.wich is central to all the hot spots I like to fish in campbell rv.The fishing is off, I should say late this year.We usually have the oyster and campbell rv. just teaming with pinks by now and there just is not anything yet.I have been fishing this area for almost 25 years now and I no that the big springs usually almost always come in the same time as when the pinks run.Further more I can tell you I did not catch to many big springs, lots of undersized ones between 16 and 24 inches.We caught them all over the place, the light house, cape mudge, fransisco point,red and green can, mittlenatch isld.,cortez and marina isld. on the reefs. In fact a couple of days at mittlenatch at the north end on the reef we could not keep the feeder springs off.We were catching them all over at depths between 25 and 75 feet, it did not matter, "bang" you had one on every drop.in about 5 jigs. We did manage to catch a shit load of coho.We caught and released at a minimum of 15 coho a day. I found that the biggest percentage of them were piled up at salmon point.They were in shallow at between 25-45 feet.I did manage to catch and bag 1 spring about18 lbs and managed to lose 2 others that were bigger (no fish story).I can tell you this , I did not hardly see or hear of very many fish showing anywhere.My opinion is they will start showing up in larger numbers now and we should be into full swing by the sept. long weekend.Well thats my report. If you have any questions you can ask them through the reports section as I read the posted reports every day.Good luck to you all. mike.

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Skagit River
Date Posted: 15-Aug-99
Comments:
I had to check my watch to make sure it was actually August the 15th. as the weather conditions made it seem like sometime in November. The Skagit River is clear, running about a foot higher than what it usually is for this time of year, road is good, water temperature is 45F to 46F, and the trout are hungry. We arrived on the water around 8:30AM and went to our favorite run and within 15 minutes my buddy Dan had christened his bamboo fly rod - nice 14 incher on the dry fly. As soon as the picture was taken I had a strike and a bright 13 incher came to hand. There was no real discernable hatch, but there were a variety of mayflies coming off during the day with a slightly heavier density around noon. For about an hour we tried a variety of dry flies and hooked and caught quite a few fish before we stuck to our pattern of the day- Dan used a size 16 yellow bodied Humpy while I stuck to a size 14 Adams with a yellow tail section. A cream coloured parachute dry fly was also working quite well in some quiet back-eddy water where I had some good action in the early afternoon. I'd seen some rises- steady, business-like rises of some trout working some small mayflies, and by casting to within a foot or two of the rises, I was rewarded with some good hook-ups. I'd thought the fish were smallish based on the small dimpled rise, but I was surprised by at least a couple of 14 inchers rolling onto the fly and inhaling it for a classic corner of the jaw hook-set. The water level makes it difficult to wade right now with the volume, but there are some good accessible sections and the fish are holding in all the right spots. By September the river should be in really good shape and if you happen to hit it when some partly cloudy and sunny conditions bring off some good bug hatches, it should be a gas. Mosquitos were pretty intense in the parking lot and the trails.

Name: gomphus99
Email: wobble_bottom@bc.sympatico
Location: chehalis
Date Posted: 14-Aug-99
Comments:
been off work last 2.5 weeks fished every day but weekends and long weekends, hooked over 100 springs largest 25lbs largest kill 18lbs lots of dirty fish the odd semi clean fish, i keep hearing people referring to chromers but i havent seen anything resembling a nickel compared to previous years. Fish were also smaller (avg. 8-12lbs) than previous years. Any colour wool seemed to work, bulk of run has moved into canyon a few tomatoes around and the odd fresh fish. Lots of people about 5 times more than previous years, with the vedder slow and fraser closed many people migrating to chehalis(gongshow) noticed many people crossinglines had barbed hooks! Yelled at few people for killing fish that were foul hooked wish i had a cell! If you didnt get out there in the last couple of weeks you missed some fantastic fishing, seen more fish this year than any other probably because of the high water(dropping fast and getting low) thus an extended fishing season. good luck and make sure you know the regs before venturing out!!!!!

Name: Ken Kristian
Email:
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 13-Aug-99
Comments:
FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA FISHERY NOTICE FURTHER CHANGES TO PROTECT FRASER RIVER SOCKEYE SALMON IN TIDAL AND NON-TIDAL RECREATIONAL FISHERIES Effective 00:01 hours August 16, 1999 until further notice, the following restriction will take effect: SOCKEYE SALMON ANGLING CLOSURE in areas 11 to 22, 24 to 29, 111, 121 and 123 to 127. Area 23 (Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet) remains open to fishing for sockeye. This closure to sockeye fishing is in addition to changes which took affect 00:01 hours August 9, 1999. These changes included: TOTAL ANGLING CLOSURES in the Fraser River Mouth (also known as the Banana) and in the tidal portion of the Fraser River (downstream of the Mission CPR Bridge). SALMON ANGLING CLOSURES in the non-tidal portions of the mainstem Fraser, Thompson, North Thompson and South Thompson Rivers. These measures are necessary in order to conserve Fraser River sockeye salmon. Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Name: finaddict
Email: stcooper@sfu.ca
Location: Fraser R.
Date Posted: 13-Aug-99
Comments:
Thanks Farly, it sounds encouraging! Jasen, I think I would confirm with a CO prior to fishing the Fraser for Steelhead. Remember that the steelhead is taxonomically-speaking considered to be a species of salmon, and has had a genus & species name change from Salmo Gairdneri to Oncorhynchus mykiss. It could be worth a $150.00 fine for a misinterpretation! To all other readers...sorry for no fishing report posted...I would but I can't fish where I want to right now (thanks alot DFO) Cheers

Name: Flycaster
Email:
Location: Capilano River
Date Posted: 12-Aug-99
Comments:
Had a very pleasant day on the Cap yesterday - mostly in the canyon. Water level is perfect - best I can remember seeing for flyfishing in a long time. Very little on the fish front though - one small coho (released) and loads of cutthroat and fingerlings (also released - barbless hooks sure make it easy on 'em). Did get a couple of decent hits, but on the whole the river was pretty quiet. Spoke to a local who fishes the river just about every day. He figures the main part of the early Coho run is past for now but we should start to see good numbers coming in soon. With lots of guys fishing down at the mouth, I guess he's right. Plenty of nice big fish (5lbs plus)in the at the hatchery gates, so hopefully a sign of things to come.

Name: Tom Ferguson
Email: tcferguson@pacificcoast,net
Location: Cowichan River,Duncan BC
Date Posted: 12-Aug-99
Comments:
The action on the river is slowing due to low water conditions. Best time to fish is 6:00am-9:00am and evening 7:00-8:30pm. The large pools are where the Browns are. Used the Ian Forbes River Dragaon as described in BC outdoors and it out fished all other nymphs. Upper river has still the best water. Spring Pool has produced the most in the past few days. Tightlines Tom...

Name: Neil
Email:
Location: Clayquot Sound
Date Posted: 10-Aug-99
Comments:
Hey lads, just back from a week of living rough on Vargas island and fishing both up inside Clayquot and outside in the surf. The Coho action is absolutely incredulous, Pilchards (sardines) EVERYWHERE, more feed than I have seen in 20 years. The Coho are taking the fly on an intermediate sinking line, clear in the darker part of the evenings when the tide is nearly to full flood. In the days just went and fished over in Grice Bay (watch out for Grey Whales) for Cutties off the creek mouths, with a 2 weight. Using a kind of crab larvae fly pattern southeast of Cat face, and further in towards some of the nameless creeks. Lots of Black bears, I mean EVERYWHERE this year, bold as a baby on the beach if you have fish on. The water is beautifully cold and conditions are fantastic. You can take a Coho if you want as well. My partner and I through back an average of 8 per person per day, all around 6lb to 12lbs. Just fantastic! Now on the outside, it was windy and wild and we only had a 15ft boat with a 25 hp, so survival suits were necessities. Lots of Halibut and some nice Ling Cod out there and when the weather permitted the Springs were hitting hard around a 100 to 120ft on mooching gear with a buzz bomb (pink, blue, green) and also live raked herring or pilchards. The locals say they havent seen the pilchard in nearly 50 years. Be careful, out there, its dangerous on the outside, the swell was running minimum 2 metres, maximum 5 metres (we werent out then). We camped on both Vancouver Island and on Vargas. On both there are copious BLACK BEARS, more than I have ever seen at this time of year. More on Vancouver Island, so use proper camping procedure for bears being around. We saw 12 in the span of 5 hours in what I consider a generally small area. Now I am going to fly fish the Horsefly river and Hen Ingram and Kline Lakes here this week coming and need some fly and location advice. I posted the above about Clayquot, because its bullsh*t that only people using guides should be able to get into those areas and get to fish them.

Name: Klahowya?
Email:
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 10-Aug-99
Comments:
Attn: Anglers, The Fraser River is "now open" for a native only sockeye fishery. Are you ready to say enough is enough yet?

Name: Dan
Email: fishbonker@hotmail.com
Location: Indian river
Date Posted: 8-Aug-99
Comments:
EMMM-TEEE!!!No pinks in at all.they should be there,every other August long weekend,over the last 20 years,been lots.Not this year.

Name: Dale
Email: dalefulton@home.com
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 8-Aug-99
Comments:
Caught my 2 on the upper Fraser.What a joke!! Can't beleive it was only open for 9 days!!Didn't have any luck until yesterday looks like there is a ton of them going up now. Wished i would have bought a one day license instead of a tidal and non tidal could of saved myself some money!How much does it cost for a status card??

Name: chad
Email:
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 7-Aug-99
Comments:
well went to the vedder chillawack today for about five hours got there at 5:30am started fishing the ranger run about the only fishable water on the river as thats were all the guys were there wee about 7-8 guys there when I arived with my brother and thats alot for red springs that earlly in the morning compared to last year at this time well you all know what it is it's the water level.Anyways it was my brother's first time out so I gave him a quick clinic on how to baitcast he did pretty well caught a white fish third or fourth cast he was quite happy I asked around if anyone was having any luck but it was still a little early I started fishing five minutes latter a guy had one on and lost it right away about 12lbs about a half hour latter I managed to hook one as well I fought it for about 5min had it to shore and my brother grabed the line trying to land it and you know what happened it was his first time no matter I was going to let it go anyways it was only about 8lbs. well nothing els happened for the next hour or so that we were there so we went for breakfast and came back about 45min latter to see that there were about 14 people fishing like a bunch of sheep. my brother did'nt want to fish because it was his first time and people were getting grumpy I ask around again if there was any luck and there were a couple lost and one landed about 14lbs so I started fishing I hooked on to one right away,boy did that feel good but I lost it right away after that there were alot of guy's hooking them and they just could'nt land'em.So thats my report the fishing is picking up and the river is still high and the hatchery is not very fishable going back tomarrow for a few hours hope to bring one home for the table so good luck yight lines and conserve our waters*.

Name: Ken Kristian
Email: kkrist@uniserve.com
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 7-Aug-99
Comments:
FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA FISHERY NOTICE CHANGES TO PROTECT FRASER RIVER SOCKEYE SALMON IN TIDAL AND NON-TIDAL RECREATIONAL FISHERIES Effective 00:01 Hours August 9, 1999 until further notice, the following restrictions will take effect: TOTAL ANGLING CLOSURE in the Fraser River Mouth (also known as the Banana) and in the tidal portion of the Fraser River (downstream of the Mission CPR Bridge). SALMON ANGLING CLOSURES in the non-tidal portions of the mainstream Fraser, Thompson, North Thompson and South Thompson Rivers. NON-RETENTION OF SOCKEYE SALMON in areas 11-29, including offshore areas, except Area 23 (Barkley Sound and Alberni Inlet). The daily quota for sport-caught sockeye salmon is varied to zero (0). These measures are necessary in order to conserve Fraser River sockeye salmon. Note: These angling closure orders will supercede any quota orders previously issued for the Fraser, Thompson, North Thompson and South Thompson Rivers. Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 7-Aug-99
Comments:
Roy, the Vedder is in descent fishing condition, its still high, strong and roaring but its fishable (a foot and a half above a normal Vedder high). The Lower river offers great room for good fishable drifts, and the upper river has some great places to get a good drift going. My opinion is that the upper river tends to make the fish hold more in certain spots. Anyways, the River seems to be in a very clear state. About a good 6 feet of visibility at least. You can go give it a try (I recommend red/white wool, thats what I've as of late seen everyone fishing with and thats what all my buddies are getting them on). Or what you can do is go give the Chehalis River a try as well. The Hatchery spot at the Chehalis is a nice spot where the fish congregate during low water, but I also know that even lower than the hatchery if you walk down, cross the river at certain points, there are also other spots where the springs and Steelhead will congregate and hold until higher waters. Hope this helps, somehow, Scott.
 

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 7-Aug-99
Comments:
Happy Hooker, the fish and their presence seems to be really spotty. My buddy went this past tuesday and he hook and fought 5 red springs (with their spawning apparel). 4 in the 10-14 pound range and 1 around 16-17 pounds he said. He landed none. He also said he saw another guy hook about 2 or 3 and landed 1. (This is all at the Boundary Hole, or Confluence with Slesse Creek if you want to be technical). I went the day before with two of my friends and we managed nothing and noted that the boundary hole was quite crowded. We did see 40 fish (give or take 10) in the hatchery channel though. All Red Springs obviously. The Boundary hole was also quite crowded then and we just took off. My buddy noted that he hooked these 5 springs all in less than half an hour. He said he saw a good 5 or 6 in the water as well swimming up the side. He had to leave though, because the attention he drew was crowding the area. Its funny because I went the day after that with my brother and we managed nothing and we didn't see anyone with some success, although I saw a friend there who had been there all day and he said he hooked 1 and he also saw another guy land one. What was the status of the hatchery (and the fish in it?). By the way, how did the Talon feel? Keep posting 'em boys. Talk to you all Later, Scott.

Name: Happy Hooker
Email:
Location: Vedder River
Date Posted: 6-Aug-99
Comments:
Everything you have heard or read about the Vedder is true. Spent the morning fishing the upper portion (Boundary Pool, Anderson and Ranger Runs and Boulder Hole) The river continues to be very high and clear. (We were casting from the trees at the Boulder Hole)There is minimal fishing pressure; saw only 12 anglers all morning. In retrospect we should have gone fishing for sockeyes........

Name: Cory
Email:
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 6-Aug-99
Comments:
The Fraser WILL be closed as of Monday August 9 to all fishing- please leave the fish alone this weekend, the need all the help they can get- check out the DFO web site under the Communications section.

Name: Cody
Email:
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 6-Aug-99
Comments:
Went out to the Fraser today, near Chilliwack...got my limit of Sockeye before they closed the river to fishing! Lots rolling and being hooked, one guy got into about 15 fish before noon! Lucky guy, guess the fish are where you find 'em! So we can no longer fish the Fraser at all, guess we can thank poor management and gill nets for most of that! Looks like we'll be crowding together on the Chilliwack and Chehalis until the Fraser opens again...if it ever does! Tight lines y'all

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djaclin@netcom.ca
Location: Thraser Rock
Date Posted: 5-Aug-99
Comments:
We went to fish mainlt Springs.and when we got there 10 am,we had on on in 15 min on The chovey 14 lbs,So we thouhgt we whre styling.But as was the case we got into like 25 1year old.I mean you put the Gear in And you had to check it every 5 min!!!!lots of baby Coho(nice to see) .but after 4hrs of that iwas about to abort.Went in at 6 with a Spring (red) and a Pink.That night we had The T-storms that went on all night.Nice.so that must have drove them outside.No Salmon ,again lots of babys.Limited out on Ling 11-18lbs in 2.5hrs.next am troleed 2.5hrs Zip lots of smolts.Ran to the Hooter Can and on the run we saw a Test Fisherey Long Liner it looked real bleak,only had like 10 Socks per set from what we saw.Nothing in our box But a nice Pink.Whent to point At. and had a nice on on but spit the hook.The Socks where found just off the bow of one of the Freighters out there,but nothing for us.Oh well i hope the customers had fun.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 3-Aug-99
Comments:
Went to the Vedder yesterday for a few hours, whoah is the river still quite high, still a good foot and a half above a vedder high, anyways, to make a long story short, no real luck and I didn't see anyone with anything. But I did see fish "guts" at the Ranger run meaning someone must have caught something recently. They were sitting in the water swashig up to shore meaning they caught it from the ranger run up. Hatchery has about 40 springs that have donned their spawning apparel give or take 10 of em. Fairly descent size fish too. I just got a question for all of you. How can the fishing pick up, if no one goes to the Vedder? Maybe we have established these fish are very streaky in how they show and that their will be a very late run this year. I also think that right now the upper river aka upstream of the 2nd brige (past Vedder Crossing bridge) is probably a better bet right now. Maybe this may be opinionated, but the fish dont hold as well in the lower river because the current isn't as swift as the Upper river. I tried spinners, orange wool, orange wool/orange spin n glo (small) and white wool as well. I think your best bets other then roe in faster current in places like the upper river are probably roe imitators. These 4 colors red/white, orange/white, pink/white and just plain old white by itself. I think you should also consider trying some black/red black/other colors as well. River is super clear, especially in the upper river, need I say more? Anyways, usually the fishing picks up when the amount of anglers picks up. Anyways, I'm heading to the Capilano tonight to the Cable pool most likely, I'll keep you all posted, but I'm lookin forward for some Coho action. Talk to you all Later, Scott.

Name: Tyteline
Email:
Location: Rolley Lake
Date Posted: 3-Aug-99
Comments:
I decided to spend Monday giving Rolley lake a try. I should have stayed home and watched fishing shows on TV. The Summer doldrums have definitely set in on this low lying lake. I saw 8-9 other people fishing and the only fish I saw taken was a teenie weenie 'bow that another float tuber hooked. It was a beautiful hot, sunny day that likely drove the fish deep and there are area's in Rolley that are wayyyyyyyyy too deep for even wet fly's. I may as well have been trying out for the Canadian syncronized float tubing team. I also found the tremendous amount of campers throwing sticks into the water for their dogs to 'fetch', and the screaming, splashing kids in the public swimming area created an environment that I'm just not used to when fly fishing. That's what I get for trying to fish a public lake that close to Vancouver. Personally, I'd stay away from this lake until the Fall.

Name: Gerry
Email: sales@globenetaviation.com
Location: Vedder/Chilliwack
Date Posted: 3-Aug-99
Comments:
Dear Fellow anglers: Spent a wonderful week camping and fishing in the Chilliwack area. Myself and three buddies from back east fished that river HARD and I mean Hard. We were up at the "crack of Dawn" every morning and were back at it in the evenings. We were there from Monday the 26th to Friday the 30th. For the most part we did not even get a sniff, However, Thursday (the only rainy day) we fished the area downstream from Lickman from 06:00 till right up until the evening with nothing. Finally at about 8:00PM the fish started to roll. I tied on some pink roe and ran my float about ten feet from my leader, within several monster casts out about 50 yards I finally (Halelulua) got my first strike, about a 10 ponder and lost it 5 feet from shore. 45 min later I hooked another and gave it immidiatly to my buddies son (11 yrs old), what a thrill he had. Landed a nice bright 12 pound red spring. A lot of effort for just two fish. The river is clear and dropping but the fish are VERY FEW and FAR BETWEEN. There are anglers everywhere you look who are pounding every fishable hole relentlessly with not much to show for their efforts. Good luck everyone, I think I will wait till later in the season before I hit the Vedder, unless I see it picking up.

Name: gus
Email:
Location: lake
Date Posted: 3-Aug-99
Comments:
July 29 thru Aug 2 at Roche lake great fishing at dusk. Elk wing caddis, Tom Thumbs, and big Sedges caught and released 8-10 kept 3 aprox 2 to 3-1/2 pounds.
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Name: jigisup
Email:
Location: vedder/fraser
Date Posted: 2-Aug-99
Comments:
Wow, what a great long weekend weather wise for fishing.Fished the vedder on friday and sat. quite hard. I fished below lickman stopping here there and everywhere working my way twards the hatchery making stops at allison pool , cable pool, and eventually finishing at the meat hole.Let me tell you I have been fishing the vedder rv. for almost 20 years and I can tell you this, their aint many fish in that river.I have rarely fished that hard and came up skunked, and I dont care how many fish Freds tells you hes caught or been told by others of there 16 fish catch record today.My opinion, hes running a pretty good buisness aint he? you figure it out. And that said, I say that with the upmost respect for Fred.I fished green, red, white, black orange,and mixed colours of wool and corkys.Not even a hit.Anyhow on Sunday I fished the mighty Fraser up at the weigh scale in Hope and had a pretty good day fishing.Caught 3 sockeye and one spring.Had tons of bites, mesquito bites that is.I used a green and red wool combination tie up which always seems to work good for me up there.I was bottom bouncing as I always do.There were alot of people up there again as usual, saw a few fish caught not alot though.Thats my report.Good luck to everyone and remember to pinch down those barbs and only take what your going to eat.Those fish travel a long way and deserve a chance of finishing their life cycle.

Name: Greg Noske
Email: gnoske@home.com
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 2-Aug-99
Comments:
Well had a great weekend. Caught 6 sokeye sat night, 4 sun and 1 today. My bud lost 6 sun and landed 1. Finally have some roe for the BIG sturgeon. Later...............

Name: Rick
Email:
Location: upper Fraser
Date Posted: 2-Aug-99
Comments:
lauched at island 22, went right up to Hope. Seen a few caught but not to many, visibility is next to nil. Personally next week should be good according to my fish log from years past. Buddy had one on and so did I just above the Rosedale Bridge. Hopefully the river should start showing a few more bars for us, from my buddy`s forcast the river has dropped about 7 ft. and slowly slowly moving down. It was pretty well a zoo everywhere with so little realestate. Good luck.

Name: Jim
Email: jpapadou@direct.ca
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 2-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished the Fraser August 1 at Island 22. All I got was mosquito bitten!! Forgot the bug spray at home. Wow is it ever bad this year. Did not cathc or see any Sockeye caught. Saw some springs caught.

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: up-chuck
Date Posted: 1-Aug-99
Comments:
WELL.It seems as though it has picked up out there a tad .with 9 fish over 25 and lots from 10 20 (springs) and the odd wild Coho 7&10lbs,the fishing has improved .I am heading to Thrasher& Polier Mon till wed will be hunting Sockeye on the way .Will report back Thus. BY THE BY.Cap Cap Coho onthe fly ?need to get one for myself.

Name: Marco
Email:
Location: Upper Fraser
Date Posted: 1-Aug-99
Comments:
Fished above Herrling Island for springs yesterday July 31. There appeared to be fish (saw them jumping and Natives taking them out of nets) but the river seems to be too high as the fish have more water to hide in and sneak by. Heard of couple springs caught and saw a little number of sockeyes being hauled in.

Name: river
Email: 2thdr@msn.com
Location: salt,Bella Bella
Date Posted: 1-Aug-99
Comments:
A lot of springs in the 20's in the northcoast areas now the Queen Char. Islands are filled with large coho few springs. We fished in a camp for 4.5 days and hooked 30.
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