Name: Gary
Email: cary1v@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Chahalis
Date Posted: 31-Oct-99
Comments:
Water was really high today, still very clean. Fishing for coho seemed slow by the hatchery, about 20 fishermen and only saw 4 coho taken.

Name: Dezene
Email: dphuber@sfu.ca
Location: Chehalis
Date Posted: 30-Oct-99
Comments:
Was down at the Chehalis with four friends. We all had a great day. Many chum were caught and released, and we also hooked into some springs. One of our bunch snagged (and released) a nice coho, so they're in the river too. I have to say that I'm not sure why all the derisive comments about chum are bandied about. Perhaps the comments come from drift fishermen. Try them on a fly, and wow, get ready for a ride. Plenty of today's chums were very fresh, jumped repeatedly and took 75 yard or more runs. If pulling that in on a #7 rod isn't a challenge for you, then I don't know what is. Perhaps bluefin tuna? They don't run on the Chehalis, though :) We were using mostly some sort of yellow and red streamer pattern and another deal that my buddy calls the "copper avenger". Lots of flash did the trick in the high water. Just a straight drift with very little action. Fun...my arms are tired.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Capilano
Date Posted: 30-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Capilano today with my buddy Brent. The fact that it has been raining today has contributed to the fact that the water is the highest I"ve ever seen. Remember the Freshet and how much they let the Dam go? Well it was that, and about another 2 feet on top of that. It was just psycho, I've never seen the Cap that high, EVER! Anyways, my buddy and I hunted around the river for holding water for quite a while. Concluded that with the high water, Dog leg pool was the best, but we still didn't hook any fish, although the fish were there as you could peer down and see the odd one surface etc, etc. Saw about 3 coho caught on the east bank just south of dog leg pool in that holding section of water just below the bank. Anyways, if Chad Weberg is there, give me a call, I own a car now, and I can take you fishing, just name a day or let me know your days off and send me an email. Anyways, hopefully this rain will all stop. As for that, the Cap wont produce much because of the high murky water with 4 feet of vis. Right now in the Cap, there are the odd chum, a lot of jack springs, quite a few small coho, and the odd really really big northern coho. This is what we saw in the holding channel at the hatchery. I figure when the bait ban comes off in two days, that roe might work the best in the holding sections of water. We used peach wool on size 4 hooks 8 pound leader. Talk to you all later, Scott

Name: JohnD
Email: jldevlin@home.net
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 30-Oct-99
Comments:
Went to north of the wilson bridge today, gawd lottsa dirty water, was there from 7 am - 9:30, never saw a hit anywhere, everyone was leaving when i left, guess we have to wait a few dry days now

Name: Gary
Email: cary1v@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Stave
Date Posted: 30-Oct-99
Comments:
Watch out for DFO as many fishermen fishing fraser side of the railroad bridge and most not fishing with salt water license. Fishing for chum excellent, rain brought fresh fish in. Coho seems better down by lougheed.. have fun watch the regs..

Name: coast ranger
Email:
Location: big qualicum
Date Posted: 29-Oct-99
Comments:
blake try the big qualicum the coho fishing there right now is awesome

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: Cap
Date Posted: 29-Oct-99
Comments:
Holy high Water!!!!Yesterday was huge(for the Cap)hit 10-mostly Springs,one legel size !!!one nice Coho .Peach wool in the slack water,today the river came down like 6 feet no shit.not too many holding like yesterday still managed one coho,one chum 18!?release.

Name: Delly
Email: toddandkristie@hotmail.com
Location: Peterhope
Date Posted: 28-Oct-99
Comments:
Oct1-4 fished along reeds 2-4ft water and did very well on grey colored scud.

Name: R. Francis
Email: ron_francis@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Stave
Date Posted: 27-Oct-99
Comments:
Spent a couple of hours on the Stave this afternoon. Caught 4 chums, 2 on fly and two on bait-cast rod, ( 1 very clean). Snagged a few more, they are everywhere. Talked to some DFO employees counting carcasses today. They said they had been netting the pool by the boat launch (in the Ruskin picnic area) on Monday and Tuesday; Brought in almost 200 coho, and about 25 springs. Apparently some big coho. They will be netting again on Friday. As to the previous posting about Chums fighting hard - one snapped my 8 wt. fly rod in half today, what a drag (or lack of...??) as I only just built it this spring. Oh well...

Name: ric
Email: ric@nettwerk.com
Location: Seymour River
Date Posted: 27-Oct-99
Comments:
I went for a hike this weekend along fisher man's trail and was amazed to find some great spots and some great runs. Mind you I saw absolutely no one fishing, what is the reason for that? Is there not resident trouts in that stream or is there some restrictions on this water. It is so close to home that the water is just too tempting. I have fished lower for salmon with success, but this was perfect fly fishing water.

Name: Joe
Email: salmo1@micron.net
Location: Stave
Date Posted: 26-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Stave on Oct 20. Lots of Dogs.

Name: R. Cruse
Email: rcruse@hotmail.com
Location: Vedder.
Date Posted: 26-Oct-99
Comments:
In regards to undercover DFO Officers. I too was fined at the Vedder by a undercover DFO officer. It was my fault I did not know the rules. It is my first year fishing, I know the quotas, asked the proper questions on how to release, learned what I could from Darryl at Hubbs, the net and this site. However, after landing and killing a 35 pound spring I was in a hurry to get my fishing spot back before I lost it to someone else. I placed the spring in the water, and resumed my spot. 20 minutes later I was called and fined for not recording the fish on my licence. I had no Idea it had to be done right away. I always recorded it after cleaning as not to lose my spot or mess up my licence with my dirty hands from the kill and hauling the fish back up river. The DFO officer was very nice and respectful and explained the rules to me. The officer told me that he/she gave me enough time. I was talking to the officer when I was landing the fish as the officer acted like a fisher who wanted to know what I was using etc. I would have thought a warning was in order too as I am firm in all aspects of keeping these resources for future generations... How ever no such luck. $115.00 fine. $3.28 cents a pound, still $1.72 a pound cheaper than Safeway.

Name: Sandy
Email:
Location: Oyster River
Date Posted: 26-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Oyster Sat and Sun, river very low and cyrstal clear. Cohos and a few chums moved in Sat with the bad weather at the high tide. Lot's of chrome bright fish. Brought three to hand on Sun using a light leader and an egg fly on a #8 hook. Saw no other fishermen Sat and only 2 others on Sun.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 26-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Vedder on the weekend, I must say, there are a multitude of great fish to be had in this river right now. I gotta say out of the Coho, Springs, and Chum that I hooked all day, the Chums fought me the hardest by far. They weren't super fresh, but every now and then you'd hook a fairly fresh one. I recall one in particular that ran me straight down river almost as if it was going to the ocean. I've always maintained that Chum are the hardest fighting Salmon, and I proved it two days ago. As I once heard, they jump higher than Coho, and run harder than Steelhead and are more bullheaded than Springs. Fish the edge of fast water/slow water and you should be able to find some aggressive, but stronger chums. The most universal color you can use on the Vedder right now is this. For Springs and Chums, use size 2 hooks, with peach wool the size of of half a dime on 12 pound leader (ultragreen trimmed in a little egg ball. For Coho, use size 4 hooks, with 8 pound leader, and peach wool, trimmed in a ball half the size you are using for Springs/Chums. Believe me, you think it looks small, but small produces the Coho, especially in gin clear water. Stick with Peach and if the bite gets slow, move to light green, and try some pinks as well, and you will have fish biting all day, and you wont have to rip your line outta the water like all those jerk fishermen. Anyways, these fish are biting quite well. The Springs and Chums especially. Give peach a try and you'll be proud you did, Good luck, Scott.

Name: Warren
Email: Warrencxxhotmail.com
Location: Stave River
Date Posted: 25-Oct-99
Comments:
In response to Scott's comment, I went fishing on Stave river last Friday and hooked up a lot of chum and it seemed that they did not quit biting. If you want to get some fresh chum, try your luck in faster current and you have a good chance to catch some nice fish. It is very good if you want to bring some novice sportfishermen to fishing such as your children or friends who never fish before. Fishing on this river, they are very sure to have a great fun to fight with those monster chum.

Name: Lyle M. Unwin
Email: buttwin@hotmail.com
Location: Merritt Area Lakes
Date Posted: 25-Oct-99
Comments:
Fantastic fall fishing continues in Merritt. Stump, Peterhope, Tunkwa to name a few. Courtney and the Kane Valley lakes continue to produce nice fish. Any where you go seems to be hot. Leeches and dragons seem to be the hot patterns.

Name: scott
Email: tomjoad@telus.net
Location: stave
Date Posted: 25-Oct-99
Comments:
fished stave today, snagged 3, caught 2 all on pink wool, didn't take any home though, they all look too beat up.

Name: Gary
Email: cary1v@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Harrison bay
Date Posted: 24-Oct-99
Comments:
Lots of chum today, lots of people, lots being snagged, and good to see, being released. Saw some coho, but few. Some pinks also.

Name: Gary
Email: Cary1v@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: stave
Date Posted: 24-Oct-99
Comments:
Fishing the Stave daily,, seen very few coho, mostly in the pool east side of dam,, sore arms from all the chum,, great smoked, release all snagged fish, lots bitting green wool, bottom bounce or float. Limit 2 chum .

Name: Dan
Email: dtholmes@interchange.ubc.ca
Location: Chehalis
Date Posted: 23-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished from 11:00 to dusk. My friend and I caught many-a-chum on muddlers and a yellow and red minnow immitation. Saw 3 Coho landed in the 10 pound range. My review: CHUM-O-RAMA. Billions of em.

Name: GS
Email:
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 23-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the mid-section of the vedder from 7:15 to 1:00pm. Saw many fish rolling etc. although most were quite dark. Lot's of anglers. Did not see one fish landed the entire morning. Let's hope the rain brings in some fresh fish.

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1
Location:
Date Posted: 23-Oct-99
Comments:
went to upper river on the vedder{allison pools],springs were everywere.green wool was the best lure.kept one that weighed just under 35.caught and released springs and chums all day long.landed two coho on roe but they were wild.ryan kept a 13 pound chrome hatchery doe coho on roe.river is average level but chrystal clear.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 22-Oct-99
Comments:
Steve,I dont think you're going to get much support here, for one reason a) you are above your daily quota for adult springs, so you couldn't legally keep it yourself, therefore you are fishing illegally. But say you are within your limit aka 4 hatchery coho per day, and you keep one, and then you offer it as a gift to someone, you can do that, provided it is within your quota for that day. So what this means is, you are offering it as a gift, and you can only keep 3. YOu have to write a letter stating name yoru #, license number, home address, phone no., etc, etc, and that this is a gift taken from the vedder on such and such a date, and any other specs you can mention, I'm not sure exactly how, but its in your fishing regs. I mean, I can level with you about this one, but what if everyone on the river has licenses, and theres this one guy who catches Big springs all day, are we all just gonna sit back, and let him catch all the adult springs, and we just write them down on our quotas of fish? Next time, walk over to the fellow, and give him a few tips, and tell him you'd love to give him a spring if you could, but its illegaly, so you're gonna tell him how you caught and what you caught it on. I realize this is in the report page, but I think this should be left up for all to see. I'm sure this kinda thing goes on a lot at rivers, I mean why wouldn't it? When you're with buddies, of course you wanna help them out. Its just its illegal to do so, especially with the Vedder Spring run, with which we really need to protect the adults, and wean out the jacks, to keep this multi million dollar sport fishery alive! Scott

Name: steve
Email: steve1516@xoommail.com
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 22-Oct-99
Comments:
here is what happened i was fishing the first hole down from the vedder crossing and i caught a chum 4 cast that what verry bright and 10 min after that i landed a 12 spring jack then after a few hours i caught one 30 pound spring and kept it now this is my first day fishing with a license i just turned 16 and so i run into another spring and there was this guy fishing up from me who haddent gotten a thing all day and he gets a bite and it seemed to be a good spring and he looses it so he says "if you gety this fish in could I have it" so i think it is fine and i have to cross two streams the get to it when i would have let him reel it in but he was in jeans so i get it and club it ind i give it to him and as we are walking back this one guy who seemed to be like a nice guy was flyfishing looks like he knows what he is doing verry friendly guy nice to me evry time i have to walk a fish down and pass him until the weasel puls out his badge and does his little shpealim dfo what you did is wrong and i was fine with that because i see others doing it when someone has had a bad day so im being very respectful and so he takes me up to his truck and gives me a 200$ fine i dont think it is right for someone to do that with out warning someone when he knows what is happening anyways if anyone who reads this can tell me their oppinion i would love to hear it .

Name: gordon eddy
Email: glkb@home.com
Location: stave river
Date Posted: 22-Oct-99
Comments:
The stave has awesome fishing for coho the fish are going for small bunches of eggs. The chum fishing is starting to pick up the fish are realy strong so make sure you have hevey line any wool color wil work

Name: Pat
Email: mynahan@unix.infoserve.net
Location: Skagit River
Date Posted: 22-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Skagit downstream of 26 mile bridge yesterday. First time this year and my little car hated the drive in. Road is loaded with potholes all the way. The fishing was outstanding though. Fished from 11 till 5 and didn't see another person all day. At first there were a few green winged mayflies floating around-about a size 16/18. Green drakes perhaps. Had good luck with a simple wet/soft hackle pattern in size 18 that I had tied. Has a green hackle fiber tail, thin green body of rabbit dubbing and a soft hackle collar of a couple of turns of dark starling feather. The starling works very well for tiny flies because it has extremely short barbs. Fish it just below the surface. About 2:30 the blue winged olives started coming off in droves and the fishing got really good. Size 18-20 standard BWO patterns and olive comparaduns were vey effective. The fish weren't interested in bigger imitations when they were keyed in on these little sailboats. Has anyone fished the section by Sumallo grove recently. I'd like to get out once more before the river closes but I don't want to spend an hour driving my aging suspension over all those holes again. Pat

Name: Rick
Email:
Location: Chehalis
Date Posted: 21-Oct-99
Comments:
The river is at an all time low, there are fish in, but are easily spooked. Chromers even.Hooked into 2 nice ones and a million dogs and pinks. hopefully we get rain on Sunday. The river really needs it. Also hit the Stave R. after work yesterday, Chumorama.

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location:
Date Posted: 21-Oct-99
Comments:
use green blue fox spinners or a croc with a green or red stripe.cast towards the jumpers and slowly bump it slowly along bottom. tight lines ian
 

Name: Dustin
Email: powrfish@intergate.bc.ca
Location: Fraser Valley
Date Posted: 21-Oct-99
Comments:
I am 14 and am in the learning process of fly fishing. I fish the Vedder with my dad and I would like to know if anyone out there can give me some information on what type of fly I would use to catch dog salmon at the mouth of not only the Vedder but the Stave, etc. I want to go to the mouth because it would give me a bit more room away from the crowds upriver. If there are any spoons that I might spin cast with I would like to try that as well. I have a professional day Friday and the info would really be helpful. Thank you.

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Norrish (Suicide) Creek
Date Posted: 20-Oct-99
Comments:
I needed a dose of reality and spent the day checking to see if any coho were coming into the creek. The water was very low and the pools that I fished last year have been re-arranged a bit. I fished downstream from the bridge and the lower end is chock full'o'chum. I saw a few cutts and some coho in the deeper pools as the big fresh male chum stirred things up a bit. The low water is keeping everything in the lower end right now, and with some rain and about another 6" to a foot of depth in the riffles downstream of the bridges, there should be some good coho action soon. Hooked and released a bunch of Chum and a few fresh males and females were in evidence, good thing I brought the 9 wt. Seemed to get most of the mouth takers on a purple egg-sucking leech and also on a bright pink and silver fly. Tough fishing in the small pools as they are stacked three deep with spawned out chum and fresh ones coming through, even the full sink line was snagging pectoral fins as the fish swam over the line. Cheers.

Name: Jaysen
Email:
Location: Stave
Date Posted: 20-Oct-99
Comments:
Caught alot of beauty chums there lately. Green or Chartreuse wool on about 2ft or longer leaders bottom bouncing works great. Hooked a chrome 17 pound female on Sunday.

Name: steve
Email: steve1516@xoommail.com
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 20-Oct-99
Comments:
fished the vedder on tuesday foul hooked about 10 pinks and tons of springs landed leagaly about 20 springs a few pinks and two monster chum river was at a good level saw the dfo ranger bust a few teens who had no license at least there out there doing there job well tight lines Steve

Name: bower
Email:
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 20-Oct-99
Comments:
fished 3 days straight on the vedder. sunday was a zoo. both for springs and people. monday hooked into 25 springs. yesterday saw the river quieten down with only a few springs moving thru. caught 2 huge chums though

Name: Bruce TenHoeve
Email: execpost@yahoo.com
Location: lakes
Date Posted: 19-Oct-99
Comments:
Richard, your supposed to be farming chickens not surfing the net for good fishing spots..have you tried Tunkwa or Glimpse Lakes?..A little bit further to Roche Lake is pretty good..there is some fly only trophy lakes close to there as well..I was just at some high elevation lakes near Princeton snow was all around and the water very cold....try the Chain Lakes just out of Princeton the fish aren't huge 14-16" is average but they are quite willing and put up a good Kamloops Trout type of fight.Fromyour Friends at Excel Feeds Inc.

Name: coast-ranger
Email:
Location: big qualicum
Date Posted: 19-Oct-99
Comments:
fished this river fri sat and sunday hooked into 15-20 beautiful silver bullets each day what a blast........a little busy but nothin like the zoo on the vedder.....brought home 4 really nice fish for the holidays.......again this weekend.....

Name: Ryan
Email: ryanbougie@hotmail.com
Location: Chehalis
Date Posted: 19-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished around hatchery run, using wool and number 4 colorado brass spiners. Ian had the best luck with blue wool mixed with a bit of white. Good old peach wool seemed to be the trick for me. Within the first hour we hooked into 5 chromers an 2 old boots. Light line and long leaders was the big pay off for the day. All and All the chehalis was a nice change from the crowded vedder. Saw only two other anglers all day both had limited out within the first hour.

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 18-Oct-99
Comments:
I don't normally post follow up about after people's comment, but my comment regarding lots of kids fishing in the Stave was never supposed to be negative. I hope I did not offend any of you beside Tim. Anyway, Lower Fraser River is still pretty good for some coarse fish species. The chub and squawfish have now move on since the water has gotten colder. The tom cods on the other hand are biting really well at the Fraser Mouth. This is the time of the year when they come back to spawn. Best way to catch these is bottom bouncing with worms, shrimps, etc. Remember, daily limit for tom cods is 8.

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location:
Date Posted: 18-Oct-99
Comments:
went to stave on friday and saturday.caught a pile of chums bottom bouncing with green and a bit of blue wool.Took one clean male about 16 lbs. for the smoker.no coho seen caught.also fly fished with a dark green fly and beached 3. tight lines ian

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Stave River
Date Posted: 17-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Stave river this morning and early afternoon (Sunday). It was very crowded. Most of the chums in the system were all pretty dark. Most of them are males, didn't see many females around. Bottom bouncing seemed to work better. Float fishing was not too productive. Green wool was probably the best colour. The odd cohos were caught, all fairly small ones. Too many kids fishing, saw two fishermen having a fight, it was a pretty exciting day.

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Capilano River
Date Posted: 17-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Capilano on Friday afternoon. Water was pretty low, therefore fish were not moving up. There were fish however, saw a few being caught in the white water section near Cable Pool. Most of the cohos were not silver, but still looked pretty good. I didn't catch anything, went for a swim...

Name: Ken Kristian
Email:
Location: Fraser River
Date Posted: 16-Oct-99
Comments:
FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA PUBLIC NOTICE SPORT FISHING REGULATION CHANGE FOR SALMON IN THE NON-TIDAL WATERS OF THE FRASER RIVER Pursuant to Pacific Region Variation Order No. 1999-509 and 1999-510 issued in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 15, 1999 in the waters of the Fraser River bounded on the west by the downstream side of the Canadian Pacific Railway Bridge at Mission and bounded on the east by the power line crossing upstream of the Aggassiz/Rosedale Bridge, the daily quota for Chinook, Pink, Sockeye and Chum salmon has been varied to: Effective 00:01 hours October 19, 1999 to 23:59 hours December 31, 1999, Chinook between 30 cm and 62 cm 4 per day Chinook over 62 cm 0 per day Sockeye 2 per day Pink 4 per day Effective 00:01 hours October 19, 1999 to 23:59 hours March 31, 1999 Chum 2 per day THE DAILY QUOTA FOR WILD AND HATCHERY COHO REMAINS ZERO Note: The combined daily quota for all salmon is 4 Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Name: T.K.
Email:
Location: Fraser/Vedder
Date Posted: 16-Oct-99
Comments:
Any truth to the Fraser finally being opened to all but Coho? I hope so because the other rivers are going to be bleek in another 3-4 yrs. Too many people forced onto these rivers. Yesterday I caught and released 5 white Springs and 1 Chum on the Vedder, only saw 1 wild Coho released. Coho are there but harder to find with all the Springs and Chum. I find small yarn almost any natural colour works best.

Name: jigisup
Email:
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 15-Oct-99
Comments:
well like everyone else and there dog i was up at the vedder river today.like alot of days this week i was, man oh man is there ever alot of people fishing these days! what happened to those good old days when one had at least a two hairs distance from another fellow angler.Boy the river is crowded. Anyways the fishing is good.Fish are every where, up high down low.Most fish are in fairly good condition still to.Caught lots of fish, cohos and springs.Almost every color seems to work to as long as its presented to a fish the right way.Saw alot of pinks in the final days of spawn, people ,people, people, please leave the pinks alone. There are so many people deliberately trying to catch or snag these fish that arent legal to keep, and hell dont even realy put that great of a fight on either.Give them some respect and let them finish their life cycle without being bothered. Bug the dogs, at least they will put up a fight worth your time.Heck, you might even have one break your line and make you sweat a little!! Any how the fishing is good and should remain this way until at least mid november.Good luck and spread out a little.Or try some other rivers.The vedder is not the only river in town that produces good salmon fishing.

Name: Scott
Email: Scott_Kirkpatrick@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 14-Oct-99
Comments:
Anyways, after pounding the Vedder hard this weekned, 3 days, I can say, like everyones saying, lots of Coho, lots of Springs, Chums as well and the last little bit of the Pink run is just spawning. LEAVE the PINKS ALONE. Good luck y'all, Scott.

Name: chad
Email:
Location: vedder/chillawack
Date Posted: 12-Oct-99
Comments:
Well the river is in good fishing condition with it raising bit by bit with the weather we should be getting in the next few days should bring in all those springs evryone is waiting to catch .I made my fishing debue on thanks giving monday and the place was a zoo with cars evry were you looked I was going to start at the ranger run because the lower river was just a joke. You have to realize it does'nt matter where you fish, there are fish evrywhere on the river I stoped at a spot just above alison pool where the river starts to turn started fishing 5min in a huge spring 30 plus riped my line I was'nt ready for that at all anyways lost it right away with a few jump it's tough to fight a big spring and the current the size 2 hook did'nt help much eather .landed a few coho and pinks but there was alot of fresh chinooks in the river to be had I lost three all day.Anyways it was pretty good for my first day out this year had a great time and hope to get out again soon river is getting higher and it is real clear easy to spot those big springs I was using size 2 hook with peach wool most of the day that seemed to work as my buddy hooked his first fish(chum) ever on red wool as that was working aswell but they will take anything you put infront of there face right now as there are so many fish in the river and it will only get better and I have never seen so many coho.Anyways good fishing and tight lines and if you are fishing a spot and catching fish allday let the next guy take your spot the river is for evryone dont forget the fish are evry where from top to bottom dont forget to read the reg's conserve our waters and good luck but you should'nt need much luck right now.

Name: Bill
Email: bjoord@uniserve.com
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 12-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished by Tamahi campground Monday morning til 10AM. Counted 134 anglers from the bridge down to the second bend.(that's what I could see anyway) I too had a guy fishing beside me for an hour or so before he finally asked me if we can keep coho, when I told him hatchery only he asked how to identify. Anyways Coho fishing was only fair that morning.

Name: BY
Email:
Location: Squamish
Date Posted: 11-Oct-99
Comments:
No Chum or Coho seen or caught, very little fishing pressure. The only fish around were spawned out pinks. I guess it's still to early?

Name: JohnD
Email: jldevlin@home.net
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 11-Oct-99
Comments:
Went back to the wilson bridge area and woohoo, I caught my first ever Salmon, A 15lb Chum with sea lice still on it, they said it was good, it is in the oven ..will let ya all know if it was lol, Also saw a ton of fish caught all day under the bridge...

Name: Dale Dorcas
Email: Homequest2@aol.com
Location: Harrison River
Date Posted: 11-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the last 3 weekends. Pinks almost require a lure with pink color in it. Spread out throughout the system now. The slow water seems best for coho. Gibbs Ultra Lure (thanks Vic) accounted for a lot of fish, especially in the good water that was a bit on the fast side since it's a a heaveir lure. Guide Vic Carrao is quite knowledgeable, and I'd recommend people contact him for a trip, or at least to chat. His email is: stsfishing@rapidnet.net By next week I bet most of the pinks will be in the upper river sections, if my past experience is any indicator.

Name: peter
Email: BCflyfish@aol.com
Location: island rivers
Date Posted: 11-Oct-99
Comments:
campbell full of springs. hot pink doing well.sooke river full of chum with the odd spring or coho. green the color there. good luck to all.

Name: Lyle M. Unwin
Email: buttwin@hotmail.com
Location: Merritt Area
Date Posted: 10-Oct-99
Comments:
Courtney lake is fishing well, up to 4lbs on marron leeches and gomphus dragons. No hatches that I could see. Lower Second lake in the Kane Valley is great for those who enjoy brookies on the fly. Fish to 20in on black marabou leeches. Water is freezing. Light chrony and boatman hatch.

Name: Rodney Hsu
Email: rhsu@direct.ca
Location: Stave River
Date Posted: 10-Oct-99
Comments:
I fished the Stave River both Saturday and today, it was pretty good. Chums have already moved in like Sandy said in the earlier report. However, they are not in great numbers yet. Fish were very scattered out so it was very hard to float fish. Green wool under the float was working pretty well, but I was doing better with croc spoons. Silver, green, pink crocs were all very effective. New fish were coming in as the day went by. There were also some very big cohos moving in too. Both days I saw cohos up to 6 - 8 pounds jumping in the fast water.

Name: Bill
Email: bjoord@uniserve.com
Location: Vedder River
Date Posted: 10-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished out by Tamahi Sat afternoon. It was packed out there!! Must have been well over a hundred anglers in that stretch of river between the bridge and the second bend. Between my wife and I and we were into about 30 fish. Caught pink, coho, chum and Spring. Some of the Springs were huge!! Took home 3 hatchery coho. Overall it was a good afternoon. Good luck finding a spot there this weekend though, I've never seen it this busy there.

Name: Sandy
Email:
Location: River
Date Posted: 9-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Stave Fri and Sat. The chum are in. Green seemed to be the color both days. The fly rod worked best Fri as the water was down. Sat hydro released water after 11:00am, switched to float as the fish had spread out. They were still catchable. Very few coho, the fisheries guy saw only 3 jacks on Sat. Remember to treat these fish with respect when you release them.

Name: striker
Email: probson@intergate.bc.ca
Location: harrison
Date Posted: 8-Oct-99
Comments:
to the guy with the boat, if want want to experience catching a salmon, do yourself a favour and drive to harrison bay,stop by harrison bay store ,get some spoons, launch at kilby, go left under railbridge approx 1/2 mile, anchor in about 6 feet of water where the fraser and harrison meet, cast with little or no weight and slow retrieve. do all this, and you will catch fish... believe me!! (p.s. it hasnt peaked yet...)

Name: JohnD
Email: jldevlin@home.net
Location:
Date Posted: 8-Oct-99
Comments:
This is the first year I have fished, We bought a small 15 ft runabout to fish the chuck but so far nothing but Rock Cod, With the advice of everyone here and personal friends we took a day off work and went to the Vedder (Wilson Bridge area) and except for the above mentioned area water was way to high,dirty and fast, we fished around the Wilson bridge from 6 am - 1 pm, none of the 3 of us had a bite even, saw only 2 pinks landed and thrown back, Guess timing is everything huh, Well here is hoping the next time out I catch or my wife catches our first ever salmon

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: cap mouth
Date Posted: 8-Oct-99
Comments:
Nice one.Just thought you might be more imagineginative than to use some one eles tag.Cap has been real nice,hit 4 yesterday afternoon.Confirmed kill on a 35lbs.mine were 17/22lbs.

Name: Steely
Email:
Location: Veddar and Chehalis
Date Posted: 8-Oct-99
Comments:
Hi Dirk. The Veddar is producing quite a few coho and A LOT of white springs up to 40 pounds. Fish the lower end if you want hatchery coho. I was there yesterday and got a hatchery coho and lost two more. The Chehalis is low but very dirty. There must have been a mud slide...or somethings. There are a lot of pinks and chum. Some guys are hooking into coho at the "Long Run" and the "Hatchery Pool", but I haven't tried there myself. I have heard that the canyon is fishing VERY well. I hope this helps you out.

Name: SteveO
Email: dfolson@planeteer.com
Location: Courtenay Lk.
Date Posted: 7-Oct-99
Comments:
I fished Courtenay 3 times in the last week and the fishing was great. While the weather was still warm, I was getting fish to 2 1/2 lbs on chironomids in 5 feet of water. Then early this week when the weather changed we got fish to 3 lbs on shiner patterns. We used a size 6 hook with a gold mylar body, green marabou back and tail and red cheeks. Rowing along the dropoffs produced more fish than anchoring and casting. Hope this helps and good luck. We're heading to the Roche Lk area for the long weekend looking for brookies.

Name: Warren
Email: Warrencxxhotmail.com
Location: Vedder River
Date Posted: 6-Oct-99
Comments:
I went fishing to the pools above Keith Wilson Bridge and quite a few people landed fish. I got one doe coho which was very fresh and lost another three coho. One thing I have to remind all fishing folks to change your light line leader as frequent as you can or once it is worn. Otherwise you will end up like me losing some nice coho due to over-stressed leader line. I also want to share my experience to the readers in this column that longer leader, i.e. 3 to 4 ft , will result from catching more fish in slow flow water such as the river sections below Lickman Road to Vedder Canal.

Name: RalphH
Email:
Location: Fraser River Pinks
Date Posted: 6-Oct-99
Comments:
Total closure for all salmon. No catch and release as you are not supposed to target any FOC salmon species (Pinks, Chum, Sockeye, Coho or Chinook). You can fish for Pinks in the Harrison.

Name: coast ranger
Email: gilbert_dicesare@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: harrison
Date Posted: 5-Oct-99
Comments:
great fun for the kids. no better way to get them into fishin than pinks in the harrison.....landed a nice 7 lb coho sunday at the mouth what a day teach em while their young.......

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: cap mouth
Date Posted: 5-Oct-99
Comments:
nice one who ever you are,but you are not the Salmonslayer.Cap has been steady for Springs,ancovey 30-75 feet.

Name: Grammer man
Email:
Location: harrison
Date Posted: 4-Oct-99
Comments:
Went to the Harrison and nailed fish all day, hey Tyelr thakx for the info. I did just as good as you and your frien d I arrived at first light and finished up about 3:30.

Name: Salmon Slayer
Email:
Location: Stave
Date Posted: 4-Oct-99
Comments:
Caught about 4 chum on my flyrod and also about 12 pinks off shore with no waders in the stave were it runs into the Fraser

Name: Humppy slayer
Email:
Location: Fraser river
Date Posted: 4-Oct-99
Comments:
Fished the Fraser above the Mission bridge Saturday. Fished all day slaying on the pinks with a FLY rod! Hooked about three in the tail, five in the hump and about a hundred in the mouth. Seen DFO officers flying up river to bust some natives. Me and my buddy were the only ones fishing this bar and didn't see anyone all day. Double headers all day long, what a blast!

Name: IAN
Email: IAN_STEELHEADER1@HOTMAIL.COM
Location:
Date Posted: 4-Oct-99
Comments:
WENT to vedder,water was gin clear and polluted with pinks.saw lots of pinks and early chums,no white springs though.lots of big 8 to 15 lb coho in the hatchery.fished upper river in the morning.got a couple of pinks on roe but no coho. went down by lickman road and my buddy ryan got 18lb spring on peach wool.that was about it.this rain this week will put a lot of fish in the river. ian

Name: tyler
Email:
Location: harrison
Date Posted: 3-Oct-99
Comments:
went to the harrison today didn't catch anything until I moved down towards the mouth by foot on my second rift I hooked one and after that it was dynamite, in about 3hrs my friend and I hooked between 19 fish just down by the mouth. Be careful indian land, the fish that we hooked were all pinks

Name: Bard
Email:
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 3-Oct-99
Comments:
Quite a few white springs throughout the river. Caught a 30#er that was nice and clean on orange wool and 8# test when I was chasing coho. Saw a couple over 40#s caught. Some real nice size coho were caught today, mostly wild stock. Lots of pinks around and a few chum as well.

Name: phil
Email: probson@intergate.bc.ca
Location: harrison
Date Posted: 3-Oct-99
Comments:
fishing for pinks excellent , still very clean and great catch and release fun for kids. hey, have i missed the white springs in the vedder? i would like my son to experience catching and release of larger fish !!

Name: bert
Email:
Location: squamish
Date Posted: 3-Oct-99
Comments:
not much action.. pinks are over, a few coho jacks around..

Name: BILL
Email: bill2bc.sympatico.ca
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 2-Oct-99
Comments:
fished the river friday hooked 6 or 7 springs with lise still on them, saw lots of cohos caught. lower end is best to many people butt in it`s a joke proper edicet don`t go in between go to ends you have to tell these people that 4 feet is not enough . Lots of meat fishermen dragging bottom with lead on botton of hook up and hook up a bit.

Name: Ken Kristian
Email: kenkristian@netscape.net
Location: Harrison River
Date Posted: 1-Oct-99
Comments:
FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA PUBLIC NOTICE Sport fishing regulation change for sockeye salmon in the waters of the Harrison River Effective 00:01 hours, October 2, 1999 until further notice, in the waters of the Harrison River from the outlet of Harrison Lake to the confluence with the Fraser River, the daily quota for sockeye salmon is hereby varied to zero.This action is being taken due to significant pre-spawning mortalities of Weaver Creek sockeye.

Name: ross
Email:
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 1-Oct-99
Comments:
went to the vedder today. lots of fisherman and saw only two fish caught. One wild coho and a chum. From the v bridge to past lickman parking lot. Water clear as gin and low. There will be lots of fisherman out this weekend.