Name: Rob
Email: sharob@interchange.ubc.ca
Location: Chilliwack/Vedder
Date Posted: 30-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the Lickman road area below the train bridge yesterday. Still lots of pinks in the river but they don't fight long and can be quickly released. There are some decent sized coho being caught and they are quite clean. Hooked into four springs up to 30 lbs. I took a day off work hoping that I wouldn't have to contend with the crowds but there were still at least 100 people on about 1/2 km section of the river that I fished. Rob

Name: Steely
Email:
Location: Chehalis
Date Posted: 29-Sep-99
Comments:
I went to the Chehalis today, looking for coho. MAN the water was low and clear. There were quite a few dogs and ALOT of pinks. I decided to go bushwacking a little and found a nice pool. First cast, I got a nice cutty. I let it go. After 3 more casts, BANG, I hooked into a nice 6 pound wild summer run steelhead...a buck...a very beautiful fish and a nice surprise. I couldn't find anymore though. Tight lines!

Name: Marco
Email:
Location: Vedder River
Date Posted: 29-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the Vedder from Allison Pool to the Hatchery. Saw lots of pinks and little coho. No springs that I saw caught. I would estimate that 90-95% of the fish I saw caught where pinks that had to be released. Saw a couple nice coho. Hooked into a couple pinks and a small hatchery coho which I let go. Good luck to all.

Name: bill
Email: billwnr@hotmail.com
Location: Tunkwa
Date Posted: 29-Sep-99
Comments:
The bloom at Tunkwa should disappear soon after last weekend's weather. I tried fishing there and saw snow.. hail... lots of rain.. and wind. The temps ranged between 20-40 degrees (f) for the weekend.

Name: Cade
Email: cade_9@yahoo.com
Location: Pitt
Date Posted: 29-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the lower Pit. Caught lots of nice sized trout. Fishing has picked up big time. It should be good for another month and then the Coho's will be there

Name: garth
Email:
Location: Tunkwa lake
Date Posted: 28-Sep-99
Comments:
Anyone know if the algae in Tunkwa lake has cleared up yet. Also - do the fish loose their muddy taste in the fall. Any reports on Tunkwa - Leighton

Name: woolly
Email: woollee@hotmail.com
Location: quesnel river / thompson river
Date Posted: 28-Sep-99
Comments:
quesnel river @ likely b.c....30 rainbows over 8 hours in the river half of what it used to be only 2 legal 40cm thompson @ big bend....saw one fish hooked not landed..didnt see one sockeye in the river...could be because of the net we saw tucked in the brush...waiting for nite to fall...freakin bandits...

Name: Flycaster
Email:
Location: Seymour
Date Posted: 27-Sep-99
Comments:
Spent Sunday afternoon on the Seymour - great weather. Lots of pinks coming through the river - good fun. Didn't see any coho or springs, but there are a few around, apparently, from what some of the guys said. Water low and clear.

Name: Ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location: chehalis
Date Posted: 27-Sep-99
Comments:
went to the chehalis yesterday,started in the canyon with roe.water levels were low and clear. fished there the whole day but it was pretty slow with a dog,small coho, and dark red spring between jaime and I.should be better when we have a big rain. ian

Name: MIke
Email: mike109@hotmaol.com
Location:
Date Posted: 25-Sep-99
Comments:
Anyone with any comments on recent lake fishing? Special files, had some good times with bead headed chronomids. Any small streams with deep enough holes?

Name: bandit
Email: smoker1@home.com
Location: stave river
Date Posted: 25-Sep-99
Comments:
fished the stave all afternoon and saw a few jumpers assuming that they were dogs had one hit and missed it should be another week or so yet

Name: Bill
Email: bill@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: vedder
Date Posted: 25-Sep-99
Comments:
They are here the big whites and how.

Name: Warren
Email:
Location:
Date Posted: 23-Sep-99
Comments:
I went to Vedder River yesterday and saw quite a few coho staying in the holding tank at the hatchery. Some are colored but most of them are very clean. After a visit to the hatchery, I fished in the area around Limit hole for about three hours and I had three fish on but one pink was landed and released. The river in general is clear with good flow of water so that fish can move through the whole river system especially coho and pink. To my surpise I did not spot any spring in the hatchery yet.

Name: TK
Email:
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 22-Sep-99
Comments:
Report is late but here it is anyways. Landed 30# white spring late saturday and let go 6# chum doe on monday afternoon. One fish in the smoker is enough. White and red wool combo for both fish. Saw approx. 30 dark pinks high on the river.

Name: Fly only
Email:
Location: Harrison River
Date Posted: 22-Sep-99
Comments:
Good fishing for pinks on the Harrison now.I hooked into about 15 pinks in 3 hrs Two of which were clean. Fished just below the CNR bridge.A boat will help.Spent the afternoon in search of cutts hooked into 5 mostly french creek area.I heard a few coho have been taken already, Burkenhead fish.Not sure if the Weaver sockeye are in good numbers.The day was OK :] mostly French Creek

Name: Garth
Email:
Location: Tunkwa/Leighton
Date Posted: 22-Sep-99
Comments:
Its hard to know what to think of the reports sometimes. Report here on Tunkwa Lake several days ago reports fishing on and around 19 Sept. was slow. But, go to the Kamloops area report made by sporting goods store reports Rob, (probably of Tunkwa Lake resort) phoned and reported the best fishing of the year is happening and that was on the 25 sept. I guess if one is going there you just have to go for it and hope for the best.

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location:
Date Posted: 22-Sep-99
Comments:
just wondering what wool combos you guys find most productive for sprongs on the vedder? i prefer pink with peach or plain old light or dark green ian

Name: Marco
Email:
Location: Vedder River
Date Posted: 22-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the upper Vedder today (12:00pm to 6:pm)Hooked and released one spring jack. Saw about 6 coho landed and many pinks rolling in the river and getting snagged and a couple springs jumping around. Saw big schools of coho swimming around but I guess they are easily spooked because I had to stop by the pub for dinner! They are out there! Good luck to all. Marco

Name: Greg
Email: gnoske@home.com
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 21-Sep-99
Comments:
I forgot to thank everyone for getting back to me, regarding the info I asked for, so thanks guy's. Went to the Harrison today and caught 5 pinks 1 chum (very clean I might add. Still had sea lice on it.) and NO sockeye. There weren't very many caught as far as I know. Sockeye as we know it is OVER. Later Guys

Name: k keller
Email:
Location: tunkwa/leighton
Date Posted: 20-Sep-99
Comments:
just returned Sept 19th. both lakes are in full bloom.extreamly hot during the day! fishings pretty slow. no frost yet,maybe next week for boatmen.

Name: Tim
Email: pejmann@home.com
Location: Capilano
Date Posted: 19-Sep-99
Comments:
Damn there are a lot of springs in the capilano. Everywhere I look there are springs. No sight of any cohos left off from the recent run. I'm guessing it's over, anyone else know anything about it? Well i'm fishing in my spot and my friend gets a big spring on which doesn't cooperate and just takes his leader and snaps it in two, then about 10 seconds l8ter i get one on and it starts taking me down the current and down the river, i had to chase it and got it into a pool, i was fighting it for like 5 mins and then it starts jumping a lot like 5 times and then i jumps once swings it's head and get loose. Man was i pissed off but had a lot of fun, that thing fought a lot never actually fought a spring before. Well it was good and had a lot of fun i'm going to head out there tonight also. Tight lines, Tim p.s. just for the record I wasn't trying to target springs (i had an 8lb leader) and targeting springs in the cap isn't open till october 15th.

Name: Dallas
Email: flyfish@idmail.com
Location: Rolley Lake
Date Posted: 18-Sep-99
Comments:
WOW! What a day. I caught 28 'bows today and had about a dozen of 'the one that got away'. These are the days I live for. For the first hour I was getting a fish per cast. The fly that did the work was a sz10, medium gray, gold rib, Doc Spratley. I got to the lake at about 2:30 and fished until 5:30. At around 4:30 the trout started coming up to the surface for tiny black midge like bugs. There was so much shlooping going on that it made concentrating on your fly impossible. I think tomorrow will be just as good as today if not better. Good Luck and Tight Lines! Dallas

Name: Scully
Email: Scully@uniserve.com
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 17-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the Vedder from first light till around noon today. Hooked one small Coho, lost it. My buddy landed a real nice wild coho around six pnds. Saw lots of pinks rolling. No signs of whites. Theres fish in there. Expect with a little rain, its only going to get better and better. A little too clear for my liking right now.

Name: Greg
Email: gnoske@home.com
Location: Harrison/Fraser
Date Posted: 16-Sep-99
Comments:
I thought it was about time I posted a fishing report. I went to the Harrison Wednesday and landed 1 8lb sockeye and lost 5 others. Morning was the best. The company was excelent this time. Lots of very friendly people out there. much better than the lower Vedder. Saw at least 9 other fish landed. Finished there at about 1:00pm and decided to go sturgeon fishing. went up river from the mouth of the Harrison, on the Fraser and caught a really fat 6ft'r. Evertime it got close to the boat, off it went again. Well going out next week, weather permitting, and am going to try the Vedder again. This time Im bringing my cell phone and a camera to take pictures of any @#$#@$#@ person killing wild Coho!. Tight lines and remember, READ THE REG'S BEFORE YOU GO OUT!!!

Name: captain "hookless"
Email: yeunk@sprint.ca
Location: cap
Date Posted: 16-Sep-99
Comments:
found a great spot today caught 2 kohos one 8 lbs and another 6 lbs great SECRET spot.. if you want it send me a email and tell me some of your SECRETS... good luck everyone, captain "hookless"

Name: peter
Email: BCflyfish@aol.com
Location: san juan
Date Posted: 16-Sep-99
Comments:
i got into ten searun cuts today. landed four.biggest was 4 lbs. saw lots of salmon jumping and one guy land a 45 lbs spring with sea lice still on it.good luck to all.

Name: ian
Email: ian_steelheader1@hotmail.com
Location:
Date Posted: 16-Sep-99
Comments:
skipped school yesterday and went to vedder.started ata a place above lickman road ,used roe sacks and after an hour of hard fishing got 4 lb wild coho and released it.kept fishing got one more and achrome jack which i kept.as i was walking down to go home saw a guy playing a white but he lost it.looked about 15 to 20#'s.river was a bit on the hiigh side and fairly clear.expect with the next big rain for the white springs to push in. tight lines ian

Name: Stuart
Email:
Location: Clearwater Lake
Date Posted: 14-Sep-99
Comments:
My younger brother just got back from a weekend at Clearwater Lake. apparently he brought home some really nice rainbow didnt say how many but if they r anything like the ones he got from there last year they are beautiful fish.

Name: Greg
Email: gnoske@home.com
Location: Vedder
Date Posted: 14-Sep-99
Comments:
This was prob the worst time I have had fishing the lower Vedder. Dont get me wrong though. The weather was the best. The fish were there but, the people need to learn a little more about the reg's. I saw 2 different people kill wild coho today. Ive never been so disgusted in the so sport fisheries. SPEND SOME TIME AND READ THE REG"S BEFORE YOU GO FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Steven Bozzetto
Email: sbozzetto@kwl.bc.ca
Location: Sayers Lake
Date Posted: 14-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished Sayers on Sept. 11 and was very disappointed. In 3 hours of flyfishing, I had 1 hit and 1 rise within a foot of my fly. I was optomistic due to good reports and a weighed-in fish of 15.2 lbs. recently. Can someone tell me the secrets of the lake for catch & release in any form of fishing? Thanks.

Name: Bobber
Email:
Location:
Date Posted: 12-Sep-99
Comments:
Stopped by Elk Lake on the way to Victoria Thursday nite (Sept.9) and it was amazing. Bite came on at 7pm and the water was alive. Surface feeding, jumps every 3-5 minutes. Red PowerBait grubs, spinning flies and dry flies on a bobber all worked. Rainbows in the 2-3lb. range (all released)were common. Try the rowing docks at the south end, near the highway on the east side, or go into the park and find a clearing on the north side. Park outside the gates if you'll be there after dusk. Great fun, great lake.

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: Chuck
Date Posted: 11-Sep-99
Comments:
Well it has been a great week!!!!!!with Springs coming in from 17/38lbs.we have been down at the N.Arm.45-80feet on the chovey seems the best try glow hootchie too.

Name: DAVEJW
Email: DAVEJW@INTERGATE.BC.CA
Location: BUNTZEN
Date Posted: 9-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished here last saturday in a tube. bows were sucking dry mosquito patterns as if it was going out of style but you have to have the colour and size right....

Name: RalphH
Email: heidecke@direct.ca
Location: Squamish
Date Posted: 7-Sep-99
Comments:
You can catch and keep either Pinks or Chum. Pinks are the most prevalent at this time. Chums show in good numbers in a month or so. For pinks any bright Pink lure or fly does the trick. Standard drift techniques with wool works as well. There are a few coho and Chinook - coho must be released. Chinook jacks under 50cm (20in) can be retained but fish that size are infrequent.

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Skagit River
Date Posted: 7-Sep-99
Comments:
For those seeking information about the Skagit- check with your local flyshop and also check out some of the recent reports on www.flyshop.com on the Western Canada regional fishing reports, as well as some of the info on the Discussion Board on this site. Come equipped with lots of bug juice, hiking stamina (to get some separation between you and the rest of the crowd up there) and a fly box containing gold ribbed hares ears in sizes 12 to 16, some with beadheads, some without, some small (size 16) soft hackles, some size 14-18 cream and yellow dry flies, some various colours of caddis dries size 10 to 16. That should cover about 90% of anything that may be happening up there this time of year with the conditions being seen.

Name: Mark
Email:
Location: Harrison
Date Posted: 7-Sep-99
Comments:
Creel survey taker told me two sockeye were taken yesterday when I launched. I din't see anything being landed or hooked. I caught and released a very smal cutty and two swqawfish south of the Highway 7 bridge under the booms on a rolled muddler.

Name: Steven Bozzetto
Email: sbozzetto@kwl.bc.ca
Location: Ucluelet
Date Posted: 7-Sep-99
Comments:
This past weekend was slow for chinook fishing in for the Canadian Princess Resort. However, we all enjoyed good company and moderate success. With the new barbless regulations, we lost at least 20 salmon, but managed to bring home 7 chinook for our group of 14 persons - the largest was 28 lbs. Bottom fishing was great with plenty of various colourful fish. The largest fish landed by the resort visitors during our stay was a 91 lb. halibut! For next year we will be fishing the July 1st long weekend during the peak season. Good people and fishing made for a very enjoyable holiday.

Name: bert
Email:
Location: squamish/mamquam
Date Posted: 6-Sep-99
Comments:
fished a bit on these 2 rivers. lotsa people, and more than a few pinks landed by them.

Name: beadhead
Email:
Location: Tunkwa/Leighton Lakes
Date Posted: 6-Sep-99
Comments:
landed 1-16" on a#10 Humpy, sat eve there was a major hatch of some kind of midge , fat striped body, short transparent wings, but didn't have a fly to imitate it. others caught on olive beadhead shrimp, and burgandy leech. sun eve there were white caps from the winds!

Name: TONY
Email: tdeon@canada.com
Location: thrasher rock
Date Posted: 5-Sep-99
Comments:
some nice red springs at thrasher, caught 2 over 20lbs saw others taken saturday today was to windy. live bait was good for dogfish. salmon taken on pink /white jig small and cut plug herring, these fish are usually gone by end of aug so late this year,

Name: Brian
Email: bhubbs@rdhbe.com
Location: Skagit
Date Posted: 5-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the Skagit on Friday between the crossing and Ross Lake. Caught 14 rainbows on dry Royal Coachmen, deerfly caddis and mayfly imitations. Lots of hatches in the sun and the river has finally come down to normal levels.

Name: trevor
Email: tvenables@bc.sympatico.ca
Location: thompson
Date Posted: 5-Sep-99
Comments:
fishing slow out of juniper beach.river silted up recently plus lots of sockeye going thru.river still at levels common to late july.river dropping about 4 to 6 inches a day.fishing should improve after sockeye go thru,they appear to be about 3 weeks later than usual.most fish of any length are still skinny from spring spawning. tight lines trevor

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: White Chinooks
Date Posted: 4-Sep-99
Comments:
Yes, the white chinooks are a Harrison fish originally, however, I believe DFO planted a large stocking of fry in Indian Arm a few years ago to see if they'd "take" to the Indian River system. Usually the Harrison fish are headed straight up the Fraser, so if you got one off the Cap. it may be an Indian Arm returnee. Cheers.

Name: Dan
Email: emerson@home.com
Location: Cap Mouth
Date Posted: 4-Sep-99
Comments:
We reported that we landed a spring at the mouth of the Cap. Should also point out that the spring was a "white chinook". I've never seen one before and I understand they are sort of rare. I think these are headed to the Harrison. Anybody know anything about these "white chinooks"?

Name: Joann
Email: emerson@home.com
Location: Capilano Mouth
Date Posted: 4-Sep-99
Comments:
Caught a spring around noon; also saw 3 pink taken.

Name: Evinrood
Email: dougie@intergate.bc.ca
Location: Seymour
Date Posted: 4-Sep-99
Comments:
This Seymour river is a very interesting river. I jumped in the river with my wetsuit at twin bridges yesterday and saw literally hundreds of pinks spawning and moving in the deep currents of the river. also lots of hatchery rainbow/steelheads that could be making there way to sea, I don't know. so anyways , my mask broke so I didn't do the whole drift. I had to back track uup the river to my bike. It was cool.

Name: Fly Only
Email:
Location: Harrison
Date Posted: 3-Sep-99
Comments:
Fished the Harrison sept 2nd.River is very high. A few sockeye hanging around the golf course.Very few taken on krill.They seemed to have moved on. I concentraited on cutthroats but did very poor. Searched for them all over the place,just couldn't find em.Beautiful day anyway.Hopefully some pinks will be showing in the system soon.Weaver sockeye should be on there way in a couple of weeks.

Name: Dave Johnson
Email: djohnson@paralynx.com
Location: Fraser
Date Posted: 2-Sep-99
Comments:
Spent last 3out of 4 days fishing sturgeon from dewdney slough to gill rd.Had great fishing all 3 days.tried all baits(oolies,ditch eels,lamprey,salmon parts and roe)all baits were working but spring roe(fresh)was by far the best.Bruces market has it at 4 bucks a lb.Today we caught 8 biggest around 8ft.between 1pm.&5:30pm.Best holes were around cox landing,vedder river mouth,and north side of river by jespersons(above harrison).So if you want to have some good fun go out & give it a try it should be good till the next weather change and 1or2 days after the next change

Name: Salmonslayer
Email: djacklin@netcom.ca
Location: cap mouth
Date Posted: 1-Sep-99
Comments:
Fishing is SLOOOOOW.Ther were 4 very nice Springs this morning.but I was on thrasher where we lost a Monster,broke off,must have had a kink in the line.Very depressing .lets all hope the big nasty whites come soon.Oh ya, if you are fishing Thrasher, keep an eye out for swimming green flasher.

Name: Geoff McDonell
Email:
Location: Coldwater River
Date Posted: 1-Sep-99
Comments:
I managed to get an hour and a half in on the Coldwater River yesterday coming back from a meeting in Kelowna. I don't know how many times I've driven by this piece of water and thought to myself that there are some fishy looking places in there....Yep, there certainly are. I stopped just a couple of km south of the Coldwater exit on the old Coldwater Road towards Brookmere and just pulled into a small side trail that led to a nice camping spot along the river. I wasn't expecting much, being so close to the road, and right next to what looked like a popular bush party site, but what the heck? In the first few runs I managed to raise a couple of six inchers to the dry fly and then noticed some rises along the face of a big old cottonwood at the front of a logjam with a deep pool under it. By casting the fly within a few inches of the face of the log and getting a good couple feet of drift I was rewarded with a splashy take and my rod bent to one of the fattest 11 inch river rainbows I've seen in a long time. These buggers were football shaped with beautiful markings and aerobatic to boot. In the space of an hour at the one run along the logjam pool I managed to get 8 fish to hand, half were small ones but four of them were 10-11 inchers which made my day. Size 16 Adams does it again. I'm sure if one explored along the less accessible stretches of this stream, there would be some great fishing and possibly larger trout hiding in the deeper pools. I'm going to have to go back and check this out. Water temperature was approx. 53-54F and a few pale mayflies were seen coming off around 6PM, and the shore lines were crawling with small black catterpillarlike things about an inch long. I couldn't see any in the water but they were on rocks right down to the water's edge.