Just rock fishIs Bedford rocks closed for salmon (chinook) fishing. Or is it just rock fish ?
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Well im afraid to say we are back to reality for sept!!!!!!! August was a unbelievable month of Chinook fishing I have ever seen in many years...If englishman can get 2 springs in a day ANYONE could LOL, now its ones and 2 per day unfortunately . I am hoping by Thursday with the bigger am floods and not these all HUGE ebbs another shot of springs will come in (im sure they will)
Seeing more coho as well so thats even more promising saw a guy cleaning a beauty about 12 ish lbs at cleaning station He got quite belligerent when I said nice coho.... showed him the white gums and he told me that some springs have white gums too ya know..... its been a long summer so I just walked away..
Word of advice make sure what ya got and DO NOT filet a hatch coho you have to leave it whole so DFO can identify it...
Not anyone , but I was tossing from the rocks....If englishman can get 2 springs in a day ANYONE could LOL, ...
Never seen a spring with white gums....that identifier (pardon the pun) is as simple as black and white. The only two species that can be tricky is when you are faced with either a larger sockeye or an early run and bright smaller chum.
Never seen a spring with white gums....that identifier (pardon the pun) is as simple as black and white
Flat calm morning so Muir called to us again today.
Dropped lines with our now usual herring in t.h. just before 7:00am and West we went from the outside of Otter. Nothing much happened for two hours. Then right around 9:00am (the third occasion in a row at Muir that 9:00am was fish hit time) we had a good hit at 66’ and brought in a nice 11lb fish.
OK I thought, a bit smaller than last time but any double figure chinook is a good chinook for us! 90 minutes passed and we now had both herrings at 66’ feet due to the previous fish. We came to one of those bumps along the Muir drop off ledge and I had to raise the downriggers to 45’ to get over the 55’ bump. As the depth dropped off to 75' on the other side I let one herring go down quite fast. Just as I was braking the descent at around 60’ feet there was a huge bang and bounce on the rod. I struck and the fish took off down and away, then after a minute or two it all went slack and I thought he was gone. I reeled in quickly and realised he had turned and ran straight back at the boat and he was still there!
Two more runs and a lot of surface head shaking and we were finally able to net a marvelous 22lb chinook. Absolutely amazingly lucky to get such a fabulous fish “on the drop” like that!!
At 11:00 we headed out across the sunny flat calm deeper to look for coho and have a leisurely lunch. Had four hits. Missed one, lost two and the other was a pink. Maybe the last one LOL!
I attach a picture of that unlucky big chinook, that was very lucky for us!!
P.S. Sorry Wolf but it was a two chinook day for us, again - and in September to boot!! LOL
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Flat calm morning so Muir called to us again today.
Dropped lines with our now usual herring in t.h. just before 7:00am and West we went from the outside of Otter. Nothing much happened for two hours. Then right around 9:00am (the third occasion in a row at Muir that 9:00am was fish hit time) we had a good hit at 66’ and brought in a nice 11lb fish.
OK I thought, a bit smaller than last time but any double figure chinook is a good chinook for us! 90 minutes passed and we now had both herrings at 66’ feet due to the previous fish. We came to one of those bumps along the Muir drop off ledge and I had to raise the downriggers to 45’ to get over the 55’ bump. As the depth dropped off to 75' on the other side I let one herring go down quite fast. Just as I was braking the descent at around 60’ feet there was a huge bang and bounce on the rod. I struck and the fish took off down and away, then after a minute or two it all went slack and I thought he was gone. I reeled in quickly and realised he had turned and ran straight back at the boat and he was still there!
Two more runs and a lot of surface head shaking and we were finally able to net a marvelous 22lb chinook. Absolutely amazingly lucky to get such a fabulous fish “on the drop” like that!!
At 11:00 we headed out across the sunny flat calm deeper to look for coho and have a leisurely lunch. Had four hits. Missed one, lost two and the other was a pink. Maybe the last one LOL!
I attach a picture of that unlucky big chinook, that was very lucky for us!!
P.S. Sorry Wolf but it was a two chinook day for us, again - and in September to boot!! LOL
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Rick, he (and it was a he) was a regular red......Very nice Roland. Given its body shape, any chance it was white?
Not hard to do yesterday took a much needed day off!!!!!!!!!!!! big hike with dogs, shopping and took wife out for dinner ....Look Wolf Englishman is outfishing you.
Not hard to do yesterday took a much needed day off!!!!!!!!!!!! big hike with dogs, shopping and took wife out for dinner ....
LOL, LOL, LOL!!! SpringVelocityWolf vs Englishman for the final. We should put cameras on you guys.