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ashtonspoutine
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I havent been a member here for too long, and I dont think Ive read anything about the vancouver area, but here's my day anyways.
So, I moved to BC a few months ago. When I first arrived, the most important thing on my mind was fishing for salmon. I had no idea when I moved here that there were 5 species neither. That confused me a lot...in my mind, a salmon was a salmon was a salmon. So I joined this forum, and 2 others that I will not advertise for here. On all 3 of these forums, I was extremely excited to catch the pink salmon. Why? Because I was told by numerous people that they have had days of 30,40 even 60 catches in ONE day!!! I was like :happy: :happy: :thumbup:
However, today was my first trip to the indian arm for pinks. I arrived at 8 am, and left at 9pm. I caught a grand total of zero. Since my bro didnt catch any neither, that puts us at -1 in my books.
What did I do wrong?? When we arrived this morning, there were fish everywhere! Jumping left right and center, they took an hour off of their acrobatic routine from 2pm to 3pm but it was going full fledge afer than again. So I can imagine that someone can really have a good time catching these fish, I can even see how someone caught over 60 in a day, but what the hell did I do wrong????
I used the smallest pink buzz bomb.
For the first 5 hours, I was simply casting and retrieving. My retrieve was fairly fast because I saw other people doing that.
When the jumping stopped, I slowed my retrieve down. Still nothing.
Around 5pm, I saw these 2 guys (one in particular) that kept hooking into fish every 20 minutes or so. I saw him cast, let the buzz bomb sink to the bottom, then he'd lift his rod tip, retrieve the slack and back to the beginning. I tried doing as he did, but still no luck.
Are pinks picky eaters???
Was that just my misfortune and had the wrong school of fish??
For those who have had days of 30+ fish, is it in the technique or were the fish just really, really aggressive and hungry??
Anyways, Im dissapointed, but Ill be back on friday. Cant let one bad day of fishing keep me down...
Any tips or advice is appreciated
tight lines
So, I moved to BC a few months ago. When I first arrived, the most important thing on my mind was fishing for salmon. I had no idea when I moved here that there were 5 species neither. That confused me a lot...in my mind, a salmon was a salmon was a salmon. So I joined this forum, and 2 others that I will not advertise for here. On all 3 of these forums, I was extremely excited to catch the pink salmon. Why? Because I was told by numerous people that they have had days of 30,40 even 60 catches in ONE day!!! I was like :happy: :happy: :thumbup:
However, today was my first trip to the indian arm for pinks. I arrived at 8 am, and left at 9pm. I caught a grand total of zero. Since my bro didnt catch any neither, that puts us at -1 in my books.
What did I do wrong?? When we arrived this morning, there were fish everywhere! Jumping left right and center, they took an hour off of their acrobatic routine from 2pm to 3pm but it was going full fledge afer than again. So I can imagine that someone can really have a good time catching these fish, I can even see how someone caught over 60 in a day, but what the hell did I do wrong????
I used the smallest pink buzz bomb.
For the first 5 hours, I was simply casting and retrieving. My retrieve was fairly fast because I saw other people doing that.
When the jumping stopped, I slowed my retrieve down. Still nothing.
Around 5pm, I saw these 2 guys (one in particular) that kept hooking into fish every 20 minutes or so. I saw him cast, let the buzz bomb sink to the bottom, then he'd lift his rod tip, retrieve the slack and back to the beginning. I tried doing as he did, but still no luck.
Are pinks picky eaters???
Was that just my misfortune and had the wrong school of fish??
For those who have had days of 30+ fish, is it in the technique or were the fish just really, really aggressive and hungry??
Anyways, Im dissapointed, but Ill be back on friday. Cant let one bad day of fishing keep me down...
Any tips or advice is appreciated
tight lines