Salmon fishing 1926

[scott craven]

Cowichan bay monster...
must have been fun fishing back then.

 

[calmsea]

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Cowichan bay monster...
must have been fun fishing back then.

Cool but sad. Yeah, those would have been the times for humans to wake up and realize what natural treasures there were to preserve forever. Instead the greed went into overdrive and almost everything got ruined.

 

[Fisherman Rob]

How do you land a 60lber on a hand line?!!!

 

[Tips Up]

Awesome to read of 2 "Mrs" , out hand lining for big springs.
Love the old photos of well dressed fishers. No Jeans and Stanfields back then. LOL
That fish looks like it could have used some ice in the cooler. ; )

 

[adanac]

Cool but sad. Yeah, those would have been the times for humans to wake up and realize what natural treasures there were to preserve forever. Instead the greed went into overdrive and almost everything got ruined.

can’t we just appreciate a cool piece of local fishing history without getting into the politics of fishing these days , jeeze

 

[pescador]

Fishing in a skirt. Guys probably wore ties and tweed jackets. Can you imagine.

 

[islandboy]

How do you land a 60lber on a hand line?!!!

Family lore has my dad catching a 52#er on a hand-line out of a canoe in the Alberni canal.

 

[RiverBoy]

Family lore has my dad catching a 52#er on a hand-line out of a canoe in the Alberni canal.
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Sigh. the look on the little girls face. same look on my young boys face when i come home with fish. The Dad is super proud. neighbours come over to ooh and aah. those were good times

 

[Netanyahu]

Love Cow bay, grew up there rowing handlines, photo of my Mother with a bay fish from when she was 19. Oh and Bucky's in Duncan a dream store for a young farmer kid with some haying money to spend.

 

[Stizzla]

Love Cow bay, grew up there rowing handlines, photo of my Mother with a bay fish from when she was 19. Oh and Bucky's in Duncan a dream store for a young farmer kid with some haying money to spend.

Some amazing pics here! What a cool thread Scott.

Regarding this picture, I tried zooming in, but couldn’t tell if her MR3 had the ported back or not?

 

[scott craven]

Oak Bay 1907
a two hour family fishing trip

 

[Tydey]

Oak Bay 1907
a two hour family fishing trip

That is an unreal photo!

 

[scott craven]

No down riggers, or fish finder either !

 

[Tydey]

No down riggers, or fish finder either !

They were the fish finders

 

[wildmanyeah]

No down riggers, or fish finder either !

didn't need one because there were no seals around pushing the bait down 100 feet!

 

[Kildonan]

Family lore has my dad catching a 52#er on a hand-line out of a canoe in the Alberni canal.
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Funny, I was just about to add a very similar story. My dad and his brother landed a 50+ in Alberni Harbour from a row boat and a handline. It would have been around 1938-40ish.
They caught it on a Lake Tahoe spoon. I have one here in an old tackle box. It may be the exact spoon, but I don’t know for certain.

 

[John Ingram]

There is a story in the following book that relates to a couple of young lads that
were rowing across cordova bay back in the 1800. They dropped a line and picked
up an 80lb. spring. They had to hand line it to the shore and up on the beach.

If I can find the book I will post excerpt's from the story.

From Cordwood to Campus in Gordon Head 1852-1959 by Ursula Jupp

The biggest spring I have seen was in 1965.. (74lbs.) It was caught by my father
and one of his friends who fished Ucluelet. My father was asked by my younger brother
to bring a fish home as big as he was... My father showed up one morning with a large
wooden box which contained the 74lb. fish. We fed the neighborhood for month with
that fish. One steak was about 20 inches long and 16 inches fat.

 

[Totally unexpected]

My pops got a 54lber up Jervis inlet in the early 70's ill try and dig up the photo