Define good. My definition is either never getting a second rod out, or every drop an immediate double header.
There's no crowds way out. And the fish are there. No need to be within 500 yards of anyone this past three weeks.Though I really enjoy being able to keep a fish, I actually enjoyed fish a lot in July when the crowds weren't out there but the fish were.
There's no crowds way out. And the fish are there. No need to be within 500 yards of anyone this past three weeks.
So is fishing really on fire this year or does it seem twice as good with limit cut in half to one per day?
Fishing is better. Even I catch fish now!
If the limit was double, we would have taken double the fish home yesterday as we had “cookie cutter” 20 pounders all day.
Yes then under your definition fishing in the mouth of the Fraser has been good. Look at the albion test fishery for the last few days shows why, There is a huge wall of Chinook out front the Fraser. Last 3 times over the last 10 days we were unable to get two rods down and it did not matter what lure was attached. Some guys played 20+ fish in an hour I choose to harvest my limit and leave. Not small too like the usual 12# lots of 17-30#, Big marbled fat and fat belly too.
The stock that out front is typically fished hard by all up and down the coast and makes up a big portion of the Area F troll Quota. This year the Fraser 4-1 (lower Shuswap) were not fished by most sectors in most areas.
I marked with an X all the fisheries that were close and not able to harvest them this year. JDF was closed for the first have of their migration window.
If you are not seeing great returns in Washington perhaps you should ask the Southeast Alaska Troll who's quota was upped this year.
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I have noticed this chart keeps popping up. As a JDF angler, what concerns me about it is that it covers an average of many years through a period of years when we have faced ever ongoing, cumulative, stacked restrictions which I think may distort the current reality . What I would like to see is charts for each years, particularly for 2017, 2018 and soon 2019 with its massive new restrictions.
I have not personally seen the data that you have asked for but from individuals I have talked to that have seen if for 2017 and 2018 it is vastly different.
Interesting hypothesis. So if one were to except the premise that the fishing seems twice as good with a reduction from 2 per day to 1 per day, does it follow that when it is cut from 1 to 0 per day, that it will seem 4 times as good?
I think some people will and do that any way!yeah agreed...this whole thread concerns me...
anyways i’ve said it somewhere on here before but i’m experiencing easily the best fishing in 35 years here in CR. the whole 1 a day thing is debatable as people are just papering up their kids and nephews and nieces and their homeless neighbors etc.