[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
I would kill to drift a woolly bugger through the run in that last pic right now. I haven’t seen sunny skies and green foliage in several months now.
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AAwww yes pretty lucky here, year round fishing!
Most of these remote river have areas to fly fish but we also drift with light gear.
Fav’s are rubber pink worms, gooey bobs, spin-n-glo’s, coorkies, etc…
We have bait ban’s and barbless single hooks on all island rivers.
Here is a pic, of my own tied flybox’s, as I head off in my dirftboat in hunt of winter steelhead
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
This is a pic from two weeks ago from about the same spot…it sucks lol.
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AAhh yes I see snow for only a few days max here.
On Southern end were in the “banana belt” so year round rivers, lakes and ocean!
Quick sales pitch haha
Vancouver Island boasts British Columbia’s highest concentration of Steelhead Rivers, and has Year-Round Trout Fishing for Browns, Rainbows, and Cutthroats in our Rivers and Lakes. Massive Fall Salmon runs of 5 Pacific Salmon species will fill our rivers and make your arms Ache!
Incredible Saltwater Angling for 5 species of Salmon with Trophy Chinook (Kings) and Coho (Silvers) along with Monster Halibut and Ling Cod are abundant Year Round!
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
This is a pic from two weeks ago from about the same spot…it sucks lol.
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hahaha! Actually, as I found out last year, when the air temp is 5 or 10 deg. Fahrenheit, 45-50 degree water is relatively warm!
Me and my one buddy took a little trip last year at about this time when the fishing jones got the best of us. It went pretty good. I landed a few rainbows that were taking little stone fly nymphs. The only real problem was when we got out of the water our boots turned to big clunky chunks of ice.
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
This is a pic from two weeks ago from about the same spot…it sucks lol.
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AAhh yes I see snow for only a few days max here.
On Southern end were in the “banana belt” so year round rivers, lakes and ocean!
Quick sales pitch haha
Vancouver Island boasts British Columbia’s highest concentration of Steelhead Rivers, and has Year-Round Trout Fishing for Browns, Rainbows, and Cutthroats in our Rivers and Lakes. Massive Fall Salmon runs of 5 Pacific Salmon species will fill our rivers and make your arms Ache!
Incredible Saltwater Angling for 5 species of Salmon with Trophy Chinook (Kings) and Coho (Silvers) along with Monster Halibut and Ling Cod are abundant Year Round!
Something like over 250 rivers holding fish
That’s a fine run, what’s your target fishery?[/quote]
I mostly fish in Goderich, Ontario. My pics are all from the Maitland river. Average Rainbow would be 3-7 lbs and some up to ten or eleven. Salmon are rare now.
In the summer I can go downrigging in the morning for Bows and Pickeral, come back to the campsite, eat, get drunk, spin up a gagger then walk down to the river(same spot in pic) and catch huge Bass. It’s not B.C. but thats ok.
I would kill to go to B.C. on a fishing trip but it’s so fucking expensive to travel in Canada. I can got to Cuba all expenses paid for less than a grand easy. The air fare alone would cost me that much to go to Vancouver.
I mostly fish in Goderich, Ontario. My pics are all from the Maitland river. Average Rainbow would be 3-7 lbs and some up to ten or eleven. Salmon are rare now.
In the summer I can go downrigging in the morning for Bows and Pickeral, come back to the campsite, eat, get drunk, spin up a gagger then walk down to the river(same spot in pic) and catch huge Bass. It’s not B.C. but thats ok.
I would kill to go to B.C. on a fishing trip but it’s so fucking expensive to travel in Canada. I can got to Cuba all expenses paid for less than a grand easy. The air fare alone would cost me that much to go to Vancouver.
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Yes, hahaha that sounds like a good summer time.
Love big Bows!
I’ve been to Cuba twice, some sweet fisheries there, heavy ocean gear Marlin and fly fishing in bays for mostly bonefish. Bones are sic running rockets!
Save some money, watch for a flight deal, well worth it
I was three for four today! Never had any early season luck untill today. Froze me arse off though. The pic is the smallest of the Bows we caught, bout 2.5 pounds, three years old, spawn bags as usual.
Needed a net with an extension handle because of the steel wall we fished from. I was lucky on my last one, thought it was a hit(it was) got hung up and thought I lost him(didn’t) then had him hung up on the snowbank that hangs over the shoreline. Managed to get him in though.
Behold two hundred (50 per person limit) perch in three hours.
Fast as you could put a minnow on and get it down to the bottom you caught a fish. I’ve never caught perch this large this consistantly, it was unreal. One guy I was fishing with had a three hook rig on and just kept getting triples all morning lol.
Great Lakes are lousy with all species of fish right now, plankton, bait fish, all the way up the food chain to the large predator fish. Salmon are way down though.
The down side to catching that many fish is the cleaning and filleting.
Three fucking hours to clean one hundred and fifty fish. It was a chore but worth it. When it was all said and done all those perch when filleted and de-skinned weighed in at twenty eight pounds of meat which is what you see in this pic.
