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[BRvalley]

Charlie lake

nice, I fish there often myself

[.264winmag]

Nothing like a fresh hatch winter run fresh out the smoker! Nice steel 27oh

[twoSevenO]

Thanks! I only wish i could have pictures of the ones that came before smart phones
When i was in my student years all I had was a digital point and shoot camera. Those were expensive, so you kept that in a ziplock bag to protect it from water damage, so taking pictures of the ones you release was not really a thing. A lot of folks don't take field pics of their hunts or fish, but when a time comes in your life that you are no longer able to do it as much as you once could, you'll wish you had all those memories saved to reminisce. None of us are immune to life's challenges that get in the way of our hobbies; Kids, careers, injuries .... I'm not old. I'm 32, but i know that once I have a child my fishing will go from steelheading to local stocked trout ponds with the kid. lol.

[twoSevenO]

Wow man! You are quite the angler! Impressive. I've never understood the whole "flossing" technique and can't understand why it was made a legal practice... I've tried it once and it just didn't feel right. So I stopped using that technique altogether and haven't looked back.

It was a loophole in the system that simply never got corrected. Probably because sockeye fishing draws (used to?) large crowds who purchase angling licenses and salmon retention tags then never fish anything else all year? And probably because there is no other proven method by which to catch sockeye ethically. Not in the Fraser river at least. I haven't a real clue why they never banned this idiocy. EVERY fish that is flossed will have the hook on the outside of the mouth. It's ridiculously easy to tell. Having said that, i have participated in the sockeye fishery as well. In my late teens i would fish Ferry Island, Peg Leg or Herrling Island for sockeye and chinook using the flossing method. Probably from ages 15 to 18 or 19. Caught a lot of delicious fish doing it. Helped others fill their limits, too. But, I came to realize that the idea behind fishing is to trick a fish to bite. That the fundamental principle is to fool the fish or aggitate it into attacking your lure and that flossing them on their way to spawn was nowhere near that. I quit and never looked back. Did get some heat from my parents for no longer filling the freezer with sockeye lol.

Flossing for sockeye on the Fraser aside, they could have at least banned this technique on other rivers. THOUSANDS of people on the Vedder do nothing but floss for salmon. Some do it because they aren't capable of catching fish. Some are clueless and do it because they see others doing it, and some just don't give a sh*t. They'll flog 5 feet of water with 6ft of line between their float and weight and another 4ft between the weight and the hook, meanwhile standing in the river where fish would actually be swimming through if it wasn't for them being there.

I do feel sorry for the people getting into it but learning from the idiots around them and picking up their bad habits. I watched the shit show at Tamihi one year and asked a couple of guys who were very obviously new to it why they had their float set to 10 ft depth if they were fishing water that was clearly 4 ft deep. They both gave me a confused look and said "that's what everyone else is doing". I put a jig on, set my float depth to 3 and a half and in a few casts caught a chum that had the jig INSIDE its mouth. I showed them the difference and pointed out that they would also lose a lot less tackle before packing up and heading elsewhere. I wonder if they changed their ways

It's legal and you have the right to enjoy your chosen method of legal angling, but if you're running backwards to drag the fish onto the beach while yelling at your buddy "IS IT IN THE MOUTH? IS IT IN THE MOUTH?" you might want to rethink whether it should be called fishing lol

[.264winmag]

Haha ya the struggle was real for documenting not that long ago. I always lost more steelies than I landed, but managed to get a few pics of my biggest in the film roll days. Was just putting shoes on to leave and drop off film to get developed and buddies young son had picked up the roll and tugged on the end exposing the entire roll Bahahahahaha. Wouldn't have went 20 but high teens, nice fish for west coast van island.

[bloody bellies]

Biggest steelie I've seen, was on the vedder, it was around 1992-1994 , my memory is fading a bit. It was on the other side of peach, when the river path went straight through, I believe it was the guys first steelie and was caught around 11am in the headwater of the run, I believe it weighed in at 27.5, the guy took it to Fred's to get weighed in, what a fish. Miss those days.

[bloody bellies]

(And probably because there is no other proven method by which to catch sockeye ethically. Not in the Fraser river at least)
When the Fraser had sock openings around 1994 we used to fish Peg with floats, we had great success, these fish can be fished using floats, just takes a little more patience and correct depth, we used to fish the top area of peg, the slack water, you would see a hand full of guys and that was it. then came the flossing technique and guys wading out to their chest, I remember me and my buddies drifting our lines behind guys and catching fish and laughing our asses off, I don't really fish the Fraser anymore, to much BS, sad, because the Fraser is a great fishery and the scenery at time scan be amazing.

[twoSevenO]

(And probably because there is no other proven method by which to catch sockeye ethically. Not in the Fraser river at least)
When the Fraser had sock openings around 1994 we used to fish Peg with floats, we had great success, these fish can be fished using floats, just takes a little more patience and correct depth, we used to fish the top area of peg, the slack water, you would see a hand full of guys and that was it. then came the flossing technique and guys wading out to their chest, I remember me and my buddies drifting our lines behind guys and catching fish and laughing our asses off, I don't really fish the Fraser anymore, to much BS, sad, because the Fraser is a great fishery and the scenery at time scan be amazing.

Cool. I've heard of it but it was before my time. When I started fishing the flossing was well under way.

What did you guys use for bait? Sockeye are notorious non-biters. I have caught them in the vedder River before but never float fished for them on the fraser.

[twoSevenO]

Biggest steelie I've seen, was on the vedder, it was around 1992-1994 , my memory is fading a bit. It was on the other side of peach, when the river path went straight through, I believe it was the guys first steelie and was caught around 11am in the headwater of the run, I believe it weighed in at 27.5, the guy took it to Fred's to get weighed in, what a fish. Miss those days.

Does Fred's have a picture of it on the wall? I have never heard of a fish that big coming out of the vedder. Not even close in the years I've been fishing. It would be a shame if that was not documented with a photograph.

Hell, if I caught one that big I'd have it on the wall. But fish approaching 20lb are extremely rare these days. You get them on the Thompson but hardly ever on the vedder.

My biggest on the vedder was (by the estimate of those around me) 19 or 20. Wild fish and released. I don't have a picture of it.

Biggest hatchery is the one in those pictures I posted on the lawn with the dog. It was 16.5lb. Thats a 10lb Jack Russell for reference lol

[.264winmag]

The Skeena in the early 80's produced some monster steel! Iirc you could keep 10/year back then. My lucky sob brother got to bonk a 25# chrome bar. Old man lost one to a ceased up old coffee grinder reel, even with us kids pouring water on it to help cool it down as it took off upstream jumping 7 times. Straight to All Seasons Sports to outfit the entire family with Ambassadeurs HA.
Used to dink float fish fer socks in the Somass, funny though I had better luck with a bare hook Guys would argue over what color wool was working best, I've yet to confirm a sock biting in the river. Up in the great central lake they'd bite the same troll gear used in the salt chuck...