Sockeye Recreational Opening Fraser/Thompson

[Salty]

First set of the year last night there was a FN opening here not sure how well they're doing yet. They're clocking 40,000 fish a day passing at the Big Bar slide though, that's good not great but its early. Personally I don't GAF if there's a flossing opening this year or not. We caught some in 2018, meh, not my cup of tea.

[Harvest the Land]

No nets out? LOL There has been 50+ openings on endangered Chinook this spring alone. Now with sockeye open for the FN everything is getting mopped up.
The last two weeks the river has been choked with nets. DFO let the Adams run get completely netted out in 2018. Fact there was maybe 2-300k that actually made it back to the Adams that year and that is from one of the bios I fish with.

The Fraser needs a break....time to stop all parties from fishing on any stock within the river.

The article about not allowing too many sockeye to come back is complete bullshit. Any time you have excess fish on the spawning grounds they move to new areas within the watersheds they spawn in.
2010 had Adams sockeye spawning in creeks in the lake that had never had spawning activity documented.

I love how people are saying high water is holding them back lofl

CommunalOpeningTimes.pdf (dfo-mpo.gc.ca)
CommunalOpeningTimes.pdf (dfo-mpo.gc.ca)
CeremonialOpeningTimes.pdf (dfo-mpo.gc.ca)
CeremonialOpeningTimes_Previous.pdf (dfo-mpo.gc.ca)

Great post. Haven't fished the Fraser since 2017/2018. Fall coho was my passion for 15+ years - I dropped everything for it. Always carried rods in my truck for before and after work if I could make it. It has been tremendously painful to see the collapse of the Fraser and it has hurt even more to have not fished my honey hole (that's 15 mins from my house) for 4-5 years now.

Pretty amazing how shortsighted some of the FN bands and some of our fellow outdoorsmen are. And I really hope that Big Bar wasn't the nail in the coffin