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    Cowican River

    can someone please help me understand the regs? Where if anywhere at this time of year can i fish the Cowician River with spin casting gear. (I don't fly fish) and how and where do I access it.

    thanks for the help

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    Re: Cowican River

    Oct 21 - Nov 15 everything above and including most of Marie Canyon is flyfishing only. Marie canyon is the few km below Skutz falls. You can fish however you want from Stoltz campground downstream. Another popular access is the trailhead at Holt Crk., near the Cowichan rifle range on the South side of the river just up from Duncan.

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    Re: Cowican River

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike26 View Post
    can someone please help me understand the regs? Where if anywhere at this time of year can i fish the Cowician River with spin casting gear. (I don't fly fish) and how and where do I access it.

    thanks for the help
    You can't.

    http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish/reg...1/region1.html

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    Re: Cowican River

    Yep you can not fish the Cow with anything but a fly right now.

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    Re: Cowican River

    I stand corrected. Glad someone's reading more carefully. I was just thinking it was a part of the canyon, where the fish stack-up but I'm wrong.

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    Re: Cowican River

    You have to watch that river, it has some pretty wicked regulation shifts now.
    66mi trestle up fly only from Aug 1th to Nov 15th.

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    Re: Cowican River

    just put a fly on the end of your spinning rod

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    Re: Cowican River

    Quote Originally Posted by spreerider View Post
    just put a fly on the end of your spinning rod

    With no weight on it that may be hard to cast.
    as soon as you add weight you go back to jail

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