blacktail buck swims across vedder river

[twoSevenO]

Saw this a couple of years ago while fishing for steelhead in February and thought it was a pretty cool experience. Thought maybe others would enjoy it in between all the politics talk
Unfortunately, he had dropped his head gear by then. Sorry! lol

https://i.imgur.com/tcVCWFB.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tOEInbw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/sjk8Jyn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TQDpWml.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/xDNwbPI.jpg

[twoSevenO]

https://i.imgur.com/cZ4cYws.jpg

[dougan]

Jeez those are some swift currents as well !. Thanks for posting very cool pics.

[whitlers]

Thats pretty cool. No way I would try that haha

[Ajsawden]

He's got places to be! Awesome to see it, even more awesome to capture on 'film'!

[twoSevenO]

Jeez those are some swift currents as well !. Thanks for posting very cool pics.

Unbelievable how easy he made it look. It was a swift current indeed. I thought he'd end up 50 yards downstream. Nope. Not even close.

[Big Lew]

Those are great pictures! Thanks for sharing them. Blacktail are great swimmers.
I've seen them swimming across the Upper Stave River and had a 3 pt almost tip my
canoe over while he swam past me in the Lower Stave while I was also crossing from
the island to the east shore below the dam.

[hawk-i]

I've seen them 5 miles from shore on the ocean.

[Ride Red]

Used to Sturgeon fish many years ago below Emory Creek on the Fraser. We've seen a few times where blacktail would swim across from the point to the other side. Those banks are steep, but they made it look easy.

[BRvalley]

deer are strong swimmers!!

I was bar fishing, finishing setting up camp and next thing I know rod bent in half and drag peeling, spool almost half emptied in 3 seconds...thought I hooked a monster until I looked a good 150+ yards down river and saw a mulie doe....free spooled her until she crossed and then broke her off, hook pulled straight...then she hung around feeding a while longer, sadly she was one of my fishing highlights this summer lol

[finaddict]

Have watched a few deer swim across the Port Moody inlet between Barnet marine Park and Admiralty Point park ove rthe years. They are surprisingly good swimmers.

[ryanonthevedder]

Damn it! That was photoshpped.... I maintain that there are no deer in that valley... or steelhead for that matter!

[MichelD]

I was up on northern Vancouver Island a few years ago now and went to this lake that I used to cross with my dad when I first started hunting as a kid. My first deer was a 4x5 blacktail in October 1970 there.

Anyway, went for a visit up there one day around 2008 just to look at the lake and saw two things there I'd never seen in the years 1968 to 1976 I hunted there; a flock of Canada geese on the lake and a buck swimming across.

[twoSevenO]

Damn it! That was photoshpped.... I maintain that there are no deer in that valley... or steelhead for that matter!

There's both ... Sadly in decreasing numbers on both fronts :(