I kept my eye on the river levels last night and noticed that the squamish was coming down rather quickly so I took a chance and spent the day at the river today. I got there at around 10am and there were around ten cars parked there already. As I walked down to the river you can see how high the river came theres a few dead chums in the bush I'm sure. There were quite a few people there for midweek but there was enough room for all. I started fishing with a big bead head chartreuse woolly bugger and about ten cast's in I'm into a nice battle with a fresh chum got it close to the beach and pop a couple of twist and rolls and the fly comes out that’s okay cause a couple of cast's later same thing a big aggressive take followed by some nice acrobatics and good fight to the beach and once again some rolls and twists and pop but this time the fly stays with the chum :? . So this scenario lasted a couple of hours until I can finally land one on the beach where it gets the bonk. Out I went again but this time I switched to a big cone head purple woolly bugger and I couldn't keep them off. All takes were big and in the mouth, this was good cause when these fish a foul hooked it takes forever to bring them in but if you get them right in the beak they seem to come in quite quickly. Anyways I fished until 5:00pm that’s when I got spooled by the biggest fish of the day this fish hit hard and ran fast before I knew it I was into my backing and my finger got a nice cut and then pop my line snapped right off. I looked around for a while to see if I could see the line swimming around and maybe try an salvage it but no such luck. So if you catch a chum with a fly line and a purple woolly bugger hanging out of its mouth I want my line back :lol: . So today was a great day and I think I will be going up tommorow as well. These fish are great when there fresh they fight like mad.
thanks
Bead Head
thanks
Bead Head