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02/07/2016
Dolly Varden
All Day
02/07/2016
5
2570

Todays target: Bull Trout
Location: Squamish River
Fished from 7:30am-2:30pm
Method: swinging streamers w/ 6wt sink tip set up, and swinging spoons(bcsteel) on spinning rods.

So i met up with a local fisherman from bc early this morning, and we went to his favorite set of runs and pools. I wont share where this is of coarse. So the day started a little slow, the first pool produced nothing for me, but just as we were about to move on my friend set the hook on a nice fish, played it well, and got it to hand. He got this one swinging a gold/chartreuse 2/5oz spoon. After that we hit the next run to no avail and quickly move on again. At the next hole, i begin working the run with a matte white bc steel spoon. A few casts in, i set the hook and land a nice bull of roughly 20" or so, as we were getting ready to take a pic it popped off the hook and swam off, ohh well, plenty more where that came from. Sure enough, we both landed 2 fish in that run alone. We moved down to the next hole, and decided this was going to be a fly run, so we put our gear rods down and worked that run down to the tail out. After about 10 minutes we hooked up with doubles, his was a smaller 14" fish, which he quickly released, mine was a 20" fatty of a bull, snapped a pic and sent it on its way.. After another 15 minutes of whipping the run to a froth with our flies, we changed over to a spoon again. I landed another bull of 17"-18" on the spoon, this time it was a 2/5oz crimson/gold p-line spoon. I also had a bull follow and try to grab a spoon 3ft from my feet. After this we went back to the truck and drove to another pull off, and fished another 3 runs, which produced 3 more bulls for him, bringing our combined total to 11 bull trout for the day to hand, him 7 me 4. It was just awe inspiring how beautiful the land is here, pictures dont do it justice. A wonderful way to spend a febuary day.


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tleeMV
2/8/2016 10:51:00 AM
Nice work on the Bullies haha. Looks like good steelhead water too, any around? So are you starting to learn more about the waters up there now? Pretty cool that guy took you around to some of his spots!!
jonb
2/8/2016 11:10:00 AM
This system has 0 zero hatchery steel, but has a weak run of 600-800 natives if my understanding is correct, and apparantly they are starting to trickle in now. The bright side is this system sees very little pressure. Yes im starting to learn my way around pretty well now.
MotoBoat
2/8/2016 2:28:00 PM
Looking forward to reports for the hike in lakes up there. Something tells me the trout will be strong fighters, and large native fish. I have heard tales of the "Camloops" strain of trout up there! A strain of trout notorious for a strong battle on tackle.
jonb
2/8/2016 3:05:00 PM
There will certainly be more reports to come, including hike-in alpine lakes.
AJFishdude
2/8/2016 6:40:00 PM
Nice job John, looks like an awesome day.
jonb
2/8/2016 7:43:00 PM
Thanks mr. Fishdude
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