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Have made a couple trips. Last trip, no springs, and only saw a few sockeye caught.
My uncle was up on thursday, they had 4 springs on and only boated one. He said he saw a couple socks caught, and they were pretty small.
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Too bad none of them are mine!!Just some pics of some recent Vedder springs I pulled off of local boards
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You tease!!!
What boards?
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I don't question Coho's skills or ethics...just not sure about the good lookin part. 
I have the looks of a 
gonna be a gob of humpies in there too--sore arms eh
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Workin 4(and anybody else) here are some local boards to check out... B.C.Fishing Reports ; Fishing with Rod ; Screaming Reels ; Fish B.C.; D.F.O ;Recreational sockeye remains closed on the Fraser.Next notoice to be released on Fri. Aug 5 To finish on a good note here is a pic of a fish I DID catch  A 7#-8# Chehalis summer run I stumbled upon two weeks ago.  p.s..It only took me almost 2 hours(after my 16yr daughter gave me a quick copy & paste lesson) to get the links posted so they would work!!!
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Oh now you've done it. You've posted pics to one of my favorite spots on the Chehalis. I'm surprised the water's as high as that.
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fishhog
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All the sites Spoonman posted are excellent sites. I'll add one more for good Vedder and Fraser reports. www.freds-bc.com
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nice picture spoon
another site http://www.berrysbait.com./
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Nice pics
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W4F, What's the latest on the Sock opener. I thought information would be out on the 5th. Any word yet...
Looking for the info...
If there is an opener, who's all going up?? FJ, DR, Junkie, anyone else...
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The waiting is the hardest part.
If it doesn't open we are thinking about an October trip on the Vedder. Floats and sparce wool eh!
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Closed for Commercial, closed for recreational, open of course for the First Nations poachers. Hey, after all, they've 'only' taken 31000 so far, and the runs are considered extremely late. Or at least, that's all they report having netted. Bycatches are not reported of recorded, but of course, they never take anything but their targetted species right?
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Bycatches.......Now theres another major issue never argued.... 
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Yep, still closed next update on Mon Aug 8.
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Any word Spoon? I may still go this weekend--hope to hook some springs or sturg--is the river clearing up?
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Coho, I went up this last weekend as kind of a scouting trip. I launched (barely) at Herrling island and ran around the north tip and camped on a bar about halfway down on the main channel side. 1 spring (about #25) 2 sox and a pink landed in about 12 hours total of fishing time. First Nations had their nets out everywhere. Water is dropping fast (about 8 inches overnight) and has about a foot or so of vis.
Pretty slow salmon fishing overall, but I couldn't get over the amount of sturgeon I saw surfacing in the area. I graphed the bar just upstream from me and it dropped from 6' to about 35' pretty quickly and the current was a bit slower. Many salmon rolling in here (pinks I think in the slack water) and the sturge were in there too. I wish I would have brought sturge gear with me, but I don't have the right kind of anchor system to hold in anything more than about 10' of water up there. Right at dusk, and all night the springs were rolling in the area. I think the bar I was fishing may have been a bit too deep for effective bottom bouncing. Man! it was about 90 degrees and hardly any wind. Kinda miserable when there isn't much shade around. Luckily too, no one broke into my truck!
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4Salt, unless I'm mistaken, and I usually am, I think you were 'violating the injunction' by fishing in that area at anchor this last wknd.
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So 4salt- can you refresh me where Herling Island is--that sounds like a better -less crowded area--is the run too far if I launch at I22?
Try casting or trolling some mag warts with those fish rolling--I trolled mag warts below vedder and had 4 fish hit /I missed--one thumb burner. Michael Jackson was the hot plug
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check GIJO's for the anchor set up --they got the hook and ball---also Holiday in Burlington has them
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Only if I would have been fishing out of my boat Workin'. The injunction as I understand it was intended to prevent anchored sport boats from interfering with FN drift netting. Bank fishing (what I did) is OK.
Coho, I thought of all that but I left my plug box at home, I just had my BB stuff. It wasn't a real fishing trip for me... more of a campout look see with my girlfriend.
Herrling is about 15 miles upstream of Island 22. WAY too far to run from there. Keep going east on HWY 1 past Rosedale / Bridal falls and you'll see a sign for the Herrling island exit. It's a left lane exit and as soon as you're off the Hwy, turn left onto Herrling island rd. follow it to the end (1/2 mile or so) and you're at the launch. My boat is a 14' Smokercraft with a prop, that's why it was a bit difficult for me to get to the main river. If you've got a pump, it'll be a lot easier.
There were lots of sport boats running up and down the river but no one was camped anywhere near me. It's worth checking out of you want some solitude, but if it opens for sox retention this week I don't know how much of that you'll get. I think fishing might be better downstream (Island 22 area) but I'll probably go back and fish up there again. Maybe in a couple of weeks, and I'll have a good anchor and some plugs and big spinners. Good luck
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See? Toldja I was wrong.
I missed that you were banking it. My bad. I'll go smack into a wall now.
<Hey, that's fun! I'm gonna do it again. I may have a new hobby>
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Sox still closed for sporties.Next update on Fri. Aug 12.The temp injunction(should expire today)was only enforceable during the D.F.O. sanctioned drift-net opening on Sat. Native fishers had R.C.M.P. escort to clear the drift of any anchored boats.Have not heard any recent news of the continuing court proceedings/further temp or permanent injunctions,or further drift-net openings
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The Fraser River Panel met today, August 9th to review assessment data on
Fraser River sockeye salmon. The abundance of returning Summer Run Fraser
sockeye continues to be substantially lower than expected for this time period.
Based upon pre-season expectations the maximum daily Fraser River Summer run
sockeye migration was forecasted to occur through the marine assessment areas
around August 8th. However, the daily migrations of Fraser River sockeye
continue to track far below expectations through both Juan de Fuca and
Johnstone Straits. It is possible that the timing of the Summer run stock
group is late, however, the continued apparent weakness to Summer Run to date
is causing concern that the return will be substantially less than forecast
levels.
Migration conditions for sockeye in the Fraser River continue to be favourable.
Discharge levels in the Fraser River (at Hope) measured August 9th is 3,200
cms, which is slightly below average levels of 3,400 cms. A water temperature
at Qualark Creek is 18.6 degrees Celsius and is forecasted to increase to about
19.3 degrees Celsius by Aug. 11 before dropping down to 18.6 degrees Celsius by
Aug. 18.
First Nations
It is expected that First Nations targeting Fraser River sockeye fisheries in
Area 29 and the Fraser River will continue this week, an update will be
provided on Friday August 12th following the next Fraser River Panel meeting.
Recreational
Sockeye retention remains closed in the Fraser River. Opportunities for the
commencement of Fraser River sockeye retention will be reviewed and an update
will be provided on Friday August 12th.
Commercial
Remains closed. Opportunities for the commencement of any assessment or
commercial fisheries will be reviewed and an update will be provided on Friday
August 12th.
The next update will be Friday PM, August 12th following the next Fraser River
Panel meeting.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Contact Paul Ryall at (604)666-0115
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And yet the netting continues. Is there no concern for the resource? I'm not getting it.
BTW...what is the price of fish at those roadside fishmarkets? I bet the tourists just eat that up.
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Of course there's concern, just not from the openly criminal organization known as the Sto:Lo council. The Cheam band is the most visible. I guess if you don't think the law applies to you, you can somehow justify breaking it openly.
Who illegally buys this illegal catch?
Tourists, restaraunts, fund-raising BBQ's, small grocery outlets, large grocery outlets, you name it.
"OH, but it's so much better than that farmed salmon..."
Anyone here knows how much the price is? I don't wanna know how they know.
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FJ,
Let me know when you guys are plannin' on going up to the Vedder in October. I'll put you guys on to some #40 springs eh!   
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You let me know when your going and I'll plan around it. 
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I only live 45 minutes from the Vedder. Let me know when you guys are planning a trip.
White kings  but fun to catch.
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