First Rainbow Trout on Fly... now Pink Salmon... .

First Rainbow Trout on Fly... now Pink Salmon... .

These two BC salmon just made my Fathers Day... my first salmon caught on fly. I released a third around the same size. I'm using 8lb fluorocarbon as a leader, so a Spring I'd estimate at around 20lb monstered me in minutes. I watched him take the fly as it touched the water... and realised the likelihood of stopping him was slim... .*

My flycasting is still in its very, very early stages, but I've now managed to develop an amateurish sidecast roll... necessary as the forest comes right down to the river.  

Have I broken the drought? It's hard to tell... but a YouTube video I watched last night seems to have helped me set the hook.

* Gotta laugh. The missus helped me set the drag, in the bedroom, this morning. (She was the salmon.)  That Spring just blitzed off downstream... and the drag setting might just have been a little too high!


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Nice, I live the look of the

Mon, 2015-09-07 10:39

Nice, I live the look of the big humpback male Pinks.

Is a spring salmon the same as what we called silvers in Alaska?. 

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Date Joined: 18/03/12

Pinks and Springs

Mon, 2015-09-07 10:57

Silvers could well be Coho, but the Springs certainly are silver!  I'll know more about Springs once I land one. (That's now on The Bucket List!)  A few days ago I watched a school of Springs (may also be known as Chinook, I think) pass under a road bridge here.  Much bigger fish, they were using the deeper channel water, while a school of Pinks was closer to the bank.  

With _my_ casting, I was probably lucky to reach the channel, although the bank I'm fishing does drop off very sharply.  No-one else seems to want to fish this particular spot; probably because there's an underwater group of very large, albeit smooth boulders, rising almost to the surface, to negotiate if playing a large fish.  Had me a little worried today, I must admit!~

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Pretty fish, one I'd like to

Mon, 2015-09-07 18:13

Pretty fish, one I'd like to tick off the bucket list.