[nayhkilas]

I was not fishing, hovewer me and my wife went to Capilano hatchery for a walk. WOW, so many chinooks are waiting to be released, it's a "river of chinook" in those channels in the hatchery, also thousands for small coho in the glass pool. :thumbup: Anybody know where I can find information on release dates? Want to go there and say "have a good journey"

Walked around cable pool, and we counted school of around 27 steelhead in the pool, they were just standing in the middle, sometimes moving. Saw two guys trying to catch them, tossing lines right into school in front of school, watched them for about 20 minutes, but fish were not willing to bite. Hopefully they didn't. I think they are ready to spawn or already spawned. Leave them in peace. I am not sure how you can safely release steelhead if you pull them all way up to those rocks... It was a great evening.

 

[kingpin]

any bluebacks return to the hatchery yet?

 

[nayhkilas]

any bluebacks return to the hatchery yet?

I have not see any. Those glass pools where you can usually see returned fish are full of small coho. Do steelhead actualy return all the way to hatchery in Cap?

 

[Every Day]

Im pretty sure by bluebacks he meant small coho....

 

[hotrod]

There a few coho in the system but not many! If the river jumps up after todays rain they should start to roll in.I've always started to catch right i the second round of the playoffs.They usually run for three weeks followed,right away, by the summer run cohos which can get to 6-7 lbs. The cohos on this river will now run til mid November.By mid August early September the northerns will start to roll in too.

Steelhead do make it too the hatchery. If you want to find out about a release date hen just go n the hatchery and ask them about it , they are pretty good about giving info to the curious.


Hotrod

 

[testo84]

Im pretty sure by bluebacks he meant small coho....

what he meant by small coho is the realy small one not 6-7 lbs

 

[young gun]

ya the blue's should be there soon, if you run into a school of kelts coming down, dont keep fishing, move to some other spot, dont harrass them

 

[Chrome_13]

with this downpour there should be acouple moving up, and all thsoe stelehead should be washed down to the ocean to spawn again.

 

[hotrod]

I just got back from a looksie and the river is way up. A good foot and a half and it's still pouring rain. I'll be surprised if they don't start their run now! should run into a few late chrome steel too!


Hotrod

 

[ribolovac]

Lots of water,fished the lower river hard but nothing but lots of water,no sign of any fish coming in unless it happened early morning. :thumbup:

 

[nayhkilas]

Im pretty sure by bluebacks he meant small coho....

you are right, I mixed them up :happy:

 

[Chrome_13]

took a little stroll down to the cap saw some steelies in cable pool, saw one guy fishing it, down by higway pool i saw three guys there flingin roe and wool. No uck for any of them, the guy at cable pool said he caught a wild 6 pound steelhead that was a little old. Saw no coho in the ladder only two steelhead.

 

[kaitlyn]

You should have told the guy fishing to lay off. :

 

[Chrome_13]

I told him not to fish cause most of the steelhead are done , too tired and spawned.
but you know idiots at cable.

 

[kaitlyn]

I told him not to fish cause most of the steelhead are done , too tired and spawned.
but you know idiots at cable.

Yeah, but apparently it helps a steelhead's survival to be hooked, played, then dragged up the rocks. :

 

[Chrome_13]

Well people think that, for some reason they can snag spawning fish. But the lack of effoet from fisheries isn't helping. There is no people ever at the cap or ever most places i fish.

 

[young gun]

the steelies in cable get harassed but many of them just stage and spawn in the canyon and thankfully dont get pressured. Some pools u can see them rolling in the open tailouts. hopefully the coho will show up soon, cant wait to hook them on the spinning rod and jigs

 

[nayhkilas]

the steelies in cable get harassed but many of them just stage and spawn in the canyon and thankfully dont get pressured. Some pools u can see them rolling in the open tailouts. hopefully the coho will show up soon, cant wait to hook them on the spinning rod and jigs

what kind of jigs do you use for Coho if I may ask?

 

[kaitlyn]

Bentrod's orange and olive green ;D

 

[Rib]

Here I thought your best experiences were with the blue fox ogo...