Nothing positive to report from the float.
Saw no Springs at all visually, a few socks who we got to bite a few times before they spooked.
Sanderson made contact with an unknown salmon briefly.
I switched to some spinners I'm testing from
www.rvrfshr.com (the best metalwork around).
Quickly I was rewarded with a HUGE squawfish, this fella could eat steelie smolts.
There was a lady swimming in the great spring pool, just above the train bridge, she saw no salmon at all, after repeated swims with the face mask.
The lower river seems very filled in, alot of once deep pools have become shallower and swifter.
The usual suspects were at the Lickman meathole, ripping away, one guy had a dead spring on parade. We floated by quickly to avoid being flossed :lol: .
My observations would be, that there is low numbers of springs in the lower river and not that many socks. Seems theres a good pod of socks in KWB and they are being targeted with unsavory techniques, very sad. The possibility that many springs shot up river is good, being that the water is seasonally high and the bottom end lacks the deep holes it once had.
I wish I could have fished mid river in the holes I favor for Chinook, but with a mangled ankle, floating the lower is my only option right now.
Guess I'll have to wait for the ankle to heal, then I'll get back out and give the Chinooks a good jigging over.
The jigs we use for Chinooks are simply the same as we use for steelies, but tied on 3/0 gammys. These are also what we use for the big steelies that travel up the Fraser in the fall.
Good luck out there and I hope you can find those fish.
