Skeena
Aug 15, 2017 18:07:24 GMT -8
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Post by ravenbc on Aug 15, 2017 18:07:24 GMT -8
Been up in Terrace visiting with family since Friday. I got out on the River both Sunday and Monday. Went out with my Friend Robert, who had just bought a Jet boat 2 weeks ago. When I spoke with him on the phone a week ago he had told me he had bought a raft and when I got up here was expecting to see a drift boat not a Jet boat.
Sunday there were 3 of us that went fishing, myself, Robert, and Carl. Carl is a fishing guide of a heli lodge up in the Nass Valley in Sept and Oct. and had a great time fishing with Robert with 50 yrs of Skeena experience and Carl with 4 yrs on the Skeena and 20yrs as a guide. I learnt a ton fishing with these guys on a river that has always stumped me in a few solo attempts and one disastrous trip with my blind father in law about 5 yrs ago. Landed my first Skeena fish within the first hour which was a big female pink(sorry no pic). It was our groups only fish of the morning. In The afternoon we found a couple of great runs and Bob was able to land a small 6lb Doe steelhead and Carl got a big male pink. I had a couple of nice grabs from what I suspect was a Steelhead and had a really good fish break of a fly on 16lb leader.
Monday was just Robert and I on the water and again we had trouble finding any Steelhead. I caught a big male pink and had plenty of grabs in the morning but no other hook ups.
Just after lunch we moved up river and found a nice run with a little more speed, but had some frog water just above the run. Robert started into the top of the run so while I waited for my turn made a few casts into the frog water and thought I found bottom or a snag and ended up into a huge Northern Coho had a great fight with him but ended up losing him at the beach. Right after i lost that fish Robert got into another Coho and he lost it after it wrapped him around a branch. We fished the fast water seem for over an hour with not even a sniff.
After that we tried a couple of runs and it had really slowed down but I had one more solid grab by a possible steelhead or coho, but came off after a quick tail walk.
To end the day we decided to fish one more run and watched all the guide boats pack up a head back to the boat launch, we took about 5 more cast each and started to pack up to leave. The boat had been running great the whole 2 days but decided to start then immediately stall repeatedly. We spent the next 1.5 trying to trouble shoot the issue and thinking about the wet and cold night we were about to spend on the River (no cell service) when we finally heard a boat coming down the River. We're able to flag him down and after securing the boat to the River got a ride back to the truck. If any of you guys are in the market for a Jet boat check out the Outlaw Tomcat(rescue boat), owner was a guy from the US that comes up for a couple months to hang out and fish, and man is that boat awesome.
Finally got home to a worried wife around 8pm and was wiped.
Sunday there were 3 of us that went fishing, myself, Robert, and Carl. Carl is a fishing guide of a heli lodge up in the Nass Valley in Sept and Oct. and had a great time fishing with Robert with 50 yrs of Skeena experience and Carl with 4 yrs on the Skeena and 20yrs as a guide. I learnt a ton fishing with these guys on a river that has always stumped me in a few solo attempts and one disastrous trip with my blind father in law about 5 yrs ago. Landed my first Skeena fish within the first hour which was a big female pink(sorry no pic). It was our groups only fish of the morning. In The afternoon we found a couple of great runs and Bob was able to land a small 6lb Doe steelhead and Carl got a big male pink. I had a couple of nice grabs from what I suspect was a Steelhead and had a really good fish break of a fly on 16lb leader.
Monday was just Robert and I on the water and again we had trouble finding any Steelhead. I caught a big male pink and had plenty of grabs in the morning but no other hook ups.
Just after lunch we moved up river and found a nice run with a little more speed, but had some frog water just above the run. Robert started into the top of the run so while I waited for my turn made a few casts into the frog water and thought I found bottom or a snag and ended up into a huge Northern Coho had a great fight with him but ended up losing him at the beach. Right after i lost that fish Robert got into another Coho and he lost it after it wrapped him around a branch. We fished the fast water seem for over an hour with not even a sniff.
After that we tried a couple of runs and it had really slowed down but I had one more solid grab by a possible steelhead or coho, but came off after a quick tail walk.
To end the day we decided to fish one more run and watched all the guide boats pack up a head back to the boat launch, we took about 5 more cast each and started to pack up to leave. The boat had been running great the whole 2 days but decided to start then immediately stall repeatedly. We spent the next 1.5 trying to trouble shoot the issue and thinking about the wet and cold night we were about to spend on the River (no cell service) when we finally heard a boat coming down the River. We're able to flag him down and after securing the boat to the River got a ride back to the truck. If any of you guys are in the market for a Jet boat check out the Outlaw Tomcat(rescue boat), owner was a guy from the US that comes up for a couple months to hang out and fish, and man is that boat awesome.
Finally got home to a worried wife around 8pm and was wiped.
