Salmon Fishing is about to get under way when the river opens up on July 1. This video is a quick report on the current conditions as well as my predictions for the coming salmon season.
Hi @petrhermanadventures9509, thanks for this update. I've purchased my non-tidal license for the first time in a decade. Watching your videos will help me understand the Vedder/Chilliwack River systems. Great knowledge and invaluable tips. Good luck this fishing season. Blessings.
Thank you for the kind comment, for sure there will be a few snorkeling vids coming up, but I haven't actually been in the river yet this year, just Cultus.
Thanks for your thoughts. Seems to be about what I'm thinking as well. Will really be interesting to see how many Pinks there are with the flooding events that occured. Hope we are surprised, but hard to believe after seeing how that river changed and totally went through the mixer.
I guess very little is known about how such floods affect the stocks. I would bet that naturally they always recover after a decade or two, which seems like a long time to us humans. Pinks are also good colonizers because they tend to stray a lot. Apparently they have colonized the arctic rivers pretty quickly now that it's warmer up there.
In the Vedder there are only rainbows and cutthroat. There are also coho smolts. We don't have brook or brown trout. Thanks for the comment, I appreciate the report.
I really enjoy your posts…. As an Ontario angler with our river trout and salmon fishery is generally a spring and fall experience, as we have hot summers and don’t have that cold mountain spring water cooling the water as much. Do you know the pinks were wiped out?, maybe they have an adaptation strategy for floods, just curious no idea myself.
Time will tell, the whole river changed course in many places, it really was a 100 year flood. I know for sure that one of the adaptation strategies for pinks is that they don't all return to their natal stream. About 5% wander to find new ground. This allows them to re-populate, but also only works on 100 year time spans.
Hi Petr, enjoying your posts all the time! Hope there will be more as we are officially in VEDDER season! :) Question for you! I am with 6 yrs old + 8 yrs old kiddo who absolutely love to fish @ Vedder. In fact, we were there on July 1st @ our usual location, Lickman Rd; very easy access and nothing too challenging for kids to approach the water. Kids learn how to catch trouts and let them go home safely. :) For some reason, however, Lickman Rd did not seem to have very good 'points / spots' for fishing this year. We ended up catching only a couple. Do you have any suggestion for family fishing location @ Vedder? Thank you! :)
I took my daughter out for trout a couple of times as well and we didn't catch anything over 6 inches. Some years a bigger percentage of the smolts migrate out. If you wander downstream from your normal spot about one kilometer, there are some nice runs to fish, almost at Hopedale road, but from the south side.
We're in the middle of the fall chinook run right now. I've landed 13 so far, and things will only get better for the next week or two. The peak of the chinook run is end of Sseptember, but some continue to come in till end of October.
Yeah, sorry, but no. Anglers do more for salmon conservation than any other group or people. Sure we kill some too, but the two things are not the opposite, they are the same.
