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That and the note on the photo saying it’s an 11.5″ brown! 🙂
It would appear that browns can fly as well as brookies can.
You could drive to the end of the county road (and be off Hancock land) and then go cross country from there to Sunday Lk, but it would be a long haul and with a float tube? No thanks. To the Katrines et. al. I think folks used to go from the other side, but roads are gone or closed from that side also making them a multi day shot to get to. You may have seen the last of them.I was fine with continuing with planting those lakes as I could walk or bike into them and not need a permit. I will not support either of the clubs financing planting if the lakes are not really available to everyone. If Hancock wants to keep the lakes in production let them buy fish.
No planting means that after a few years the only lakes that have fish will be the ones that have spawning and tons of little cutts and eb’s. The few lakes that provide fishing for better fish (like Boundary) will see their populations die off and the folks who buy the permits to fish for the better fish on the farm will probably not come back. If you’re a Steve Regis, or Bill H, who love to catch 30 – 50 7″ cutts a day, you’ll be in heaven. I’m pissed because it cuts me out of picking cranberries that I can walk to easily from the county road.
ps – Did you see that they will allow overnight camping in designated places for $300 a year PLUS you still have to have the $225 permit to drive on the farm. $525 is a lot per person. Hunters will be able to stay on the property for several days and not have to drive home every night.I had the same thing happen with my bag and the valve. I used a thin coating of Seam Grip to glue it and it’s been fine since then.
Steve – Did you go from I-90 or short cut from the Kendalls? Jim Smith will be glad to know the catwalk is open. I ran into him Sunday morning at Tokul and he was wondering if the snow was gone so he could plant one of them.
Jim – If you go to gofishbc.com which is the official site for the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, you will find a link to fish plants by region and can break them down to species. So you can come up with a list in each region where they plant EB’s. From there you will have to figure out where the specific lakes are, sometimes that is pretty tricky, and also you have to be able to actually able to get in to them. They have a lot of lakes which are challenging, to say the least, to get into. I’m looking at the records for the Thompson-Nicola region (Kamloops area) and it has 20 lakes to be planted this year with the all female triploid EB’s which are all they use. Good hunting.
Here’s a shot of the biggest one I got this year. A little smaller than last year, but still a nice fish.
Actually I had to draw a small map for myself to find the place after the first time I got lost going in. So, Jacob, you turn right off I-90, unless you are going the other way in which case you should turn right and then left. Then go right and then left again, then a sharp left and a sharper right. Go SLOW for fear of your suspension. Don’t turn right through that spot, but go straight. Then about when it looks like you can’t, make a sharp right and go a ways and park. Wipe the sweat off your brow and say thanks for getting there in one piece. Fish your brains out. Go out in reverse fashion. Got it???? 😈
@Bob Martin wrote:
Excellent report Pete! I’m curious, have you ever timed your trips to catch those big Kamloops, like the ones in your photos, on the surface during the sedge or caddisfly hatch?
Bob, that happens just a little later than I’ve been up north. I’m considering going up a week later next year, but most probably I’ll be there at the same time. AFTER I retire there will be multiple trips including in the fall when the fish are much bigger….. excuse me, I’m hyperventilating. Really, I think the sedge hatch is much shorter in duration and might be harder to hit at a particular lake. I’ll learn more in the future.
@Mike Monsos wrote:
I did keep and eat a small brookie last year that was 14″ long and weighed 2.5 pounds
I don’t think I’d call that a small Brookie. 😯
Mike
Let me put it this way. It was the smallest one I caught that day.
Kathy – nice report. I fished it several years ago at both Nicholson Beach and Cow Pie Beach (the other end). The picture of me on the roster is one of the Lahontans I got then. Quite a few up to 26″. Mostly sight casting to cruisers along the beach. I camped in town at the fairgrounds. $10/night.
@Mark Harris wrote:
So those ‘bows were triploids? Did you eat any of them by chance? I’m just curious because the triploids that I’ve pulled out of Rufus Woods don’t taste the greatest because of large fat deposits in the meat. Is that pretty indicative of most triploids or just these ones?
Mark, I think large fat deposits are only indicative of a fish eating a very good diet. I know that the bios look at fat deposits as a marker of how well the lake can support fish growth. You don’t get fish of that size just because they are triploids. If they don’t have food they don’t grow large, period. Generally speaking, if a fish has lots of fat it tends to be better eating.
BTW, I didn’t eat any of the rainbow as they are too large and it would take me several days to eat one. I did talk to guys who did and they said they were excellent. I did keep and eat a small brookie last year that was 14″ long and weighed 2.5 pounds. It had huge amounts of fat and bbq’d up great. That one took me 2 days to eat!@Sandy McKean wrote:
Amazing how fish grow when there is something to eat!!
Pete, the photo of the new camper with the pop top down isn’t there that I could find. I’m very interested in seeing that.
P.S. I was hoping all those BIG fish you’ve caught over the years had something to do with your old blue pram…….I guess not 😆 😉
Well, it did really. If I’d not had the blue pram I wouldn’t have been able to get out to where the BIG fish were!
Rich – Yes, those rainbow are all-female- triploid Penaske kamloops rainbow.
Mark – I get an annual license which is $84 Canadian. Cheaper than individual days and I keep thinking that I’ll get back up sometime this year. Maybe a short shot in the fall.
