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Chinook fishing is Peaking and Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island Rivers re-open on Sept. 14, 2015.

9/13/2015

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DFO has re-0pened most of the tributary rivers in the lower mainland (region 2) and Vancouver Island (Region 1) .  In the Lower Mainland, only the Seymour river remains closed and on Vancouver Island, the Cowichan remains closed.  If you have any specific questions regarding openings/closings you should go to the DFO web site.  

Chinook fishing is peaking in Burrard Inlet and the Banana at the mouth of the Fraser.  Guides are reporting great days on the water with one saying "This has been the best Chinook Fishing in 10 years!".  The runs measured at Mission shows a good peak starting at the beginning of September.  These are good Red Springs and soon to be followed by the massive White Springs headed for the Vedder and Harrison Rivers.                      
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Sockeye numbers as still tracking very low, so there will be no opening for sport fisherman or for First Nation Food and ceremonial fishing.  Pinks continue to enter the Fraser River and the daily numbers past the Mission counting station vary from highs of 600,000 per day down to about 117,000 per day.  The coming forecast of cooler wetter days later this week bodes well for bringing fresh fish into the tributary rivers such as the Vedder and Chehalis and Harrison systems.
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Of sadder not is the recent toll the legal and illegal gill net fishery and the sport fishery has been taking on sturgeon.  Recent posts of people catching and mishandling of sturgeon has prompted the B.C. Ministry of Environment Sturgeon conservation program to send out an e-mail to all guides warning of the problems.  They even posted photos of the offending actions.  Remember, keep the sturgeon in the water, make sure there is enough to allow the gills to breath, never lift large sturgeon (over five feet in length) out of the water or beach them so that their belly's flatten on the bottom.  Take the photos quickly and then release them!  For more information see the BCMOE Sturgeon Handling Guidelines or the B.C. sturgeon Society Video or go to the page on this web site.   Otherwise, have a great day and some good fishing!
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