Sockeye season is here

[Brad "the butcher"]

I was able to finally get out on the Fraser river yesterday for some sockeye

Have not been able to fish any of the bars as they are nonexistent due to really high and fast water but got a call at 9:30pm sunday that my friend had someone drop out on him at the last minute. His 14.5 ft zodiak got us to a fishable section.

Up at 3 to be at the boat launch at 4:45 in the dark

Hard slow fishing due to water flow and native seine netting the day before until noon

We did get 2 nice sockeye each with them being in the 8 to 11 lb range (6.5hrs of casting!!!) and hoped for a spring but no go, saw a half dozen guys hook into some big chinook though, no pinks in the river yet but they have extended the sockeye until further notice so the commercial and native guys must have cleaned up already.

Anyone else been salmon fishing recently? I am going again today with him for the evening...want a big spring with my 2 sockeye again

Wish me luck

Brad

 

[Bruce Culberson]

Wish me luck

Good luck with the springs Brad!

I was out on Babine lake on Saturday and we fished for over 3 hours to get 4 sockeye. They were all 3-4lbs. On Sunday we fished for 1 1/2 hours and caught 8, 3lbs was the smallest and 7lbs was the biggest. I think the Fraser river sockeye are bigger than the Skeena river sockeye.

 

[Brad "the butcher"]

Bruce in a couple to 3 weeks the northern thompson and adams sockeye will be coming, last year 8 to 14 lbs were common, my buddy 2 weeks ago got one 14 plus and while he was fighting it everyone was saying its a spring and to chase it down river. His answer was this fish is coming IN and you can wait 10min......he looks like a retired heavyweight boxer, people don't argue.