He went yesterday and caught some nice fish. I'm sure he will post a report when he gets back from work. Nick has been doing really well for the past week or so with double digit days as the norm.

Here is a belated report for the Stamp... Water is running very high, but finally leveled off. The color was heavy green early Tuesday morning, but clearing significantly by the afternoon. On Friday, Nick fished the lower & hooked 8 chromers. On Saturday, he hooked 9 nice ones in the lower & Bladen hooked 10 in the upper from Black Rock down to the park. On Monday, Nick hooked 13 in the lower & Bladen got 4 in the upper. Here is a pic of some of the fish they got on Monday...





We headed out on Tuesday to find the water had come up & colored up somewhat from the last few days, but was still fishable. We hit the clay bank pool first & got into this guy...



Had him on for a few minutes & then he spit the hook. Fished the alligator run down to Lucky Star for awhile, but only got a few bites. Water is running pretty hard thru this section & the fish don't hold in the usual places, so you have to cover a lot of water to find them. Ran up to the rapids below the rifle range & hooked into this guy...




Hook popped out just as we went to net him. Drifted back down to the clay bank & things heated up....First cast & we hooked this one....



Small hatch, so we tossed him back. We hooked five more in almost the same part of the pool & lost every one of them just as quick. Couldn't even get the camera out for a pic Oh well, fish gotta win sometimes too Drifted down to the tailout & finally hooked one that stuck......



Nice buck around 7-8 lbs. We fished around a bit more from the clay bank down to the top of the island. Got a few bites, but none that hooked up. Ran down to the confluence & Sproat rapids, but didn't even get a bite. Water sure looked good in the Sproat, but we didn't see or hook anything. Pretty surprising considering how good the fishing has been there the last few years. Fish just don't seem to be hanging around there much this year
Most of the action was on bait again, with roe sacks with shrimp bits doing the best again. Shrimp tails hooked a few & coho & steelhead roe fooled a couple of others. Water is still a bit high for my liking, but with the dry weather we are supposed to get now & again after the weekend, the water should start dropping nicely. There are definitely still lots of fish around, you just have to cover a LOT of water to find them.

quiet

Quiet simply due to the heavy amount of sky-water since last Thursday. Yesterday she was right up in the bush again, and colored up pretty good (viz ~ 1.5'). New development at the Rifle Range: another clay bank did the nasty by dropping into the flow. Certainly made for extremely poor visibility below that!

Give it a day or three, methinks that good sized freshet most likely brought a few more home!

Cheers,
Nog

Headin' out with Nick in a few short hours...will report later.

Another good week on the Stamp. Nick & I fished Tuesday & today & hooked 17 fish for both days. Managed to land 10 with a few chromers still having sea lice on them. The water was very high & green on Tuesday, but looks to have dropped between 2-3 feet as of today & cleaned up very nicely. I would say conditions are almost perfect, just a little bit lower to allow a bit more shore access & the fishing should remain good for another couple of weeks at least. Still some nice size fish coming in...Nick's buddy got a 14lb hatchery on his birthday this week & we hit a few pushing the double digits, including an absolute hog that Nick hooked in the clay bank pool & eventually lost down by Lucky Star. That's a good half KM of river we chased that fish, but with the water as high as it was on Tuesday, playing every fish was a challenge. We got two good looks at the brute in the water & he definitely looked to be mid to upper teens for sure. We finally managed to find a place near shore to put the boat in & with one last big head shake, he was gone. Looked to be a big hatchery buck bar of chrome. Probably just in on the morning tide, hit the roe sack like a freight train & just took off across the river. Would have been nice to get that one in for a pic, but was not to be.
Roe sacks with a piece of shrimp in them were the bait of choice again, followed by steelhead roe & we even got a couple on shrimp sacks. The fish were pretty spread out in the high water with the clay bank pool being the hot spot on Tuesday & the Alligator run serving them up good today. We also saw a small school of chrome bullets swimming up through the shallows, but they were moving fast & we couldn't get them to bite. At least three of today's fish had sea lice on them, so that's a good sign the run isn't over yet. Here are a few pics from this week.....

Good report and pix SS. And I do agree, there are a few around...







Cheers,
Nog

Still lots of fish around. Hit 12 from shore the other day with SS, some colored but still a few chromers coming in.

Finally made some time for a trip to the river this morning, & it is definitely still worth fishing. We started in the lower at the clay bank pool & promptly hooked this guy.... a nice hatchery buck, bit colored up, but that is kinda the norm at this time of year.






Slide down river a 100 yards or so & we hook up with this one... another colored up buck...this time a wild one







Fished our way down through the alligator run to Lucky Star & hooked this nicely mended up little kelt.... skinny as a rail, but just inhaled the shrimp tail & fought like crazy.





Ran back up just below the rifle range, where we hooked two more nice clean fish that we lost at the boat. Not sure if they were chromers or mended kelts, nice & silver & not very big.








Fished back down to the clay bank & finally hook up with a beauty chromer.....this wild little guy was covered with sea lice & not very happy about being hooked.








We fished back down through the alligator run, the hippie shack & Lucky Star without a bite, so we decided to try the mossy tree for a few casts........first cast & bang!! this one hits....... these are the only two good pics I could get...we saw it jump clear of the water twice & it was another bar of chrome!! Right after I took the second pic, the leader broke & we never did get a good clean look at him.








Fished around there for a bit more & then decided to go & try the Sproat rapids for a bit. Spent a half hour or so there, had a couple of really good bites, but none hooked up. After a quick bite to eat, we decided to trailer the sled & head for the upper river. We pulled out at around noon & by just after 1:00, we were fishing up at Money's. We hooked a couple of darker fish on the far side of Money's & started heading down towards Black Rock. About a hundred yards or so below there, Nick hooked this beauty..... talk about a nicely mended up kelt, this one was definitely ready to head back to the ocean & get fattened up for this winter.





We fished our way down to Shannon's Creek, hooked a half a dozen or so darker fish along the way & then ran into this guy.....he looked pretty chrome, but we lost him right after I took this pic so I'm not sure what it was. Probably another nice mended kelt as there seemed to be a lot of them around.





We drifted down to the sandy beach pool where we hooked a couple of nice trout & lost one more steelhead after a very short fight. A quick check of the watch & it's quarter to three, so it's time to fly. Definitely nice to have that 140 Suzuki on the back so you can make good time back to the hatchery. I didn't take as many pics in the upper because of the miserable weather.....it was just pouring & blowing very hard....makes for tough picture taking conditions.

All in all, it was a pretty good day for April 2nd. Aside from the horrible weather conditions, there are definitely still quite a few fish throughout the entire river. The fresh sea licers are becoming more & more infrequent now, but they are still trickling in. I'll post some pics from last week that some of Nick's guests caught at the end of the thread. The water conditions were very nice, especially for the boat. The river has come up a LOT in the last few days & it has that nice green color in it. Shore access looked to be pretty much out of the question for now, although, I'm sure the Falls Pool is at the perfect height. Crowds have probably thinned out some too...we only saw two other boats on the whole river all day.

As for the gear, we used steelhead roe, roe sacks & shrimp tails in the lower...all worked about the same...no clear favorite in the bunch today. In the upper, almost anything worked. We got fish on three different shades of pink worms, spin'n'glos, jigs, & single plastic eggs tied in a pink mesh sack. The fish in the upper were very aggressive & you could see them sometimes chasing your gear when you were reeling in.

Here are the rest of those pics from last week......