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How do you do it?
Posted 10 July 2013, 5:58 pm NDT
Pulling Anchor to chase a big one.
(larger version)
Quite a lot of people ask me, "How do you post such high catch rates when you are only allowed to catch and release 4 fish a day?". The answer to that is quite simple. Our catch rates are hook stats. And in the prime time runs we can hook a lot of fish, but if you play hard with these Eagle River salmon, I can guarantee you it is easy to hook lots of fish but not so easy to land and release them!
I spent 1 1/2 hours fishing this morning from 6:20-7:50 at Jean's Pool. Hooked five fish, 4 grilse and one 9-10 lb salmon. I can tell you it was a busy hour and a half, a lot of fun, a tired arm, but I only got one of those fish to the point of catch or release. One maxi-grilse I fought hard for about 15 minutes, he jumped a good 9-10 times, and ran me out 20-30 yards into my backing 4-5 times. Only to lose him. They are so fresh and full of fight that it is simply easy to hook a dozen of them and only land one or two.
It is one of the beautiful things about the Lower Eagle. It's a place where we can have our fun, support the angling industry, and easily do it within the limits of the law. There is simply no need to handle these silver bullets fresh from the ocean when it seems they can do a pretty good job of handling themselves.
A great example. We had 5 anglers that chose to go on the water this morning for the 2 hours of fishing time before breakfast. In that short period of time there were 23 fish hooked. Out of that 23 only 6 were brought to the point of catch or release. And the smiles were wide and bright around the breakfast table!
Going to leave this entry with a picture left by one of our guests last week. In this photo Guide, Nelson Guy, has already pulled anchor to let back out of "Governor's" to give his guest a chance with the large 13-14 lb fresh salmon he was fighting!
I spent 1 1/2 hours fishing this morning from 6:20-7:50 at Jean's Pool. Hooked five fish, 4 grilse and one 9-10 lb salmon. I can tell you it was a busy hour and a half, a lot of fun, a tired arm, but I only got one of those fish to the point of catch or release. One maxi-grilse I fought hard for about 15 minutes, he jumped a good 9-10 times, and ran me out 20-30 yards into my backing 4-5 times. Only to lose him. They are so fresh and full of fight that it is simply easy to hook a dozen of them and only land one or two.
It is one of the beautiful things about the Lower Eagle. It's a place where we can have our fun, support the angling industry, and easily do it within the limits of the law. There is simply no need to handle these silver bullets fresh from the ocean when it seems they can do a pretty good job of handling themselves.
A great example. We had 5 anglers that chose to go on the water this morning for the 2 hours of fishing time before breakfast. In that short period of time there were 23 fish hooked. Out of that 23 only 6 were brought to the point of catch or release. And the smiles were wide and bright around the breakfast table!
Going to leave this entry with a picture left by one of our guests last week. In this photo Guide, Nelson Guy, has already pulled anchor to let back out of "Governor's" to give his guest a chance with the large 13-14 lb fresh salmon he was fighting!
