FISHIN’ POLE

Dry weather hurts

DROUGHT conditions
continue.

By GEORGE NOSKY

Water restrictions imposed.
Forest fires threaten logging
areas. Streams down to a
trickle as salmon wait to
spawn ...

No, this is not a flashback
to July. This is the unseasonal
dry period we are having now,
mid-October 1985.

This drought being ex-
perienced around south coast
British Columbia is turning
our lush Vancouver Island in-
to a desert. According to the
weather office in Victoria this
is the longest spell of dry
weather since records were
kept in 1943,

1 know the weather has been
beautiful but we certainly need
rain,

The reports you have read
about salmon spawning
systems in trouble due to lack
of water can bring disaster to
some of the S.E.P. and hat-
chery programs.

The big problem in water
systems such as the Capilano,
Stamp, Nanaimo and
Cowichan is that industrial
and people use takes priority
over salmon. I won't argue the
pros and cons but there has to
be a better way to insure that
the salmon reach the
hatcheries or natural spawning
beds.

We have had dry fall
weather for the past few years
and we must prepare for these
conditions in future. The
salmon runs are too precious
in the whole B.C. economy to
lose.

At this time you may angle
for salmon in the Capilano
and keep a total of four
salmon per day. Two of the
aggregate catch may be Coho
over fifty centimetres and Jack
Chinook or Coho to your total
of four. No Chinook over fif-
ty centimetres may be return-
ed. Any hooked must be
released unharmed.

For the anglers waiting to
catch the big Chinook that are
usually caught in the Stamp
River-those heavy-weights are
finally moving into the upper
reaches of the river and are
cooperating with anglers toss-
ing cured roe and weighted
spinners.

This week the Money’s Pool
area gave up many Chinook
over twenty-five pounds in-
cluding one that we weighed at
a whopping forty-five pounds.
In this Island stream, which of

cuurse leads into the Robert-
son Creek Hatchery, you may
keep four salmon per day with
two being Chinook and Coho
over fifty centimetres. As well
as salmon you may retain two
hatchery stealhead per day.
With the river full of Coho,
Chinook, Jacks and Steelhead
limits are not uncommon.
Although we need rain our
Istand lakes are producing
great catches of trout. These
lakes give up trout up to nine
pounds throughout the fall

and winter. With light rods,
light line and single salmon
eges, cured row or dew worms
you can't match the action,

We fish at the estuaries of
the creeks that enter these
lakes usually after the rains
have swollen these creeks but
the inactive summer due to hot
closed woods conditions have
the trout snapping at hooks
now.

You will find the same con-
ditions in your lower mainland
lakes but because of the

population pressure not as
many trout.

Coho and feeder Chinook
(winter springs) still abundant
throughcut the Gulf. All we
need is calmer wind
conditions,

Tides and bite times...

BITE-TIMES
(Major bite-tines are in bold face,
minor bite-times in It. face)

DAY TIMES FEET BITES
We 12:0,am 10.9 2:00 am
" 8:01 am 4.5 7:55 am

3:56 pm 13.7 2:05 pm
fO:01 pm 10.0 8:20 pm

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Th 2:02am 10.8 = 2:40am Mo 12:11 am 4.5 5:40 pm
10 9:01 am 4.40 8:45 am 14 6:36am 13,7) 11:50 am
4:26pm = 13.9 2:55 pin 12:16 pm 6.9 6:00 pm
10:26 9.0 9:10 pm 6:16pm 14,3

Fr Wad 3:25 am Tues = 12:51 am 3:0 12:50 am
uw 4.5 9:30am 15 73) am = 14.2 6:30 am
14.000 3:40 pm 1:06 pm 8.1 12:50 pm
ih:0lpm 7.6.8 99:55 pm 6:46 pm 14.4 7:00 pm
We itl am 1.9 4:20 am
Sa, 43bam 12.2 4:10am 16 8:abam = 14.5 7:30 am
iP 10:46 ain 5.0 10:15 am 1:56 pm 9.4 1:50 pm
$2) pm 14.1 4:25 pm 7Tllpm = 14.3 8:05 pm

42:31 pm 6.1 1:40 pm

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Su $:36am = 13.0 4:55am is Monday at
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