Early Red Chinook Salmon: Vedder Underwater

I got the date and month wrong, LOL. Video was take July 8. Lots of neat fishy action to see, chinook, sockeye, trout, rocky mountain whitefish. It felt great to be back in the river again after a long break.

[@darrengolding4083]

Another amazing video Petr thanks for sharing it .

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@RohanForest]

Awesome video Petr, Thanks for sharing!

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Many thanks!

[@kenkitsul8076]

Hi. Love the underwater fish episodes! More please! K

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

I'll try. I get too wrapped up with coho fishing to film underwater, but I caught too many last year, so I might cut back a bit this year.

[@alvindouglas-perez48]

Thanks for sharing Peter

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

You are very welcome

[@Majigk]

It's a yearly video that I look forward to. The red springs are awesome.

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Thank you for the kind comment.

[@whitesalmon0925]

Love the yearly lh red chinook video!

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Thanks, I'll do another one in a couple of weeks when there are more fish.

[@whitesalmon0925]

@@petrhermanadventures9509 yes plz!

[@Lettermail]

Good video as usual.

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Thanks Chris. Haven't heard much from you lately, we must be fishing different parts of the river.

[@keithl7422]

Nice video! Which location did you take those videos ? Canal ?

[@MrFLUFFYtheMEXICAN]

Yeah you can see the Keith Wilson bridge in the background

[@alexharris9714]

Lmao this is the top by the hatchery. It is past the boundary to where you can fish.

[@allancrow134]

Been a while Petr. Those are awesome fish. We call them Stubbies in the Strait. No retention until Aug 1, 80cm max, 2/day marked or unmarked. The DFO is trying to protect the early-run upper river fish. I find it very interesting they did this transplant in the Vedder. :)

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

I don't think it would fly nowadays, introducing completely foreign genetics on a river just to create a fishery. But it's been working for a long time and these are very interesting fish.

[@allancrow134]

@@petrhermanadventures9509 I don't mind a bit of salmon enhancement here and there. Have you seen the KZbin videos of the Chinook Salmon that have colonized the entire southern coast of Chile and Argentina? It's amazing. It all started with 20,000 Cowlitz River hatchery smolts transplanted into a small river in southern Chile about 40 years ago. Check this out, KZbin is full of these videos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGStZ6uEnKujhdE

[@graysonfishy]

Do you think you whould have good ods of getting one in the boundry hole around that time of year

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

It's above the fishing boundary. Reds are hard to catch because there are rarely many of them. Lat year there might have been a thousand total, maybe less.

[@alexharris9714]

If one is to fish in strong rapids like that would you want basically a 12 inch leader?

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

It's probably best not to even try. Yes, short leader 35 gram float with a 30 gram egg weight are the way to go. The problem is that the current rips your presentation through the fish and foul hooking is the likely outcome.

[@justinmicks799]

Pretty cool. Wear is this you are?

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Chilliwack River, British Columbia.

[@fishwomanyvr]

a month away....

[@Dracula6789]

I’ll assume you mean July 9th rather than June 9th?

[@petrhermanadventures9509]

Yes, I got date and month wrong. It was July 8.

[@Dracula6789]

@@petrhermanadventures9509 haha I figured, just making sure. Thanks Petr!