wildmanyeah
Crew Member
When I started fishing in the Fraser in the 1990’s I’d you had a boat you could easily find a bar to fish that had no one on it. You could launch at Kilby in peak season and there always a parking spot. When I stopped fishing the Fraser in the early 2000’s everyone had a boat, jet boats became popular and kilby was lined up out the campground. Every bar even the remote ones had tones of people fishing them.
Never fished in May, June that’s when I went to the interior and fished for trout.
I only bar fished for chinook a few times in the summer.
However if I look back on that time it’s pretty obvious that sockeye fever killed sports fishing. That became a cash cow for all the tackle shops and my nabours that did not fish bought boats and headed out to fish bars on the Fraser.
If I was one of the bar fishermen at that time I would of been pretty sick at what the river turned into to. That’s when my family bought an ocean boat and never went back to the river.
That’s of course leaving out all the stuff on the gilnet fishery and what it became but we have bought that up a lot.
Even if stocks recovered that may/June bar fishery will never come out. Fred’s would promote the **** out of it and 3000+ anglers would be out the next day. Not to mention everyone and their sister now has a jet boat to fish for sturg. How Fred is affording to open a new store in this environment is crazy.
I feel sorry for the bar fishermen they got screwed right over by sockeye.
Never fished in May, June that’s when I went to the interior and fished for trout.
I only bar fished for chinook a few times in the summer.
However if I look back on that time it’s pretty obvious that sockeye fever killed sports fishing. That became a cash cow for all the tackle shops and my nabours that did not fish bought boats and headed out to fish bars on the Fraser.
If I was one of the bar fishermen at that time I would of been pretty sick at what the river turned into to. That’s when my family bought an ocean boat and never went back to the river.
That’s of course leaving out all the stuff on the gilnet fishery and what it became but we have bought that up a lot.
Even if stocks recovered that may/June bar fishery will never come out. Fred’s would promote the **** out of it and 3000+ anglers would be out the next day. Not to mention everyone and their sister now has a jet boat to fish for sturg. How Fred is affording to open a new store in this environment is crazy.
I feel sorry for the bar fishermen they got screwed right over by sockeye.