Thanks for the feedback. I'm a fan of Rodney's and I think he's promoting his sponsors in a genuine way. I don't make a living from KZfaq, so I don't need to do that. My KZfaq revenue pays for my Gopros, I go through at least one per year.

Fantastic!

Thank you for the very nice comment, much appreciated.

I always offer to net fish for people. It eats into my fishing time, but it's worth the effort. People assume I'm doing it to help them, but I do it for the fish :)

It isn't just the chinooks, I have elbow damage from construction work too. I'll try to cowboy up next time :)

Thanks for watching, I don't have a middle name, it's also a story of it's own.

Size is pretty much irrelevant. I just use whatever I find in the river. Too small and they're hard to open, so "medium" I guess. Don't need heavy gear for coho, but it's good to have something sturdy for chinooks and chum.

Glad you enjoyed it

Hello there!

This was filmed on a Monday late afternoon, so not many people around. lt pays to hike around, many hidden little gems on the Vedder. I don't mind fishing with people, as long as it's not very crowded, but I look for secluded spots to film these videos because it's very strange to do a monologue with people around.

I'm glad you were able to put my videos to good use. Many people don't have someone to teach them the proper ways and resort to snagging instead. I didn't catch a single coho my first year, maybe sometime soon you will be outfishing me.

Have a look at the video I made that explains the coho run timing. Yes, we're past the peak of the run and numbers are on the decline, but there are a few weeks of decent fishing left.

Salmon have tough skin and heavy slime coat, only the eyes are easily damaged by abrasion. Mesh type is less important than it is for trout. I use rubber nets and I don't touch the fish unless I have to, but any net is better than no net.

There is plenty of water to fish. Out near Mission you have the Stave and Chehalis. For me the Vedder is right next door, so that's where I go. The salmon season is over now and steelhead will start running soon. Many of hte lakes are stocked every year, check out Go Fish B.C. for the lists.

It's just part of the game. Some people have better reflexes than others, but with roe, you can also set the hook too quickly. Everybody has missed bites. Coho are challenging for many reasons, the soft bites are one of those reasons.

I don't even know what it is. Random net I found in the river a couple of years ago. It's not big enough for chinook, but great for coho. Canadian Tire has a good selection of nets, I like Lucky Strike, shallow bags work best on a river.

I agree, which is why I mentioned netting fish instead of beaching them. Working on something similar already, stay tuned.

Good afternoon!

Maybe read the regulations

There is an annual limit of 10 Chinooks and 10 hatchery steelhead. There is no annual limit for Coho, chum, or pink when they are open. You are allowed one daily limit of 4 salmon from all waters and open species combined, but if you are away on a trip you are allowed to have up to two daily limits caught on separate days. You are only allowed to process fish at your permanent residence, but how many you have in your freezer at home is up to you. Our Salmon limits are very generous in my opinion.

Thanks Peter. Yes @Jamestkirk-yz5ng I read the regulations but interpreting it can be different from one individual to another. Peter’s reply is much appreciated…

To be clear, you have to be ready to provide proof of an overnight stay if you have more than 4 salmon in your cooler in the car. If someone thinks that an officer can't tell one day old fish from 2 day old fish, they're in for a big surprise. I have an entire video just on regulations, but it's a few years old now, I'll re-do it for hte next season.

The whole point of this educational series was to try and steer people in a good direction. I don't expect to change those set in their ways, but new people on the river are always looking for solid advice. Yeah, I went by the lower river a couple of times and the amount of deliberate snagging I saw was appalling. It's not like that everywhere, was fishing with 15 people on a run this evening, not one float rip by anyone, just laughs and fish.

Your the G.O.A.T great video

I do have a couple of "catching" videos planned, I hope you don't mind too much. But yes those kind of video give people unrealistic expectations and put additional pressure on certain spots. I do my best to balance that against educational value.

So are you going to be mad at me when I post a catch'n cook? I agree that some of these videos do more harm than good and I do strive for a positive balance.

I'm not expecting to catch fish on that bead. I slide it up and out of the way when I'm fishing roe, then I put it back where it belongs to fish bead only. Sometimes I get a bite and the bead is 6" further down, that's when I know I missed a fish and might want to try beads only.

What you say is true for many people. The salmon they get from the river are much more expensive than store bought. On the other hand they were not harvested in gill nets by corporate fleets and it beats a day at the mall. My reality is a little different. I live 2 minutes form the river and often catch several fish before I lose a $1 hook. That's because I don't dredge the bottom. I end up fishing spots by myself about 30% of the time because I've learned to pull fish out of marginal spots where nobody else really wants to fish.

Why would you care how many fish I catch? Coho season is roughly 40 days long for me and I am well over 120 fish landed in an average year. About 1/2 the time I'm fishing in spots completely by myself and you're telling me there are too many people on the river. What we nee is more people with great fish handling and good etiquette, which is the entire point of my educational videos.

Go ahead keep getting your 120 fish a year. Like I care. Teach a 1000 people to do the same and fish the river out. I don't care. Do you care what I catch. Not a chance. I got 4 fish this year in a 160 hrs of fishing ...You fished 80 hrs a season and got a 120 lol ? So yeah keep at it. Empty the river. I have no issues with fish handling and etiquette. 20 coho annual quota is coming.

@@JamesTKirk-yz5ng I'm not sure you realize how ridiculous it is to blame people who catch lots of fish for your lack of success. Clearly there are lots of fish to be caught, drive up to the hatchery, there are about 30 000 coho up there beating themselves to death to get into the spawning channel. It's not like I have a special license to catch more fish than you, just more experience. Watch all the videos from this year and you might start catching more. Every little hint helps and my intent is to teach people not to snag and floss because they don't know how to do anything else.

The annual coho limit is something I can't wait to see in place for the province. WA state has an annual limit of hatchery coho.

I'm from a country where the salmon were wiped out at the start of the industrial revolutions, some 200 years ago. A big part of what I'm truing to do with my channel is to encourage conservation and proper fish handling. If we don't take care of these fisheries, they will indeed disappear.