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It's not just you but it's social media as a whole along with many other factors . You don't actually have to give every single detail sometimes but you are going paid so you need views. No one puts in that work anymore because there is a one stop shop from the couch with years of knowledge.
Hey Rod. I have been watching your videos for about a year now. I have to agree with you. You doing the teaching style videos definitely is a positive rather than a negative for your viewers. Not only does your audience see some fantastic fishing, but they generally have a chance to learn something as well. Keep up the good work!
Hey Rod, I saw you while fishing near Fisherman’s Corner this season, and I just wanted to say you’re a real class act. I’ve been following your channel for a while, and it’s helped me become a better and more respectful fisherman. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos and look forward to seeing more in the future!
Your videos are 100% not damaging to that system or any in the area for that matter. I’ve learned so much from your videos over the years. How to fish, etiquette, etc. if that river was full of fishermen with your attitude it would be much better. Problem with it now is it’s full of the types that shit on you. Keep up the good work 🍻
Watched & enjoyed your videos for years, thank you. I rarely comment but glad you don't pay attention to the trolls. No TH-cam channel is without them.
Thanks for all you do Rod! Been fishing the vedder since 2000 and it has always been busy. It’s not like every inch of this river has a person standing there and the river changes each year anyways. Only my observation but over the years I have seen some change on the river with Rod’s promotion of ethical fishing and his “short floating” videos from way back in time. Good thing you have thick skin Rod because I find the hate comments entertaining to read. So thanks for that. 😅
Thanks Justin! I think back int he early 2000s, pressure was higher and ethics were way poorer, then it progressively got better in the past twenty years. The last few years have gotten busier again for sure, and the promotion of good fishing practices will continue to hopefully make a difference. 😊
Hi Rod, I'm your loyal follower since 2004. Thanks to your website and later TH-cam channel I learned how to fish for salmon in BC and use fishing resources on the web. Me and my wife met you at Tunkwa lake quite a few years ago but never crossed our pass farther north at Sheridan. 😁 Keep doing what you do. Educate people about fishing and fishing etiquette at the river. Thanks again for great job.
Thank you for your videos. They always teach me something and your attitude towards conservation helps those who don’t yet understand. Keep up the great work.
There's always some assholes looking for someone or something to blame. I can't wait to run into ya on the river and thank you for helping make this season my best season ever 😊
Rod, I have learned so much from your videos along with the ones with Linda... have done all my fishing previously in the prairies on lakes so all the knowledge of this river fishing for salmon has been a great learning experience. If anyone bitches about anything you are doing, I am glad you ignore it because those people must be mentally damaged.
You have to love how Mother Earth works in near perfect harmony and provides all the species that supply the nutrients and a balance when not excessively abused by humans. Given time, and today with hatcheries and human intervention we can bring that balance back quicker. Always love your videos and the tips and tricks you share with us through your experience and knowledge. Looking forward to the Aussie drop. Salmon, especially wild, is an excellent source of heart healthy omega fat and protein. You tried buying wild Coho at your local grocer or fish monger, not farmed? Or Spring salmon? Balance and a respect for the health of environment is the key. Great to see so many wild stock!
Welcome back. Thanks again Rod for another great video. Always enjoy them. By chance do you know what weight fly rod and line type Linda was using. I'd like to try that one of these days. Thanks again
I fish down on the Oregon coast for salmon and steelhead, and like to see what gear you use, and how you use it. There's always guys who try to blame others when they dont catch anything.... I'm pretty sure it's not your fault. you're fishing in spots with someone every 10 feet up and down the bank, and still doing better than most. thanks for the good info.
10ft? It's not that intense here. :) While the Chilliwack/Vedder may get busy, there are plenty of locations and time of the year where you'd find nobody around like what you see in the first half of this video.
Thanks! The rod and reel setup I'm using in this video to cast those lures is shown and explained in this video: th-cam.com/video/by3jxiuHATM/w-d-xo.html
Great your reunion in Melbourne went well. Guess you have to get back to work now. Tough job….Ha! Ha! All the best, Carol, from Sydney, Australia oh, by the way, are chum and coho salmon any good to eat? And are you allowed to keep them, or is it all catch and release?
They're both excellent eating fish! I like to cold smoke my coho salmon. For chum salmon, as long as it is a fresh one, I sometimes retain them for fish and chips, chowder, hot smoked, etc.
Rod! Love your videos! Learn a lot from you. What do you do to avoid chums? I am trying to avoid them and target coho, but this year seems that doesn’t matter what I do, I catch several chum on a day in several spots and no coho 😓
It's tough when abundance of chum salmon is high like this year, but you just gotta look around and there are spots where coho salmon would get pushed out to. Stagnant, deeper holes tend to hold more coho, and you're also less likely to hook chum salmon by suspending the lure being retrieve in water that deep.
I used to think colored water meant the fish couldn't see your fly.Like glacial blue,or the green tint in your video.But I found that fishing is often good,with flows up and fish really moving in.This year I even caught a steelhead in cement colored water,which I thought was impossible. Even though the river is high, it looks good to me.
Coloured water definitely makes things harder, but not impossible. I've caught fish in the Tidal Fraser River where visibility is down to a couple of inches. 😊
Hi Rodney You say it's ridiculously cheap to fish in BC. Can only agree Here I pay 2 associations 15km water 275 +150 Can$ + 35Can$ national license for 6months. The fee for a day's fishing water with salmon costs between 50-100Can$ in many places in Europe.
Hey Rod I've been fishing the vedder and I'm kind of confused when you say that in the next few weeks we'll be fishing for nice chrome chum here?(I know this video is 2 weeks old) but just out yesterday fishing and all the chum seem to be on their last legs/they all seem to be dying off? So I'm confused by your statement saying that chum fishing will pickup in the next few weeks?
So generally throughout November, there is always a good abundance of chum salmon in the river. You'll find coloured fish that have been in the system for days, but everyday there are always fresh fish moving in with the tide from the Fraser River. If you fish in the lower section, you will encounter these fish. I find these super silver ones tend to emerge in the first week of November, and I catch them as late as mid December during some years. This year, being a fairly high abundant year, I suspect that we will see more fish coming through in the next few weeks.
Hey Rod. Trying to sign up as a new user for your forum. It says I need to verify my email but I have yet to receive the verification email. I've tried prompting it to re-send a couple times but still no dice. Any ideas? Oh, regarding hydrometric, is it usually better to fish just after the peak? I guess the higher water level means more fish come up from Fraser into the canal and river.
Hey Rod, I'm starting to try to lure fishing with spoons, and I noticed in your videos your drag is often loose. What are the benefits of leaving your drag loose rather than having it really tight? Is it a personal preference?
Yeah I often leave the drag slightly looser than it should. Coho salmon don't bulldog like chinook or chum salmon. They tend to shake their head, run toward you, run away from you, and those short bursts tend to be fast. My preference is to just have it a bit looser so it reacts faster to whatever they decide to do suddenly. Also, in this case, I was fishing in very shallow water, in perhaps 2'. If I had my drag set too tight, I might have ended up ripping the hook straight out of the water.
Here is the fishery notice for chum salmon fishing for Lower Fraser tributaries: www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=view_notice&DOC_ID=310385&ID=all
l'm from Europe, 160$ for basic licence, but way more control of licence/ bag and at you car... There are lot's honnest fishermen, but some think fishing is a supermarket..
Don't worry about people being crabby with pressure. It's better to have educated anglers enjoying the outdoors and promoting stewardship and creating more stakeholders for fisheries so we are all more accountable for protecting the ecosystems.
I was at the Cap cable pool, and that group snagged over 20 fish. They sit up high and cast pull reel in and drag the salmon up a 20 foot rock wall. A few got away, but what survived are damaged
Ultimately, whether you like it or not, these videos do indeed increase the amount of people on the river. Petr Herman pointed out that he sees more Prime Lures after you started promoting them. Similarly, the spots you go to will result in more anglers. Your intentions are not as important as the result here. Your bias, due to the money you make, however, is noteworthy. You seem like a good guy, so no hard feelings, but the way you suggest anglers should pay *more* to fish to combat you blowing up the spot, is some impressively backwards logic. Why the hell should the average angler pay more, while you financially benefit from popularizing the spot? Just plain dumb.
@@FishingwithRod Can't see your first response, but yes I strongly disagree with you. Simply put: the idea that you are being paid to popularize Prime Lures (and the rods you did in your sponsored videos) but are not popularizing the fishing spots at the same time is just plain wrong. You wouldn't be getting sponsor $ if your videos didn't bring attention to things. This includes spots.
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It's not just you but it's social media as a whole along with many other factors . You don't actually have to give every single detail sometimes but you are going paid so you need views. No one puts in that work anymore because there is a one stop shop from the couch with years of knowledge.
@@smmj45 Wait... So people can just watch these videos from the couch then go out and catch fish right away?! I gotta start charging everyone. 😆
Hey Rod. I have been watching your videos for about a year now. I have to agree with you. You doing the teaching style videos definitely is a positive rather than a negative for your viewers. Not only does your audience see some fantastic fishing, but they generally have a chance to learn something as well. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! 😊 It's always my goal to make sure people get something out of each video beside just being entertained.
Hey Rod, I saw you while fishing near Fisherman’s Corner this season, and I just wanted to say you’re a real class act. I’ve been following your channel for a while, and it’s helped me become a better and more respectful fisherman. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos and look forward to seeing more in the future!
Thanks! I've always had great positive interactions out there with everyone, love it. 😊
Nice to see so much positive support and recognition for what you do. The haters are just bitter and envious.
Thanks! Since I started doing this 25 years ago, positive feedbacks have always overwhelmed the negatives so I'm not that concerned. :)
This was a super fun watch! That first cast fish that seemed to pop off twice was so good
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Your videos are 100% not damaging to that system or any in the area for that matter. I’ve learned so much from your videos over the years. How to fish, etiquette, etc. if that river was full of fishermen with your attitude it would be much better. Problem with it now is it’s full of the types that shit on you. Keep up the good work 🍻
Thank you! 😊
Watched & enjoyed your videos for years, thank you. I rarely comment but glad you don't pay attention to the trolls. No TH-cam channel is without them.
Yep! Thank you! 😊
Thank you Rod for all you content, support and instructional videos!
Thanks for the support!
Thanks for all you do Rod! Been fishing the vedder since 2000 and it has always been busy. It’s not like every inch of this river has a person standing there and the river changes each year anyways. Only my observation but over the years I have seen some change on the river with Rod’s promotion of ethical fishing and his “short floating” videos from way back in time.
Good thing you have thick skin Rod because I find the hate comments entertaining to read. So thanks for that. 😅
Thanks Justin! I think back int he early 2000s, pressure was higher and ethics were way poorer, then it progressively got better in the past twenty years. The last few years have gotten busier again for sure, and the promotion of good fishing practices will continue to hopefully make a difference. 😊
Absolutely love those first cast bites! They usually scare me and give me an adrenaline rush 😂
Hi Rod, I'm your loyal follower since 2004. Thanks to your website and later TH-cam channel I learned how to fish for salmon in BC and use fishing resources on the web. Me and my wife met you at Tunkwa lake quite a few years ago but never crossed our pass farther north at Sheridan. 😁 Keep doing what you do. Educate people about fishing and fishing etiquette at the river. Thanks again for great job.
20 years! Thanks for following along the journey. 😊
Thank you for your videos. They always teach me something and your attitude towards conservation helps those who don’t yet understand. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching!
There's always some assholes looking for someone or something to blame. I can't wait to run into ya on the river and thank you for helping make this season my best season ever 😊
Thanks! 😊
NIce to see you back Rod, Coho weekend coming for me so I hope to see you there...
Good luck out there! 😊
You the man rod..keep doin what do bro cuz its good for everyone..stay safe and fish on
Thanks, I appreciate the support! 😊
Yeah 👍 first cast!!
Thanks Rod. You definitely inspire me to fish more often 😂 thanks
Glad to hear it! 😊
Glad to have you back.
Thank you! 😊
I watched some of your tip videos and thanks for the help I am on the island helped me catch 7 kings so far and 1 coho 😊
Awesome! Keep it up. 😊
Loving the educational videos rod!!! Keep it up and don't listen to the haters!
Thanks! 😊
Rod, I have learned so much from your videos along with the ones with Linda... have done all my fishing previously in the prairies on lakes so all the knowledge of this river fishing for salmon has been a great learning experience. If anyone bitches about anything you are doing, I am glad you ignore it because those people must be mentally damaged.
Thank you! 😊
You have to love how Mother Earth works in near perfect harmony and provides all the species that supply the nutrients and a balance when not excessively abused by humans. Given time, and today with hatcheries and human intervention we can bring that balance back quicker.
Always love your videos and the tips and tricks you share with us through your experience and knowledge. Looking forward to the Aussie drop.
Salmon, especially wild, is an excellent source of heart healthy omega fat and protein. You tried buying wild Coho at your local grocer or fish monger, not farmed? Or Spring salmon? Balance and a respect for the health of environment is the key.
Great to see so many wild stock!
Thanks for watching! 😊
Anglers around me are float fishing, fly fishing.....I throw spoons, BANG! Salmon, trout, Steelhead.....😊.
Thanks Rod.
Welcome back. Thanks again Rod for another great video. Always enjoy them. By chance do you know what weight fly rod and line type Linda was using. I'd like to try that one of these days. Thanks again
That's a 8wt. It's a sink tip, I just don't remember the type. Pretty typical one for fishing in moderate flow and sloughs for coho.
@@FishingwithRod thanks
I fish down on the Oregon coast for salmon and steelhead, and like to see what gear you use, and how you use it. There's always guys who try to blame others when they dont catch anything....
I'm pretty sure it's not your fault. you're fishing in spots with someone every 10 feet up and down the bank, and still doing better than most. thanks for the good info.
10ft? It's not that intense here. :) While the Chilliwack/Vedder may get busy, there are plenty of locations and time of the year where you'd find nobody around like what you see in the first half of this video.
First like haha Also, I look forward to the day I run into ya on the river rod! Tight lines
Enjoy all your videos! For fishing 2/5 oz and 5/8 oz spoons, what rod power/action do you recommend?
Thanks! The rod and reel setup I'm using in this video to cast those lures is shown and explained in this video: th-cam.com/video/by3jxiuHATM/w-d-xo.html
@@FishingwithRod thank you Rod.
Great your reunion in Melbourne went well. Guess you have to get back to work now. Tough job….Ha! Ha! All the best, Carol, from Sydney, Australia oh, by the way, are chum and coho salmon any good to eat? And are you allowed to keep them, or is it all catch and release?
They're both excellent eating fish! I like to cold smoke my coho salmon. For chum salmon, as long as it is a fresh one, I sometimes retain them for fish and chips, chowder, hot smoked, etc.
I wanna go fishing with Rod
Rod! Love your videos! Learn a lot from you. What do you do to avoid chums? I am trying to avoid them and target coho, but this year seems that doesn’t matter what I do, I catch several chum on a day in several spots and no coho 😓
It's tough when abundance of chum salmon is high like this year, but you just gotta look around and there are spots where coho salmon would get pushed out to. Stagnant, deeper holes tend to hold more coho, and you're also less likely to hook chum salmon by suspending the lure being retrieve in water that deep.
I used to think colored water meant the fish couldn't see your fly.Like glacial blue,or the green tint in your video.But I found that fishing is often good,with flows up and fish really moving in.This year I even caught a steelhead in cement colored water,which I thought was impossible. Even though the river is high, it looks good to me.
Coloured water definitely makes things harder, but not impossible. I've caught fish in the Tidal Fraser River where visibility is down to a couple of inches. 😊
October 22 is my birthday, I always try to go and catch a chum!
At least you can get in the water. The silt in my river was quicksand.
I caught so many fish this year that I’m switching to fly fishing 🎣
Awesome! 😊
Hi Rodney
You say it's ridiculously cheap to fish in BC.
Can only agree
Here I pay 2 associations 15km water 275 +150 Can$ + 35Can$ national license for 6months.
The fee for a day's fishing water with salmon costs between 50-100Can$ in many places in Europe.
2024 is the worst season I have ever experienced on the vedder in 10 seasons of fishing. What has changed.... I'm putting in the same hours?
Do you ever add weights for when you're casting a spinner just to get it down to the right depth?
I don't add weights to any of my lures.
When you're running a spinner how long of a leader do you usually run off of your main braid?
I usually have about 4 to 6 feet of fluorocarbon leader from the braided main.
Hey Rod I've been fishing the vedder and I'm kind of confused when you say that in the next few weeks we'll be fishing for nice chrome chum here?(I know this video is 2 weeks old) but just out yesterday fishing and all the chum seem to be on their last legs/they all seem to be dying off? So I'm confused by your statement saying that chum fishing will pickup in the next few weeks?
So generally throughout November, there is always a good abundance of chum salmon in the river. You'll find coloured fish that have been in the system for days, but everyday there are always fresh fish moving in with the tide from the Fraser River. If you fish in the lower section, you will encounter these fish. I find these super silver ones tend to emerge in the first week of November, and I catch them as late as mid December during some years. This year, being a fairly high abundant year, I suspect that we will see more fish coming through in the next few weeks.
Hey Rod. Trying to sign up as a new user for your forum. It says I need to verify my email but I have yet to receive the verification email. I've tried prompting it to re-send a couple times but still no dice. Any ideas?
Oh, regarding hydrometric, is it usually better to fish just after the peak? I guess the higher water level means more fish come up from Fraser into the canal and river.
Hey Rod, I'm starting to try to lure fishing with spoons, and I noticed in your videos your drag is often loose. What are the benefits of leaving your drag loose rather than having it really tight? Is it a personal preference?
Yeah I often leave the drag slightly looser than it should. Coho salmon don't bulldog like chinook or chum salmon. They tend to shake their head, run toward you, run away from you, and those short bursts tend to be fast. My preference is to just have it a bit looser so it reacts faster to whatever they decide to do suddenly. Also, in this case, I was fishing in very shallow water, in perhaps 2'. If I had my drag set too tight, I might have ended up ripping the hook straight out of the water.
@ oh ok I’ll try fishing with a loosen drag cuz I normally have mine very tight. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Rod, Where can i find udates on Chum fishing regulations? do you know if you can go for them in November yet?
Chum is open tomorrow Saturday the 26th 2 per day. You cN check dfo site to verify
Here is the fishery notice for chum salmon fishing for Lower Fraser tributaries:
www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fns-sap/index-eng.cfm?pg=view_notice&DOC_ID=310385&ID=all
Is it possible to share where you fished in the video?
No.
How can someone hate what you do Rod? You should be natural resources minister in Fed GOV.
Dont fret the trollers. Soon they will be complaining about the volume of air you use.. Fish on !!!
Thanks! 😊
l'm from Europe, 160$ for basic licence, but way more control of licence/ bag and at you car... There are lot's honnest fishermen, but some think fishing is a supermarket..
Hey. Come on, Rod. There's nothing wrong with being high and dirty. Don't river-shame.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for another educational video. Now get your butt outta bed and be down at the river at first light😜🎣
Don't worry about people being crabby with pressure. It's better to have educated anglers enjoying the outdoors and promoting stewardship and creating more stakeholders for fisheries so we are all more accountable for protecting the ecosystems.
When you mention about "haters" they are just jelous.
Hehe, nothing to be jealous about really. We all create our own life path, and mine have plenty of challenges beside the rewards too. :) Thanks!
Don’t forget the Natives netting the F out of the rivers and not reporting quota correctly.
I was at the Cap cable pool, and that group snagged over 20 fish. They sit up high and cast pull reel in and drag the salmon up a 20 foot rock wall. A few got away, but what survived are damaged
@@antmas3507 that’s awful. It’s only time till the cracking down happens and it gets ruined for everyone.
Ultimately, whether you like it or not, these videos do indeed increase the amount of people on the river. Petr Herman pointed out that he sees more Prime Lures after you started promoting them. Similarly, the spots you go to will result in more anglers. Your intentions are not as important as the result here. Your bias, due to the money you make, however, is noteworthy. You seem like a good guy, so no hard feelings, but the way you suggest anglers should pay *more* to fish to combat you blowing up the spot, is some impressively backwards logic. Why the hell should the average angler pay more, while you financially benefit from popularizing the spot? Just plain dumb.
Sounds like you disagree with me. 😆
@@FishingwithRod Can't see your first response, but yes I strongly disagree with you. Simply put: the idea that you are being paid to popularize Prime Lures (and the rods you did in your sponsored videos) but are not popularizing the fishing spots at the same time is just plain wrong. You wouldn't be getting sponsor $ if your videos didn't bring attention to things. This includes spots.
That’s just ridiculous, I have a lot more sponsors than the lures and rods. 😉
Well, disagree all you want, that’s ok too.