What time of year was this. My dad and I looked at this pool. Were you fishing the downside part of the pool?Below the bridge? There were no fish last year when we were there and no water.
@redbutbearhair This is such a great pool with easy access. In 1984 I arrived at the pool just as an American was leaving, stat ing that there were no fish there. Well, as luck would have it, on my first few casts, I hooked into a monster. Had no net, but the American dude had a tailer and although it snapped when he tried to help, he was able to scoop my 35 lb fish onto the shore! My favourite pool by far. Also my buddy Rick caught a 30 lb fish a couple years prior.
yes the Heppell pool.great pool to fish but it sometimes get quite crowded and then John Doe shows up with a 14'ft spay rod..........great.
it really does get in the way at that area for other fishermen.
being a local from just up the river i now do my fishing either up river behind the mill or right at the fork in Causapscal whenever there is openning, where the two rivers meet.
30 lb came out of there last summer as well by no one else but the the cook from the St-Jacques Restaurant.
the pools name is Heppel, the river is very wadable. even in high water there are plenty of pools you can still fish. hyw. 132 runs along the entire river and there a paking spots at almost every pool, which are numbered and are maked on a map the zec office will give you. enjoy
we fish all top water here,they love to rise...my vid i shot couple days ago shows several rise for dry and wet flys..we actualy hitch the fly on the same side headof the fly just behind the eye(hook pointed down river) as the bank your standing on and cast downriver 45 degre angle to make it skim the surface making a v ...they love it and will hit it much more than the wet technique used elsewhere my vids called.. atlantic salmon action rise to the fly you might enjoy it...Nice vid by the way
19 pounds more like it.
tyeecon 1 month ago
Doesn't look like 30 to me!!
tyeecon 1 month ago
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ANOTHER JIGGER ON THE MATAPEDIA RIVER.
VERY BAD FISHER.THE FISH WAS SNAGGED ON THE DORSAL FIN.LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER.
anathemaoblivion 4 months ago
Too bad the salmon was foul hooked. It would have been even better.
I would love to have shown my readers but you had to go and start swearing.
flyfishingnb 4 months ago
THAT FISH WAS SNAGGED ON THE DORSAL FIN! LOSER!!!!!!
pjwquan 6 months ago
yeah baby...........that is the Heppell pool............right there by the covered bridge.
was living just down the road to next pool Matalik for 15 years.great river great fishing.
flymancanada 8 months ago
@flymancanada Hey flyman, I must have met you there some time in the past. I fished there every summer for 10 years from 1970 on
tyeecon 1 month ago
What time of year was this. My dad and I looked at this pool. Were you fishing the downside part of the pool?Below the bridge? There were no fish last year when we were there and no water.
redbutbearhair 1 year ago
@redbutbearhair This is such a great pool with easy access. In 1984 I arrived at the pool just as an American was leaving, stat ing that there were no fish there. Well, as luck would have it, on my first few casts, I hooked into a monster. Had no net, but the American dude had a tailer and although it snapped when he tried to help, he was able to scoop my 35 lb fish onto the shore! My favourite pool by far. Also my buddy Rick caught a 30 lb fish a couple years prior.
tyeecon 1 month ago
I would stabbed it in the head, took it home filleted it and ate it
yum
T3hPwnageBAM 1 year ago
green machine,shrimp fly,bombers,and gray ghost works for me.
flyman0701 1 year ago
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yes the Heppell pool.great pool to fish but it sometimes get quite crowded and then John Doe shows up with a 14'ft spay rod..........great.
it really does get in the way at that area for other fishermen.
being a local from just up the river i now do my fishing either up river behind the mill or right at the fork in Causapscal whenever there is openning, where the two rivers meet.
30 lb came out of there last summer as well by no one else but the the cook from the St-Jacques Restaurant.
flyman0701 1 year ago
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flyman0701 1 year ago
With wich fly u got this fish?
winSx3 1 year ago
Nice to see her released. Last time up there fishing Heppel i watched a Hen of 17 or 18lb killed and bagged!!!
5 years now since i've been to matapedia and Heppel looks to have filled in on the right bank
123miller69 3 years ago
What pool on the Matapedia? From what I have seen of the river wading is near impossible.
redgreenmachine 3 years ago
the pools name is Heppel, the river is very wadable. even in high water there are plenty of pools you can still fish. hyw. 132 runs along the entire river and there a paking spots at almost every pool, which are numbered and are maked on a map the zec office will give you. enjoy
mphebron2 3 years ago
we fish all top water here,they love to rise...my vid i shot couple days ago shows several rise for dry and wet flys..we actualy hitch the fly on the same side headof the fly just behind the eye(hook pointed down river) as the bank your standing on and cast downriver 45 degre angle to make it skim the surface making a v ...they love it and will hit it much more than the wet technique used elsewhere my vids called.. atlantic salmon action rise to the fly you might enjoy it...Nice vid by the way
jsmallwood2007 3 years ago