Fishing with Rod: Small but plentiful

Most northern pikeminnows are small but they are plentiful in the summer. Multiple hookups are not unusual when fishing with light spinning gear on the Fraser River.

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Music: Bob and Sarah Richardson
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[chinglengvang]

what the weapon of choice on pikeminnows?;)

[fishingwithrod]

@chinglengvang We were using just a small 1/8oz spinner. Usually we find that green blades work best.

[fishingwithrod]

@bullfrogbabs We were using just a small 1/8oz spinner. Usually we find that green blades work best.

[savagechevyman]

@fishingwithrod yes bull trout are very long living. we have plenty of them up here in Northern BC

[fishingwithrod]

@savagechevyman Quantitative analysis - Finding out approximately how many fish there are rather than just assuming there are many. Past managements have made mistakes by these assumptions. We killed bull trout just a few decades ago based on the assumption that there were lots and they posed a threat on anadromous salmonids. A few decades later, that encouraged harvest has put some bull trout populations in a vulnerable state because like northern pikeminnow, they are also a long living species

[savagechevyman]

@fishingwithrod sorry to say but there is a couple fancy words there quantitive analysis

and why didn't you just say you were a biologist then i would've understood your outlook

on fishing

[fishingwithrod]

@savagechevyman No fancy words there.. ;) It's unfortunate that the CO would suggest that.

The point that I am trying to make is, all native fish species are valuable to the ecosystem. Just because a species is not classified as a gamefish, doesn't make it garbage. As a biologist, I'm trying to make others to understand that northern pikeminnow are native to the watersheds of the Pacific Northwest and are not the cause of salmonid declines. As an angler, I will not kill fish that I do not eat.

[savagechevyman]

@fishingwithrod i was told by the CO to kill them

and i cant understand most of them there fancy words that you use

and another thing is pikeminnow aint a gamefish because it has no adipose fins

[savagechevyman]

@fishingwithrod we were told by the CO to kill them



[fishingwithrod]

@savagechevyman Our goal is not necessarily to suggest that everyone should be fishing for northern pikeminnow because it is a fantastic gamefish, but to change the general perception toward them that anglers have. Anglers should not be killing fish that they do not wish to eat, unless it is a authorized cull by either the BC Ministry of Environment or Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Don't promote the removal of a native species that competes with human without any quantitative analysis.