A few weeks ago Andy, and I went to check out the mile 20 area on the upper squamish. We parked at the pullout just as the road turned from pavement to gravel, and began our quest to check out the river and find some new spots. Not far after we had left the car we came to a nice corner, and chucked a few casts to see what was there. After both of us had worked our way through it and had no luck at all we decided to move on to the next run. We bushwacked through some trees and found our way down to the river bank, we worked our way through a short run and we both hooked up on a couple dollies. After that we moved on to the next run and found a couple more big bulltrout. We fished through it for awhile and didn't pull anything more out of that spot. We decided to make our way back and try a couple of the spots we tried earlier to see if there might be something there. There were one or two, and that ended the day.. A bit of a walk, but it was worth it in the end.. A funny thing, we went back a week later too check it out again and every spot we wanted too fish we couldn't so we had to cross the river and hike down the Ashlu side down to Crooked Creek. It was a long trek but we did find one or two down there. We hiked backed up and went over a log jam and found another cool spot, that had a couple of bullies in it.. All in all it was good excercise, and lots of fresh air..
Winter had come too the upper squamish. Jess and I left in the morning about nine and headed up too mile 27, on the squamish one of my all time favourite areas too catch dollies and bulltrout. We were on the river at about 10am, and fished a nice little pocket where jess picked up a nice dolly, and had a couple other hits. We fished it for about an hour and then moved on too another little pocket where she had another one, two fish in two spots she was doing well!!.. Now we were on the other side of the river in a spot that I had fished before and caught steelhead and bulltrout off this corner. I knew that there were fish in there eventhough the river had changed since the last season.. We started at the corner and worked our way down through the run. As I showed her what to do and where too cast, she hooked up on another nice bulltrout... Who knew that would happen three for three now. By this time it was late afternoon and it would be dark soon so we made our way back across the river and onto the other side. Jess was totaly stoked about the day and she was so amazed at how she caught three nice fish.. The day was great, clear and sunny blue skies all the way around.. The valley looked amazing, the river bank was coated in white from the snowfall the night before.. Awesome!!..
There was lots of good action on the Birkenhead, this summer. I did a few trips and caught fish everytime. Its a nice little river with lots of pockets, and pools, and some shallow runs with log jams and cutbanks. I had a few nice bulltrout, and some rainbows. I hadn't spent alot of time in past years up there but this summer seemed too be the best. There were all kinds of sockeye salmon spawning in the river. Sometimes one would bite the fly but not often. I went with Andy, Dan, and Ryan. The scenery is amazing, with all the mountains all around you, you can't go wrong with that..
