The month of September and on into October is the absolute best time to hunt huge pike. These fish are putting on the feed bag before freeze up and they get supercharged. Get an overcast day with a light chop and you've hit dream conditions.
A fishing life usually starts like this. A new angler decides to go fishing and to begin with any species or fishing opportunity will do. The real goal is simply getting out and catching a fish, never mind what type or how many. A bend on the end of the rod is the measure of a good day. That's how I started and I can't count how many days I spent fishing the banks of the Fraser River near Chilliwack, BC. I caught suckers, bullheads, pike minnows, carp and on very rare occasion, trout. My experiences were very typical of a new angler.
It’s fall and this is the one time of year I’ll specifically go out looking for brookies. They’re preparing to spawn in the lakes and there will generally be very few people on the water even though fishing should be very good.
Septembers on the coast are truly fantastic because this is coho time. Coho flood the ocean waters all up and down the coast as the summer progresses. They grow tremendously fast in these herring rich waters and by the time September rolls around there are plenty of robust, 8 to 14 pound eating machines out and about.
Hunting rainbows is very different from fishing rainbows and the fall is just the right time to do it.
October is not the month typically thought of as a brown trout month, but October has been my best month for catching big browns.
It finally happened. I was fishing for pike and having a great time. I don’t catch a lot of the larger ones, but I do catch piles of the three to 10 pound fish. They are everywhere, especially come fall.
