Swimming With Wild Steelhead
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2022
- My clean up mission to the Chilliwack River was not very successful, but I did encounter about 10 wild steelhead along the way. For a comparison from the same spot last year, check out this video: • We Cleaned 1000 Hooks ...
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Thank you so much for cleaning up the rivers. Respect, love the footage.
It's the least I can do, this river gives so much back to me. Thanks for watching.
that's awesome you keep the river clean- I would hate to be bare foot swiming and step on one of those hooks- thank you again...
Thank you for another amazing video Petr
Thanks for watching, it's been over 6 months since the conditions have been good enough to swim there.
This was really cool to watch. Thanks for filming!
Thanks for the great video Petr!
Glad you enjoyed it
Super nice! Thank you and stay safe as you capture nature for us.👍🎣
Thanks Duke, will do.
Gorgeous drone and underwater footage and thanks for cleaning up the river :)
Thanks, I have been enjoying your videos as well.
My request has been granted!!! Thanks Petr!!! Take care always man!
Cool, might be the only steelhead footage this year though, the freshet will blow the river out soon.
Good effort. Thanks for the clean up!
Thanks for watching!
I can only hope the respect you give the river is contagious. Thanks for being a great ambassador.
Thanks for the kind comment. For me that is actually the best thing about RUclips: having a bit of chance to talk to people about the things that I find important.
Love the drone footage.
Yeah, me too. When I started watching RUclips that was always the footage that I likes. Crashed my drone yesterday, I can see that being an expensive hobby.
So many fish while it seemed no fish when I fished there LOL
I fished that spot a few times this year as well. My theory is that by the time they get that far up, they've had a thorough education on what fishing gear is all about..
Nice edit man and be careful for sure!
Thanx Pete!!!!! Great point about the beads!!!!
Yeah, I don't really expect much headway in that department, but they sure make a mess.
(I'm considering making my own with flour and water,after seeing this,very appreciative you pointed this out!!!!)
Maybe something along those things they put in bubble tea. I be with the right scents it would work.
Awesome footage
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it!
Great video, commentary.
Glad you think so!
The shot of you playing in the current looks intense!
Personally I am looking at using tungsten weights in the future, hopefully that's better than lead. Making lures/beads that aren't plastic is a really good idea; for some reason I never thought about it clogging up a fish's digestive system.
Thanks for sharing!
I opened up two resident trout, one had a big bead and the other a whole 6" plastic worm. I think both of those fish would have eventually died from blockage. I'm kind of thinking about switching to steel pellets in some kind of bio degradable baggie for weights, though for me it's kind of a zero sum game, as I remove way more lead from the river than I leave in there.
Great video sir, thanks for sharing
I appreciate the comment, it let's me know what people like and helps promote the video!
@@petrhermanadventures9509 I think is important that you talked about safety in the water, specially if people are thinking of doing what you do
Nice video!
Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it.
Just subscribed.. great channel 👍
Welcome aboard!
i do beach cleanups and its crazy how much river gear i find lots of floats corkies and spin and glows.
Thanks for cleaning up, all that stuff ends up in the ocean and that's where it does real harm.
Very admirable mission...can you say what time of year you're swimming there...and water temperatures...you do this alone? Many thanks and be safe.
This swim was in March, the water was about 5 degrees celsius. A bit on the chilly side, but my wetsuit is built for it. Yes, I mostly dive alone. Unlike freediving to depth, there is no risk of blacking out. There is a serious risk of entrapment, but in that scenario a buddy is not likely to save you.
Beautiful they have great skin. Angelic fish hah😍
Yes, they are pretty cool.
when do you believe I should stop trying for steelhead on the vedder or is it to late In the season already?
The river is open till the end of the month below Tamihi Bridge. After that it's open to fly fishing only and below Vedder crossing only. So basically another week of decent fishing left and tough sledding after that. The freshet will hit us in about one to two weeks as well, which will mess up fishing.
Hello Petr. I'm wondering if you have seen rainbow trouts spawning together with steelhead (eg as jacks do for salmon)
I have not witnessed it, but the biologists believe it's common. I have noticed that some of the resident rainbows get into their spawning colors at the same time as the steelhead, so I think it does happen. They are genetically identical.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 Thanks for your reply. you are right. I don't know how to share a PDF here but see the extract of this neat paper (Breeding Structure of Steelhead Inferred from Patterns of Genetic Relatedness among Nests, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:1202-1212, 2005) "We suggest that interbreeding between female steelhead and resident male rainbow trout (nonanadromous) or precocial steelhead parr (not yet seagoing) may explain the biased sex ratio and high male reproductive variance we detected. Many coastal streams in Western North America contain both steelhead and rainbow trout (reviewed by Busby et al. 1996). Population genetic
and otolith microchemistry data generally suggest steelhead and rainbow trout interbreed where they commingle (Busby et al. 1996; Zimmerman and
Reeves 2000; Zimmerman and Reeves 2002; but see Narum et al. 2004). Some steelhead males may also become sexually mature as parr and have the potential to mate before migrating to the ocean. Our study focused specifically on eggs collected from steelhead redds. Therefore, we were unlikely to sample any matings involving rainbow trout females, but this would not preclude our sampling of matings between female steelhead and male trout or steelhead parr. Rainbow trout are smaller
than steelhead, and therefore are expected to have less access to females and to fertilize fewer eggs per spawning event. We inferred a pattern of 6 males fertilizing 83% of the eggs and 10 additional males fertilizing only a few (7 or fewer) eggs each (Figure 3). We suggest that this pattern is consistent with matings by 6 male steelhead and 10 male rainbow trout or steelhead parr."
that was very cool, thanks again Petr!
Oh I received your gift with super sweet package, thanks again!!!!
Sorry it took me so long to mail it out. I have a bit of a procrastination problem :)
That water will just suck the energy out of an unprotected human.
Yes, very quickly too. In that snow melt water you lose the ability to move your muscles in about 5 minutes.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 keep up your difficult work; the Salmonides are worth the effort.
How can you tell between big resident bows, and small steelhead? Nice footage…
Big resident rainbows are extremely rare on this river, there is just too much fishing pressure. Rainbows and steelhead are the exact same genetics, the only thing different is lifestyle. The steelies go out to the ocean. The difference in appearance is in beefiness and color. Steelhead are brighter and deeper in body. In this video I a actually encountered a summer run steelhead, but did not get a clear shot. thanks for watching.
@@petrhermanadventures9509 OK thanks, body size and colour…. Yes I know steelies are sea run, and bows not, you just seemed to be able to tell them apart well. A river like that could have the odd 3-10 lbs river bows in it…. Good to know the difference in identification, cheers.
Do you feel the pull of the current at the depths you were diving to ?
There is always a bit less current near the bottom, due to turbulent drag from the rocks, but yeah the river pushes me around quite a bit.
looks like it's time again for an update :)
I'm getting a new suit soon that will get me back in the water. Too cold with the gear I have right now.
thx
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great video, intro was almost half the video length
Yeah, some days I have a lot to say :)