Pabos North 27th June 2007.


Beautiful day, sunny and about 23C. We had Pabos North today and the water level was pretty high according to our guide Gordy, he said though it was about 8" lower today than yesterday. We hiked up to pool #26 witch is the fence pool in Pabos North.


You got to love this...Joe had forgot his waders at the lodge so he was wet fishing today! There was about 90min drive back to the lodge and he was not about to loose 180min fishing to get his waders. The water temp was about 9C in the morning but was up to about 12C in the afternoon. I was very impressed with his determination and tolerance for cold water, even I got cold standing in this water and I was wearing my fleece.


We started fishing pool #26 witch is a very long fairly fast water pool. There is a tree that has fallen half way into the pool and splitting it nicely in half. I started bellow the tree but Joe above. After I had fished the pool from the tree down to the tail I looked up and saw that Joe was gone, he had gotten so cold that he decided to take a walk up to look at the fence. I walked to the head of the pool and started fishing down towards the tree. When I had about 15m to the tree I hook a fish.


After fishing pool #26 we decided to walk down to pool #19 as Gordy said that they caught salmon there yesterday. When we are walking down we passed pool #20 and it looked fantastic. I ask Gordy if this is not a good pool and he replied that he had not seen a fish there very often. After skimming the pool for couple of minutes we see at least 3 salmon just off the edge of the cliff (you can see to the left where the river becomes very green).


start casting into the pool but it was a little tricky as the back cast was very close to the trees. After few atemts and the first time the fly was going where I wanted to two of three salmon go for the fly and one takes it. This is one of the strongest salmon I have ever hooked as I had him on the line for about 32 min. (Gordy timed it...) and then it broke my 8 pound tippet.


This salmon went 5 times in the air and Joe cought photo of 4 of them!!! (but I think it was just the camera...).

We would not catch anything else this day at Pabos North but this river is the most prestine river I think I had ever fished in (but I was yet to fish the Grande). There was one pool that we looked into and that was #19 and it was about (our estimates) 25-30 feet deep but we could see the bottom like it was only 1 feet deep.