First time fishing at the Humber river

[GB2pair]

On Saturday night I went to the mouth of the Humber to cast some spoons for salmon, I've never fished this area before. I arrived about 7pm, it was about 20 degrees with a good off shore (SW) breeze. I fished the west side point just out from the mouth out on the rocks , near the bridge. There were a bunch of fishermen out on the rock along the shoreline as well. Some people were fishing for bass I think, I saw a lot of small in line spinners being used as well as some bigger spoons.

It was my first time using my new rod it's a 9'6'' St. Croix (MH fast action). At first, I didn't have too much room to cast however when it thinned out I started to get some nice long casts. I also tried P line mone line (moss colour) (15lbs test). I was very impressed with this line, it's extremely thin and super strong and it didn't twist up like many mono lines do.

I started by using a little cleo (chartreuse) and then changed to a sliver and blue spoon with a hammered finished. At dark I went with a 4'' blue glow spoon looking for the big salmon. About a half an hour later fish kept coming up and breaking the water to feed and then the action started. I had a good size bass (I think) on and got off about a minute later. Ten minutes passed and I landed a small mouth bass just over 4lbs. It's too bad I didn't pack a bass rod with me because the rod I was using wasn't a great fit, I probably could have caught a few that night with the right equipment.

 

[idesign]

grt.thx for the report.i am thinking of heading there next week for salmon.
i have fished at Humber River(Etienne Brule Park) only.can you tell me how to get to mouth.thx

 

[MikeyMikey]

Well...
When fishing the mouth of Humber one should really have a long handled net as those rocks are not layed out well like Credit. It's some what dangerous I would say.
Plus... Humber usually flows out a lot of muddy color water so it would be better to fish from the east side as you can cast between those muddy water and clearER water :roll:

I wish I had your St. Croix Medium-Heavy 9'6" Rod instead of my St. Croix Medium ModFast 10'6" rod.
I mean medium powered rod is flexible enough that I can use it's flex to help me cast far without really having to swing the rod hard. So it is good in that senses but... whenever I hook a fish... I always wish I had some extra backbone power to force some of the fishes. I do a Browning 8'6" MH rod and one thing about medium-heavy is that you really need to keep the line tension tight all the time because if there is any slack on the line... rod will stiffen up and you'll feel like fish is gone when it is actually swimming towards you.

I did land one fish today with my rod for the first time and it did handle really well and I do like it a lot. Maybe I just need to get me a 2nd rod but... or not.

Btw, which model of P-line were you using? I played around with CX model @ 15lb and I was having some technical difficulty. Maybe it's because the line is like 4 years old. or my reel drag just suck.
With your 9'6" Medium-Heavy rod, I think you should stick with a braid line. If your rod was medium or softer rod than mono would have been fine but I just think that mediumheavy or stiffer need something more stronger.
Than again, there was this guy today who had rod that was about 12~13" long using Suffix 6lb test mono and he said it has worked just fine for him past years. I think his rod was MediumLight or so

 

[David Kearney]

Thanks for the report Mikey, too bad no pics...I havent been able to get out this whole week, I am freaking out...I wanna go soon to the humber.

 

[YAWN]

5:30 - 10pm the best time!

 

[GB2pair]

Hi Guys,

So I finally caught my first salmon of the year yesterday. I was fishing the mouth of the Humber, I started on the east side at 5:30pm, there was a pretty strong off shore breeze and it was about 20 degrees. I was using a blue fox perch wobble spoon, then I tried a J13 rapala orange with light orange on the bottom, not much was happening and then I moved over to the west side about 7pm. As it was getting darker I moved to a chartreuse glow spoon (4'') on about my fifth cast I hooked into a nice salmon, I fought it for about 15-20 min finally landing it in the net, the fish was just under 20lbs. Unfortunately I couldn't get any pics, surprisingly there wasn't any other fishermen around at that time (8pm). Since my arm was really tired I packed up and went home.

 

[MikeyMikey]

Hi Guys,

So I finally caught my first salmon of the year yesterday. I was fishing the mouth of the Humber, I started on the east side at 5:30pm, there was a pretty strong off shore breeze and it was about 20 degrees. I was using a blue fox perch wobble spoon, then I tried a J13 rapala orange with light orange on the bottom, not much was happening and then I moved over to the west side about 7pm. As it was getting darker I moved to a chartreuse glow spoon (4'') on about my fifth cast I hooked into a nice salmon, I fought it for about 15-20 min finally landing it in the net, the fish was just under 20lbs. Unfortunately I couldn't get any pics, surprisingly there wasn't any other fishermen around at that time (8pm). Since my arm was really tired I packed up and went home.

Wait a minute!
Your arm was tired? Yet you say you caught a salmon?
That sounds little fishy to me.
Pain should have gone away when you first felt that salmon smack your lure! 8)

 

[GB2pair]

well, I did leave with a big smile on my face. So I guess my arm didn't hurt that bad!