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STS Guiding Service has been providing quality fishing charters and vacations since 1994, established by Vic and Teresa Carrao, STS has evolved from a single guide and boat to a team of some of the most skilled, talented and dedicated fishing guides in the Fraser Valley. Year round we carry a Team of angling guides include 4 full time & 4 part time guides who specializing in Sturgeon, Salmon and Fly Fishing. During peak seasons we call upon our associate guides for help and carry as many as 15 full and part time angling guides.

Oct 3 update

Here are some pics from the last few days, lots of salmon and sturgeon around, some of the best fishing of the year will take place over the next 4 weeks. We still have 1 boat available for this weekend if you want some sore arms.

The gang from Groome Flooring hangin g out with Vic in the Canyon.

Sept 30 Fishing report Update

Fishing this week has been very good for both salmon and sturgeon, a few more Coho showing up and we managed to land a few Chinook as well. The Pink run is almost over but there are some fresh fish still moving up the river. We fished the canyon with CFL Star Chris Burns and x Vancouver Canauck Cliff Ronning, See below for detailed report.

We filmed with BCO Outdoors Sportfishing Adventures this week with host Chris Burns and Special Guest NHL Star Cliff Ronning, caught some nice fish, can’t wait to see the show.

Fraser River Sturgeon

Sturgeon fishing has been excellent this past week, lots of big fish being caught, Yesterday STS Guide Braeden Szlabon landed his biggest fish of the season measuring 8ft 9 inch with guest Aiden Grinde and friends. Rob, Tom, Thomas Doug and the rest of the guys are also landing big fish on a daily basis. Best bait right now is pink salmon eggs and belly strips are picking up the odd fish.

8ft 9 inch with 51 inch girth, wow what a great fish.

Here is another monster measuring well over 8ft.caught by STS Guide Doug Elias

Salmon Fishing

Salmon Fishing on the Fraser is going to be difficult this week due to all the rain, water has gone dirty on the Fraser with mosat tributaries looking the same way. If the rain stops it won’t take long to clear up but if salmon is what your after, the Harrison but be your best bet. We saw a really good push of Coho move through the Vedder this past weekend with some very nice hatchery fish being caught.

Our guest from Norway have been putting the hurt on Coho this week, great job guys.

For those of you looking to target Coho, fishing the tides is very important, the incoming is your best so be in your hot spot well before the tide starts to push in. We have been having ourt best luck on Gibbs Colorado Blades and Gibbs/Delta Ultra Lures. Slow retrieve is the key so be sure you take your time on the retrieve.

A few Chinook showing up as well although we have not been tarageting them that much this week. Look for the Harrison River to turn on in the next week as this should be the peak week for Harrison bound Chinook. With dirty water and rain, the Harrison should remain in good shape. Once the Vedder and Chehalis clear up the Coho fishing should be on fire.

We still have lots of great fishing to be had, we will be on the water daily until end of November so please give us a call if you would like to fish with onhe of our pro guides.

I will leave you with this excellent picture taken by Oilver.

Have a great week, and see you on the water.

Sept 24th Update

Fishing this past week has been excellent, lot of Pink Salmon in the Fraser, Sturgeon fishing has been above average and some Coho and Chinook are starting to show up in the Fraser and Vedder River.

Sturgeon Fishing remains excellent, still lots of fish around, but it is getting a bit harder to find the big ones as they are getting full. Salmon eggs seemed to be the ticket this week but we are still getting fish on belly strips and gills. Lots of floaters on the water so you might start to see a switch to stink bait in the next week or so.

Sturgeon fishing should remain good until late November so give us a call and get out on the water.

Double header with Tony and Neil visiting us for the 4th year in a row from Uk, nice way to end a 7 day trip.

Salmon Fishing

Salmon fishing remains very good for Pink salmon, these fish can be caught using fly, spoons or spinners. The confluence of the Sumas Canal; has a good fresh push of fish with each high tide, as you move further up river, quality of fish starts to decline. My favorite spoon is the Gibbs/Delta Ultra Lure in Pink with chartruses stripe.

Coho are starting to show up in the Vedder and other local streams, as each day passes more Coho and Chinook are being caught on the Fraser mainstem and tributaries like Sumas, Vedder and Chehalis rivers.

Here is a noce hatchery Coho caught yesterday fishing the Sumas Canal, nice fish Jeremy.

This great fishing should continue through to the end of November , we still have lots of good dates in October so shoot us an e-mail or give me a call if you would like to fish with us for one of the best years we have seen in a while.

Have a great week.