Coho 2025

Evan B said:
The spot I'm fishing, there's probably a hundred or more fish stacked on any given day. It's 20-40' deep, possible to get a fly down, but they're just so comfortable that anything that doesn't really disrupt the mood just gets ignored.

Quick video I took last time I was out there on the Livescope. Sorry about the crappy angle. Going straight on was too much reflection.
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What's the current like? Id have a hard time getting down to them with a fly line in anything but frog water. Ive also found angle of presentation really matters. Getting regular hits fishing from one side of a hole but nadda casting at the same hole in the opposite direction.

Usually I want to be be ~10-40yards in front of whatever direction they are jumping toawrd. Most of the time thats upriver unless theirs some "toilet bowl" structure.
 
I haven't had many good opportunities to get after them with flies (they haven't been moving much through the low water so far), but I have had solid jig and spinner fishing in sneaky spots. I think a lot of fish are yet to come. Need rain.

Thing is, we're just about to the point in the season where the next big rain brings in the chums, and that usually makes finding coho tough for a couple weeks, so I hope we get it soon.
 
My season is probably done. Hope everyone has a killer October and November!
 
the_chemist said:
What's the reason for no C&R on salmon? I thought coho in freshwater handle it very well.
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Not a discussion I like to have on this site for a number of reasons but I have hangups with c&r on native species for myself overall. But mostly this time of year I'm just burnt out. I hit fishing hard from June to October and kind of run out of fuel. I have lots of other hobbies so feels good to shift focus for a few months.
 
Still good numbers of coho being caught in Puget sound from what I hear. Does this bode well for b run coho? I hope so because I haven’t been able to fish any October weekends except this one and the only rivers in after work distance are closed.

Fished up in BC and got into a small fall king on an orange bead, a first for me but he popped the hook off easily.
 
Consolation prize chinook jack for yesterday's coho outing. Surprisingly bright for late Oct but wasn't clipped so maybe had some actual wild genes.

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Lost one bright coho first thing then nothing but chinook moving til after 4.

Swung a TBH flash fly just before throwing in the towel and hooked a bright coho. Damn thing took me on a 150yd boulder scramble before landing it. Solid grab, started out fair hooked, but a some point during the whitewater slalom, did a classic coho alligator roll and came to hand fouled. Wasn't clipped so couldn't bonk it anyway. Coho + rapids = a lot of lost fish.
 
Finally a backyard fish. I went down geared for fast/high water. So was ill prepared for finding a bunch of suspended coho in a froggy backwater.

The real downside was a fouled fish when I let the fly get to deep (while hanging from a floating line). The upside is confirmation of quality salmon in this non-hatchery river.

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Next time taking an 8wt SH with a clear intermediate and unweighted flies. At least in this spot.
 
Evan B said:
Mine are dirtbag-caught, so I made a thread where you're all safe from its contents:

Evan B

Non-Fly Thread 'Columbia fall coho'

Been fun since the Columbia reopened on October 1st.

I've been hitting my favorite little local spot from my boat and casting wigglers mostly. I have busted out the fly rod a few times like I do every year, but they never, ever, even give it a look.

Been out daily but going to take a break this week, take a friend out next weekend, then trade my Grundens for my Sitka camo for my next adventures 😂 between my chinook season, then all my ocean trips (halibut, lings, sablefish, albacore, salmon) I'm very well stocked on fish meat...
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Did anything come from that CCA letter that was sent to O.D.F.W. concerning the nets ln the Sandy delta ?
 
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