Got my fifth coho today , Oxbow . No one there. Big hen. Spinner
Non-Fly Dirtbag river Coho '24'
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First coho! Not the shade of silver I was hoping for and unclipped, so he was released to continue his journey.
It was and is!
I shouldn't have said braid is "worthless" for anything besides bobber fishing. Obviously, that's not true. I just don't like it in presentations that create slack in the system, because it is limp and tends to wrap around stuff easily when not under tension. It's great for saltwater fishing, where you want to maximize line capacity on your reels.
I think I may be a little traumatized by years of fishing with a guy who fished his jigs off braid on a baitcaster reel. He spent a lot of time undoing nasty tangles in his guides and reel caused by reeling up slack loops in the braid, and it always slowed us down. Of course, I had my fair share of issues with badly twisted mono when fishing spinners, but we won't say anymore about that....
DanielOcean
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I woke up to this shit. Not my home river but I know several of you that call it such. Id say that spot is gonna be busy.
That's lame, but you can see redds in the river from the Google maps image, which is cool.
LOL! Not much of a secret.
speedbird
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This clown is gonna get his ass beat. I’m not threatening, or advocating violence, I’m simply repeating what a lot of locals have warned him other locals are saying they intend to do. I fish a few less known spots up there that he blew up and I’m genuinely worried about locals assuming I got those spots from him while I got them the old fashioned way. He also is posting spots on closed waters, including the south fork stilly and the soos creek closure area very regularly.
There’s another guy Atlas Vanderbilt that does the same thing. He sees himself as a “victim of a system of secret fishermen” when people call him an idiot for hot spotting and does it purely out of spite
DanielOcean
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Yeah, i thought about that too, but the principle remains. Its an attractant to a location non the less.
DanielOcean
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This is not far from where I was shot at years ago. Don't the wise folks say, "don't piss off the locals" ?
speedbird
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I don’t understand those sorts of of people’s psychology, what is he gaining from hotspotting every river in the state.
I’ve learned with most of the other species, it’s relatively easy to find your own spots. With coho it doesn’t seem to matter if someone tells you exactly which rock to stand on, you’re not going to catch any unless you have other stuff like timing and gear/fly dialed in
DanielOcean
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Attention, favorability of a certain group he most likely has in mind.
If fish don’t get caught with a rod and reel, there is always the option to just shot them.
SF
DanielOcean
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What disturbs me is the spots within 5 miles up river, and down river. If we have spots A,B,C,D, and this guy pimps out spot B, 30 people arrive to a spot that only holds maybe 10 people. Those 20 others will spread when they could have just stayed on their own river in the first place. Shit, I dont want an out of town dude who knows his shit on my local water. LOL
That spot is known as "Big Eddy." Not sure if it's still the case, but WDFW LE used to park topside and watch for salmon snaggers. Easy way to write a few citations, like the Samish just downstream of the Hwy 99 bridge. Not much fish resource protection resulting since the fish are almost entirely hatchery origin, but it makes a good reminder that snagging is frowned upon.
speedbird
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For what it's worth, thank WDFW for not letting people stay at their home rivers. I would be fishing the Sky right now given the choice but as I wasn't given the choice I suppose we will have to share the hole
the_chemist
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You mean 2 weeks fishing for old boots on the wallace isn't good enough for you?
DanielOcean
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Totally a valid point. But the post I made is concentrating on the over exposure of a resource due to hot spotting.
So, it's been a slow season for me on the dirtbag gear, but it's been a good one for learning about fine-tuning my game. I did really well on fish I couldn't keep early on, all fly fishing, but once harvest opened and the crowds descended, that was over. I switched to my most reliable dirtbag gear, plus some new tricks I decided to get into this year, but it's been tough with the crowds and the early lack of rain to locate good biters. I have yet to catch a fish on a spinner this year (my old standby). I've been experimenting a lot with Wicked Lures, and to my surprise, they haven't been nearly as effective as what I have seen in past seasons. (I think I need to find some darker-colored components for early season low water conditions; the bright stuff seems to send most pressured fish running.)
Jigs have been very slow for me as well, with more non-target species encountered than coho.
I have done a little better on the soft beads, but again, lots of non-target species (everything eats beads given enough chances). A couple nice kings and a steelhead in the mix, so definitely fun, but curious how few coho I have hooked.
Interestingly (and by accident), I have had better success fishing the beads on a floating fly line with indicator than on my bobber rod. I learned this out of necessity when the spinning reel on my bobber rod started "sticking" while reeling in about 2 weeks ago. It's gotten so bad that I think I will break the handle off if I keep using it, so it's time to take that thing apart and figure out what's wrong. I don't have the time or patience for that during salmon season, so I needed another way. I remembered having a lot of success fishing yarn flies and beads for steelhead off a floating fly line, and I figured the same setup should work for salmon. Indeed, it does. I hooked several big chums yesterday evening. Not what I hoped to find, but hey, biters is biters this year LOL.
Jigs have been very slow for me as well, with more non-target species encountered than coho.
I have done a little better on the soft beads, but again, lots of non-target species (everything eats beads given enough chances). A couple nice kings and a steelhead in the mix, so definitely fun, but curious how few coho I have hooked.
Interestingly (and by accident), I have had better success fishing the beads on a floating fly line with indicator than on my bobber rod. I learned this out of necessity when the spinning reel on my bobber rod started "sticking" while reeling in about 2 weeks ago. It's gotten so bad that I think I will break the handle off if I keep using it, so it's time to take that thing apart and figure out what's wrong. I don't have the time or patience for that during salmon season, so I needed another way. I remembered having a lot of success fishing yarn flies and beads for steelhead off a floating fly line, and I figured the same setup should work for salmon. Indeed, it does. I hooked several big chums yesterday evening. Not what I hoped to find, but hey, biters is biters this year LOL.