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Last coho directed gear trip of the season I think, trolled from 9-11:30 in front of Edmonds, was nice to get my commercial seine fisherman best friend out. Taught me the proper way to fillet and I now know the few I didn't butcher were by pure luck. Caught a 5-6lb egg carrier, most of her weight seemed to be in the eggs. Absolutely massive, thinking of making ikura instead of bait out of these since they bled very well. Have some family coming over to take out on the boat, might try swinging close to cutthroat beaches I am familiar with.

Anyone know if catch and releasing Blackmouth is legal in areas open for salmon but not King retention? I absolutely will not post or blab about it but curious. For all enforcement knows I am jigging for coho. I imagine we have impacts allocated for the fall area 10 season that don't roll over to Spring and I would like to make a dent in them

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My faith in brads cut plugs continues to be low as even with the fish this dark the only lure that produced was the classic glow hoochie. Gonna experiment with south sound style staging coho flies off a couple area 10 beaches
 
Hit 10 with a fishing buddy who does not fly fish for salmon yet. So, divers were the ticket. Tried mooching with minimal successes. Took a good amount of searching but eventually found them. Got a limit. Hooked 7, landed 4. Biggest was 8-9. Smallest probably 5. Ok, done now…pretty sure, ha. Getting back to my gear roots a bit has been fun in 2024. Good to know I can still “hang” if need be :). Good to learn techniques I did not learn growing up. Ready for some 16 inch SRC on the fly though!

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jasmillo said:
Hit 10 with a fishing buddy who does not fly fish for salmon yet. So, divers were the ticket. Tried mooching with minimal successes. Took a good amount of searching but eventually found them. Got a limit. Hooked 7, landed 4. Biggest was 8-9. Smallest probably 5. Ok, done now…pretty sure, ha. Getting back to my gear roots a bit has been fun in 2024. Good to know I can still “hang” if need be :). Good to learn techniques I did not learn growing up. Ready for some 16 inch SRC on the fly though!

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Were you also by Edmonds? I think I saw you! Pretty Boston whaler on plane bouncing a bit in between the big boats? Gorgeous fish!
 
speedbird said:
Were you also by Edmonds? I think I saw you! Pretty Boston whaler on plane bouncing a bit in between the big boats? Gorgeous fish!
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Could have been. When that barge being towed by a tug went by? Spent most of my day south of there but headed up there end of day.
 
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Could have been. When that barge being towed by a tug went by? Spent most of my day south of there but headed up there end of day.
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Probably not then! What was the trick today? Just some moving around? Didn't see any bites up north besides mine
 
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Probably not then! What was the trick today? Just some moving around? Didn't see any bites up north besides mine
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Did you try trolling flies. Kind of all I had and sort of all I know! Though that’s true for me, I think the key was lots of hours on the water. We fished 10 hours for 7 big salmon bites. Different depths, different speeds, etc. Sometimes outwork does pan out better than outsmart though as a general rule I’d rather fish smarter not harder. Sometimes it’s just not in the cards!
 
speedbird said:
Last coho directed gear trip of the season I think, trolled from 9-11:30 in front of Edmonds, was nice to get my commercial seine fisherman best friend out. Taught me the proper way to fillet and I now know the few I didn't butcher were by pure luck. Caught a 5-6lb egg carrier, most of her weight seemed to be in the eggs. Absolutely massive, thinking of making ikura instead of bait out of these since they bled very well. Have some family coming over to take out on the boat, might try swinging close to cutthroat beaches I am familiar with.

Anyone know if catch and releasing Blackmouth is legal in areas open for salmon but not King retention? I absolutely will not post or blab about it but curious. For all enforcement knows I am jigging for coho. I imagine we have impacts allocated for the fall area 10 season that don't roll over to Spring and I would like to make a dent in them

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My faith in brads cut plugs continues to be low as even with the fish this dark the only lure that produced was the classic glow hoochie. Gonna experiment with south sound style staging coho flies off a couple area 10 beaches
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Blackmouth, King, Springer, Tyee
all fall under Chinook label and must be released where Chinook are not legal to retain. Illegal to target them.
 
jasmillo said:
Hit 10 with a fishing buddy who does not fly fish for salmon yet. So, divers were the ticket. Tried mooching with minimal successes. Took a good amount of searching but eventually found them. Got a limit. Hooked 7, landed 4. Biggest was 8-9. Smallest probably 5. Ok, done now…pretty sure, ha. Getting back to my gear roots a bit has been fun in 2024. Good to know I can still “hang” if need be :). Good to learn techniques I did not learn growing up. Ready for some 16 inch SRC on the fly though!

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Interesting looking 3rd fish from the top, any insights into the rings/color?
 
Weekend PS wrap up. Fished gear for salmon on Fri and Sat. Fri with a buddy, Sat solo. Got some big fish bites but only one solid coho and a jigged up good sized BM (I assume) to the boat. Coho is officially done for me. It was a fun season though and a beautiful last couple days out chasing them.

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Sunday hit a quieter part of our lovely inland sea and fished SRC with @Kfish out of his boat. Hit some spots that were on fire mid October last year. Just ok today though we got into some fish. Along with quantity, quality was not there this year either. Hoping we were just a bit early 🤷‍♂️. Fish landed were all in the same class as the ones posted below. I think Lou got at least one that was better.


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Not complaining. Overall, great days on the water and some fish in the net.
 
Fished SRC this morning with Jason, decent action but not as hot as expected, maybe expectations were too high :)
Landed a bunch and lost just as many, most were small/medium with one nice one in the mix.

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Gorgeous sunrise lighting up the autumn foliage, heron calls in the background adding on to @jasmillo cursing at his OBS tangles, now that’s cutty fishing!

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As of yesterday, there were 12,663 summer chum had been counted at the monitoring site, which I believe is a record.
Great news for cutthroat come this spring.
SF
 
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That Clouser Muddler looks even better wet than in the vise!

Are you using olive deer body hair, or just olive bucktail higher up on the tail for the head / collar? Looks like you also have a synthetic olive underwing? Looking forward to trying to tie a couple of these.
 
Merle said:
That Clouser Muddler looks even better wet than in the vise!

Are you using olive deer body hair, or just olive bucktail higher up on the tail for the head / collar? Looks like you also have a synthetic olive underwing? Looking forward to trying to tie a couple of these.
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Thanks, I do like it a lot. It fishes well, swim well and caught fish, will have to tie some more since I snagged that one in the rocks.
I tied another one with funky pink wings and yellow spinning deerhair, that color combo turned out to be a sculpin magnet. Caught a bunch of them on back to back casts, @Irafly I'll sell you the secret sculpin recipe :D

It has a rolled mallard wing, then olive artic fox to transition over to olive spinning deer hair collar/head. Then another small clump of olive spinning deer hair for the head.
 
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