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[glfish88]

Hi all, so I have been fishing for quite a while now and I always hear about this genetically superb "northern coho" and how it has the kype even in the ocean and how they go to this spot in the ocean that is undetectable by radar...but honestly I don't know the difference other than size...so what is the definition of a "northern"?

[Knnn]

I read that three times ............................ and I got nothing. 

[sbc hris]

Big fish with a kype. People call them northerns, I assume because they look more like the coho of the northern BC rivers. Genetically, I'm not so sure if there's any relation. I'm Highly doubtful though.

[RalphH]

Maybe someone like Dave can chime but I have heard it's an old commercial fishing term and described coho that came in late - like in the Strait in late Sept or October after feeding in the open Pacific and returning through Johnstone Strait.

[Dave]

Maybe someone like Dave can chime but I have heard it's an old commercial fishing term and described coho that came in late - like in the Strait in late Sept or October after feeding in the open Pacific and returning through Johnstone Strait.

That's pretty much how I've heard the term used as well RalphH. Probably has nothing to do with coming from Northern waters, just that the fish stay in the salt a bit longer and are consequently a bit larger.

[SPEYMAN]

Northern Coho is a term like Tyee. Northern Coho is just a large coho.

[RalphH]

well they were/are large coho (12lbs and up) that showed up late in the Strait of Georgia- off the East Coast of the Island, Sunshine Coast, Bowen Island and off the Fraser mouth in late September well into October. The males already had a good kype and it was thought/assumed they had fed outside of the The Strait of Georgia in the summer