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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: younggun on May 21, 2009, 08:21:37 AM
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i was at the river from 6-9 last night walking around the lower trying to find a pod of fish, maybe, but the fish gods weren't giving me much luck!
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Where are these so called coho??
What's a Coho?
:D
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ohh leepying steely im pretty sure you know exactly what a coho looks like ;)
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I thought coho enter rivers only in fall to spawn. so we have spring and fall coho?
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I thought coho enter rivers only in fall to spawn. so we have spring and fall coho?
The cap has a special run of spring/summer coho
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They come back too early compared to their fall cousins. :)
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Ya that and there inbred hatchery freaks. if a a jack spawns theres a 50% chance of its offspring being jacks so the hatchery on low return years uses jacks for sperm. the gene is not always recessive
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it has nothing to do with being a jack or inbreeding, its all about the ammount of time the cap fish spend in the ocean, the same fish later in the summer would be twice the size.
dont forget its only may.
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ok buddy proffesor Don Furnell Phd in fisheries biology at malaspina unviversity is wrong then your right
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ok buddy proffesor Don Furnell Phd in fisheries biology at malaspina unviversity is wrong then your right
Pretty sure jim knows what he is talking about.
All of the cap coho are tiny, not just a few or even 50% of them.
If it was fall and they were this small, I may think you were right.
This is probably reffering to FALL runs of fish.
These fish are arriving in may and have not been in the ocean feeding for very long compared to others.
A fish can double in size in the few months between now and fall returns.
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cap coho jacks feed in the straight of georgia, they do not leave to go up north or to the west coast of vancouver island, because of lack of food, and time spent in the ocean, they are physically smaller fish.
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YG these fish are just young.....period, they have not matured like a fall fish. it has nothing to do with where they travel or what/how much they eat.
I'm pretty sure there are only a couple of rivers with "summer" coho.
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yup, i know 2 others. and a few with january coho.
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it wouldn't be the first time a prof was wrong. They are just early.
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I am confused. Which is it? I am only glad they are in there so we have a May and June salmon fishery.
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Jetboatjim, you are absolutely right. It has zero to do with where they feed. When you hook a Cap coho, especially a female one, upon inspection you'll notice that the eggs are tiny and will need some time to mature, fall fish on the Cap are bigger by about a 1-1 1/2 pounds and are far more ready to spawn in terms of egg size and the male gonads. However, the early Cap fish are a great indicator of the state of coho in general in terms of size, numbers and health. Tight lines, WS.