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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: CohoOn! on October 10, 2007, 05:59:17 PM
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Just back from yet another great day for coho on the river. Played with 8 beautiful fish and 5 got the better of me due to some light leaders and some pretty impressive acrobatics(okay maybe I got a little impatient with one or two ;)).
Let go one small jack and a nice wild coho and kept an 8 pound hatch. Man did that wild one give a show. Is there truth to what people say about the wilds always putting up more of a fight?
Water was perfect with just enough color and some nice pools forming.
In the same medium flow areas that we consistently were hitting fish on my Vibrax Blue Foxes I didn't see one guy with roe or wool hit a thing. I've tried using it time and time again in the medium flows where I've been regularly catching coho on spoons yet no takers except pinks, so it begs the question, how is it that coho so easily get caught where guys are fishing the fast slots with roe and wool? Is this actually being accomplished with a normal 18" leader? :-\ Do fish actually feed while quickly shooting through fast white water slots.
A 9lb hatch I caught yesterday actually had three different scars one the size of a quarter from foul hooking. :-[ Sad.
I haven't had one fooled hooked fish using the blades in the last 5 days on the river and I've played with over 30 coho. Nor have I hooked one pink. I find the small blades are fine when using a float and wieght to get them deeper but when using just the Blue Fox on there own the #5 and big #6 get quickly down deep right where the coho are and they slam them. I've actually on several occassions caught small smolt trout barely bigger than the #6 Blue Fox I was using. Talk about attitude!! ;D
Looks like great weather coming our way and the fish are all still chrome chrome. None of what I've seen where turning at all yet.
Tight lines! :)
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awsome report! Any pics???
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I got a nice yoho on wool, in the pocket water on Sunday. I think they bite out of reaction, rater than a feeding instinct. I usually fish blades exclusively, I make my own. You can buy all the parts from A&N. and put them together with snap rings. I think Rodney posted a little how to at one time for pinks. I like the Vibrax too. But they are about $5.00 unless you get them on sale. When I use the Vibrax, I always cut off the hook and split ring a swivel in its place. Then I split ring a Gammy Siwash hook on the end of the swivel. This really helps. The fish can’t get leverage on the hook, and it helps with short takes too. Try it… You’ll like it!!!
Brad
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great report!
any specific of the location? not the spot....just a general idea...like upper, mid or lower river?
Just back from yet another great day for coho on the river. Played with 8 beautiful fish and 5 got the better of me due to some light leaders and some pretty impressive acrobatics(okay maybe I got a little impatient with one or two ;)).
Let go one small jack and a nice wild coho and kept an 8 pound hatch. Man did that wild one give a show. Is there truth to what people say about the wilds always putting up more of a fight?
Water was perfect with just enough color and some nice pools forming.
In the same medium flow areas that we consistently were hitting fish on my Vibrax Blue Foxes I didn't see one guy with roe or wool hit a thing. I've tried using it time and time again in the medium flows where I've been regularly catching coho on spoons yet no takers except pinks, so it begs the question, how is it that coho so easily get caught where guys are fishing the fast slots with roe and wool? Is this actually being accomplished with a normal 18" leader? :-\ Do fish actually feed while quickly shooting through fast white water slots.
A 9lb hatch I caught yesterday actually had three different scars one the size of a quarter from foul hooking. :-[ Sad.
I haven't had one fooled hooked fish using the blades in the last 5 days on the river and I've played with over 30 coho. Nor have I hooked one pink. I find the small blades are fine when using a float and wieght to get them deeper but when using just the Blue Fox on there own the #5 and big #6 get quickly down deep right where the coho are and they slam them. I've actually on several occassions caught small smolt trout barely bigger than the #6 Blue Fox I was using. Talk about attitude!! ;D
Looks like great weather coming our way and the fish are all still chrome chrome. None of what I've seen where turning at all yet.
Tight lines! :)
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Good report CohoOn! , Unfortunately I am zero for about 4 outings :'( . Been into allot of springs , pinks , dogs . No ho's . Its nice just to be on the river anyway .
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great report!
any specific of the location? not the spot....just a general idea...like upper, mid or lower river?
It doesn't matter, there are fish everywhere right now... Read the water right and you will catch them.
Trust me on that...
Nicole
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Knowing that the river is in shape and this period is limited once again by the expected rainfall, Luke and I made another trip out this morning. We were joined by Marco on the way there. Our first light start was not as good as expected. We fished through a mid river run where Luke and I did well last Friday, with only one jack spring to show by Luke. After flogging through it for two hours, Chris and I updated each other on the phone as usual. Once he said, "The bites are happening on every cast now.", we were on the move. ;) We showed up 15 minutes later at a lower river run where he had been fishing. Although no fish were on the beach, Chris reported numerous hook-ups and losses. ;D Luke started fishing beside him by floating big pieces of roe through the productive slot. Immediately he was also into some fish but the fights were very brief. Somehow hooks were popping out with ease. Perhaps it was the fast current, or the anglers were simply too eager. ;D
I fished through a faster section above them with the spoon. Pretty soon a coho salmon grabbed it hard on the retrieve. The 8lb-or-so fish flopped and darted in the fast current before I brought it into the shallows. Meanwhile, Chris started looking for his camera. By this point I had spotted the absence of the adipose fin. :D Just when I thought this was finished as I was about to beach it, the hook once again popped out! >:( I turned around, Chris was still looking for the camera, unaware of what had just happened. He turned around with the camera, only to find me standing there like a lost duck. "What happened?", he asked. "What do you think?", I replied. :-\
The bites continued as Chris and Luke were into some more fish but the hook continued to fly back over his head into the branches. I hate to say it, but it was rather comical from my point of view. ;D After wandering away for awhile, Marco joined us once again and got into a jack spring right away. He topped that off with a rather disgusting looking pink salmon, which I had to unhook. :-X Seeing that roe was working well, I switched back to the float setup. I first connected with a large male chum salmon right away, followed by a incredibly chrome jack spring. Riverman then showed up, nice meeting you. :) We all fished together for a bit longer, before my float dipped once, which I missed. It dipped one more time right after, when I set the hook hard. The deep dives in the strong current made me think that it was yet another jack spring. As it got closer, we were pleasantly surprise to see a 5lb chrome hatchery coho. This time I beached it smoothly, but still had a hard time to get a hold of the flopping silver. It took one person holding a bonker, one person blocking the fish's path back to the drink, one person (me) to grab the fish, and one person documenting it on camera before the first hatchery coho salmon was officially landed at 11:00am. ;D
The rest of the day was pretty slow. We fished the mid river once again with only one chum to show. Our last attempt back in the lower river made Luke's day. ;) He landed a wild coho salmon that was estimated to be around 4lb, and a very fresh jack spring measured 55cm in length.
Water clarity was reasonable, but water was rising. If rain holds off and temperature stays low, the river should still be very fishable tomorrow. Good luck to all and enjoy this great coho salmon season.
Thanks to Chris for snapping this photo today.
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album34/071010_1.jpg)
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Nice fish rod. Dion told me you did well which made me make the trek out to the wack after work....no hoes for us.....mid-river clarity wasn't ideal.... upper was better.....we fished a few nice runs but NADA ???? oh well
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Here's the obligatory "Thanks for the report" Nice fish
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Nice Fish Rodney, Its nice to have a good guide like chris.
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Thanks Brad for the advice on the lure modifications. ;) I'll give it a try.
Last few days been fishing mid river and always finding the coho in deeper water on the line between the fast water and the back eddies. The water down from the Kieth Wilson bridge is where I first discovered this year how effective the blades were when I caught two jacks and two springs in four consecutive casts mid afternoon about a week and a half ago.
The average size of the coho seems to be way up from years in the past and I haven't seen anything under 7-8 pounds for the most part except for the jacks.
Unfortunately I don't know how you can upload pictures on this system?? :-[ Looked through all the help features and it doesn't have anything on there about doing it. :-\
Cheers!
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Photo posting information can be found on this page:
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=12876.0
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Thanks Rod for the link. :)
My digital camera packed it in recently so no pics from today but here's a shot from two days ago taken by a friends camera phone of my 10-11 pound doe that was already gutted. Hope this works.
(http://a170.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/93/m_82468b5cad4d8c85ccb6384cfdbbcba1.jpg)
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(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album52/DSCN8894a.jpg)
This was the hatchery I had to release today.
Last night's fishing got me really exited. Entire night I just couldn't really fall asleep. Everytime I close my eyes I would see coho on the end of my line. My little baby woke up at 4 for his formula, after feeding him, it's 4:30am.... If I leave for the river now I could make first light. So quickly loaded my gears, forget about breakfast, and off I go. Traffic was descent, no delays, got to the river fairly quick. Went abit further up where I left yesterday and instantly I was into my first coho and second... then quiet down. For the next hour also only saw a COLOURED pink lazily swimming by. My cell alarm went off, Oh oh 8am better give the boss a call, letting her know where I am and I won't be back in the office until 1pm. Well a lecture from her followed :P and FISH ON.. Oopps got to go, that turned out to be coho #3, another hour went by with no more fish I thought, well last cast then I go. I don't know how many 'last' cast it took but after another 10~15 min. I was into another fish. Just as I was about to land it, hook popped off. :'( Hoping it's not just a stray fish but a school that just came by, I quickly rebait and cast back in, yank, float dissapears, coho #4 quickly came in. After bunking #4 and unhooking it, the bait's still on the hook so just do a few drip let it fall off and I'll go. After a few casts Dip... Dip... Dip... I slowly lift my rod and off it goes :o this fish is sure powerful for a cautious biter. After 2 runs it leaped OMG a huge hatchery coho... at this point I was sort of hoping it'll pop off so I won't feel bad I have to release it. But faith has it that I have to land it. After another couple runs and flips it finally gave in and came slowly in.. a quick photo from a nice gentleman walking by and back goes the fish (really unwillingly on the fisherman's part). What a way to end a morning of good fishing. Maybe it'll still be around the next time I go.
(http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album52/DSCN8890.jpg)
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Entire night I just couldn't really fall asleep. Everytime I close my eyes I would see coho on the end of my line.
it's 4:30am.... If I leave for the river now I could make first light. So quickly loaded my gears, forget about breakfast, and off I go.
My cell alarm went off, Oh oh 8am better give the boss a call, letting her know where I am and I won't be back in the office until 1pm.
well last cast then I go. I don't know how many 'last' cast it took
Ok, your coho fever is definitely more severe than mine... Seek help soon. ;) The boss must have been really surprised that you have disappeared when she woke up, or maybe not... ;D
Nice fish rod. Dion told me you did well which made me make the trek out to the wack after work....no hoes for us.....mid-river clarity wasn't ideal.... upper was better.....we fished a few nice runs but NADA ???? oh well
I told Dion on the phone that I caught one hatchery coho and he told you that I did well? :o One hatchery coho is not well! ;D Ten maybe... ;D Now I know Dion doesn't expect much from my fishing skills. ;) :P I liked that mid river colour today actually, except we found mid river was really unproductive today. The fish are either stacking up in the top section (being hooked by Bwi Bwi ;D ), or entering the river in the lower section.
Check out the adjusted weather forecast. It looks like many of you will possibly have a good coho fishing weekend ahead. :)
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Bwibwi: u r gonna catch them all. :P
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Ok, your coho fever is definitely more severe than mine... Seek help soon. ;) The boss must have been really surprised that you have disappeared when she woke up, or maybe not... ;D
;D She wasn't particularly happy about it. :P Got an earful after arriving in the office. She made me work until 10pm to make up for the time. :-\ :P
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nice report seems like you had fun. hope to get out there soon and hook into some myself :)
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;D She wasn't particularly happy about it. :P Got an earful after arriving in the office. She made me work until 10pm to make up for the time. :-\ :P
Sounds fair enough ;D ;D
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You should be giving her fish, it works for me, everyone at my office is buttered up ;)
Cheers,
Nicole
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You should be giving her fish, it works for me, everyone at my office is buttered up ;)
Not this boss, those fish already belong to her (once cleaned, filleted, packed and cooked) since he has to go home with her at the end of the day. ;D
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Jeez! You guys are making me feel inadequate (not that that is anything new for me). I've been out twice this year, and no coho to show yet (though I did hook one on the fly a week and a half ago!).
I'm going on Saturday I think - anyone wanna show me how it's done? :)
PS - I want to spend a bit more time floating blades... any tips?
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I have one tip, please avoid floating blades anywhere in slack water using those huge dink floats... They slap all over the water and spook the fish...
And to remind you on what they look like tex, here's a photo :P
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2311/1518746732_3437a6d449.jpg)
I'm going elsewhere this weekend, the crowds are just too much for me to take...
Guys with tackle boxes and huge landing nets and me do not mix well.
;D
Nicole
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Good choice Nicole! :)
Nice fish also!
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I'm not going to tell anyone how to fish as long as thier method produces results within the regs and with the fish actually taking the hook rather than being forth fed it.
What I'll mention again as I have in previous postings is that even casting big #6 Fox blades into slow pools of water I have played with no less that 8 coho each of my last 5 trips with not one foul hooked nor have wasted any time with pink boots. Sounds like spooking could be a good thing to me. :-\
And even on last Saturday I virtually saw no one the entire day. Hundreds of chrome coho spread out throughout a beautiful valley if you simply want do the hiking.
Good luck to everyone the weekend. :)
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I'm not going to tell anyone how to fish as long as thier method produces results within the regs and with the fish actually taking the hook rather than being forth fed it.
What I'll mention again as I have in previous postings is that even casting big #6 Fox blades into slow pools of water I have played with no less that 8 coho each of my last 5 trips with not one foul hooked nor have wasted any time with pink boots. Sounds like spooking could be a good thing to me. :-\
I have a good joke that touches on this ;)
A young Bull and an old bull stand on a knoll, overlooking a field full of fine looking heiffers. The young Bull says excitedly ..."Let's run down the hill, smash through the gate, grab one of those Cows,and Shag her brains out!"
Old Bull responds calmly... "lets walk down, open the gate and SHAG EM ALL!!"
LOL
Nicole
PS, I'm just teasing, do whatever works for you, I just find a quiet, stealthy, and controlled approach catches far more fish... Enjoy it, whatever you do!
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As I mentioned, miles and miles of river on the Chilliwack that offer complete solitude that won't leave you stressed by anyone elses technique, size of tackle boxes or nets.
Enjoy! ;)