A enjoyable late breakfast with The Master at Cookies who took 2 nice hatchery coho at the TC by the way helped relieve me of my stress of losing my Maple Leaf DNE float yesterday.
With a few chores done, a nap I made the TC run with an hour of fishing time left.
When I got there a fellow was into fish after fish that gave me hope of getting some too but I found out when I accidentally hooked his line later he had about a 8 foot leader
with only a single jensen egg on, a least he had a barbless hook.
I moved into the top of the run to get away from this activity and after a few casts just as the new attached Maple Leaf DNE nearly reaches the log (Rodney will know the spot)
it disappears. Darn the log I think but by golly the log is moving.
With this log a real obstacle when you hook a fish you have to try to pull the fish towards you to clear it and continue to play the fish. Luckily I am successful and a nice 6 pound doe coho lays in the water at my feet. I look for the missing fin but I see the adipose is still there, a unclipped one that quickly scoots away when the hook is pulled from the roof of its mouth.
Another 20 minutes of fishing equals not a bite and as I wade back to the Leaf Mobile as the rain dimples the water around me I wonder if this will be the last coho I will beach this year, number 15.
To keep on topic, conditions were just perfect, will they hold for tomorrow, time will tell I guess, however if the rain they forcast for the next 3 days arrives maybe the coho season will be over on the Vedder for another year.
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Topic: 2007 Vedder River conditions (Read 78059 times)