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Author Topic: Capilano River, May 20th 2009  (Read 2486 times)

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Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« on: May 21, 2009, 08:21:37 AM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 03:51:54 PM »

Where are these so called coho??

What's a Coho?

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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 08:45:36 PM »

ohh leepying steely im pretty sure you know exactly what a coho looks like  ;)
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 10:38:28 PM »

I thought coho enter rivers only in fall to spawn. so we have spring and fall coho?
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2009, 03:44:27 PM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2009, 04:04:01 PM »

They come back too early compared to their fall cousins.  :)
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2009, 12:00:04 PM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2009, 04:31:10 PM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2009, 07:13:10 PM »

ok buddy proffesor Don Furnell Phd in fisheries biology at malaspina unviversity is wrong then your right
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2009, 07:42:28 PM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2009, 12:01:51 AM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2009, 03:00:15 PM »

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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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2009, 03:43:52 PM »

yup, i know 2 others. and a few with january coho.
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2009, 09:33:49 PM »

it wouldn't be the first time a prof was wrong. They are just early.
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Re: Capilano River, May 20th 2009
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2009, 05:55:14 PM »

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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