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[scales]

Decided to hit the honey hole again today for some springs action but instead was into pinks and coho,yes COHO!  There was very little pressure throughout the system, really enjoyable and meeting nice people I must say.  Managed to land few few for the Bbq after about 6  coho hook ups, and they are big this year.
 

[BCfisherman97]

Great job Scales, keep em' comming.

[mr.p]

Very NICE!

Thats enough to get me out there tomorrow. I have had no luck with hatch hos this year. 2 weeks, 12lbs of roe.  Nothing to show but mostly jack springs and jack coho.  A couple wild bucks around 4-5#.

[mattyo]

Nicely done Scales . That ho on top looks like Gonzo!!!

[dennisK]

hey scales, nice photo. were you using blades or roe for the coho?

[Steelhawk]

Great looking hooknoses. Congrats Scales. Time to head out this weekend. Expecting a zoo after this report though. 

[Fisherama]

Wow! I'm so jealous.  I put in a good day yesterday as well with a friend (a newb) but some how managed to get skunked...  We spent all day tossing roe and blades into deepish choppy water in the upper, all of my usual spots which have produced well for springs in the past but only managed a few accidental pinks.  Not sure what was up, perhaps the low low water conditions, but it was a great day regardless.   

[coho killer]

 My buddy landed a 45 inch spring tuesday, anyone know how big that is?

[scales]

My buddy landed a 45 inch spring tuesday, anyone know how big that is?

Did he measure the thickness?  45" that one big fish, maybe 38#

[scales]

hey scales, nice photo. were you using blades or roe for the coho?

Thanks, blades were not effective this time.  Organic pink roe and peach wool soaked in pink roe pulp the weapon!

[doja]

Did he measure the thickness?  45" that one big fish, maybe 38#

My last fish that was 1 meter exactly weight about #37 so 45" could be over #40.

Still a nice "tyee"

[Tex]

My buddy landed a 45 inch spring tuesday, anyone know how big that is?

Impossible to get an accurate estimation without knowing the girth of the fish (measured around the stomach and over the back of the fish, just in front of the dorsal fin typically). 

The formula is generally accepted (length x girthsquared)/750.  Some people use the figure of 800, depending on the size of the fish.  A "typical" chinook in the ocean will have a girth that is 2/3 of the length, which would give a 45" fish a 30" girth.  Using the formula, that would put it at approximately 50 pounds or so.

HOWEVER, that is for an ocean chinook.  In the rivers, they will typically have lost a fair amount of girth, and density or mass.  So without knowing the girth of this fish (which can vary wildly depending on the actual chinook itself), we'd have to give it a reduced girth in estimation - say 27" or so?  I'd put that fish at somewhere just north of 40 pounds... maybe 42 or 43 pounds?

Regardless, beautiful fish!

Tex - landed one he estimated just shy of 50 pounds on the Vedder in 2007, so knows the bigs boys are in there.

[bentrod]

piscatoral pursuits has a decent size estimator. 

[Tex]

piscatoral pursuits has a decent size estimator. 

I can't imagine it's any better than the info I just gave, and without girth, the estimation will be VERY estimated at best.

[hotrod]

My biggest spring was 60 lbs and it measured 48 inches!


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