Thread for coastal wild coho....

[rogerdodger]

Fished the Winchester bay osprey point and there was 35 caught yesterday 25 in the morning and 10 in the evening only two fin clipped

maybe ODFW catch data just has the Umpqua and Siuslaw numbers reversed, that would make sense from what is being posted here and it would also match last years catch data better...(Umpqua closed Oct.1 at 1300 fish quota, Siuslaw closed Oct. 10 at 900 fish quota).

 

[rippin fish lips]

maybe ODFW catch data just has the Umpqua and Siuslaw numbers reversed, that would make sense from what is being posted here and it would also match last years catch data better...(Umpqua closed Oct.1 at 1300 fish quota, Siuslaw closed Oct. 10 at 900 fish quota).

I know of lots and lots and lots of hoes caught on the S already. Sounds right to me. Lots at the jaws and quite a few up river....

 

[rum runner]

i sure wish i had there luck. i hope i get 1 0r 2 before the quota is met. but im happy with catch and release also.

 

[rogerdodger]

I know of lots and lots and lots of hoes caught on the S already. Sounds right to me. Lots at the jaws and quite a few up river....

you are certainly an expert and talking to good fishing folks; we are still rookies just observing things here.

but I thought I heard the Coho normally hit the Umpqua in good numbers a week or two earlier than the Siuslaw and that the Alsea was a bit later still, that must have been bad information...?

Below is the 2011 and 2012 data so far: if the data is reasonably correct, one conclusion would be that Siuslaw Coho are in about a week early this year and the Umpqua Coho are perhaps 2 weeks late.

I guess a good question might be: is anyone catching Coho in the Umpqua system? and if they are, why aren't those Coho showing up in the count data so far...

 

[C_Run]

Just a mention about my first salmon trip of the year yesterday. Spent the day trolling herring and spinners in Yaquina Bay near Toledo. I'd never been there before. I saw lots of fish jumping and marked many. I located a big pod of coho on some flats and had them all to myself for a couple of hours trolling pink spinners and herring right through the pile. One serious takedown and that was it. 0 for 1 for eight hours of effort even though they were practically jumping in my kayak . Saw one caught by a boat. Anyone have any secrets they want to share?

 

[Mad dog]

Just a mention about my first salmon trip of the year yesterday. Spent the day trolling herring and spinners in Yaquina Bay near Toledo. I'd never been there before. I saw lots of fish jumping and marked many. I located a big pod of coho on some flats and had them all to myself for a couple of hours trolling pink spinners and herring right through the pile. One serious takedown and that was it. 0 for 1 for eight hours of effort even though they were practically jumping in my kayak . Saw one caught by a boat. Anyone have any secrets they want to share?

The secret is....sometime's coho just don't bite!!! :lol:

When they are on the bite, pink is the color most of the time! The Coquille was the same last weekend, lot's of fish rolling and very few biter's! :think:

 

[todd_brooks]

Just a mention about my first salmon trip of the year yesterday. Spent the day trolling herring and spinners in Yaquina Bay near Toledo. I'd never been there before. I saw lots of fish jumping and marked many. I located a big pod of coho on some flats and had them all to myself for a couple of hours trolling pink spinners and herring right through the pile. One serious takedown and that was it. 0 for 1 for eight hours of effort even though they were practically jumping in my kayak . Saw one caught by a boat. Anyone have any secrets they want to share?

I can't say I have experience doing it yet but if I were you and from what I've read. I would keep my distance and be casting and retrieving pink hoochy spinners on the edges of a pod like that not trolling through em. Or even bobber and eggs/jigs on the edges.

 

[Mad dog]

you are certainly an expert and talking to good fishing folks; we are still rookies just observing things here.

but I thought I heard the Coho normally hit the Umpqua in good numbers a week or two earlier than the Siuslaw and that the Alsea was a bit later still, that must have been bad information...?

Below is the 2011 and 2012 data so far: if the data is reasonably correct, one conclusion would be that Siuslaw Coho are in about a week early this year and the Umpqua Coho are perhaps 2 weeks late.

I guess a good question might be: is anyone catching Coho in the Umpqua system? and if they are, why aren't those Coho showing up in the count data so far...

The Umpqua coho are late again this year....last year there was a big early run and then almost nothing until the 1st week of December....about 60% of the run went over Winchester dam the 1st two weeks of December last season!

There are people catching coho in the Umpqua!

 

[C_Run]

I can't say I have experience doing it yet but if I were you and from what I've read. I would keep my distance and be casting and retrieving pink hoochy spinners on the edges of a pod like that not trolling through em. Or even bobber and eggs/jigs on the edges.

I'd heard of that too but there were so many of them spread out over about a quarter mile, I just kept going back and forth hoping. Next time I might try to be more stealthy.

 

[C_Run]

I regret not taking a picture of the fish I caught and released yesterday back at Yaquina Bay because it would have been good for a laugh. I have a new term in my vocabulary now..."mini jack". I put in about six hours trolling herring and spinners and had one fish on early that came off after about 5-10 seconds. Later I caught "the fish" on a spinner and did not know what it was. At first I thought trout, searun cutthroat. It was very chrome and football shaped for an eight incher and very salmon-like in appearance with faint spots on the darker back. I did not know they came that small but after checking the trusty internet, I found a study of salmon life cycle stages and, indeed, coho mini jacks average a bit over 200mm or about 8 inches.Then I found some pictures of coho mini jacks on another site. So, that was my first salmon of 2012.

There never seems to be a lot of reports from Yaquina but if anyone is interested, yesterday the fish checker had recorded one fish caught at Toledo by 3:00 pm when we left and everyone we talked to complained about how slow it's been this year. One guy told me my fish I had on was the second "bite" he had heard of yesterday. So, still very slow over there although there were plenty of fish rolling here and there.

 

[rogerdodger]

I regret not taking a picture of the fish I caught and released yesterday back at Yaquina Bay because it would have been good for a laugh. I have a new term in my vocabulary now..."mini jack". I put in about six hours trolling herring and spinners and had one fish on early that came off after about 5-10 seconds. Later I caught "the fish" on a spinner and did not know what it was. At first I thought trout, searun cutthroat. It was very chrome and football shaped for an eight incher and very salmon-like in appearance with faint spots on the darker back. I did not know they came that small but after checking the trusty internet, I found a study of salmon life cycle stages and, indeed, coho mini jacks average a bit over 200mm or about 8 inches.Then I found some pictures of coho mini jacks on another site. So, that was my first salmon of 2012.

There never seems to be a lot of reports from Yaquina but if anyone is interested, yesterday the fish checker had recorded one fish caught at Toledo by 3:00 pm when we left and everyone we talked to complained about how slow it's been this year. One guy told me my fish I had on was the second "bite" he had heard of yesterday. So, still very slow over there although there were plenty of fish rolling here and there.

I am fairly sure what you caught was a baby Chinook on the way to the ocean...I had a discussion on other subjects with an ODFW guy recently and I mentioned that we were occasionally hooking a little fry and he confirmed in the Fall they would be Chinook, the Coho fry, according to him, move through the rivers and to the ocean earlier in the year...

 

[C_Run]

I am fairly sure what you caught was a baby Chinook on the way to the ocean...I had a discussion on other subjects with an ODFW guy recently and I mentioned that we were occasionally hooking a little fry and he confirmed in the Fall they would be Chinook, the Coho fry, according to him, move through the rivers and to the ocean earlier in the year...

I suppose that could be, also. It looked like a mature coho in miniature. If I had the picture we'd be talking about the shoulders on that dink.