Pink on the right.
Puget Sound
- Thread starter Stonedfish
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Congratulations.
Hit the beach before work. Beautiful morning. Went 2-4 and came home with a couple of typical rezzies. Lost a higher quality fish early when it jumped and spit me.
Nice sunrise.
Fish for the freezer.
First time fishing this color combo. Mostly white and iridescent blue with a whisper of chartreuse. Decent amount of GITD material tied in for early morning.
Nice sunrise.
Fish for the freezer.
First time fishing this color combo. Mostly white and iridescent blue with a whisper of chartreuse. Decent amount of GITD material tied in for early morning.
Have you guys noticed a decrease in size of the Rezzies this year? Last year I remember catching multiple 3-4lb fish in June, now 3-4lbs is the average size I catch in august. I wonder if the high catch rates in the downrigger fishery have led to the faster growing fish being selected against
Without a doubt the summer long fishery (whether by gear or the fly angles) consistently selects against faster growing resident coho. The fastest growing coho are the first to convert a diet that is primarily fish (herring) and thus become more catchable. If they are caught and harvested as sub 20 inch fish they will not grow into 24 inch fish.
This year the intense (and unusual) mid summer resident coho fishery MA 10 during June and July will limit the access to the larger ocean coho as they return over the next 6 weeks or so (a 1 fish limit).
Curt
This year the intense (and unusual) mid summer resident coho fishery MA 10 during June and July will limit the access to the larger ocean coho as they return over the next 6 weeks or so (a 1 fish limit).
Curt
Dry it and sell it as Hippie Humpy Hemp.
SF
Doesn’t seem much different this year than last year.
Plan on releasing more unclipped hatchery fish in the future though where unclipped fish can’t be retained.
That might make for some bigger fish where you can bonk unclipped fish.
SF
Wind and other obligations kept me off the water this last week, but was able to get out there today.
Six weeks or so ago my son asked about taking his buddy from work out fishing. Said he was super interested in fishing but hadn't done much. Well it just worked out that today, my birthday of all days, we were able to make it happen.
Day started with my son and buddy over sleeping and getting to the launch a bit over an hour late. I was bummed cause I thought that early morning high exchange was going to be our best shot at coho, but luckily I was way off.
Even getting a late start and missing the tide change we found absurdly good coho fishing. I had them rigged up to cast cut plug herring on spinning rods, and after a slow half hour start it was suddenly insane action for the next few hours. Schools of coho were coming in and absolutely going ape shit over giant schools of tiny sandlance. Several times they reminded me of albacore crashing bait. They were ravenous. We quickly had 5 hatchery fish on ice, lost a handful, missed a bunch, and released several because we were not quite ready to quit. Just blew me away how good it was. I totally expected the day to be a pink show, as that's an easy way to get first timers onto some fish, but was thrilled with the quality of the coho fishing.
I did pull out the bug rod for maybe 10 minutes and quickly hooked and lost two nice fish, but today was about letting those guys fish and just getting to spend time with my son.
We sat on one nice rip that came off a point till about 10 or so before the sun got high and the rip finally died out. There were still schools of coho coming through but they got pretty skittish and were tough to get to bite. We did release one pink during this period as well.
Needing one more fish for our limit, and my son's friend curious about pinks, we headed a couple miles away and found a few schools that would pop up here and there and give us shots at em. We lost three or four before we finally put our last fish into the net and headed back. Hit the dock right around noon.
In what has been one of the most trying years of my life it was a true joy to get to have my boy out with me today, and watching the stoke those two young men had for their day was just awesome. Sent em home with a whole pile of fillets to smoke up.
Just a stunning sunrise
Stoked to get the last fish of the day
A birthday I will cherish
Rough day out there
Every coho was just stuffed with tiny sandlance
Six weeks or so ago my son asked about taking his buddy from work out fishing. Said he was super interested in fishing but hadn't done much. Well it just worked out that today, my birthday of all days, we were able to make it happen.
Day started with my son and buddy over sleeping and getting to the launch a bit over an hour late. I was bummed cause I thought that early morning high exchange was going to be our best shot at coho, but luckily I was way off.
Even getting a late start and missing the tide change we found absurdly good coho fishing. I had them rigged up to cast cut plug herring on spinning rods, and after a slow half hour start it was suddenly insane action for the next few hours. Schools of coho were coming in and absolutely going ape shit over giant schools of tiny sandlance. Several times they reminded me of albacore crashing bait. They were ravenous. We quickly had 5 hatchery fish on ice, lost a handful, missed a bunch, and released several because we were not quite ready to quit. Just blew me away how good it was. I totally expected the day to be a pink show, as that's an easy way to get first timers onto some fish, but was thrilled with the quality of the coho fishing.
I did pull out the bug rod for maybe 10 minutes and quickly hooked and lost two nice fish, but today was about letting those guys fish and just getting to spend time with my son.
We sat on one nice rip that came off a point till about 10 or so before the sun got high and the rip finally died out. There were still schools of coho coming through but they got pretty skittish and were tough to get to bite. We did release one pink during this period as well.
Needing one more fish for our limit, and my son's friend curious about pinks, we headed a couple miles away and found a few schools that would pop up here and there and give us shots at em. We lost three or four before we finally put our last fish into the net and headed back. Hit the dock right around noon.
In what has been one of the most trying years of my life it was a true joy to get to have my boy out with me today, and watching the stoke those two young men had for their day was just awesome. Sent em home with a whole pile of fillets to smoke up.
Just a stunning sunrise
Stoked to get the last fish of the day
A birthday I will cherish
Rough day out there
Every coho was just stuffed with tiny sandlance
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Looks like a sucky birthday in a sucky place!
Zak
Legend
Happy Birthday!
Awesome way to spend your birthday, with some solid quality fish to boot!
Know that feeling well.
Happy birthday man!
It would have killed me to leave fish to go find ice.
If it were me I’d probably have run some 12lb leader through its (sliced) gills and mouth as a stringer, tied it to a stick, then let it wash in the water while I kept fishing.
Cool fly pattern! No bead or eyes or weight?
