Man, severed herring heads always have such a sad facial expression. Smile more, bud, it could be worse!
Man, severed herring heads always have such a sad facial expression. Smile more, bud, it could be worse!
Oh and down by the bay, the watermelon also migrate with the coho it seems.Just wrapped up a trip to Sekiu from Thursday night to Sunday. This was my first coho rodeo and boy I didn't know what I was getting into.
We fished coho every morning limiting by 9am Friday, 10 am and noon Sunday. Each day we had to weed out our hatchery coho out of 20-30 coho. We used a combination of downriggers and bucktailing rods to catch our fish. Today in the windchop, the bucktail rod really shined.
We also caught two pinks and several Mackerel as well. Looking forward to trying those based on some other posts on here.
We also did bottom fish, calling it with 14 rockfish, one 27.5(!) Lb lingcod that was a hitchhiker, 1 halibut, 1 True Cod (new species for me), 4 back cod, (new species) for me and a couple flounder to the boat. We called it early for deep water bottom fish after I reeled up a 50 lb skate from the depths.
Overall, it's been a great trip. We saw whales were out, otters, porpoises not to mention the gorgeous sunsets and sunrises that we are able to experience.I was able to take my son out with my Dad and I and I think we made some lifelong memories.
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Ok I know o asked this a couple of years ago but never pursued it. Jerry had some input. But I’m not going back to that site that has no name. Anyhoo. Got a gear gig coming up and want to use my inherited FIL’s rod….but I have no reel for it (my other outfit is an eagle claw mitchell 300 old style.
Looking for some ideas on a reel for 100ish at most? Any thoughts. Thanks.
They're practically giving those away on eBay.A Penn 209 would have been on ours back in the day!
A Penn 209 would have been on ours back in the day!
NIBOk I know o asked this a couple of years ago but never pursued it. Jerry had some input. But I’m not going back to that site that has no name. Anyhoo. Got a gear gig coming up and want to use my inherited FIL’s rod….but I have no reel for it (my other outfit is an eagle claw mitchell 300 old style.
Looking for some ideas on a reel for 100ish at most? Any thoughts. Thanks.
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And I have been using this combo since 1979.
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There is a lot more diversity to run timing to Puget Sound coho than most folks realize, in general, for all life stages., I wonder if the ocean going stocks are much later timed than most anglers realize.