There is a lot more diversity to run timing to Puget Sound coho than most folks realize, in general, for all life stages.
I agree. It would sure be nice to get back October in MA 9.
Catching beach coho on Halloween sure was fun.
SF
There is a lot more diversity to run timing to Puget Sound coho than most folks realize, in general, for all life stages.
I’ve been tempted to do that with all the bait around but worry about unclipped fish swallowing the baitMany coho died back in the day trolling nothing but a 4-6oz banana weight and a cut plug herring.
If you want to get deeper, just kick the motor into neutral, just like you would if you were motor mooching.
Just good old mooching is effective as well.
SF
I am too young and too new a fisherman to have lived it (Save a couple chunky August Kings caught around Posession back in 2007 or 08) but from what I have read MA7 and MA9 look to be our biggest saltwater losses just in terms of diversity of fisheries. To think there was a time you had an earnest (No matter how small) shot at catching a coho, chum, steelhead, or chinook in area 9 all through October and November.I agree. It would sure be nice to get back October in MA 9.
Catching beach coho on Halloween sure was fun.
SF
I was reading about the NOF negotiations this season and we almost got the first week of October. We ended up loosing it due to…Nooksack Spring Chinook conservation concerns…I agree. It would sure be nice to get back October in MA 9.
Catching beach coho on Halloween sure was fun.
SF
So cooked up a side of the chum today. I've never caught a chum salt bright like this before and honestly it had some great fat content.Fished for two hours this morning. Caught my first chrome bright chum. Two other coho made it to the bad too. October fishing is here is the South Sound!
Any pictures by any chance?So cooked up a side of the chum today. I've never caught a chum salt bright like this before and honestly it had some great fat content.
Pan fried over some pesto spaghetti squash and it was really good! I won't be turning my nose up at them if I can get catch like that.
I can't comment on if there are big numbers but there are some numbers of coho in the sound through October and later, fresh fish enter rivers as late as December in some Sound systems. The numbers definitely get less and less fishable as the rains push them in. Netpen zones can sometimes find fish, I remember taking a trip to the Edmonds pier to photograph the sunset late last October and finding dorsal fins sticking out just in front of the pier, doing the sad little circle salmon do when they discover that the gravel bedded stream their bodies were compelling them to seek out does not exist. Of course when I went out the next morning they were nowhere to be seenare there any coho out in the sound anymore or have they pushed into the rivers?
No pictures today.Any pictures by any chance?
What rods do you like to jig with?I'm going to try to get out for the morning high for some jigging. Will report back
Right now I am jigging with some lamiglass black inshore rods. I'm thinking about trying a slow pitch rod this season because I think it would be easier for my son to figure out.What rods do you like to jig with?
Caught three: one shaker, just legal wild, and a 27 in.Right now I am jigging with some lamiglass black inshore rods. I'm thinking about trying a slow pitch rod this season because I think it would be easier for my son to figure out.