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Title: Coho
Post by: CP on August 15, 2022, 12:28:04 PM
Any ocean run fish being caught yet in areas 8-2, 9 or 10?

I don't see much effort going on but there are a few boats out.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: pickardjw on August 15, 2022, 12:34:14 PM
There were some boats pulling fish at the oil docks on Saturday. Not a ton of nets flying though. Pulled up a dogfish and enough seaweed to stock a sushi restaurant for weeks.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: jamesfromseattle on August 15, 2022, 12:58:38 PM
It was slow for me over the weekend. One shaker and some dogfish. Didn't see anyone keep a coho--fished both the east and west side of 10.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 01, 2022, 08:39:27 AM
The fishing is still slow but the views can't be beat.

Title: Re: Coho
Post by: WAcoueshunter on September 01, 2022, 09:40:37 AM
I went out looking for ocean coho in MA10 over the weekend, but didn't find any and went back to kings.  Fish checker said she'd seen a few, but the vast majority of the coho in the creel counts are still resident fish.  Have heard it's not great out in the Straits yet either.  Think we need some rain to get them moving.  Lots of fish in the ocean.

I'll be in MA7 starting tomorrow looking for coho, but those are primarily fish headed north instead of south. 
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: Stein on September 01, 2022, 11:37:37 AM
Finding fish without extra fins seems to be the biggest challenge, in the last three days the ratio of unclipped has been 70%.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: NRA4LIFE on September 01, 2022, 11:43:27 AM
Same here.  This is exactly what happened to us 2 years ago.  Unclipped to clipped was roughly 4 or 5 to 1.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: Netminder01 on September 04, 2022, 07:16:45 PM
Headed out tomorrow on my buddy's boat tasked with getting his kid his first coho. I've not fished the area in a decade but generally know how to fish it. Don't need any spots just seeing if better or worse than the other over the last few days.

Shilshoe to Jeff Head or Edmonds to Oil Docs, Richmond Beach, Boeing Creek, Meadow Point?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: huntnphool on September 04, 2022, 09:45:02 PM
 A buddy limited his boat today in Edmonds. 8 fish, all 50-60 feet trolling a Purple Haze squid with Purple Haze flasher. Good luck! :tup:

 11 is still slow, although we have been getting fish.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: NRA4LIFE on September 04, 2022, 10:03:39 PM
Sent you a PM. 
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: Netminder01 on September 04, 2022, 10:15:32 PM
A buddy limited his boat today in Edmonds. 8 fish, all 50-60 feet trolling a Purple Haze squid with Purple Haze flasher. Good luck! :tup:

 11 is still slow, although we have been getting fish.

Thanks!  I'll be running one green, one purple, and one tbd setup. Might try rigging some hearing or the ol' cookies and cream spoon.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: Stein on September 05, 2022, 09:21:14 AM
Last week my experience was that one rig would go hot and then stop.  Then I would put something different out and it would go hot while the previous hot rod would be dead.  Kind of strange, but it was like flipping a switch on and off.

I move between either a hoochie or the flashy skirt thing and small spoons.

If you are marking fish or in a bite, don't be afraid to switch the gear up.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: PointBlank on September 05, 2022, 09:45:45 AM
Here is a good identification chart for those miss clipped fish. Might be kicking back more hatchery fish than we know…

https://images.app.goo.gl/JWK1uAM3P3My9E338
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 05, 2022, 10:50:16 AM
Here is a good identification chart for those miss clipped fish. Might be kicking back more hatchery fish than we know…

https://images.app.goo.gl/JWK1uAM3P3My9E338

A lot of hatchery Coho didn’t get clipped at all back during the height of the Covid scare; now the fish are returning.  Not much we can do about that.   
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: huntnphool on September 06, 2022, 10:04:28 AM
 Caveman, your inbox is full. ;)
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 07, 2022, 08:45:36 AM
 :(
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: 7mmfan on September 07, 2022, 08:48:51 AM
Well that doesn't help.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: birddogdad on September 07, 2022, 08:58:21 AM
was at Neah in straits last weekend, tore up the coho, maybe some moving in soon...
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 07, 2022, 09:08:25 AM
Good thing that we are releasing all those non-clipped fish, so they can swim into the gill nets.

Title: Re: Coho
Post by: PointBlank on September 07, 2022, 09:13:50 AM
Rumor has it one of those bowpickers went down by the I5 bridge due to being overweight. don’t know how true that is but I wouldn’t be suprised :dunno:
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: WAcoueshunter on September 07, 2022, 09:34:27 AM
I made it back out in MA10 this morning.  Lost several, but got my two and was done at 7:45a.  Clearly ocean fish based on the number of fish around, but just not very big.  Both fish I kept were probably 5 lbs.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 07, 2022, 09:38:21 AM
Same here, ocean fish, just not very big.  I did lose a better one at the net.  The ones that get away always seem to be bigger.

Title: Re: Coho
Post by: cavemann on September 07, 2022, 11:50:19 AM
Caveman, your inbox is full. ;)

shoot, thanks...  cleaned up now.
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: mtnwkr on September 07, 2022, 04:00:16 PM
Here is a good identification chart for those miss clipped fish. Might be kicking back more hatchery fish than we know…

https://images.app.goo.gl/JWK1uAM3P3My9E338

A lot of hatchery Coho didn’t get clipped at all back during the height of the Covid scare; now the fish are returning.  Not much we can do about that.



You can keep wild coho in 11 right?
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: hunthard on September 07, 2022, 04:40:49 PM
Yes on keeping wild coho in area 11
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: WAcoueshunter on September 08, 2022, 11:14:54 AM
Pretty much the same story for me this morning, except my conversion rate was better and I got done a little faster.  The bigger of my two fish may have gone 6 lbs. 

I ran up to Oil Docks to see how it was going, and was a little shocked to see a gillnetter spread out along the 9/10 line, right among the sport fleet.  Not sure what effect that has on fishing in the immediate vicinity, but I didn't see any nets fly in the time I was there. 
Title: Re: Coho
Post by: CP on September 08, 2022, 11:43:33 AM
Anyone know how to get the gill netters' season/schedule? 
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