Northwest Fishing Reports

ANYONE CAN ADD ON TO WHAT I HAVE POSTED.
*fish the junk hard and dont be afraid to get a drift under it.
*fish roe and ghost shrimp
*throw #3 to #4 vibrax in coho colors
*float jigs and roe in deep slots and holes
*fish drift gear in darker colors with char yarn and purple yarn combo with lots of scent.
if in a boat:
*put plugs out 25 pulls at day light and go 5 pulls every 20mins til slot is fish through.
*boondog through tailouts and creek mouths. coho love slow seams and fast tailouts.
*bait divers with 3 to 4 ft of leader only no longer

Thanks for the info! Going to hit the sky/wallace in the next few days and this info should help!

Good stuff Curado now questions...

*fish roe and ghost shrimp

What is a ghost shrimp?

*throw #3 to #4 vibrax in coho colors

What are considered "coho colors"?
Where are the best places to throw spinners? Fast water? Slow? All?

*float jigs and roe in deep slots and holes

Jig colors also in coho colors or different colors for jigs as opposed to spinners?

*fish drift gear in darker colors with char yarn and purple yarn combo with lots of scent.

When you say "darker colors", do you mean dark corky AND yarn (I have seen a lot of bright colors being used for coho & darker for kings)?
What is "char" yarn?
What scents - Anise? Krill?

*boondog through tailouts and creek mouths. coho love slow seams and fast tailouts.

What is "boondog"?

Also to add to the list.. I got some crushing hits last season on 50/50 Rvfshr spoons in deeper pools, they would follow it in and slam it almost at the bank...

The spots I have been fishing for Coho, fish early with bait. I have found them in the slower, almost frog water. Use really good home cured eggs. I am not sure about every river, but when these fish are being bombarded by cannonballs, you can forget about catching them.

jens wrote:The spots I have been fishing for Coho, fish early with bait. I have found them in the slower, almost frog water. Use really good home cured eggs. I am not sure about every river, but when these fish are being bombarded by cannonballs, you can forget about catching them.

I have only used cannon balls a few times, when drift fishing I try to stick to slinky weights. If I run out of them I go to thin pencil lead.

I have watched guy on the skok use 1oz cannon balls and even one guy use those clear sinkers, the ones you fill with water. Sounds like someone throwing a big azz rock in the water when he casted. Hmm doubt there any fish within 30 feet of where that just hit the water.

May sound odd, but I used to find chartreuse-colored jigs worked fairly well when in the right kind of water (out of frog water, more flow like along main current seams and some cloudiness). Slow water I agree with others on bobber and eggs and be very . Kinda like stalking a frog in the local pond at night when you were a kid Except the darn shine 'em in the eyes with the flashlight trick doesn't work on salmon. Well maybe pinks but definitely not coho.

PS- I mean actively jigging the jigs, not floating them under bobber/float.

first question. ghost shrimp is sand shrimp

coho colors are: black,chartruce,red, dark green, firetiger, orange, purple

best place to fish spinners is anywhere you can slow pools, seams, rock piles yes rock piles, trees, log jams

jig colors listed

coho like dark colors. black, dark red,dark green

boondoggin a term for drift fishing in a boat or side drifting

scents: egg,shrimp, anise, krill and my fav anchovy

The biggest thing you need to catch coho in the rivers is coho to be IN the rivers......

Sorry, this is off-topic but I've been wanting to ask.

Matt, your avatar....... is that your happy face?:)

curado wrote:first question. ghost shrimp is sand shrimp

coho colors are: black,chartruce,red, dark green, firetiger, orange, purple

best place to fish spinners is anywhere you can slow pools, seams, rock piles yes rock piles, trees, log jams

jig colors listed

coho like dark colors. black, dark red,dark green

boondoggin a term for drift fishing in a boat or side drifting

scents: egg,shrimp, anise, krill and my fav anchovy

Thanks!:cheers:

Splitshot wrote: Sorry, this is off-topic but I've been wanting to ask.

Matt, your avatar....... is that your happy face?:)

Don't you know his secret to fishing.

1. Think like a fish.
2. Act like a fish.

That's his fish face.

But realistically its probably his pain face from having to hold his arm out so far for the BIG PICs.

But I do have to agree with him, the fish has to be in the river before you can catch one.

Matt wrote:The biggest thing you need to catch coho in the rivers is coho to be IN the rivers......

You can say that again....

Splitshot wrote: Sorry, this is off-topic but I've been wanting to ask.

Matt, your avatar....... is that your happy face?:)

Well I hope it's not his "OH" face. [lol] [lol]

Matt wrote:The biggest thing you need to catch coho in the rivers is coho to be IN the rivers......

true and they are slowly movign in, jsut got off the phone with a firend who is fishing the straights right now and he isn't alying htem liek last year but gettign limits, jsut taking longer than it did in years past. Give it another week or two.


If you fish it, they will come!

The fish and game boys at Cady have been telling me for the past two weeks there's plenty of silver in their traps. Which in turn should mean the river as well. And they tell me (I quote) "They are all over in here, you just gotta find them... And then get them to bite"

I think that last part is the issue were having right now. These fish are totally lock jaw (but seem to be coming out of it!)
I'm pretty sure pulling plugs, covering lots of water, and pissing them off is going to be the ticket for awhile.
Fishing the river on sat, I saw PLENTY of rollers and full aerial displays from nooks and coho alike. More silver than nook.

They are in there boys, we just haven't unlocked the secret for sure yet. And it sounds like they are finally starting to heat up out in the bigger, saltier water. Lets hope the flow keeps coming up the rivers for some fresh fish willing to give us some action!

Splitshot wrote: Sorry, this is off-topic but I've been wanting to ask.

Matt, your avatar....... is that your happy face?:)

LOL! That is my serious face! Gotta stay serious if you wanna catch fish! .... or maybe I just gotta go to the bathroom real bad?

Don't know why that posted twice???

Matt wrote:
LOL! That is my serious face! ?

Well it seems to work for you.

( I'm going to go practice in the mirror...)

I have been having serious line snap issues lately fishing for silvers in the duwamish hooked a big one today set the hook and it ran and never stopped good thing I had the 4000 reel otherwise he would have spooled me about 60 yards out I decided to tighten the drag 1/6 of a turn because he was going so fast and snap. That was with 15lb / 12 lb leader 100% Floro P-line. I was using 12lb / 10lb mono but lost 4 due to breakage my drag is not to tight any suggestions or reasons this is happening ?