Caveman's Coho 2024

[Caveman Jim]

Yeah Jim. I saw that thing. (shudder) Like my old day used to say. "It's going to feel real good when it stops hurting."

My dad being a SF Green Beret an Airborne Ranger would say, suck it up kid, you ain't dead…

 

[dhunti]

Missed opening day 9-16 but at it at 0 dark 30 this morning. Nice to have minus tides at the beginning of the season.

Released a king right across from the launch before I could even get the third rod out!!!

Continued down river bucking the tide til it turned to incoming and started to get bit till 10 & it died off.

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Great recovery from missing opening day, nice catch!

 

[mwilliams45g]

 

[Caveman Jim]

I haven't been on the river in a while, I might get a duck license and go on a cast n blast.

 

[1911Fanatic]

I've only been fishing twice in my life. Never caught a thing. That's okay, cause I really don't like to eat fish.

 

[Mikej]

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Is that what the Coho have come to in the NW now? What, a "Jack" silver used to be at 18"/chinook 24" Now they've put a Jack coho at 12"? Looks like I haven't missed much since giving it up two years ago.

 

[solv3nt]

Is that what the Coho have come to in the NW now? What, a "Jack" silver used to be at 18"/chinook 24" Now they've put a Jack coho at 12"? Looks like I haven't missed much since giving it up two years ago.

No.

 

[Mikej]

No.

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That what I remember a Jack coho being. Back when I was casting spinners from the mouth of the Sandy River. From bank and then boat.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Is that what the Coho have come to in the NW now? What, a "Jack" silver used to be at 18"/chinook 24" Now they've put a Jack coho at 12"? Looks like I haven't missed much since giving it up two years ago.

The Chehalis River Coho jacks are under 16 inches, Chinook jacks are under 24 inches.

 

[Mikej]

The Chehalis River Coho jacks are under 16 inches, Chinook jacks are under 24 inches.

How ARE the coho runs in the Chehalis, and other col tribs, these days? Hatchery fish #s. I don't mean for you to get exact, just is it worth the $--trouble/time.

 

[Xaevian]

How ARE the coho runs in the Chehalis, and other col tribs, these days? Hatchery fish #s. I don't mean for you to get exact, just is it worth the $--trouble/time.

The Chehalis, Snohomish, and Skagit rivers are usually the highest in the state for coho, with upwards of 70k forecast for 2024. But that is wild salmon numbers from DFW science division report. Hatchery is around the 10 year avg.

Chehalis and its tribs Satsop and Wynootchee are pretty solid places to fish for Coho, especially in late October/November.

 

[Caveman Jim]

How ARE the coho runs in the Chehalis, and other col tribs, these days? Hatchery fish #s. I don't mean for you to get exact, just is it worth the $--trouble/time.

Honestly, we have a few good runs and then we have more than a few bad runs. It is still pathetic because the Chehalis, which flows into the ocean through Westport, should have tens of thousands more fish swimming into our tributary's. But that will never happen again since Alaska intercepts a minimum 75% of all the coming into the watershed.

 

[Xaevian]

Honestly, we have a few good runs and then we have more than a few bad runs. It is still pathetic because the Chehalis, which flows into the ocean through Westport, should have tens of thousands more fish swimming into our tributary's. But that will never happen again since Alaska intercepts a minimum 75% of all the coming into the watershed.

And the tribal fisheries in those places are allotted "50%" of the catch. But it's more like 80%.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Don't get me started on the natives taking wild fish and we can't… Comanagers of the fisheries and stewards of the lands my azz !!!