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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Gooey on September 07, 2004, 09:50:00 PM

Title: First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 07, 2004, 09:50:00 PM: Got a beauty chromer today. Rouchly 36 inches in length...real thick shoulders, great fight!

Hit a #3 blue fox! Nice to see a fish actually chase down and attack the hook...i still feel a little dirty after the fraser floss fest ;)

I will send a pic to rod to attach here, tight lines.
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: dead head on September 07, 2004, 09:54:18 PM: :o :o
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Trout Slayer on September 07, 2004, 09:55:32 PM: Wild or Hatchery? :)
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 07, 2004, 10:03:14 PM: oh yes...it was a hatchery fish, tasted great on the BBQ tonight!

In terms of the river...sorry guys, I hiked for 3 hours today and didnt see a SINGLE fisherman...I intend to keep it that way!
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Rodney on September 07, 2004, 11:11:34 PM: (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/pic/pic040907-1.jpg) (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/pic/pic040907.jpg)
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Trout Slayer on September 07, 2004, 11:12:28 PM: Beauty fish!!!!
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: blaydRnr on September 08, 2004, 12:02:01 AM: Quote from: Gooey on September 07, 2004, 10:03:14 PM
oh yes...it was a hatchery fish, tasted great on the BBQ tonight!

In terms of the river...sorry guys, I hiked for 3 hours today and didnt see a SINGLE fisherman...I intend to keep it that way!

well thanx to you, i think that's about to change ;D
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: sassyboy on September 08, 2004, 02:43:32 AM: I think I recognize that rock ;D
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: ~IvAn~ on September 08, 2004, 07:52:09 AM: same here
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Post by: Koho on September 08, 2004, 07:56:01 AM: Thats a sweet fish!!! 8)
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Green Horn on September 08, 2004, 09:49:13 AM: HEY!!!!
I'm not sure about that "rock".....but...That IS my pole!!!!
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 08, 2004, 10:40:56 AM: no question that the pole AND the rock are both mine! ;) ;D ;)

I built that rod up from a blank, 9 foot 8-12lb light action lamiglas wrapped in brown with gold accents accompanied by a shimano conquest (step above the TE) that I bought in singapore this feb....sweeeeeeeeeet combo!

That was the first real fish I have caught on it (besides a bunch of cap coho).
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: JP PATCHES on September 08, 2004, 11:15:26 AM: Nice fish! 36" is a monster Coho.....what did it weigh?
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Fishin Freak on September 08, 2004, 12:22:16 PM: 36 CM ;D
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Fish Assassin on September 08, 2004, 01:27:13 PM: Fine looking fish that's for sure
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 08, 2004, 04:27:52 PM: I started to think about it and 36 inches did seem long and then I did the math on a fish calculator and it was indicating a 18lb'er! So for all you doubting thomas's I dug thru the dam trash today and pulled out the taped measure again.

It read 35.5 INCHES! I'll admit tho thats not quite true...its my neighbors tape measure (well its mine after he left it in my yard!). Anyhow the old guy is so cheap he hole punches pennies to make washers and I just noticed his tape measure (which I am now returning) starts at 12 inches! It obviously broke and he put a new tang on it.

Sorry gang my bad...35.5 less 12 equals a 23.5 inch fish. Pretty dam respectable regardless! I'll take it!
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Rodney on September 08, 2004, 04:31:30 PM: lol.... typical fishermen.... exaggeration...... ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D Very nice fish Gooey, got me all excited now. :)
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 08, 2004, 04:34:35 PM: I have a feeling its going to take a while to live that one down! :o ::) :o
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: roeman on September 08, 2004, 06:08:26 PM: a 36" coho????????????
has anyone ever seen one of those before, truthfully, that is 3 feet....
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Last Cast on September 08, 2004, 08:52:10 PM: Gooey, what model Conquest have you got? I bought a 200 earlier this year and just wondering what to load it with, ie. line. What's your ticket to success?
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: Gooey on September 08, 2004, 09:00:47 PM: i fished it with 12lb main on a 3113mb for steelies and switched over to 10lb for the coho. I do a lot of hardware fishing for coho so the extra castability of 10 seems to make sense, I can cast a 3# blue fox around 75 feet with no weight...no problem!
Title: Re:First Coho of the season
Post by: 2:40 on September 10, 2004, 05:23:11 PM: Never seen one 36" but they do exist...what a tank! :o