After being out yesterday and only having 2 bites and no fish to show for it, I thought I would give it another shot. So I loaded up the bar rod and thought I would put in the spinning rod for something new. I never take the spinning rod bar fishing with me when I'm fishing for coho. So I arrive at the chosen bar, set up, and make my first cast with the bar rod. For the next 3 or so hours I have action. A hatchery jack, a hatchery cutthrout, a wild jack and 2 wild cutthrout and a number of misses. The tide changes and the bite dies off. So I think at that time maybe I'll try spinning. I see nothing but you never know. Second cast I feel a tug and I set the hook and out of the water fly's a coho, I'm in shock. A great battle I gently bring the fish in and it's a wild so I release it back to the wild. I continue on and have a couple taps but no fish. I slide down river a bit and a short time later I feel the tug and give the hook set and fish on once again. This one may be a jack I think, but no sooner I think that a out of the water come a coho. Another Wild. I can hardly believe this, two coho in less than half an hour. Well I try for the next hour and I land a fair size cutthrout. Time to head home. So after 20 plus years of bar fishing I think I will be taking my spinning rod with me more often. Change can sometimes be good.
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Topic: Tidal Fraser River, October 29th 2009 (Read 1238 times)