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Rantalot

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Coho
« on: April 17, 2011, 05:29:54 PM »
Have you ever seen coho here this late or this early depending on how you look at?Saw a spawning pair on a very small local stream.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 06:55:35 PM »
Are you sure they were not steelhead?  The Cap has an early run of jack coho (bluebacks) that show up around this time of year, but that is the only one I know of. 
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Re: Coho
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2011, 08:16:39 PM »
Possible, I have it from a reliable source that DFO and fisheries have been experimenting with the release times for hatchery produced fish for years.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2011, 08:25:03 PM »
No where near the cap!Im talking a little stream in the country.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2011, 08:59:32 PM »
Quote from: newsman on April 17, 2011, 08:16:39 PM
Possible, I have it from a reliable source that DFO and fisheries have been experimenting with the release times for hatchery produced fish for years.

Release timing is all about seeing what release time gives you better smolt to adult survival and has very little to do with adult spawning timings. There are a few very late spawning coho stocks around but I have never seen one later than mid March. That may or may not be a good survival trait in the stock of fish but it shows the variablility that is out there. You never know, in 5000 years April spawning coho may be a "normal" thing.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2011, 09:09:39 PM »
Iam going to go back tomorrow before work and hopefully get some pics.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2011, 09:21:42 PM »
Quote from: Rantalot on April 17, 2011, 09:09:39 PM
Iam going to go back tomorrow before work and hopefully get some pics.

Unless you can get some underwater close ups, not sure that will help.  Are these fish black boots? or just coloured?
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Re: Coho
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2011, 09:29:36 PM »
They looked liked boots.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2011, 10:09:43 AM »
Chehalis has has boots around in Apr. I know of at least 3 other streams which I won't name here that have seen coho in April as well. However...it is usually like the first few days of April....not the 17th.

The latest I saw coho in the chehalis was the last day of March one year...but they were in very good shape and there is no doubt they had 10 days to 2 weeks life left in them.

All in all, I have no problem believing you saw late coho at this time of year.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2011, 02:30:19 PM »
about 2 weeks ago i talked to a guy on the vedder who said he got a fairly nice wild coho and that was like the begining of april... i think there just really late fish or misjudged and are really steelhead.
but last year at the end of march i did catch a coho on a local stream on march.30th, but it wasa boot.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2011, 07:46:27 PM »
Quote from: Rantalot on April 17, 2011, 09:29:36 PM
They looked liked boots.

Then they were probably coho that just did not realize they were already dead.
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Re: Coho
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2011, 08:40:01 PM »
about a month ago i walked up to the spawning channel at the chehalis hatchery, to have a look at the steelhead, and there was a group of  5 or 6 coho boots, these fish were literally black, but i was surprised to see coho in there so late in the year
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Re: Coho
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2011, 03:50:20 AM »
I have seen coho as late as March in Chilliwack hatchery spawning channel and I have caught Chehalis river's coho into Feb. before.



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