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[smoqqy]

could someone enlighten me
fish the lower vedder again today at first daylight.around 8:00am,i'm hook up on my first coho.we're fishing right in the middle of the river,about three feet deep.we found a nice pool at the edge of the other side.since it will take me a long time to drag the fish to the other side,i ask my buddy if the fish is wild or a hatchery.it took me couple of minutes to navigate the fish near him to spot the fin real good.at the minute he told me it's a keeper,my feet are rushing to the beach which is half way of the river.as soon as i beach the coho,i started looking for something to bonk it,it's a solid ten pounder.ready to hit the head,i glance again at the tail one last look to be sure and there it was hanging,like a letter T figure where the adipose should be,like the fin has been cut only half and the lower half still there.i look at it for seconds and decided to release it since part of the fin is still there.
now my question,did i do the right decision?
my buddy told me that i should have kept it.
lower river was quite today,i work hard to get three coho,i guess two wild and a hatchery,from six in the morning until three in the afternoon.
my buddy got a wild and a hatchery doe.
fish hard and a lot of patience,tight lines!

[Fish Assassin]

From your description it would appear to be a misclip. I would have kept it.

[steelieman]

I remembered catching a couple steelheads with the same thing- half adipose missing but not flush down. I though better of it and let them go.

I think I did the right thing just in case DFO say otherwise.

[leaping steely]

Just be happy you landed one. I know some people who still haven't got any coho landed yet.

[Hawkeye]

Inmy opinion, it's a mis-clip.

I caught a really nice one last year with a tiny adipose fin and decided to let it go. Afterwards I popped into Fred's Tackle and mentioned it to them and they said I should have bonked it. It was most likely a mis-clip.

There are apparently a lot of mis-clips because of the number of fish that need to be clipped each year at the hatchery and as long as the remaining tiny adipose fin is fully healed, they said it's a keeper.

However, if you've already got one or two on the beach and don't want to chance an encounter with a CO that thinks otherwise, then let it go to spawn.

Ultimately, you'll have to make the call depending on how much of the adipose fin is left.

Tight lines!

[summersteel]

good answers. I agree with the other posters completly. No none should rag on you if you kept that one.   BP

[smoqqy]

thank's guy's for the tip, opinion and advice.
i know what to do next time.
the three fish are all i got that day,a wild one,the mis clip and a hatchery doe.

oct.22
work hard again today,from first light until four this afternoon at the lower vedder. very slow,we got our first coho by eleven(wild) a couple of chums and a spring that starting to color,all are gently release,raining hard and a little bit of HALE.
i've got my hatchery doe by 3:30pm, ,my buddy got his after ten minutes of mine.
we're on highway 1 by 4:20,beautiful sunshine on the way home.tight lines!

[TROY B]

kill it missclip

[chris gadsden]

Further to this, I hear but cannot confirm that because of FOC cutbacks not all hatchery raised coho are being clipped.

Anyone with further knowledge of this?

[Fish Assassin]

True Chris

[Matuka Jack]

Yeah, I think they did not clipped all the hatchery fish.  My hatchery to wild catch ratio are way off the scale this year.  I usually get 8 hatchery to 2 wild.  This year its the other way around.