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tumbleweed

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Stave Coho
« on: October 16, 2012, 01:49:26 PM »

Hi,
 Does the Stave have a decent run of Coho?.  I have never caught a Coho and would like to change that ;D. I will be  Jig fishing for chum tomorrow but would also like to do a little coho fishing and hopefully end my shutout.
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Re: Stave Coho
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 04:02:18 PM »

The stave does ok for coho. Try areas away from the masses of chum, small flies work well (blue muddler minnow and kelsey's hope are my two go to flies).

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Re: Stave Coho
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 05:16:08 PM »

There seems to be less coho every year, though if you know where to look you can usually score.
right now the water is Super high, and what I saw today was no fresh fish, chum or coho.
When it drops hopefully there will be some fresh fish around.Lots of Woolmart shoppers out there still too.
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Re: Stave Coho
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 06:13:01 PM »

There was fresh fish, just not clean. They are entering as boots with sea lice
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Re: Stave Coho
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 07:02:07 PM »

There was fresh fish, just not clean. They are entering as boots with sea lice
exactly that, i believe....the ones u are seeing now have been staging for awhile and have just been entering the river recently. But there are some exception where there are chrome bullet chum or hoes if u time ur fishing adventure properly and coho do exist in that system but aren't always the easiest to find considering the river is flooded with chum but they are there :P....behind the chum, infront of the chum, just far away from them.
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Re: Stave Coho
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2012, 09:07:30 PM »

exactly that, i believe....the ones u are seeing now have been staging for awhile and have just been entering the river recently. But there are some exception where there are chrome bullet chum or hoes if u time ur fishing adventure properly and coho do exist in that system but aren't always the easiest to find considering the river is flooded with chum but they are there :P....behind the chum, infront of the chum, just far away from them.

I tied into an awesome acrobatic chum Sunday night, not chrome but clearly not a boot either, but did not get any of the smaller coho I saw rising to bite.  The chum I hooked on a pink polar shrimp took me deep into my 200 yards of backing and made no less than 10 spectacular jumps before I could turn her back with the 8 wt Sage.
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