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[charles]

Lots of people lots of fish...  Some spots, more people than fish...

Pinks are everywhere.  Some like to bite, some won't take anything you throw at them.  Saw a couple fly guy and a CP guy with great success.  Then went to another place under the bridge.  It was again more people than fish   Stand next to 2 guys under the bridge but that noise of rod ripping a couple of time per drift from one guy scares me, so I move up a bit.  Saw a hole with no one fish and decide to try it.  Second cast, this chrome fish came up.  I can't decide if it is a jack spring or coho but since it was a hatchery fish (fin clipped), I bonked it.  Packed it and asked the lady counter at parking lot and she thought it is a Jack...  But I thought the head and meat looks like a coho.  And later the gum and tongue color confirmed it...  And just so you know, if its fin is not clipped, I would have letted it go since I wasn't sure if it is a jack spring or coho.

What do you guys/gals think?



Anyway, saw 3 guys across river had great success at hooking fish.  So I went over and gave it a try in an empty slots.  Figured out where the fish is and sure enough, the pinks were willing to take any offering.  It was a great fun day.  I think I have released many many pinks; some colored but a few chrome one.  BTW, got one buck so humpy that it looked like a sailfish  

I only bagged the Coho and safely released all the pinks...  and if it is a coho, this will be  my first.

one sad note, a father and son saw us fishing with good success...  We were fish down by the grass side but on the bottom of the road.  He decided to fish next to us but drift his thing right in front of us where we were fishing...  what a great way to show his son how to take a spot where someone is fishing at... 

[kellya]

Nice fish looks like a jack but its hard to tell i might be wrong. Easiest way to tell is the base of the teeth at the gums is white.

[charles]

gum is white and tongue is black...  I know, it is kind of confusing for me...

[kellya]

sounds like a coho congrats

[Derp]

good thing it wasnt a fin clipped sockeye 

[Fish Assassin]

Looks like a coho

[charles]

I can tell a sockeye apart...  just coho and jack confuse me...

[gman]

Looks like a coho to me. Look at the other thread from Sept 22 for pictures of some jack springs.

The tails are usually a quick general  indicator (jack has lots of spots, coho few or none) The mouth is the dead giveaway - look at gums where the teeth are - white line= coho, all black = spring.

[dspot]

Nice fish Charles. Similar thing happened to me last weekend... I caught a fish I thought was a Jack at first (had quite a few spots all over its tail), but when I landed it I saw white gums. The fish wasn't clipped so I let it go since I wasn't sure.

[mykiss]

Looks like a coho to me!  Nice fish

Looks like it's the white gums, few but small spots on the tail (larger on the springs and more spread out on the tail), and the narrow caudal peduncle and pointed tail....also you'll know when it's a spring cause it stinks a lot more than a coho does..... lol  Nice fish

[mykiss]

Oh yeah, and more orange/red flesh.  Although there's a chance of catching a super late red spring but I doubt it.....

[jetboatjim]

Are you charles from richmond?

[charles]

from richmond?  I fish in richmond, but I live in vancouver.

[Gooey]

I would guess a coho based on the pic...look at the jacks on bug pumper's report...see the heavily spotted tail, that is a dead give away for a spring. 

[JB]

Nice coho I was fishing the upper part of the river and caught a 20 pounder spring caught a total of 7 fish