Well I headed to my buds in Chilliwack late on Tuesday and stayed the night with good intensions of being on the river at the crack of dawn. Never was much of a morning person and looks like that's not about to change.
Finally got to my first spot at 8:30am after realizing I had rested my Tim's breakfast sausage muffin on the roof of my van while getting in and then proceeded to drive off with it still there.
So had to break out the left over pizza from the night before that I had brought along for lunch. Coffee and cold pizza...what a breakfast!
High overcast and the sun still hadn't broke over the mountain peaks yet so still quite chilly with water conditions just perfect. Third cast with the Vibrax #5 and the Gods must have decided I was due a break for the breakfast ordeal and I see a flash rise and turn then a coho on!
Land a nice bright 6 lber hatch that unfortunately bore the scar of a snag in the back and then line marks where it had done it's classic coho roll and wrapped itself several times with the snaggers line before somehow getting free.
Nothing else there or the next two spots I went to and I was getting prepared to head to the Chehalis thinking things were winding down on the Chilliwack but boy was I wrong. Fourth spot I hit at about 9:30 and the sun had just started peaking the mountains and in the next hour i proceeded to hook up with 7 more beautiful coho.
Landed 5 of them and lost two but all were still in incredible shape for this time of year. Still shiny chrome and just ever so slightly darker on the tops of thier backs than 2.5 weeks ago. Can't beieve it! So finally a day where I limited out with hatchery with one 6lb, two 8lbers and the last was a beautiful 12lb doe I'm guessing as it was 30 inches from bow to stern.
Decided to do some exploring for the rest of the day and scouted around Alison pools and below Tamihi rapids all of which were in great shape with only a handful of guys fishing but didn't see any fish being taken when i was there in the afternoon. Stopped in and chatted with the new owner of the On The Way store named Lloyd who seems like a real character and great guy. Have the fish on ice right now and will try and get the nieghbors digital to take some pics to post in the mornin as mine has packed it in.
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Topic: Added Pics - Coho on The Wack Oct. 31st (Read 6560 times)