Haven't been out fishing for a while. Friend and I decided last nite to head out to Vedder firstlight today to try our luck for that first coho of the year. We arrived at the river close to 6:30am in enticipation of REALLY coloured up water condition due to last nite's rainfall, however, it didn't materialize. What a relief. Water clarity wasn't super but at 2 ft it's okay. We came to our first planned stop hiked in and hey, no one's around... nice, fresh run. By the time we're all setup it's about 7am. Buddy of my made his first cast, as he watched his float slowly drifting downstream, it made a couple dibs then WHAM... a spring!! Well it's the first fish can't leave a bad carma so he played it safe and takes his time (partly due to light weight gear - for coho) finally after numerous runs and a spetacular 3 feet vertical leap.. we landed the beast 20 min later. We thought this could be a good start for the day/season. Well our optimism was shutdown with the next 4 hours of NOTHING!! We worked that stretch so well if blind folded we probably won't trip!!! By now it's noon time, we figure fish might have become tight liped due to the occational sunny breaks. So instead of 'feeding' though fish in water, we fed ourselves. Having ourselves recharged, we started working that run again. Our lucky break came when the brief rainfall came in the early afternoon. We started to see fish breaking water surface. Wow this could be it, coho!!! We made several drift through and YESS... FISH ONN... hey could it be another spring!!! Buddy's float's swimming upriver!!
WOW could that fish jump!! After a short dash up river it leaped over a boulder and holy $*#& a nice sized coho!!! Okay play it cool, take a deep breathe in... out... oooops... I meant take a deep breathe run with the fish!!! Hey with that spring as a practice early in the day, my friend quickly had the coho under control. Though with the early arobatic shows it came in relatively easy.. 1st coho of the day/season in the bag!!
Okay back to fishing. Well, can't let him have all the fun.. about 10~15 min later I finally got a solid hit......
Okay that was a boring fish, no leap no runs just acted dead.. a jacdult spring... Anyone got a pair of scissor it measured to 63cm!!! What a rip off!! For that extra 1 cm it took up 1 spot on the license
Oh heck at least didn't skunk on the first trip.
We didn't have another hit until after 4pm... buddy float went down and that fish went down stream, after a few runs, friend broght the fish close to shore and boy.. was it a nice size fish!! I took a grab and
lost the fish for him..
SIGH... Alright back to top of the run and next time don't loose the fish again, so I said to myself. Not long after we reset he got another hit the fish went straight out across the river and started zigzagging back and forth. Friend kept his cool let the fish tire itself right out. This is the easiest landing all day long. What a relief..
Decided this is as good as it would get on the first outing, we called it a day. Weighted the bigger coho of the two at home, it's 12lb.
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Topic: First cohos of 2008 - Vedder Sept 22 (Read 3586 times)