After yesterday's skunking and the confrontation with a long liner it was back to my old haunts this morning. Only one other person around as the long weekend crowds have now gone, in some area's anyway.
It was not long until the bites started and I lose a couple and then land a wild coho jack. Boy do I want an adult as I donot want to not get one this season. On one of the subtle takes (one never knows if it is a smolt or not as there seems to be a lot this year that will disappear when the water cools a bit more) the Maple Leaf Drennan dips and the water boils on the strike as a bright coho becomes airborne not once but several times, the heart and pulse quickens as this fish looks in the 7 to 8 pound range, I see it is a buck by its snot.
I fight it carefully for 4 or 5 minutes and just as I think I have him, slack line, gone. disappointed but at least I know for sure i did have an adult coho on. i thought a time or two earlier in the season I may have but not certain. Well now I am getting closer to one. I loose a couple more jacks and then land a chum that goes back. Then believe it or not another coho that is a lot smaller but it comes nicely in and I see it is a wild doe so it goes back to join the buck that escaped me but I finally did break the month long dry spell.
My day ends with a bright doe chum that goes home with me after taking a roe bag. I have smoked one last week and it was enjoyable, all is eaten and I have another smoking now.
I am thankful for my fishing trip with lots of action and a coho finally landed and a chum to eat too.
I cleanup some garbage in thanks and find three DNE's and a cleardrift as well. As I pack up I see a top rod from this forum land a chinook adult and a bright chinook jack, both released, both inside a few minutes.
Off to badminton now and I look forward to tomorrow as I belive my luck is now changing.