
We braved the cold wind this morning to get one more crack at these fresh coho salmon in the river right now. In the past 25 years since I've known her, I have introduced different fisheries to my good friend Erin. She has done pink salmon in the Fraser, rainbow trout in Interior lakes and ice fishing last winter, but never tried coho salmon. After 30 minutes of instruction on how to cast the baitcaster and control the float in the right drift, I thread a roe bag onto a hook. On the second cast, the float took a deep dive and out came this gorgeous hatchery coho salmon which probably just arrived from the Fraser River last night. Not bad for her first time. 😉