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[Gooey]

I made friends with this australian guy who is as much as a fishing nut as I.  We decided to take a day off and hit the vedder.  Bug Pumper had been out yesterday and hit springs and chums so I suggested that we would probably end up hooking a lot of springs and chums and a coho or two if we were lucky.  We weren't...well sort of.

We fished the upper river (on the way to ranger).  I thought for sure I would be able to get my auzie pal into a couple of big brutes and let him have a real battle on my 11.5 medium heavy lamiglas.  Fished all the regular holes with really nice roe and didnt pick up a single spring - despite seeing lots splashing around!  We were getting pretty disgruntled, not even allison pools could produce a single spring...it was loaded last week, I think the fish were just off today. 

Funny thing was that after moving around and working the river we eventually we did find some fish to take...six coho to be exact!  All were hooked on blades.  While I couldnt find a spring for the life of me, we had a pretty good run with these fish which were all in the 7-10lb range.  ended up long line releasing 2, let 1 go and keeping 3 - not a bad day considering we couldnt even hook a spring up til then!

[cohokid]

i was at the vedder yesterday, fishing roe as well. me and my dad hoked 2 jacks about 6 puond and 4 puonds and i lost a coho. tons of chum every were.

[BIG T]

Hey gooey,what a lucky guy,at least you get to go fishing while the rest of us are stuck at work.

[BwiBwi]

I skunked yesterday at Vedder. 

[Gooey]

My anniversary at work is nov 26 and I still have 9 holidays and 3 "sick" days to use before that date so I will be fishing lots in the next 4 weeks   

[FishiN AddicT]

Headed out to the river at first light with BlaydRnr and had a good portion of the river to ourselves.  I guess school's back    It was quite slow where we first started fishing, only hooking into 1 chum and 1 spring (both released).  We decided to move upper a bit and tried a few casts.  Every 15 - 20 mins (no takers), we'd move up a little more each time.  Found a nice channel where i thought some Ho's might pass through so i try it out.  At about the fifth cast, my float goes down, hook is set.....and i clearly see it's my first Ho of the season    It swims down the river, then decides to go back up, then down, and up again......but not once it did any acrobatic movements.  Finally it's ready to come in and i get it close enough to see that..................................it's WILD    A beauty 7lb doe.  Oh well........i can actually say i caught a coho now    That was it for that spot, so we check out Allison, Ranger Run, and Limit Hole.  We didn't actually fish there, but just wanted to see how the river flow was and how the other fishermen did.  Flow was excellent and clarity was great, but didn't want to fish the crowd.  We decided to go back lower river and try another spot.  All i kept hooking into were chums, but BlaydRnr was a little ways from me and he came back with a nice little hatch coho of about 4 lbs.  All in all......it was a great day at the river up until i broke my Fenwick rod    I guess i have a reason to buy another rod 

Here's a pic of BlaydRnr's Ho:

[DaN ThE MaN]

awsome looking fish.

DaN

[BIG T]

Nice chromer...

[James]

nice fish ,  good think you guys got some fishing in while the water is right . With the rain forecasted for the next 3 days , I think it will be fairly muddy again . Just my luck too as the rainy days are my days off !

[Gooey]

With the way this season is shaping up, their two fish and my five fish that day could be ALL the fish in the river right now 

I was happy to get the fish I did, but those results would have been marginal at best last year... were as they are great for this year.

 spoke with an old timer at on the way...as guy I alway see there.  He fishes twice a day and has 2 hatchery coho so far this year.  It is what he calls his worst season ever.

[marmot]

i dont feel so bad after hearing that ....ive been out chucking spoons for the past two weeks on the vedder and have come up empty other than a big old stanky boot.

[Gooey]

hardware is a great bet for coho...may I suggest that if you are chuckin spoons, also take along some colarado blades.  Our success yesterday was all on blades. 

I had maybe a 3 foot 12lb leader, 2 inches of pencil lead, and a float.  Not only did we drift the blades but we also cast into back eddies and retrieved them (basically spin casting them).  Had more luck on the retrieve than on the drift.

I have probably said enuff 

[THE_ROE_SLINGER]

nice fish

[summersteel]

Hey Gooey pal,  when talking fish you only count the ones you landed!!  Saying that you got 5 is cheating.  Otherwise I could say that I got 5 springs and 8 chum on Sunday.   

[mark]

Very true Bug Pumper.