Northwest Fishing Reports

I was going through my tackle baxes and I came up with some very cool spoons. One was a "Johnson Sprite" It looks like a Fiord spoon same red white coloring. Also in the box were a couple Fiords and Lil Cleos. I found Kastmasters and crocs. Seeing this reminded me of the 70's and spooning Lk Wa. as a kid. In this same box were something called Coho Flies. (made from Polar Bear hair.) Digging through gear is like looking through the old family picture album. Its funny how what worked back then we dont use today. We find the new more scientific ways of catching. Its more then amazing how much gear Ive collected for 50 years. Sheeeesh.!!!

Thats cool, I have a ton of old gear from my grandpa and dad, Spoons are one of my favorite methods of fishing but I rarely seem to catch anything off of them

Wow!!! Ive been cleaning up gear and been finding amazing things. Old Bass Hula-Bops and plugs. Old salmon plugs. F;atfish that were huge. Really cool stuff Ive forgotton about. I wonder why no one ever started a fishing gear Musuem before. I have some real interesting stuff.

Coho flies work and can still be bought, they just aren't tied using polar bear hair anymore. If you have a few, try them tied up in tandem, that is two or three on one line spaced about 8" to 12" apart.

You can probably put them up on sale on Ebay and make some money. Some of the more collectible one will fetch something. Plus theres guys out there that just want something for keepsake. A lure that their father taught them to use when they were little kids.

When I used to use Coho flies Id put them behind my #0 dodger and troll them in the wake of the boat. They would almost skip on the surface and Silvers would smack them super hard. Youre only fishing maybe 6 ' deep. A lil herring strip worked well but mainly for throw back shakers.

Coho Flies, AKA Buck Tail flies, horse hair died different colors.

Yeah, nostalgia can be great. When my GrandPa passed I inherited several older (50-60's) Mitchell reels, several bamboo poles, and a couple tackle boxes full of lures I've never seen the likes of before. Unfortunately with a only a teenage daughter who hates fishing (she get's it from her mom obviously) I guess I'm the end of the line. Just can't bring myself to sell any of it.

I am a fishing gear hoarder. I have just about every reel ,pole,spoons,spinners and tackle from when I started fishing in the late fifties. I just can get rid of this stuff.In every room in my house,my desk at work, truck and car all have some kind of gear in it. Usually corkies and spin n glos.

racfish wrote:When I used to use Coho flies Id put them behind my #0 dodger and troll them in the wake of the boat. They would almost skip on the surface and Silvers would smack them super hard. Youre only fishing maybe 6 ' deep. A lil herring strip worked well but mainly for throw back shakers.

Every year I coho fish at Shilshole I try this at crack o dawn. I think it worked once and was way cool.

racfish wrote:I am a fishing gear hoarder. I have just about every reel ,pole,spoons,spinners and tackle from when I started fishing in the late fifties. I just can get rid of this stuff.In every room in my house,my desk at work, truck and car all have some kind of gear in it. Usually corkies and spin n glos.

wow. that is a lot of gear!

If you like the old fishing tackle stores then I recommend Lincs on Rainier Ave.They have such cool older gear in that store. Huge Kings mounted on the wall. Large Steelheads too. They have new gear but also still have some older gear. It reminds me of how tackle stores used to be.

I still fish with Dad's olde Abalone spoons. He had 2 left in his Tackle box from years ago. REAL Abalone. They work great on Silvers. And in Lake Wa. for trout.

fishmanjh wrote:I still fish with Dad's olde Abalone spoons. He had 2 left in his Tackle box from years ago. REAL Abalone. They work great on Silvers. And in Lake Wa. for trout.

I have a couple of those. I love them so much that I'm afraid to fish with them and maybe lose them. I haven't seen any since. I use them as pulls on the zippers of my fishing vest.

TroutSnipr wrote:Yeah, nostalgia can be great. When my GrandPa passed I inherited several older (50-60's) Mitchell reels, several bamboo poles, and a couple tackle boxes full of lures I've never seen the likes of before. Unfortunately with a only a teenage daughter who hates fishing (she get's it from her mom obviously) I guess I'm the end of the line. Just can't bring myself to sell any of it.

Hold out hope! If you got a daughter, you may have grandsons. And if you do, and take em fishing, you will have a fishing partner for the rest of your days!

I had only girls (although they love to fish with dad), but now I got four grandsons and they cant think of anything better than fishing with their grandpa!

I got some stuff still with the price tags in my old gear collection from stores long gone and manufactures dead or moved to china. looking at making molds of some of my antique plugs, made copies of some of the spoons and they work.

fishmanjh wrote:I still fish with Dad's olde Abalone spoons. He had 2 left in his Tackle box from years ago. REAL Abalone. They work great on Silvers. And in Lake Wa. for trout.

i've got a couple of these, to afraid to use them.

Thought I would share a few ... An Eddie Bauer, a Haury's circa 1939 from the old Haury's boathouse (now seacrest marina) and a Monk's Moocher by K.C. manufacturing in what was Winslow wa.