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08/13/2016
Pink Salmon
All Day
08/21/2016
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I ate my words for saying pink salmon are easy to catch. After a whole week in northern B.C. I had only 2 fish on, which both threw the hook. Watched many swim past, almost stepped on one as I was wading out to flyfish, and nearly got knocked off my feet after a big spawned out chum ran into me. The very last day, I finally found willing pink salmon, but they were big humped males, not worth eating. So by now if you are thinking why make such a long trek, well I had the nice surprise of early Coho invading the river I was fishing. With barbless hooks, they are even better at throwing the hook, but the smallest Coho I had on stayed on. Now I have really nice fillets in my freezer.

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Jimbo
8/22/2016 5:10:00 AM
Boy, that's the luck isn't it. Nice fish, we don't get to fish COHO this year but the tribes still get to NET the heck outa the runs.
RichieRich
8/22/2016 8:39:00 AM
if you don't mind me asking, What area did you fish?
fish_4_coho
8/22/2016 8:57:00 AM
RichieRich: I was in the vicinity of Prince Rupert. Jimbo: thanks. I had pretty much written off coho this year. So catching one really made my day. The native friends I have and commercial fisherman friends are all complaining about a lack of fish this year. One who fishes Prince William Sound didn't even stick around for coho. Pretty sad to see. I wish everyone could have a chance to hook into a wild fully charged coho with all its energy. while I wouldn't have minded more, I am happy to have left plenty more for the next generation, because even a little bit of something good is worth far more then none at all.
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