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#981005 - 10/27/17 02:38 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: ]
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Dude ill get you hat but you have to dance for it. PM me your address ill send it.
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#981006 - 10/27/17 02:55 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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The biggest coho I've ever landed weighed just over 20 . I hooked it, and it flew past the boat, hit the gravel and landed about 15 feet up on the bar. I bet the whole thing lasted less than 3 seconds.

I was glad to bash its head in, though, even if the fight was kinda lame.

No pics - this was a long time ago.
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#981007 - 10/27/17 03:02 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: ]
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That was the thing...those 2 coho WHOOPED me hard for as lomg as any king of that size. No coho death rolls. Just big runs. Few jumps. Opened up the hook on the second one.
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#981008 - 10/27/17 03:06 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Dan S.]
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My first boss at WDF, when he was checking commercial catch, saw two Nisqually Winter chum at the buyer's. Together, the two went 55-56 pounds as I recall.

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#981010 - 10/27/17 03:21 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Biggest coho ive ever seen in person was in 1999 on the skokomish river. Thing looked like a mutant. Mid 20's. Dude had a spring scale and loudly proclaimed it 25 lbs. But as he was holding it up it would bounce between 22 and 26. Still bigger than anything ive ever seen to thia day
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#981011 - 10/27/17 03:24 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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The Skok Coho fishery is killer. Such a shame it's closed.

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#981013 - 10/27/17 03:38 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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WAS killer. Cohos stopped coming back like that after you moved to maui
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#981018 - 10/27/17 07:01 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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those are all nice coho
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#981023 - 10/28/17 06:23 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: ]
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My pics are on photobucket.....so I'm not cut off......but don't link to them much


One day last month, I thought my PB pics were toast as well. Went to the PB site and couldn't even see them on my own PAID account page.

Then magically, they were accessible to me again. Tried a linking URL for PB's 3rd party hosting, and the pic posted up just fine here to PP.

I'm thinking maybe because I'm still a paying customer ($39/yr PB-Pro account holder) there must be a grace period (thru the year end?) before they cut me off.

No way in hell I can cave to the new $400 annual fee they want. Kind of a stupid business model to cut off you entire customer base "cold turkey". They would have been much better off doing it like the govt does where they stick folks with small annoying incremental fee increases over a period of time. Nobody likes the increase, bit they;re small enough that no one decides to opt out and forgo the services.

Turn the heat up on the frogs in the pot nice and easy, and not a one of them jumps out before they're cooked. Turn the heat up abruptly, and they virtually all jump ship.... NOW!
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#981024 - 10/28/17 06:53 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Originally Posted By: Mergantroider
i think francis is passive aggressively doubting my fish smile which of course i expect and for good reason 20lbs coho are very rare, but what you have to understand is francis's head comes up to my nipple. Im 6'5". I can palm basketballs with ease. This coho was gigantically footballed.



C'mon, Merg man.... you know I love you, dude.... big manly hands nipples at eye level and all.

BUT....

I was totally OK believing that those were 20+ coho from the pics all by themselves. SERIALLY.... I was sold on the visual alone!

That is.... UNTIL you posted the measurements of 33 x 22. That's when the cogs of doubt started spinning in my head. I have this "3 x 5 picture" thing imprinted in my brain about the relative proportions of a typical thick healthy chinook. Steelhead are built like more lumber.... 2 x 4.

Coho lie somewhere in the middle. Brand new sleek hens aren't much thicker than steelhead. The REALLY nice coho are virtually all bucks. A great big buck will be approaching those typical 3 x 5 chinook proportions. That's a G:L ratio of 0.6

A coho at 33 x 22 is a G:L ratio of 0.66! Preposterous! Precious few chinook are even built like that!

Applying my fNp king formula on the chunky 17# coho I posted as an example....

at 35 inches fork length and assuming 3 x 5 proportions, the CHINOOK formula predicts...

35 x 35 x 35 (0.36) / 740 = 20.86 pounds

It clearly wasn't, so it obviously ain't.

Not trying to take away from the COLOSSAL coho specimens that you posted, Merg... they really ARE a sight to behold... just wanted you to understand where I was coming from with my comments.
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#981025 - 10/28/17 07:09 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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One time I caught a large coho...


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#981034 - 10/29/17 03:27 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Heard. I know. Hha just making convo.

Funny thing was. Both those days we caught a (what i thought was a 14-17# fish) sizable coho FIRST.

The first grainy pic i hooked those 3 fish 14-18-21lbs in 3 casts.

So first fish....sizeable...was our comparison fish. Then i reeled in the hummers the NEXT fish.....so you look at that fish.....then the big one and go...ehhhh. decent fish.

Then i went home. Threw a tape and a scale on em. Blew me away. The second one i wasnt even going to tape or weigh had the knife in my hand to filet and Just offhandely thought "wonder what it compares to my other big cohos"

Digital berkely number...so yeah..not the best..said 21.6....

Then i started looking at it....the circumference of the wrist is bigger than my BEST 26.8 lbs stellhead..by a decent margin. Both carried a thickness ive never seen through the fish. Fought like it too...like trying to pull plywood sideways...just wouldnt ever turn.

I had my girlfriend verify my taping on the second one multiple times on the soft tape.
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#981035 - 10/29/17 03:34 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Im squezzing you can see...im barely getting around the edges.
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#981036 - 10/29/17 03:40 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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I don't think anybody has ever been able to convince Merg that he might be wrong about something. Nice try though Francis laugh

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#981085 - 10/30/17 04:59 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
RobertF
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Originally Posted By: Mergantroider


Im squezzing you can see...im barely getting around the edges.


I date girls with small hands for exactly that reason.

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#981089 - 10/30/17 06:10 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Originally Posted By: Mergantroider
Biggest coho ive ever seen in person was in 1999 on the skokomish river. Thing looked like a mutant. Mid 20's. Dude had a spring scale and loudly proclaimed it 25 lbs. But as he was holding it up it would bounce between 22 and 26. Still bigger than anything ive ever seen to thia day


Those were huge returns of big Skok. Coho back then.
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#981090 - 10/30/17 06:12 PM Re: LETS SEE YOUR COHO SLAB [Re: Mergantroider]
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Originally Posted By: Mergantroider
WAS killer. Cohos stopped coming back like that after you moved to maui


Wonder why those big Skok. boys quit returning?
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