Late chrome Coho?

Whats up with this late November push of OP chromer's?


Broodstock fish or just late wilds?




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Brad, quit trolling for locations.....lol

BIG run... generally starts early, peaks BIG, trails off late.

Count yer blessings folks... coastwide, this was a coho season for the record books.

Oh, I know where they are, just want to know why. I've never seen push after push of chromers into way late November on so many streams....

I'm sure Phil Anderson had a hand in it

They're just there so Merg can look like the man , pimp out a few streams and twitch up some Ho's.........

Was? Still is. Well, at least some boots for us upriver guys.

I can't remember a season where I have said. "I am over catching these things" this many times.

But I keep going back for more.

Hope this is good news for the steelhead runs this year.

November is late for coho?

Learn something new every day.

Fish on...

Todd

I don't understand your question?

Depends on where you're at. In the Columbia Basin, November is waaaay late. But the coastal rivers are still going strong in November.

I know at least one river in SW Washington that gets a run of wild coho into Christmas. And it's not a secret either.

Virtually every river north of the Columbia has fresh coho in it well into December, and the farther north you go there are coho that are unspawned well into February and March. There's even one where we used to occasionally catch ocean fresh coho in April.

I didn't realize that any of that was a secret

Fish on...

Todd

caught plenty coho 'romers on the Skagsaukus in Jan/Feb

Depends on if you have a secret decoder ring or not.

Gee whiz Todd..... guess I'm just not as well traveled as you.


Coho for me was always a July-Sept saltwater show, then 1st October rains till mid November deal. Lots of non-biting zombie red firetrucks after that.

I hear guys every year flapping their gums about chrome coho & even kings in late November & some flap on till the following January....

Don't get me wrong I like seeing late waves of chrome coming on, this is me speaking personally on the rivers I've fished in the last 20 years. Not quite the norm too me


YMMV


c/22

I've been surprised to find chrome coho and kings in some rivers I've not seen them this late before.

In other places, I'm certain that the best and biggest silvers are yet to come.

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The proportion of wild fish in a well-traveled clip-only river (that for the record has not made wild escapement in the past 2 decades) is astonishing.

I bet it will this year, along with all the rest, too, by a mile.

Brad, sorry, didn't mean to come across like a dick, but I know you fish the west end so I am surprised that you haven't caught coho with sea lice on them in every single one of those rivers in November and December, and even in January...everyone of them has fresh in there, and a couple of them really come on around Thanksgiving.

Fish on...

Todd

Now is the time to catch that chrome/22 chromer.

Or face plant out of the boat..... ya ever think they'll make a raft with doors for C/22???

You didn't believe them?


I bet those f'ers have decoder rings.

I've never seen it in person, but I've seen a legendary spill via video.
We'll see if some oysters can trip him up this winter on Hood Canal...

No Dan, I just don't.

Stoney, 22 lbs is an almighty big ho, but heck yeah.

Luis, your so small you crawl out the drain holes on Bob's Puma.




Now I've never had the best of balance even in my HS 175 lb. basketball playing days. But like I like to say

"If I haven't fallen out of your boat, well, your just a nobody"


c/22

You should

Fish on...

Todd

Still plenty in the haunts I frequent. Don't see it slowing down anytime soon. It has been a phenomenal year!

I believe them.






But I have a decoder ring.

Seeing is believing decoder-boy, so, as the stick was prone to say


Hang some pics!




Gonna need to see the time/date stamp in lower left frame....lol

Well, I guess you need to open your eyes more.

Have you not read the numerous articles on Thanksgiving hooknose silvers in various magazines? Catching chrome silvers on Thanksgiving morning before dinner has been a norm for me for years.

In fact, it used to be fairly common for me to go out and get chrome silvers on New Years day instead of chasing little rat-fu.ck winter brats.

It's no skin off my nose if you don't believe it. Have fun on the Bogachiel.

Shhhh. You're not supposed to tell anyone. Peace & quiet are hard to find. Keep them all thinking the runs are done by Nov 1st and any fish caught after that are small, dark and stinky.