I felt real good driving to Siltcoos this morning with my friend Gene, I even told him we were both tagging an adult coho today. He did not argue against that outcome but neither of us was prepared for how my coho would 'hit the boat'.
we were working along the shoreline with spinners in an area with lots of downed trees laying in the water, I caught my spinner on an underwater log 3 times, got it back all three times and said something like "one of these hard stops on my spinner today is going to be a big a$$ coho...about then I saw a nice one roll not far OFF, told Gene I was moving us that way so I could target it and I got up on the bow and hit 'anchor' on the motor remote.
I was targeting the area all around where it rolled and on the 5th cast, it hit hard, maybe 30' away and went airborne, coming right at the boat, tail dancing around the bow so fast that I had slack line laying all over the water...big jump and thrashing just OFF the other side of the boat and I am reeling like crazy to get some tension when it happens- instead of tossing the spinner or making a run away from us, this well built 29" buck launches himself cleanly over the side of the boat and lands on the carpet. all I could say was "you saw that right?"...Gene said "yep, that coho just boated itself". I marked in red on this image the path taken by "Air Coho":
well the fight wasn't over, this coho seems to have planned to jump on my boat and kick my a$$ but after a brief wrestling match on the deck and some blood splatter (his, not mine), he was on the stringer and bleeding out over the side....
my fishing day complete, Gene trolled a bit and then I moved us along the shoreline so he could cast in and sure enough, about an hour after I tagged mine, he hooks into a nice 27" hen that we put in the net real quick.
we were working along the shoreline with spinners in an area with lots of downed trees laying in the water, I caught my spinner on an underwater log 3 times, got it back all three times and said something like "one of these hard stops on my spinner today is going to be a big a$$ coho...about then I saw a nice one roll not far OFF, told Gene I was moving us that way so I could target it and I got up on the bow and hit 'anchor' on the motor remote.
I was targeting the area all around where it rolled and on the 5th cast, it hit hard, maybe 30' away and went airborne, coming right at the boat, tail dancing around the bow so fast that I had slack line laying all over the water...big jump and thrashing just OFF the other side of the boat and I am reeling like crazy to get some tension when it happens- instead of tossing the spinner or making a run away from us, this well built 29" buck launches himself cleanly over the side of the boat and lands on the carpet. all I could say was "you saw that right?"...Gene said "yep, that coho just boated itself". I marked in red on this image the path taken by "Air Coho":
well the fight wasn't over, this coho seems to have planned to jump on my boat and kick my a$$ but after a brief wrestling match on the deck and some blood splatter (his, not mine), he was on the stringer and bleeding out over the side....
my fishing day complete, Gene trolled a bit and then I moved us along the shoreline so he could cast in and sure enough, about an hour after I tagged mine, he hooks into a nice 27" hen that we put in the net real quick.
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Just reminded me of the live Grateful Dead album.........Without a net 
