brandon4455
JeannaJigs said:
oh.... i had no idea it was shallow..thanks jeanna
Hope I have the right color
oh.... i had no idea it was shallow..thanks jeanna
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Drew9870
Siltcoos only gets about 24' deep, pretty sure that spot is in Harmony Bay, average depth for the middle of the lake is about 13'.
Pink and Flourescent Orange have seemed to be the hot colors, pink is the go to, although I would not doubt a bright green.
Pink and Flourescent Orange have seemed to be the hot colors, pink is the go to, although I would not doubt a bright green.
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Drew9870
Alright, I'm sticking to bright green ones for Chinooks and Pink for Ho's, better keep them Ho's in check and make sure they're working their travel lanes :lol:.
Idk eugene1, I think you need more variety
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Idk eugene1, I think you need more variety
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plumb2fish
Coho are as stupid as steelhead, they are either going to bite or turn tail .....after a good rain they will hit just about anything that gets in front of them.....
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eugene1
mikeredding said:Aint that the truth!:shock:
On my way there in a few.
Holler at me if you see me.
Think we saw you and I waved to your wife? We went past you pretty fast and weren't doing anything at Nightengales. Look below, because you were spot on dude!
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eugene1
JeannaJigs said:
Thanks to you JJ, I did all my plugs with new hooks. not sure it mattered, but I had some confidence in my rigging. Thanks!
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JeannaJigs
Accidently deleted your pm before I could respond, cconfidence in gear is everything
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eugene1
JeannaJigs said:
No worries, I did re-rig all of my hooks. got a nice ho from the siltcoos.
I'll update on sunday.
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mikeredding
eugene1 said:
Right on man! Can't wait for the story. I got one too. I'll post something tomorrow as well.
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mikeredding
eugene1 said:
You probably did. Where were we at? What does your boat look like? Maybe I will remember.
brandon4455
eugene1 said:
not a huge fish but put up a huge fight! that was a few years back on the salmon river before they stopped putting hatchery coho in. i was tossing a kfish at first,hooked 1 then switched over to a size 4 pink blue fox and nailed it on the 4th cast. all the flossers gave me angry looks :lol: nice job out there by the way, that fish you got was bright ?
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eugene1
got one
got one
We got a late start and got to the lake around 8 am. That's partly due to taking the wrong road off of 101 since I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Hauled over to the Miller arm and got the rods in the water. My buddy was using spinners and I was fishing out of my plug box. We figured that we'd give each lure a chance and then change colors on the next troll. Used a couple of my favorites but no luck. Put the purple plug on and had some little hits, but the place was really dead. Hardly any fish rolling and nobody else was hooking up. After about 11 am or so boats were kind of scattering out and we went over to the fiddler arm.
Fish rolling all over the place but most looked pretty dark. We didn't see any catching action there until finally a boat hooks up with one but it is promptly lost. I cheated a bit and was waiting to see the color of the guy's offering. Turns out it was a black and red (orange?) spinner. Opened my plug box and scanned it for a similar color match.
Put on the red tiger stripe and after about 20 minutes hooked up with a nice cutt which we released. After another pass my rod buries with big head shakes! Game on.
The fish didn't put up much of a fight but it was really awesome. Turns out the 2/0 gami treble had "glued" her mouth shut, so I can understand the modest fight. My buddy nets it and we find the fish is a real beauty. 31 inches 11.5 pounds of chrome.
I tag it and hand my friend my rod with the catching plug and I drive him around for another hour or so, but nada. We decided to go up to the slaw and try for nooks for the second part the day since we're only fishing one rod.
On the way out of fiddle arm we were motoring over to introduce ourselves to the guide status, but then he takes off for parts unknown. We kind of raced with him out and under the trestle and we meet a nice guide putting in at the launch. He says the slaw was dead and we traded Siltcoos info for his brinned herring.
We go up there anyway and troll around. Lost one right away after about 2 seconds on the rod. Then I hook up with a decent sized fish. Get it to the boat and find it's a really nice native coho. Maybe 15+? We release it and continue on, but that was it.
Not a bad day!
got one
We got a late start and got to the lake around 8 am. That's partly due to taking the wrong road off of 101 since I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Hauled over to the Miller arm and got the rods in the water. My buddy was using spinners and I was fishing out of my plug box. We figured that we'd give each lure a chance and then change colors on the next troll. Used a couple of my favorites but no luck. Put the purple plug on and had some little hits, but the place was really dead. Hardly any fish rolling and nobody else was hooking up. After about 11 am or so boats were kind of scattering out and we went over to the fiddler arm.
Fish rolling all over the place but most looked pretty dark. We didn't see any catching action there until finally a boat hooks up with one but it is promptly lost. I cheated a bit and was waiting to see the color of the guy's offering. Turns out it was a black and red (orange?) spinner. Opened my plug box and scanned it for a similar color match.
Put on the red tiger stripe and after about 20 minutes hooked up with a nice cutt which we released. After another pass my rod buries with big head shakes! Game on.
The fish didn't put up much of a fight but it was really awesome. Turns out the 2/0 gami treble had "glued" her mouth shut, so I can understand the modest fight. My buddy nets it and we find the fish is a real beauty. 31 inches 11.5 pounds of chrome.
I tag it and hand my friend my rod with the catching plug and I drive him around for another hour or so, but nada. We decided to go up to the slaw and try for nooks for the second part the day since we're only fishing one rod.
On the way out of fiddle arm we were motoring over to introduce ourselves to the guide status, but then he takes off for parts unknown. We kind of raced with him out and under the trestle and we meet a nice guide putting in at the launch. He says the slaw was dead and we traded Siltcoos info for his brinned herring.
We go up there anyway and troll around. Lost one right away after about 2 seconds on the rod. Then I hook up with a decent sized fish. Get it to the boat and find it's a really nice native coho. Maybe 15+? We release it and continue on, but that was it.
Not a bad day!
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eugene1
Anyway, I think Mikeredding mentioned this color earlier on!
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
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Thuggin4Life
NIce fish man! You got a good selection for them hos.
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mikeredding
eugene1 said:
Yep and I got mine on the same one.
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Thuggin4Life
me too. mines a factory reject that shouldn't have hit the shelf. its back black strip is very pale and looks like it was rattlecanned on with a bit of paint misting. I have a normal one but the reject works better.
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Mad dog
OMG!!! The red herring bone pattern!!! Secrets out!!! My kids all time favorite coho plug!
Me??? I likes me some pink wigglers! My buddy Steve.... with a pink wiggler caught Ho!!!
Me??? I likes me some pink wigglers!
My buddy Steve.... with a pink wiggler caught Ho!!!
brandon4455
yeah! Go pink plugs!!!!!mad dog said:omg!!! the red herring bone pattern!!! Secrets out!!! My kids all time favorite coho plug!
me??? I likes me some pink wigglers!
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Mad dog
Thuggin4Life said:
You are smart beyond your years Andy!!! :clap: A plug that produce's....Produce's!!! My best Ho plug....looks like Napoleon Dynamite drug it behind the schoolbus on the 1st day of school! :lol::think:
brandon4455
Mad dog said:
LOL that can't be pretty
