rogerdodger
I thought this might be useful, many of the coastal rivers have been open since the 15th, Alsea and 3 lakes open Oct1, this thread lets us hear from people catching wild coho and other info on the coho season...so, who is tagging coho?
rogerdodger said:the first ODFW update, for Sept15-16:
Nehalem: 20, Siletz: 2, Siuslaw: 57, Umpqua: 13. no catch in the other rivers.
Note: I am usually impressed with ODFW, but if 57 wild coho were caught over the weekend in the Siuslaw, I will eat a bug. Maybe 57 Kings have been caught in the Siuslaw this year!, so far this river is full of boats trolling all over and catching almost nothing..day after day after day....
jamisonace said:I guess I should also mention my coho exploits since it is the point of this thread. 5 wilds last weekend on the ocean.
jamisonace said:My friend has caught 74 chinook in that river so far. I'll bet they are picking wild coho up at the mouth.
rippin fish lips said:74 is no lie If we are talking about the same dude.
Which i imagine we are.
I think you are probably right Roger. I talked to the ODFW checker on the dock at 6:30pm on Saturday and she said only 1 coho had come in out of the river and 27 from the ocean. There has to be some bad info.rogerdodger said:the first ODFW update, for Sept15-16:
Nehalem: 20, Siletz: 2, Siuslaw: 57, Umpqua: 13. no catch in the other rivers.
Note: I am usually impressed with ODFW, but if 57 wild coho were caught over the weekend in the Siuslaw, I will eat a bug. Maybe 57 Kings have been caught in the Siuslaw this year!, so far this river is full of boats trolling all over and catching almost nothing..day after day after day....
jamisonace said:Their counts aren't accurate but more of an estimation. We pulled 5 silvers out of Pacific City last week and I'm sure there were a lot of other fish too and the checker wasn't even on the beach when we beached our dory at the same time as most of the other fisherman. I think they get an idea of how many fish are being caught by each boat and then estimate the boats on the water. I've heard some numbers by about boat numbers and fish/boat that led me to that conclusion.
idahojeff said:Everybody see that 404 Cohos were recorded caught on the Slaw last week! 60s on the Nehalem, Coos and Umpqua. Crazy the Slaw hit 27 % quota in a week.
bran_man said:Ok kinda a silly question that I think I already know the answer to , but just want to check with you guys to just make sure. ok so on Umpqua, seasonal limit is 2 total as is the same for siuslaw this year. now the question is: can I tag 2 from both locations? Making it a total of 4 wild Coho tagged? Or is it as soon as I have 2 tagged total, I'm done? Just wanted to make sure cause I already have my 2 wilds tagged from the umpqua, just don't want to be done yet! Ha ha thanks .