Babyduck Industries
Member
Heading out to Gabe on Friday afternoon to see if we can find some Coho. First time fishing this area for Coho so I will let you guys know how it goes. Any pointers are welcome.
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Aquaholic
Crew Member
Are you the aluminum boat builder?
Grace underfire
Active Member
Was out on Wed evening. About 10 boats around Fingers and didn't see anyone do anything for maybe 1 1/2 hours. So trolled over to Snake and found (and released) quite a few chinook. No sign of a coho though.
Babyduck Industries
Member
I was, haven’t built any for a few years now though.
Slammin_salmon
New Member
Has anyone tried these areas 17-6,17-9 that are open for hatch chinook or is it open because their are none in there?
Definitely fish around at tent island. Always worth a try! Have had good luck there in the last couple of months for hatcheries. If your not familiar with the area fish inbetween the reef and west side of tent island close to the bottom (100-120ft) 3” spoons with some green
Slammin_salmon
New Member
Ok thanks
Tomfoolery
Active Member
Yeah, it was a quick fish today off fingers for our four and released a couple but they were all hatchery. Hit the school and hit the fish! Same depths to a tee as you and gear.
TipUp
Well-Known Member
Awesome to hear they've shown up. We were trying last week for coho but I guess too shallow, that seems deeper then last season where we were hitting them 45 to 80'.
Paul Burak
Member
How deep were you fishing and what were you using ?
MikePA
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90-110, small green/white spoons, green glow flasher
Pineapple Express
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I posted yesterday in the Vancouver reports but I should've posted here. Fished upwind of the Five Fingers Island (northish) from 10:30-12:00. Followed @Aces description and fished 110-130 on the downriggers moving fast. Had two doubleheaders (exciting and frustrating when solo!!). Got 2 chinook to the boat, 1 wild coho (it was a big one!) and 2 hatchery coho. It was a beautiful day out on the water.
Lures were a Krippled K spoon with pink jelly tape behind a triangle spinning flasher, and a white with green flash fly hootchie behind a Westcoast Tackle "black beauty" flasher.
Lures were a Krippled K spoon with pink jelly tape behind a triangle spinning flasher, and a white with green flash fly hootchie behind a Westcoast Tackle "black beauty" flasher.
Rain City
Crew Member
Those inline triangles are coho beasts
Pineapple Express
Well-Known Member
I love Krippled K spoons too. This combo hooked several fish!
I've experimented with using two of them in tandem as a dummy flasher. I can't say definitively it works any better than a regular flasher, but I've caught fish with them.
Pineapple Express
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You mean kinda like a kone-zone? I remember when I was just starting out salmon fishing using a kone-zone rig off the mouth of the Fraser fishing for sockeye... I've never been as badly tangled up as I was with that dang thing. I've been too scared to ever try again! LOL!!
Kind of, I've never run a cone zone myself. I just clipped two of these together and clipped that to a 4' dummy clip just above the ball. Seems to work.
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