Linked Overhead Fire ?

how you doing at buoy 10 ??

If you have the ability to get to B10 over the next few days....

OMFG. Catch Per Unit Effort for Chinook/coho combined is approaching 1 per rod.

Coho is off the chart.

It is insane!

The brunt of the coho run crossing the CR bar will happen this weekend... maybe into early this next week. The second Chinook peak is occurring now.

Spend the money. This might not happen again for another ten years.

ugh.

What a weekend to be stuck at home.

am going to talk to my brother in law and see if he wants to make the trip

On Thursday 8/27 Oregon sampled 100 B10 boats for the day. Those 100 boats had a kept catch of nearly 400 salmon. 345 were coho and 45 were Chinook flavored.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/OSCRP/CRM/sport_fishery_updates/B10_2009.pdf

That is about as good as it gets. 2009 has proven once again that B10 is an amazing crossroads and migration corridor nexus for salmon and salmon fisheries.

The 2009 B10 headstone may be inscribed with a quote from Llewellyn...

"How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone."

Linked Overhead Fire wrote:On Thursday 8/27 Oregon sampled 100 B10 boats for the day. Those 100 boats had a kept catch of nearly 400 salmon. 345 were coho and 45 were Chinook flavored.

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/OSCRP/CRM/sport_fishery_updates/B10_2009.pdf

That is about as good as it gets. 2009 has proven once again that B10 is an amazing crossroads and migration corridor nexus for salmon and salmon fisheries.

The 2009 B10 headstone may be inscribed with a quote from Llewellyn...

"How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone."

Your wording LOF is like an "Untapped Reservoir Of Unlimited Potential". I may have to consult my dictionary to understand what you said! Lol

Anglelakecharters wrote:Your wording LOF is like an "Untapped Reservoir Of Unlimited Potential". I may have to consult my dictionary to understand what you said! Lol

Then I'll have to quote one of my favorites...

"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence." The Mirror of the Sea, Joseph Conrad

All I read is the fishing is kicking ASS!

Thats good enough for me :92:

Check it out...

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/OSCRP/CRM/sport_fishery_updates/B10_2009.pdf

On Saturday Sept 26 Oregon sampled 44 B10 boats. Those boats had a kept catch of 278 coho. Add on the released coho and I'd bet you arrive at a number approaching 12 coho per boat.


"How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone"

And the cool thing was that they were still doing very good well into October at the Astoria/Megler bridge.
They were catching the late strain coho which a good percentage were headed for us up here on the Cowlitz.

They showed in the Cowlitz on September 30th in big numbers which was the second day they netted that week and there was a steady stream of coho entering the Cowlitz all day long.
We put a drifter in, in town (Longview) and I caught 8 hatchery coho and released 3 wild ones to get my 6 fish limit very easily that day all on casting plugs.
It seemed to slow down but very steady throughout the month until around the 20th of October and then it was back to easy limits on some days on plugs an/or eggs.
It would have probably been good at Bouy 10 at that time had the weather permitted.

Next year looks to be a fair year at best for NW coho as the jack counts on the lower Columbia trib's were not impressive.
Like all other species, the coho looked pretty good at Bonneville up (including jacks).

Well we've been averaging an excellent coho run bout every 10 years so...
But the big coho years in the future won't be like the ones back in 2001 or 1991.
They just aren't producing the smolt now that they were back then.
And some of the rivers like the Elochoman for example aren't producing any salmon smolt anymore.
Some have been highly curtailed and others completely 86'ed.

We better hope for good ocean conditions to offset the lower smolt releases then!

borntobewild wrote:

They showed in the Cowlitz on September 30th in big numbers which was the second day they netted that week and there was a steady stream of coho entering the Cowlitz all day long.

The Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery is up to 70K late (Type N) coho again. A virtual repeat of 2008.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/hat/escape/e111209.pdf

The hatchery only needs a few thousand adult coho to make their egg take goals in order to max out their smolt production capacity.