Edmonds Area 10 Coho

Salmon Fisher · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:43 pm Post subject: Edmonds Area 10 Coho

I have fished this area 3 times in the past week and the Coho are in! 2 Limits this morning by 8:30 am fishing with Peter Jamero fellow C-Brat. 3 limits this past Saturday.

Using hoochies and flashers. My go-to rigs have been the dark green Ace Hi Fly behind a red stripe green flasher. The other is a white squid with green stripes and a twinkle squirt behind a pro troll purple haze chip flasher. I tie my own leaders and use 4/0 red hooks spaced close together. I always put a piece of salted herring strip on the top hook. Leader length is 32-36" long from the top of the hoochie to the loop. Troll 2.5-3.0 mph gps speed and keep your downrigger cable at 45 degree angle. Catching them with 55-65 feet on the DR cable trolling 400-600 feet of water in the vicinity of the oil docks.

Saw Kevin on Catch 22 out there, he's done well, too. Maybe he'll chime in with a report and tips.

starcrafttom · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:20 pm Post subject:

fished it saturday and caught 2 nice fish. one was 12 lbs maybe. fishing the edmonds coho derby this saturday.

Catch 22 · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:48 pm Post subject:

Haha, yep we have had a hot start to coho as well. Limits in very short order. Good to see you guys out there. Looking at my records it looks like 2018 was a ridiculously good year and so maybe its the same 4 year run coming back. Honestly I thing any gear will get them. The one thing we do is pound a spot where we hit a fish, mark it and go back. Lots of guys just troll by. The fish are not alone. They are in tight pods. We also run our gear at the same depth. Where there is one there is more. We hit 5 doubles in two days. Wherever you mark fish, set the gear 10 feet below that. We will be out Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Tight lines!

Wood Zeppelin · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 12:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for the info... I hope to be out there soon!

BTW, does it seem like the Chinook run just dropped off real quick?

chromer · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 1:57 am Post subject:

Doing well for coconuts off West Beach Whidbey. Same story, same bugs. Good to know JamMan is fishing the oil cans.

Salmon Fisher · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 7:39 pm Post subject:

WZ: Chinook retention ended 8/31 in Area 10. I think people targeting them were doing well up until the end.

Dwight, is "coconuts" code for coho? Maybe you could give us a Winter Harbor report on a separate thread.

Jazzmanic · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 1:34 am Post subject:

Thanks for taking me out Patrick. It was a blast to limit out so quickly! And thanks a lot for giving me the itch to start looking at getting a CD22 again. I didn't realize I would miss having a boat so much lol.

Peter

Catch 22 · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 1:44 pm Post subject:

3 more after work last night. 90-100 feet in the afternoon sun.

Salmon Fisher · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 4:33 pm Post subject:

6 more this morning with Peter and another fishing friend.
55-65 early. 70-80 around 10:30 am.
Man, coho fishing is tremendous this year!

Wood Zeppelin · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 2:15 am Post subject:

Starting fishing at 8:30am this morning. It was pretty windy and choppy. There was two of us, and we limited by 10:30am. 60-70'. Hoochies.

B~C · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:14 am Post subject:

you folks are killing me, the coho fishing is terrible here on the high desert of central OR....the kid and I are headed of tomorrow for a week at Coos Bay Smile

Salmon Fisher · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:42 am Post subject:

Went Friday with a friend on his boat. Boy, it was rough with a west wind against the outgoing tide, we were rolling!
Fishing 55-75 and got our 4 coho!
My buddy forgot the landing net, no worries, I told him, "We'll just act like commercial salmon trollers. They don't use a net, just get the salmon swimming toward the boat, reach down, grab the leader and swing the fish in."
We went 4/4, he was amazed.

I'm heading to Westport on my boat this next week for 3 days of fishing. Forecast looks great and we can harvest any coho now until 14,000 are harvested. Can't wait!

starcrafttom · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 1:18 pm Post subject:

Fished the derby and landed 2 nice fish. we placed 50th or something on weight. was a lot slower on saturday but we had 4 fish on total. derby winner was under 10lbs cleaned. everret derby in two weeks.

DayBreak · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 6:13 pm Post subject:

Glad you folks are doing well for Coho in the great state of Washington. Coho fishing has been good on the west coast of Oregon this year but the Chinook catch rates are very low. Not sure why but maybe they are just running late. Latest report from the ODFW (Newport 1.35 salmon per angler (669 coho and 2 Chinook sampled).

Wood Zeppelin · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:31 pm Post subject:

I will the say, the fish we got last week were on the smaller side. 3-4lbs. Are people doing well in the 6lb+ range?