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#157247 - 08/12/02 09:07 PM Lk. WA Coho
SalmonFisherJeff Offline
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Registered: 07/29/02
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Anyone have an idea when Lk. WA is open for coho? I can't seem to find any info on that subject. Also if you do, how to fish for them? We have a downrigger, flashers, plugs, bare hooks, etc, etc. Any help is greatly appareciated!

Responses may be sent to my email addy: be111@scn.org

Until then...
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#157248 - 08/12/02 11:21 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
Check out the washingtonlakes.com forum or go to the web page . I know Mike C., the editor, has fished for coho on the big lake.
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#157249 - 08/13/02 01:28 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Little Fish Offline
Spawner

Registered: 09/28/01
Posts: 965
Loc: Seattle, Washington
Try the search feature. I think there was talk about this fishery last year just before it opened.....early October I believe.

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#157250 - 08/13/02 03:46 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
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Registered: 10/03/00
Posts: 550
Loc: land of sun
From the WDFW website, it opens in the North end on Sept. 16th.

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#157251 - 08/13/02 04:45 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
We are going to try for kings in Lake Sammamish on Friday. Wonder how that will be?
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#157252 - 08/13/02 05:04 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Carl, what you planning on using? I had a response to use a Sockeye setup. I also have heard about using some lures but not sure which.
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#157253 - 08/13/02 11:27 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

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Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
I will have a sockeye setup ready to go. And maybe a wiggle wart.
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#157254 - 08/14/02 01:47 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Cigar Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 09/01/01
Posts: 354
Loc: Shoreline, Wa.
Easy Limits,

I've been there done that on this fishery. Some guys do well with K-16's with a sardine wrap, but the sure way is good old dodger size 0 with 36 inch leader and 4/0 red or black hook. Soft leader material seems to work best. smile

If you plan on taking pictures, I recomend using BLACK & WHITE film. laugh laugh laugh

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#157255 - 08/14/02 09:15 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
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Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Easy, do you have a sockeye setup that I can use or can you show me how to tie them? ( Maybe a website with some info?)
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#157256 - 08/14/02 09:30 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

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Loc: Nisqually
Busy, I will bring several sockeye setups along for everyone to use.
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#157257 - 08/14/02 10:10 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Thanks. Do you buy yours or make them? If you make them care to show me how you do it?
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#157258 - 08/14/02 11:13 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
I make my own. I can show you how to make them on Friday.
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#157259 - 08/14/02 11:19 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Cool, thanks. I am going to bring a couple of kwikfish and some wiggleworts as well as the assortment of lures that I had last Friday.

Mike, Carl, what do you recommend for jigging?
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#157260 - 08/14/02 12:45 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
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I'm a freak'n CAKE

Registered: 05/17/01
Posts: 942
Loc: Almost on the beach
LMAO, Cigar! laugh Black and white film, heh heh

Oh, yeah. For those lake Sammy kingers don't forget to use the flash on your camera and a little bright sunlight doesn't hurt either. wink

Actually, there is the occasional semi-bright king to be caught in Lake Sammy, but with the hot weather and high lake temps this year it's more than likely they will be blacker than the ace of spades! eek

Still nice to have a recreational fishery for them nonetheless. Lates
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#157261 - 08/14/02 12:51 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Not really planning on keeping them or smoking them unless maybe really remote chance of getting one that is a little lighter than the background on this website! laugh :p We are just wanting to get out and get some exercise ( bringing them in of course) and have some fun. Might not get anything but who cares....worst day fishing is better than best day working after all.... cool
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#157262 - 08/14/02 01:01 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Easy Limits Offline
River Nutrients

Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
Busy, I don't know what to use for jigging. Maybe a good ol' fashion Pt. Wilson Dart?
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#157263 - 08/14/02 01:12 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
Maybe. I asked because Mike intends to jig if too slow for kings. I am thinking on having some fun with an ultralite and some perch. Gotta be o.k. with you two.
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#157264 - 08/14/02 04:03 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
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River Nutrients

Registered: 05/06/01
Posts: 2959
Loc: Nisqually
I have not done the panfish thing before. I don't know if we will have enough day light to do everything (troll, jig, panfish).
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#157265 - 08/14/02 04:06 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Busy Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 07/18/02
Posts: 275
Loc: Bellevue
The panfish thing can be a lot of fun, just like the rock fishing we did in Elliott Bay. Just a lot of action. We will have to do it sometime if we don't get the chance this tim. Ultralite gear is the way to go.
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#157266 - 08/27/02 12:59 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
JimSa Offline
Fry

Registered: 11/30/00
Posts: 20
Loc: Bellevue, WA, USA
Regarding the LW coho, two setups have worked well for me. One is the familiar sockeye setup but with a small piece of green yard and touch of shrimp scent. The other is green/yellow/red or reg tiger wigglewart. Last year I had each of these two rigs in the water and had a double header. Set the hook and handed the first pole to my day, then took the second for myself. I gave him the wrong pole... He got a 14 lb coho on the wigglewart. I got a 4-5 lb coho on the sockeye setup.

The moochers seem to do real well, and I believe they're mooching with buzz bombs. I prefer to troll. I'm sure I'll offend some folks, but I just have been able to bring myself to mooch that way. I see these guys taking full rips, and I see lots of snags. Doesn't seem quite right to me...

First week of October was peak. The fishery seems to only yield fish for about a week as well. They bite fast and hard and then it's done.

-Jim

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#157267 - 08/27/02 01:34 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
JimSa Offline
Fry

Registered: 11/30/00
Posts: 20
Loc: Bellevue, WA, USA
I should have been more precise and said jiggers not moochers.

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#157268 - 08/27/02 05:03 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Predator Dawg Offline
Spawner

Registered: 10/03/00
Posts: 550
Loc: land of sun
Jim,

If you learned more about the jig fishery you would understand that the weighted lures that are used there provide action by fluttering down after being rapidly raised up. You can lift them slowly if you want but the idea is to get the flutter going as fast as possible and not waste your time on the way up. All of the strikes occur at or near the bottom of the flutter, and alot of the time a split second delay in going back up produces a strike. This is a common tactic used in many salt fisheries, btw.

I fished the fishery three mornings last year, limiting each time with my boat, and never had one fish hooked anywhere but in the mouth. I never saw anyone else with a snagged fish either which leads me to believe you are making an uninformed blanket statement out of ignorance, not fact. Oh, and there are better lures than buzz bombs if you truly pay attention to whats happening out there.

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#157269 - 08/27/02 05:09 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Seacat Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 06/23/00
Posts: 363
Loc: Duvall, WA
Can these fish be caught up by Kenmore at the mouth of the slough?
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#157270 - 08/27/02 05:16 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Chromeo Offline
Spawner

Registered: 10/29/01
Posts: 550
Loc: Kenmore, WA
seacat, we hooked one at the boat launch of kenmore last season off of the bank despite the heavy netting pressure on a buzzbomb, a few years ago we hooked 2 out in the lake at the mouth of the slough on buzzbombs landed one and the other jumped on the boat and flopped off laugh mad . None were snagged. We didnt fish that much either. Hope it helps.

TTT
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#157271 - 08/27/02 05:17 PM Re: Lk. WA Coho
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Spawner

Registered: 10/03/00
Posts: 550
Loc: land of sun
Seacat,

There is a good concentration of them that hang around Arrowhead every year. If you time it right, you could do very well there. The area up by the mouth gets shallow along way out so once they do their approach, they move into the slough pretty fast.

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#157272 - 08/28/02 09:38 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Seacat Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 06/23/00
Posts: 363
Loc: Duvall, WA
Thanks TTT and PD,

How do you fish for them at arrowhead? Jigging, trolling? Can they be caught from the shore or a dock with spinners or something else?

I work in an office/marina in Kenmore and I've seen some guys in boats out by the channel markers at the mouth recently and was wondering if they were targeting these fish.
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#157273 - 08/28/02 11:03 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
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Spawner

Registered: 10/03/00
Posts: 550
Loc: land of sun
Seacat,

Check your email.

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#157274 - 08/28/02 11:09 AM Re: Lk. WA Coho
Seacat Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 06/23/00
Posts: 363
Loc: Duvall, WA
Thanks PD, especially the below the bridge part! Thought I had read that, just must have forgotten... rolleyes
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