Well it has been quite a week on the snohomish. Five straight days of limits. Smallest kept 8.5 and largest 17.5. Also, many more released. Here are a couple to view: My daughter even got her first coho this week!!!
Here is Steve with a nice one
Here is my third largest of the week at 15.5lbs.
Just hope it continues!!!
Canyon Man

C Man,

Great picture with your daughter. Wishing you many more to come. Fishing is such a great activity to share with those you love.

Great Job !!!

Outstanding!

I have to say, I've never been so happy to see unemployment staring me in the face!

I can't wait to get out there.

Nice to see you with your daughter enjoying that fish, looks like you have been doing well. However the second picture shows a non-clipped fish and i do believe that they cannot be kept in the rivers. Now i fish the salt and can keep non0clipped fish there, but i suggest that if you do keep those fish, dont tell people and post it on the board that you caught them in the river.My personal view is that they will be netted or just spawned and discarded and that the numbers that us lowly sports fisherman catch are a pittance compared to the wasting of the commercials and the tribes netting the rivers.If i am in error, I appoligize, Fishy.........

http://www.wa.gov/wdfw/fish/regs/2003/2003sportregs.pdf


page 43, looks ok to keep wild fish to me, unless it is stated in some other place

Somethingsmellsfishy-
Please read your regs before you imply that someone is doing something illegal! I do not break fishing laws and on the snohomish there is no reg. against keeping nonclipped fish...as a matter of fact I know for a fact that many of the wallace river hatchery fish are not clipped. I'm not trying to start anything with anyone, but it is the same as out in the puget sound silvers are fair game clipped or nonclipped.

I have never fished the Snohomish for Coho of Pinks....Any words of advise if I want to take some kids out this weekend? Where to launch the Lund and what to use?

grandpa2 - You can launch at a few different places but this one should be avoided. Link

"Please read your regs before you imply that someone is doing something illegal!"

No kidding. It's one thing to err on the safe side yourself because you don't want to take the time to look it up, but telling someone you think they're doing something illegal w/o knowing for sure is irresponsible.

Look it up, then quote the statement that you think makes someone a law breaker.

I have wet a line many a times with this young man and never have I seen him do anything that is not on the up and up. Canyon Man Looks as if I get some time off starting next week for the month of Oct so will have to get you and your dad out.

Good advice DB!

Nice fish Canyon Man!

Sounds like it's been one hell of a week. Somebody needs to give up the goods on how they're getting those *******s to bite.

Nice fish Canyon man!

I'm on the river at least 3 days a week. Some days in my red 14' Lund and others in my green 20' alumaweld. (depends on what my strategy is that day)

See ya on the river!

Snake "Coho" Pliskin

Since no one has come forward with fishing techniques for salmon on the Snohomish I will point out thatt there is a great "how to" article in the Everett Herald today by Wayne Kruse. He basically says use a chartreuse #1 Dick Nite sppon behind about 4-6' of leader with a small amount of weight. Cast upriver and slowly retrieve.

Sorry, grandpa2, I noticed that this a.m. and figured you'd already been out.

What's worked best for me for pinks (that I don't keep unless they're unusually bright because I fish the Sky mostly) is the dick nite, in either half 'n half (brass/nickel), nickel/chartreuse, or nickel/pink.

I rig them with 3-4' of leader and lead on a 8" dropper. Keeps the gear off the bottom a little while you can still feel it. Adding the dropper tripled the number of pinks I hooked.

This also works well for silvers (supposedly....I haven't used this method for them yet) in the same water (nickel/brass being the best color) so it's one way to increase your odds of taking something home.

You can almost count on someone talking a potshot at you when you post fishing success. I don't understand it. Nice fish CM...thanks for sharing. Cute daughter too!