What is a 'marked' Coho?
Bruce
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From: Leland Miyawaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:28 PM
Subject: Narroew Report
> I fished the Narrows last wednesday, thursday and today.
>
> Tuesday's tide was a -1.6 low at 1pm. I was on the water at 10am and
fished
> to near slack. The water was filled with small migrating salmon - my
guess,
> chum, I saw some herring, something that looked like small trout, and
other
> edibles (no candlefish). I walked the beach and fished the points where
the
> outgoing tide ran tight along the beach. I cast my popper and immediately
> raised a good-sized fish that didn't strike. I threw out a few more casts
> without result before switching to a slimeline and an unweighted
chartreuse
> streamer. It wasn't long before I was into my first fish - a marked coho
> between 3 and 5 pounds. For the next couple hours, I walked up and down
the
> beach hitting fish that were all clones of the first fish. I ended up with
> six to hand, a whole bunch of hits and misses, and twice as many long
> releases. The most interesting thing about these fish was that, with all
> the heavy feeding, they weren't showing themselves. Very seldom were there
> any jumpers and only once did I see any slashing and crashing.
>
> On wednesday, I got Blair Alexander, from Kaufmann's Seattle store, to
join
> me. I must be getting to be a good guide, because I put him onto a spot
> where he caught three fish before I had my first strike. I was upbeach
from
> him and saw the aerial show his first fish put on. He said it was a good,
> solid 24 inches. I forgot to ask him, but I figured it might have been a
> blackmouth because it was so hot. Later, as the tide slackened, I had two
> shots at a fish that looked as big as my leg. It had chased some fish onto
> the beach a short cast downtide of me. On my second cast to it, I got hit
> by a silver of 18 inches, my smallest one of the morning. For the record,
> Blair caught five, I had three and, down the beach, Earl Harper, a fellow
> listserve member, picked up three.
>
> Today, I was on the beach at 11:30am, with a low slack of .3 at 4pm. The
> tide was running hard and tight, but it was coming down from only 8.4'. It
> was feeling like there would soon be less fish onshore and that soon, they
> would be out beyond casting range. Between 11:45 and 12 noon, I had three
> fish on and landed two of them. They were the only fish I hooked today.
> They were both marked silvers and the smallest fish of the past three
days.
> I continued to fish up and down the beach and didn't get any action from
> noon to 2pm.
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