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Headed down to the river this morning, starting my fishing around 8am drifting eggs. Pretty quick I began getting hits on the eggs, however, I was again finding that they were incredibly light hits and it was difficult for me to tell whether it was actually a salmon or possibly just a trout. Anyway, I had some decent bumps, but the few taps that I did set the hook into hard resulted in nothing at the end of the line. After a while I gave up on eggs and switched to twitching jigs. Hand tied rabbit fur, predominantly pink. I pretty quickly got a hit which didn't stick, but the fish hit weren't really having it at my first spot, so I moved on. At the next hole I began with eggs again, and also pitched the jig a little as I worked my way along. At one point I had a nice take on the eggs from a fish that I was hiding under a log. As my eggs got close to the log I saw it dart out/swirl after them twice, but missed both takes. After a while I gave up on eggs at this spot and switched completely to jigging. This is where the fun began. Keeping things very fast and light on the twitch, I proceeded to go 2/4 in about 45 minutes on my hand tied rabbit fur, with numerous other hits that never hooked up well. A bit later on (after losing my jig to a log) I managed to hook and fight another fish up to me on a similarly patterned store bought rabbit fur jig, but lost it due to a barbless hook from fishing the jig in a different river. Ended the day at 2/5 with numerous other hits, getting to take home dime bright 4.5# and 5.5# fish.

Tight lines!

krolelov

10/8/2015 6:27:00 AM

Great report and nice fish!

cxlumpy

10/8/2015 8:04:00 AM

you can fish a barbed hook on snohomish?

hooksetjou

10/8/2015 8:06:00 AM

Nice silvers you got there. Same thing happened to me with eggs yesterday. I have many hits but no hook up at all. I did noticed some small fish (less than 10'' maybe) jumping which I thought to be baby salmon. I think they were the ones hitting eggs. Switched to purple/black jig and landed my first fish. I also lost that jig to the log.

AJFishdude

10/8/2015 8:28:00 AM

@cxlumpy: yes, barbed hooks are allowed on the Snohomish.
@hooksetjou: I will definitely need to keep practicing with the egg drifting. Funny enough, the fish that hit my eggs twice hit so light that I wouldn't have easily been able to tell if I hadn't actually seen it. As for jigs, just expect to lose them when fishing good Coho water. Logs = Coho = lost jigs. Aside from being able to make them exactly how I want to, that is another benefit to tying your own, they don't cost nearly as much.

jonb

10/8/2015 9:29:00 AM

Good job mr. Fishdude

Reel Priorities

10/8/2015 10:11:00 AM

chromers, AJ.

jonb

10/8/2015 8:52:00 PM

Seems like your "s" river coho curse has been lifted.

AJFishdude

10/8/2015 9:18:00 PM

Thanks RP. The curse is officially gone jonb.

Micman78

10/8/2015 10:18:00 PM

Those are really nice looking coho. Nice job and great report.thanks.

AJFishdude

10/9/2015 2:25:00 PM

Thanks, @Micman78.

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