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Fast Water
12-19-2002, 11:12 PM
This is a reprint of a post from the Lewisriver.com site.

Thanks Noel. :grin:

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists found a wild coho salmon carcass in the North Fork Lewis River that may have exceeded 30 pounds, before the fish spawned and died. Joe Hymer of the Department of Fish and Wildlife said the coho was so large it looked like a chinook.
Biologists found the Coho while performing their weekly spawning count of fall chinook salmon. The coho had a 38-inch total length.
Washington's freshwater record coho, taken from the Quinault River in 2001, weighed 25.27 pounds and was 32.28 inches total length.

Noel Johnson - Woodland, Wa. - USA

[ 12-19-2002, 11:12 PM: Message edited by: Fast Water ]

Great White Sturgeon Hunter
12-20-2002, 07:29 AM
Wow! I know the last couple of years has been putting out some big coho but that one is a monster. In 2001 I fished the SolDuc in Forks real heavy. I carded over 75 Salmon that season mostly Coho. I had a number of fish in the high teens and one over twenty. With the biggest King at 42lbs. But a Coho over 30, what a fight that would be on light gear :shocked: .