lure for coho in the river

[hustlerrjim]

with the advent of thousands of coho returning lets find if anybody has a sure fire method or lure
if you got something that works please post it and share with the ifish.net people
i have done well but not consistant with a no5 spinner (nickle)with a pink hootchie slipped up onthe shank of a treble hook troll this about 50 ft, behind the boat with one ounce of lead just below the surface
another method is casting a chartruce bodied spinner with a orange spot one back side of blade(nickle) I use a spinning reel with 8 lb. test line ,lite line is critical,I have found drifting with the tide and casting where the water is shallow near shore is the best or any place silvers are rolling -try these methods

[Chris Nordling]

I personally have good success on the Columbia with smaller than ALvin-type wobblers or spoons anchored behind the boat. On smaller streams and rivers, I prefer to drift fish corkies, or throw spinners,or small(tiny)globs of fresh roe difted with little or no lead (free drift).Hope this might help a little.

Chris

[Snapshot]

Hustlerrjim, I used to fish coho in the streams and found good success with nothng but pink yarn and a small # 4 hook with the same light line. I a tadpoll works pretty good when casting towards shore. Someday I would like to find them in the columbia before they go into the smaller streams and rivers. I've heared it can be as good as the mount of the columbia. Keep us posted on how it works out.

[Trick]

Nickel #4-5 blade and red beads...coho candy. I'll agree on the lighter line. I usually stick with 8-10lb mono. It ought to be fun this year. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Stz ll]

If you are trolling in the Wilamette near Oregon City use an orange or red Wiggle Wart or Mini Wart.

[FishinMission]

Up in the rivers like the Clack. or sandy..I like to use the black bladed #3 or #4 Blue Foxes...also the Orange Blade Mepps works well too. Fish all the water. If you're fishing "frog water" (deep slow moving pools), let your blade sink a few seconds to get down deeper, and reel it in just fast enough to see your blade working on your rod tip. Bobber- jigs work too. Plugs work, small baits of eggs [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img] (no pun intended, Roy).

[Beek]

The Gibbs Croc is a coho slayer...I like the brass/red str and nickel/blue str patterns. Also a gold plated colorado fished under a float does well.

[First Bite]

Once the Coho enter the rivers such as the Clackamas, Sandy, Trask and others, a pink/white jig either fished by itself or tipped with small baits is a perennial favorite.
Mark

[4Salt]

Here are a few of my favorites:

Dick nite spoons - Second smallest size in the 1/2 nickel 1/2 brass finish. Cast and retrieve SLOWLY, almost like you were drifting them. Pencil lead, and a 4 to 5' leader. Probably the top producer up here in the Snohomish system.

Metallic pink Wiggle Warts: Trolled in tidewater.

Black Marabou jigs: Fished like you were targeting bass. Cast out, and use a slow twitch retrieve. (I know, I didn't believe it either until I tried it!)

Blue fox spinners: Size 3 or 4. Match color and size to the water conditions.

[Kenia]

Silver mepps spinners ( # 4s or 5s ) work extremely well just above tide water. Light line does seem to be a factor with these fish
so I like to use 10lbs mono.

Kenia

[DanS]

I like a Flash-Glo spinner in brass or silver in the 3/8 and 1/2 oz sizes. Tie on a 24" leader with a snap swivel and a short piece of 3/16" pencil lead. Retrieve SLOWLY.

[Krome Brite]

So this is all you fish for silvers in the rivers with, DanS and others?



What's so special about the Flash Glo spinner? Will it work not only in bigger rivers, but in smaller ones too?

[WheresMyBobber]

My old standby on the Clack were "Sneaks" in yellow or red. I don't know who carries them these days, I still have a bunch from before they closed things down. If you can find them, they always worked for us.

By the way - it's very embarrassing to walk into a hospital with one of those things hanging out of the back of your leg. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[birdhunter]

Krome Brite - Flash Glos really are the ticket. Found that out this spring (Thanks FM). I've caught chinook and steelies on them so far this year. I've also had very good success just casting them to salmon in the smaller rivers too. Don't know what it is, but they work. We'll see how they do on the coho.

[Hookset]

The flash glo secret has got to be that big bead on the end, no other spinner uses that large a bead. For a long time, the only blade flash glos came in were nickel and brass, nice to see they improved the line. The other feature could be balance. Maybe the spinner runs flat in current, no tilt.

I don't really know, just a guess. Anyone else care to guess what's the secret with flash glo spinners? Looks like a home made spinner if I ever saw one.

Gregg

[Captain Hook]

A pink wiggle wart is deadly - trolled or cast.

[Ramstrong]

99% of my freshwater caught coho have fallen to 3 different presentations. #1 up here has been the all powerful corkie and yarn with small bait of eggs. #2 has been either a flash glo or green bladed metric. and #3 is a trolled/backtrolled wee or wiggle wart. 3 colors stand out for me red/black back, blue/black back and gold/black back. The warts were the standard in the old Templeton arm coho troll fishery in tenmile lake.

Obviously lots of things work well for freshwater coho - when they don't have lock jaw anyway. After trying those tried and true methods, I have a couple twirling pink things I suggest for you to try this fall on the abundant and legal river coho. ...

1 - The twirling small pink whole prawns that I've previously posted tech on (curing and tech rigging in search feature, I think) is such a great bait presented in a number of ways for both 'nooks and steelhead, that I think they should work well for 'hos too. The best way in big slow water areas is to troll them. In medium to large rivers it's great to backtroll them using Jet Planer or Hot N Tot divers when the current is up and strong enough (can troll forward with those too). You can also use these unique 2 hook prawn rigups from the bank with careful casts and a combo of drifting/retrieving or float fishing - it works. ...

2 - I've found that lethargic summer steelhead holding in clear river pools that have refused a number of good things will turn and chase and strike a well presented 'twirling & twitched' pink worm. I think it will work for river cohos too. You can use a double slider hook setup to put a little curve in the slightly stiffer Berkley Powerbait pink worms or rig them in a skewed on curved position on jighead hooks to cast and slowly retrieve deeply thru holding or rolling fish. If no takers right away, try another slow retrieve and add a small amount of rodtip twitching action to the spinning worm. This could be deadly on these fish! E-mail me how this works for you if you try it. Thanks. - Steve

[Hookset]

Tidewater trolling, size 4 and 5 blue fox, either orange or pink. Mag Wiggel Warts - orange/silver, green prism/orange/silver, orange, pink, and silver with red prism tape.

Gregg

[DanS]

Krome,

Yep, that's the one. I only use the rainbow blade in dirty water, but the nickel and brass finishes work really well in clear water.

Don't know what it is about the Flash-Glo, but they seem to outfish most other spinners, at least in my experience. I use them all over the Grays Harbor rivers, from the Chehalis to the Satsop. In slow water, the slow retrieve is mandatory for the best success. If you feel the blade stop....SET THE HOOK. Many times a silver will just latch on to your spinner, and if you pull back slowly, they'll just let loose. They don't always crush a spinner, but sometimes they do so hold on.

All I know is they work, and they're cheaper than a Mepps or Vibrax.