When you hook a nice looking chinook , on a coast river that is shooting eggs in febuary but is bright enough to eat, is it a springer thats come very early or that run that should have been here in november?
Fall fish still some bright late fish around, a springer will not spawn till August or September. If it was springer you know it as it would be almost bright enough to blind ya and its egg skeins are only 6-8" long and the size of a pen head now.
There are chinook every bit as bright as springers returning to the coastal rivers (and even a remnant run in the Sandy and I think the Lewis) in Jan and Feb but they are winter spawners.
By the time a springer shoots eggs she is black as tar.
What beautiful fall fish Bob. Rags supplied me with those beers.Thanks Rags!
I think what I was getting around to was that it seems that the seasons are changing and the fish are coming later and later each year . Or so it seems for the last 10 or so years.
Which brings up another point.
Why has the state of Oregon cut off the fall chinook season at the end of december when we all know that bright fish are still coming into the coast streams well into january??? I think the end of january cut off would put alot of us into some nice fish.:excited:
What beautiful fall fish Bob. Rags supplied me with those beers.Thanks Rags!
I think what I was getting around to was that it seems that the seasons are changing and the fish are coming later and later each year . Or so it seems for the last 10 or so years.
Which brings up another point.
Why has the state of Oregon cut off the fall chinook season at the end of december when we all know that bright fish are still coming into the coast streams well into january??? I think the end of january cut off would put alot of us into some nice fish.:excited:
Makes sense I know of a fish landed on a mid coast creek jan15 or so that was a crome bright buck.....caught on 12lb test while steelhead fishing. I would like to see it open a bit longer but it also lets those last fish go do there thing.
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