Coho run

Is the Coho run nearly over, or will it still be going for a while?  I tried to look it up a few times, but I can't find anything with a date range.

Specifically, South Sound Rivers.

Can't help with the S Sound rivers, as i don't fish them. But I don't think its over, yet.

However, this rain should raise the river levels and draw in more fresh fish. Most coho upstream around here are getting pretty dark. We get fresh-in Coho all the way thru Dec in some rivers. Even seen 'em in Jan.  There's some late-timed hatchery Coho in some rivers, and some larger late-run wild Coho that come in here on the coast.

Figuring out the timing as to when to hit them is a combination of luck, years of taking notes, and more luck. Then you need some good luck, since Ma Nature is a female dog.

One creek i fish that gets a small Coho run will finally get some fish in with this rain. Only a few stragglers have entered it so far due to very low water.

Other places have had Coho in them for a good month already. I don't like to fish for stale dark fish, myself. I look for fresh chromers.

Get out there asap!

Fresh-in Coho are what you want to fish for, as they become less apt to bite each day that they are in the river. I'm fishing for Coho tomorrow somewhere, and maybe even later this afternoon (casting from bank).

A good place to begin looking for fresh Coho in any river are the pools just above the head of tidewater where the fresh-in fish rest, or hold. Some anglers differentiate between "resting" and "holding" water, but the main difference is the amount of time the fish stay in one place before they resume their upstream journey. I'm never in one spot long enough to time anything, and my fishing is sporadic and therefore statistically irrelevant, so I never really know if the fish I'm looking at are holding or resting fish.

Remember, I'm talking about fresh-in coho in the lower part of the river. Fish that are moving in will bite, too, although sometimes it seems they just ignore your offering and swim around it. I had two aggro coho in a school of fresh fish moving upstream hit my spinner one day, one right after the other. Lost the first one, miraculously got another to bite and then lost it.  I then checked my hook and found the point had gotten bent over  somehow.

I think I'll try the puke tomorrow evening.