Snoho Sat 9/29 report

Espiga and I hit up the Snoho early morning at O'dark thirty. Launched in the the dark and floated down river to his hotspot that gave up the winning fish in the Coho derby. He went to his regular arsenal of Dick Nite's and I tied on a flash fly to the 8wt.. Fish were jumping but nothing spectacular compared to normal according to E. Cast around for a while while and many of the other boats started showing. Cast and cast for nada so we decided to move around. We anchor up at the next spot and begin casting. I look over my shoulder and E's gone bendo. I thought it was a snag since he didn't say anything and we were getting a bunch but pulled up what looked to be a 3-5# humpy. We moved around a few more times but still couldn't get the mojo flowin'. No one around us were landing any fish either so it didn't feel so bad. We moved on up river and came across some shallows w/ a bunch of humpies spawning. It was really cool and you could see their back sticking out of the water. Paddled up stream further (OMG that current was a killer ) and anchored. Saw some beauty Coho's jumping and got into it. I got one good strike but after that was blanking. E got a strong strike as well but the spot went dead. We stayed until about 2 and worked the river as much as we could but couldn't get anything. The whole day all we saw was one nice coho landed by a PB'r but that was it. I'm starting to think I've got some bad mojo.. 

What to do....?? I wanna catch feeeesh!!!

Z

PS. Sorry but forgot the cam at home so no pics.

Zeelander;

Keep on trying!

October is a great month for kayak cohos on the klickitat and white salmon rivers.  This is where I do most of my kayak coho fishing.  Right now the last 1/2 mile of the white salmon river is stacked with nice cohos.  I took my wife there a week and a half ago and she caught her first chromer 8 pounder with me in the canoe (I much prefer the kayak though since it's a steep bank to get down and my big canoe is 120+ lbs).  The white salmon fish jump all over the place in the first hour of daylight and that is the best time.  Usually every boat there at least gets one fish.  Unfortunately wild fish must be released.  This fishery is good till the first of november.  The klickitat is also good (last 3/4 mile) and can be good well into november, but peaks in mid to late October, but can be more finicky with the bite.  Both hatchery and wild fish can be retained.  I generally catch one legal fish each time I go in either waters (3 hours fishing).  The klickitat can be runoff sensitive and can get rather dirty some times.  The white salmon stays pretty clean most of the time.  My lure choices are usually standard Brad's wigglers in orange, firetiger, pink, and metallic blue.  My largest kayak coho last year was from the klickitat and was 14.5 pounds (see below).  My largest to date was a 20.5 pounder in 2000 on the klickitat.  The white salmon fish usually run 7-12 pounds and the klickitat fish a little smaller.  Some years the fish are just larger though.  It's a little over 2 hour drive for me to these rivers.

Mike