Siletz Coho Salmon
Hooked a huge Coho Salmon on the Siletz yesterday morning while targeting Steelhead with Paula’s dad, Clark! I’ve never caught a Silver from the bank before, but it was a pretty strong fish for my lighter gear! It absolutely nailed my homemade spinner from behind a rock and did some major thrashing and bent my rod almost totally in half! I’ve seen some pretty big Siletz Steelheads in the past caught from the same spot, so I didn’t immediately think “salmon”. But, once I got it near the bank, I realized from its head that it was not a Steelhead but a Silver (and a wild one at that), so we quickly brought him in, unhooked, aimed the camera and set to release. Anyway, after unhooking him, in the split second we took to snap a picture, my iphone’s digital camera totally didn’t take the picture, and the salmon returned to the deep water, so here’s an “action shot” of what it probably looked like right before the hook up!
I would have loved to have had an actual photo, because that one was an awesome fish! Ah well, we still had a good laugh about it!
Same general area on the Siletz River as this post from last year: Thanksgiving Revenge
I hope your drawing doesn’t depict the actual size. if so, it would be a hook jaw minnow.
Well at least that’s what it would be on my 19in monitor.
I posted this picture on ifish.net and got some great responses:
“Hey, thats my secret spot! ”
“another misidentified fish…that is clearly a chinook”
“You wouldn’t believe how many fish pictures I’ve taken that came out just like that! ”
“I don’t know…….don’t they usually hit from behind…..”
“it’s the refraction of the water making it look like that. ”
“ifish post of the year. Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard on here for a while. ”
“Beautiful coho Jeff! But that wasn’t really the color of spinner you were using… BUSTED!”
“Oh, I really hope this was’nt a hen.Great story. ”
“You clearly flossed it.”
…and the best one was:
“I also fished the river too. I hooked me a nice coho that was promply released but your’s was much brighter than mine” Here’s the pic
Pretty good. The guy’s link didn’t work.