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Information For The Serious Angler by John Martinis October 2014 In this Newsletter I want to address Fishing Dates Presentation on where to go fishing if you are fishing from a boat and also your best Area 8-1 Fishing Winter opportunity for catching Coho if you are August 1-October 31 Blackmouth fishing from the beach. After I point out Coho Daily Limit 2 where to fish, then I will pick out specific release Chinook By John Martinis Coho rigs that I feel will present the best Thursday, October 9th opportunity for hooking into a freshwater Coho. Area 8-2 @ 6:30PM August 1-October 31 at the Coho Daily Limit 2 In the first couple weeks of October the EDMONDS SENIOR CENTER tidal areas of the Snohomish and Skagit release Chinook on the Edmonds Waterfront rivers present some of the best opportunities for catching Coho. Area 9 220 Railroad Ave Edmonds, WA 98020 October 1-31 The Snohomish River has three main Coho Daily Limit 2 The public is invited boat launches that will give you easy release Chinook access to the River. Let's start at the Click Here for Details lower part of the river and work up: Snohomish River Coho and Directions Langus Park on the lower Snohomish Sept 1-Dec 1 River is a great boat launch where you Daily Limit 3 Coho can launch a boat at almost any tide. Effective Freshwater Because this boat launch is on the lower Skykomish R. Coho part of the river, the time to get to the Sept 1-Dec 1 Coho Strategies good fishing grounds will take a little bit Daily Limit 3 Coho longer than the other two boat When the month of October comes launches I will mention. around, a whole new set of Coho fishing Stillaguamish R. Coho opportunities are available. While Sept 1-Dec 1 Rotary Park in the Everett/Lowell area many saltwater anglers are finishing up is a great boat launch, however it is Daily Limit 2 Coho their Coho fishing in Puget Sound, difficult to launch your boat at low tide freshwater river anglers are just starting and even more difficult to take a boat Skagit River Coho to gear up for the fall migration of Coho. out of the river at low tide. So plan See Rule Book Page 25 accordingly. If you are trying to figure Coho that are staging up at the river the out the tides for the Snohomish River, river’s mouths in Puget Sound are just add one hour to the Seattle tides waiting for cool, wet, rainy weather to and that will get you in the ball game. Shop Online at swim to their final destination in their John’s Sporting Goods native stream. This migration pattern The Cady Park boat launch in the city shop.johnssportinggoods.com presents a great fishing opportunity for of Snohomish is the upper-most public local salmon anglers. boat launch in the Snohomish River. This boat launch is very steep and best John’s Sporting Goods Web Page www.johnssportinggoods.com suited for smaller boats and trailers. almost any size boat. This launch is An alternative method for rigging a This boat launch is also affected by the affected by the tide, but the tide will spoon would be to tie a rolling drop tides. At low tide, I would not affect your ability to launch your swivel (3-way swivel) on the end of recommend using a four-wheel-drive boat at any time. the fishing line. Tie a 6 foot leader to vehicle to pull your boat and trailer up the opposite end of the swivel and tie this steep boat ramp. Another Skagit River boat launch is your spoon to the end of that piece of just above I-5 in Burlington. This leader. On the remaining eye of the There are other private boat launches launch is: Roger “Gus” Tjeerdsma swivel, tie a10 inch leader. On the end on the Snohomish River where the Boat Launch. of that leader, tie a ½ ounce landowners charge a yearly fee for cannonball sinker. This method boat launching and fishing. There are several good ways to catch allows the rig to bump along the Coho from a boat in freshwater and bottom without snagging up the If you want to access the upper everybody has their favorite fishing spoon. Snohomish River I would method and tackle selection. For the recommend using the High Bridge sake of narrowing it down, let's Spoons that I would recommend for boat launch in the lower Snoqualmie explore using plugs, spoons and trolling are: #1 Dick Nite spoons. The River. The Snohomish River is a very spinners. best colors are: 50/50 (half gold/half short distance downstream from this nickel) and Frog. boat launch. This launch also gives Plugs are by far the easiest to rig and you access to one of the greatest to fish. Tie a bead chain swivel on the Spinners are rigged exactly like I just Coho fishing areas near the Highway end of the fishing line (10-12lb line). described for rigging spoons. 522 Bridge in the Snohomish River. Then tie a 4 to 6 foot leader (10-12lb Spinners that I would recommend for leader) to the bead chain swivel and trolling are: Super Vibrax spinners The best time to fish the tidal areas tie a plug on the end of the leader. Let sizes #3 and #4. The best colors are: Snohomish River is one hour before the plug out 30 to 40 feet behind the gold or nickel blade with a chartreuse high tide and one hour before low boat and troll at a brisk speed. If you body or gold or nickel blade with the tide. This is just a guide to go by and are trolling too fast, the plug will spin fluorescent orange body. not necessarily what fishing looks like and pop to the surface. every day. There are days when the Recommended Trolling Tackle Coho fishing is only good in the Plugs that I recommend are Brad's morning and there are other days Wigglers and Storm Wiggle Warts. Brads Wiggler Firetiger Bw74 when the fishing is only good one Colors: Firetiger, Red with Black Brads Wiggler Red Body/Black hour before the tide change. So, don't Herring Bone and various colors of Herring Bone BW17 limit yourself to fishing that one hour purple. Both plugs come in similar Storm Wiggle Wart Firetiger V74 before the tide change. Use the tide colors. Storm Wiggle Wart Red body/Black change as a guide to when you expect Herring Bone V90 the best fishing to be on the day that Trolling spoons can be as complicated Dick Nite Spoon #1 50/50 you go fishing. or as easy as you want it to be. The Dick Nite Spoons #1 Frog simplest rig would be to tie a ½ ounce Super Vibrax Spinner #3-#4 Gold or There are so many public accesses on mooching sinker on the end of the Silver Blade Chartreuse Body the Skagit River so I will only address a fishing line (10-12lb line). Next, tie a 6 Super Vibrax Spinner #3-#4 Gold or c o u p l e s i t e s i n t h e M t . foot leader to the other swivel on the Silver Blade Fluorescent Orange Vernon/Burlington Area. The most mooching sinker. Tie a spoon to the Body popular boat launch is at Edgewater end of the leader. Let the spoon out ½ ounce Mooching Sinker Park in Mount Vernon. This is a 30 to 40 feet behind the boat and troll #7 or #10 Rolling Drop Swivel great boat launch where you can at a brisk speed. ½oz Cannon Ball Weight launch Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 10-12lb Leader access is limited. The only downside The best colors are: 50/50 (half to fishing the Stillaguamish River is gold/half nickel) and Frog. Link to Plug Colors that the water becomes quite muddy after every rainstorm. This makes the When Coho have serious lockjaw, Link to Dick Nite Spoon Colors river un-fishable a good percentage of there is nothing better to use than the time. 1/8-1/4 ounce jigs. Fishing jigs is by Beach Access on the Snohomish River far the simplest method for fishing is very limited. Most of the good Coho Special fishing rules for the Coho. Tie the jig on the end of the fishing areas are on private property. Stillaguamish River: Single barbless fishing line and cast. As the jig moves To gain access to these private hooks, no bait including any bait oils downstream, twitch the jig slightly, properties you must contact the or scents. keeping it off the bottom and moving landowners and purchase a yearly downstream with the current. Watch permit. I am not certain how to Stillaguamish River your fishing line ever so closely, contact these individuals or how Public Access because the fish will pick up the jig as much they charge. Blue Stilly Park it is falling. If you are waiting to feel a bite or a tug on the end of the line, you There is some public access to the Haller Park/Arlington will be waiting forever. Watch the Snohomish River along the River Road fishing line closely and any time you that run between Everett and Tactics for catching Coho from the see line movement as the jig is falling Snohomish. If you have fished Pink beach in freshwater are different than strike immediately.