Information For The Serious Angler by John Martinis October 2014 In this Newsletter I want to address 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 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 . 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 to bump along the Coho from a boat in freshwater and bottom without 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 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 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. Many times you Salmon, you know that access can be fishing from a boat. There are three will be surprised to see a bright Coho steep. A good access point to fish main tackle selections that you need: leaping out of the water on the other from the shoreline is in the town of Dick Nite spoons, jigs and Super end of your fishing line. Snohomish. This access is steep and Vibrax Spinners. rocky. Good colors of jigs are: Black or Rigging Dick Nite spoons is as simple Chartreuse. If you intend to fish from the beach for as tying a #10 black barrel swivel to Coho, I would recommend fishing the the end of the fishing line and then Super Vibrax spinners are very Skykomish River in the parks and tying 4 to 6 foot leader to the other effective for catching Coho from the public fishing areas in the town of end of the swivel. Now tie the Dick beach. Tie a #10 black snap swivel on Monroe. Most of these fishing areas Nite spoon to the end of the leader. the end of the fishing line and then in the parks have nice gravel beaches You need to attach the appropriate snap a #3 or #4 Vibrax spinner to the and good access to the River. amount of weight above the swivel swivel. and onto the line. You will not know Skykomish River Public Access the correct amount of weight to Cast the Vibrax in front of you, not Near Monroe attach to the line until you determine upstream. Crank the handle on your Al Borlin Park Monroe City Park the depth and flow of the river. a couple of times to get Experiment with different amounts of the spinner blade rotating. Let the Lewis Street WDFW Public Fishing weight. The correct amount weight spinner sink and then you might need will bring the Dick Nite spoon close to to slowly crank the spinner in as the the bottom but not on the bottom. spinner floats with the current The Stillaguamish River has two major Cast the Dick Nite spoon and let it downstream. Crank on the spinner public access points that have good flutter downstream. very sparingly so the spinner remains Coho fishing from the beach. There in the hole where the Coho are hiding. are other public fishing areas and Spoons that I would recommend for access to the River west of I-5, but the beach fishing are: #1 Dick Nite spoons. Super Vibrax spinners that I would Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5421 recommend for fishing from the Sponsored by Greg's Custom Rods beach are: Super Vibrax spinner sizes Here is the rule cut and pasted #3 and #4. The best colors are: gold or out of page 10 Kids Division Sponsored by nickel blade with a chartreuse body or of the rule book. Accurate Automotive gold or nickel blade with the 1st, Samantha Bratton 8.97 fluorescent orange body. 2nd, Renna Skinner 8.81 Anti-Snagging Rule Except when 3rd, Noah Bratton 8.34 fishing with a buoyant lure (with no Recommended Casting Tackle weights added to the line or lure), or New 2014 Everett Coho Derby Video trolling from a vessel or floating Produced by John Martinis Dick Nite Spoons #1 50/50 device, terminal fishing gear is Dick Nite Spoons #1 Frog restricted to a lure or bait with one 1/8-1/4 ounce Jigs Black or single-point hook. Hooks must Chartreuse measure ¾" or less from point to Super Vibrax Spinner #3-#4 Gold or shank, and must be attached to or Silver Blade Chartreuse Body below the lure or bait. Weights may Super Vibrax Spinner #3-#4 Gold or not be attached below or less than 12" Silver Blade Fluorescent Orange Body above the lure or bait. 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