Reel Repair by Alan Tani

 Its that time of year again in puget sound. The coho mass migration coming in from the ocean to return to their river and spawn. The biggest run comes from the river just blocks from my home. We call them hooknose, cause the male coho develop a knarly hooked nose and lower jaw as they near their home river.

 They really are gourmet table fare.

 Heres a shot of the hooknose from a 11 pounder, and a screenshot of my sonar screen as I'm fishing, and a pic of the tail that shows this big hooknose escaped the jaws of a seal

Coho are my second favorit salmon to eat, sockeye are by far the best.

Hey Ted,

Looks like you were a better angler than the seal, and your sonar shot is crazy! You'll have to do a surf and turf with your wonderful Prime Rib. 

We peasants in Kalifornia are only aloud to fish Salmon when our overlords say we can, until an imaginary quota gets caught, and they close it again. 

Steve

You could always move to a place that allows more fishing opportunities..... just saying. If kalifornia is so bad I wonder why so many people live there. Be happy with what you have or do something about it. I love BC, not everything,  but not enough to move

I'm sure Ted could complain about Washington regulations .... but he lives with what he has.... even though the chinook opportunities are limited due to political reasons.

Sorry  .... rant over

Todd

Nice fish Ted.  Our coho our pretty much done now. Eve though Dave and his wife got a few.


Todd

Quote from: Hardy Boy on September 12, 2025, 02:55:10 AMYou could always move to a place that allows more fishing opportunities..... just saying. If kalifornia is so bad I wonder why so many people live there. Be happy with what you have or do something about it. I love BC, not everything,  but not enough to move

I'm sure Ted could complain about Washington regulations .... but he lives with what he has.... even though the chinook opportunities are limited due to political reasons.

Sorry  .... rant over

Todd

Yup. Salmon in the lower 48 have so many limiting factors. The fishery biologists have to guesstimate the yearly numbers, then make recommendations to the politicians. No one is satisfied. Maybe someday there will be a prohibition of taking any Salmon species. Or, how about we make B.C. our 51'st State? It would be alota years of good fishing before we ruined that too... kidding, Todd.

  .... lol.

Todd