My first salmon this season!!!!!!

[rcflores]

Hi guys thanks to this board I manage to catch my first salmon of the season at port hope and thanks to Frozenfire for giving the direction. enjoy the run in port hope is officially on salmon after salmon where being caught when were there at Saturday night. My friend caught 4 but lost all four of them I had two bites but lost one and manage to catch this 22 pound coho, this is my first time catching a coho so I am very excited. with all this rain this week its only going to get better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MikeyMikey]

Excellent.


Btw, how was the weather condition during your visit?

windy? how was the wave? how was the water color?

 

[openfire]

Holy, that's a brute for a *coho*!

Nice job. What did you catch him on?

edit* turns out this a chinny despite the light gums

 

[Rapala Boy]

a 20 pound coho is excellent!!!

I'm also wondering what you caught it on, roe, spoon, marshmellow

 

[rcflores]

Excellent.


Btw, how was the weather condition during your visit?

windy? how was the wave? how was the water color?

hey bro we went at night time the water was pretty waveye and but we were hooking alot of salmon then it started raining then they stop biting

 

[rcflores]

Holy, that's a brute for a coho!

Nice job. What did you catch him on?

thanks bro i caught him with a salmon sac

 

[rcflores]

a 20 pound coho is excellent!!!

I'm also wondering what you caught it on, roe, spoon, marshmellow

salmon roe

 

[rcflores]

This is my first time catching a coho I am not really familiar with them because from where I fish all the salmon are chinooks. I didn't even know it was a coho until the day I took the picture the next day I notice that the gum is not black. I am just wondering what is the normal size for coho?? is a 22 pound big for there species sorry just not familiar with them its my first time catching one

 

[openfire]

I am just wondering what is the normal size for coho?? is a 22 pound big for there species sorry just not familiar with them its my first time catching one

22 pounds is huge for a Coho. You were only 6 pounds shy of the Ontario record (28 pounds)!

*edit: turns out this is a chinny despite the light gums

 

[rcflores]

I am just wondering what is the normal size for coho?? is a 22 pound big for there species sorry just not familiar with them its my first time catching one

22 pounds is huge for a Coho. You were only 6 pounds shy of the Ontario record (28 pounds)!

Ohh wow I am close how about for the chinook whats the record

 

[openfire]

About 46 lbs if I'm not mistaken.

 

[diggyj]

Thats awsome. Maybe I will try that sometime, what time/date can you catch them until?

Dirk

 

[wishniwasfishn]

congrats and beauty fish!

 

[rcflores]

wow 46 pound thats huge

 

[rcflores]

Thats awsome. Maybe I will try that sometime, what time/date can you catch them until?

Dirk

last time I was fishing until late october for salmon

 

[rcflores]

congrats and beauty fish!

Thanks bro

 

Wait what the hell, was my post deleted?
That's a King not a ho, sorry. Contrary to popular pier lore you can't go by black, white or shades of grey in the mouth, the easiest way to tell a King & ho apart are spots on the dorsal & tail. A King will have a spotted dorsal & tail, a coho will have at most a very few spots on the tail but none on the dorsal. Also the anal fin on a coho will look like a right angled triangle while a King has an anal fin shaped like a parallelogram.

This is what a ho looks like.

No spots on tail & dorsal fin.
Nice fish, just not a ho.

 

[openfire]

Thanks Dilligaf for clearing that up.

I was looking at the OP's fish and thought it looked like a chinny because of the spots on the back, but the light gums had me fooled I guess.

 

[rcflores]

Hi Guys just went fishing again and I caugh a 25 pound salmon il post picture later cuz I'm going fishing again but I'm not sure if the fish a chinook or coho

 

[frozenfire]

Yeah...I was gonna post that it didn't look like a coho, but more like a chinook to me when this was first posted, but the site wouldn't let me log in for some reason at the time.

Still a nice fish though!