What type of flies for coho?
Posted by admin on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
What fly patterns can i use for coho salmon in the early to late fall as fish in shallow shore depth. I will be fishing in waders from the beach as the coho run on vancouver island, any ideas thanks
im fishing in tidal water if that helps srry not rivers thnks tho
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Backwater Charlieon 07 Jan 2010 at 7:39 am 1For flies, it’s hard to beat a Rolled-Muddler Minnow and/or flash flies in an assortment of colors. Hook size can be very important, start with a 4 and see how it goes. Smaller flies may often lure fish to strike, but lacking the wider gap, they often don’t hold. In addition to flash flies, egg-sucking leaches and/or green wooly buggers can also be effective.
Coho can be finicky, slamming anything and everything put in front of them one moment, and then becoming extremely tight lipped the next. Fly color and speed of retrieve may make or break a day. During some outings one may observe Coho chasing a fly 10 feet or more before engulfing it, truly a spectacle to behold. On other days, one leaves the river perplexed as to what would make these fish follow a fly. You just never know what makes these fish “turn onâ€, but when they’re on, there is nothing quite like it.
Mikeon 07 Jan 2010 at 8:39 am 2Orange.