Finclipped, meaning hatchery fish.
Leland.
>What is a 'marked' Coho?
>Bruce
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Leland Miyawaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:28 PM
>Subject: Narroew Report
>
>
>> I fished the Narrows last wednesday, thursday and today.
>>
>> Tuesday's tide was a -1.6 low at 1pm. I was on the water at 10am and
>fished
>> to near slack. The water was filled with small migrating salmon - my
>guess,
>> chum, I saw some herring, something that looked like small trout, and
>other
>> edibles (no candlefish). I walked the beach and fished the points where
>the
>> outgoing tide ran tight along the beach. I cast my popper and immediately
>> raised a good-sized fish that didn't strike. I threw out a few more casts
>> without result before switching to a slimeline and an unweighted
>chartreuse
>> streamer. It wasn't long before I was into my first fish - a marked coho
>> between 3 and 5 pounds. For the next couple hours, I walked up and down
>the
>> beach hitting fish that were all clones of the first fish. I ended up with
>> six to hand, a whole bunch of hits and misses, and twice as many long
>> releases. The most interesting thing about these fish was that, with all
>> the heavy feeding, they weren't showing themselves. Very seldom were there
>> any jumpers and only once did I see any slashing and crashing.
>>
>> On wednesday, I got Blair Alexander, from Kaufmann's Seattle store, to
>join
>> me. I must be getting to be a good guide, because I put him onto a spot
>> where he caught three fish before I had my first strike. I was upbeach
>from
>> him and saw the aerial show his first fish put on. He said it was a good,
>> solid 24 inches. I forgot to ask him, but I figured it might have been a
>> blackmouth because it was so hot. Later, as the tide slackened, I had two
>> shots at a fish that looked as big as my leg. It had chased some fish onto
>> the beach a short cast downtide of me. On my second cast to it, I got hit
>> by a silver of 18 inches, my smallest one of the morning. For the record,
>> Blair caught five, I had three and, down the beach, Earl Harper, a fellow
>> listserve member, picked up three.
>>
>> Today, I was on the beach at 11:30am, with a low slack of .3 at 4pm. The
>> tide was running hard and tight, but it was coming down from only 8.4'. It
>> was feeling like there would soon be less fish onshore and that soon, they
>> would be out beyond casting range. Between 11:45 and 12 noon, I had three
>> fish on and landed two of them. They were the only fish I hooked today.
>> They were both marked silvers and the smallest fish of the past three
>days.
>> I continued to fish up and down the beach and didn't get any action from
>> noon to 2pm.
>>
>>
>>
