oak 8/30-9/1 Need your help!!

[711skwerlz]

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name:Jim/ Time wasted

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TRIP OVERVIEW

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Date(s):8/30-9/1

Time on Water:5:30-11 am and 4:00 - 7:00 pm

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FISHING RESULTS

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Total Hits: 13,16,8

Total Boated:8,12,5

Species Breakdown:Kings,browns,steelies, atlantic,COHO

Hot Lure: NBK SD, lemon ice SD, nbk stingray,Lemon ice SS

Trolling Speed: 2.6-3.2 SOG

Down Speed:

Boat Depth: 85-110

Lure Depth: 55-75

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SUMMARY & FURTHER DETAILS

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This week wasn't as good as last week. sorry too busy to post last week. Good quality fish but not the quanity. Ran riggers 55-75 mostly spoons with free sliders. Colors were 42 second, lemon ice, Nbk, glow frog, and mixed veggies. Wire out 180-220, then 140 -180 on 9/1. hot Spinny were the NBK,Lemon ice, Seneca Special, all folowed by Big weenie flies, lake o glow, yellow snow, pole dancer. The wind and rain brought the fish in shallow the last day. 300 copper was great every day.

I learned alot this trip. like always carry a spare for the trailer ( blew the tire out 1 mile from the launch and dragged it up anyway) , always replace a nicked leader when you see it(Lost my lemon ice spinny) Don't let the driver stay up too late(they sleep at the wheel instead) , carry an extra fillet knife on the boat(the wife caught mine with the net and tossed it in the lake) . even had a king teach me how to dance at the back of the boat. I brought a king in on the 300 he came up the port side and went deep and completely under the boat. I ducked the rod under every rig out including both downrigger cables. He surfaced on the starboard side a few minutes later. Then ran back under the starboard dipsy and rigger where he met the net at the back of the boat. Thought I was gonna loose that one:clap:

we did 10 kings over 18 lbs the biggest was 27.06 lbs; 2 browns 5-6 lbs; 1 atlantic 4 lbs; 2 steelies 3-7 lbs.; 1 COHO 15 .04 lbs!!

Here's where I need your help. We put a 15.04lb COHO in the boat. This is the biggest COHO I've seen. (Only fished ontario for 2 years now) Done alot around 8-9 lbs. Would you consider this a trophy worth mounting. State record is 33 but that was a hybrid. I believe this is pure coho. If its a hybrid I wont mount it. After talking to a few guys I have a better idea what to do.

Please post your thoughts!!

some kings

[motoman]

very nice coho and i think it would be a great mount and for the state record coho being a high bird i don't think thats correct they test them to make sure! i see at least 2 or 3 every year and after testing they end up being cross breeds and not new records !

[TOP SECRET]

Trophy or not is up to you... its a pretty fish and wouldlook great on your wall, size isnt everything (so my wife tells me).

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[711skwerlz]

Sorry your right the article I read called Tony's fish the record.

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[rdebadts]

I worked as a mate for 6 years and can tell you that a coho over 15 is a relatively special coho. I would probably do it

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[BAZOOKAJOE]

Very nice ho! How'd she fight?

[FX]

Congrats on a beauty 'ho I'd mount it. Paul Czarnecki (LOU member) does great work - http://www.tristatetaxidermy.com/index.html.

Shawn

[Raaven]

very nice coho and i think it would be a great mount and for the state record coho being a high bird i don't think thats correct they test them to make sure! i see at least 2 or 3 every year and after testing they end up being cross breeds and not new records !

Did they test them in 1998?

15 lbs. is a very nice coho! I had clients send a couple around that size, and up to 18 lbs. to taxidermists in the last week.

[hunterangler7]

Trophy or not is up to you... its a pretty fish and wouldlook great on your wall, size isnt everything (so my wife tells me).

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ha BURn

very nice fish though

[Kooter469]

Great fish man ya id definatly mount that fish. And also i think i got your lemon ice spinnie. I hooked it on a diver on saturday.