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After a week of coho fishing, finally got back out on the samish with 2 clients today on the upper river. MAN theres a lot of fish stacking up now! problem is, a lot of them are turning very dark, and although super fun to catch a 25lb king, dark or not, the rule that makes you keep or quit after 2 legal fish can get ANNOYING when you catch your limit of dark fish in the first hour of the morning, today we actually did find a few chromers, we bonked our 6 fish, 2 really nice chrome fish, 3 medium bronze fish, great for smoking, and were forced to bonk a NASTY buck, ahah hopefully it will at least be edible smoked! We hooked probably 15-20 kings today, lots were BIG and broke us off, but they jumped a bit and we got good looks at them, all in good fun, released 2 huge bucks, one was 27 lb the other was probably 25 (we weighed one in the net) the fish were hooked on the side of the lip, it was right on the edge of being inside the mouth but i figured it was close enough so we released them, both big, dark hogs. saw some silvers rolling and landed one nice native coho too, probably a 12 lber!

Im trying to figure out a way to put my eggs above my hook, like a pegged single egg but with a clump of roe, so when i set the hook on a biter, the hook nails them on the outside of the mouth so i can do some catch and release on these nasty dark fish until we get a chromer fish or 2, not sure if thats legal or not i guess i will call and make sure, but as long as theyre biting i dont see a problem. let ya know if i figure it out!

Check out the pics below, the limit and the big 27lber we released

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LiveAsYouWill

9/27/2012 12:06:00 AM

...certainly looks like some stoked clients! j/c, what, in your opinion, is the cheapest and fastest way to cure roe for quick turnaround use? was thinking the 3-2-1 borax sugar salt gig w/ maybe a hint of brown sugar and some Koolaid mixed in. any advice? Thanks in advance! Keep killin' it!

RiverChromeGS

9/27/2012 5:16:00 AM

Honestly for me its much easier to use an actual cure, i just cut my eggs into bait sized pieces, put them in s bowl, sprinkle pautskea fire cure or your any other cure you want ( wizard, pro cure, ect) in deep red over them. Mix it in good, leave for 24 hrs, mix um up again. Go another 24 hrs and boom. Ready for use. I dont mess around with all the borax sugar dye ect... Just buy a 8$ thing of fire cure and it lasts all season and all u do is sprinkle mix and wait. Fish cant resist it!

Mike Carey

9/27/2012 6:43:00 AM

nice action!

Russ Carver

9/27/2012 11:57:00 AM

Looks like you have it dialed in! Good job.

Gringo Pescador

9/27/2012 2:49:00 PM

Nice pics of happy customers. Could you rig some kind of spawn sack above the hook somehow? I put my eggs in a ziplock with firecure, and gently roll em about every 10 minutes for the 1st couple hours, then set em someplace cool (like basement cool, not fridge, too cold & slows the process), they should be ready to fish the next day. Then in the fridge (or freeze them) if I am not using them right away.

RiverChromeGS

9/27/2012 8:00:00 PM

yea gringo i was thinking of something like that, but these fish love golf ball egg clumps, so its not so easy, anyone have any idea if trying this is legal? i dont see why not, but who knows. anyways, we do the exact same thing for eggs gringo, mix um around a lot, no fridge for 24hrs then refrigerate after a day, gotta have good eggs for good success, really important IMO

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