Night fishing for resident coho

[Clint F]

Hi,

I was wondering if any one could give me tips for night fishing aroung the south sound for resident coho. I have a bunch of glow in the dark flies but dont know if they will work better or not. Thanks for the help. :confused:

[ibn]

Post some pics if you can. Glow in the dark clousers tied with flashabou work good. You don't have to use glow in the dark flies, you can catch them on normal flies at night to.

[Clint F]

Yes I will post pics if I have any luck.

[ibn]

Pics of fish are cool, but what I meant was, post some pics of your flies. :)

[Clint F]

:beathead: OHHHHHHHH Flies. Ok I will now but it will take some time. The camera is very slow.

[Clint F]

Can someone explain how to post a picture.

Thanks

[Clint F]

Here is a picture of the flies I have been using.

[ibn]

Those are a little large, I like a smaller fly in Puget Sound. You also don't need the stinger hook, might go a little bit sparser on materials to. Got the right idea though, add a few strands of glow in the dark flashabou and you're in business.

[Clint F]

Thanks for the help. I greatly appriciate it.

[Salty Fly]

My greatest success for the resident coho at night is to simply tie about 10 strands of glow in the dark flashabo, about 2"-3" long, to an SC15 size 2-4 and start casting. Eyes are optional. Try your normal beaches and spend some time listening for the active fish.

[hendersonbaylocal]

Anyone have a good local source for the glow in the dark flashabou?

[ibn]

Anyone have a good local source for the glow in the dark flashabou?

I get mine from Anil and Clark in Puget Sound Fly Co. Only shop I've found that's had it, but I don't deviate much.

[Clint F]

Hey everyone I will have a report eather late tonight or tomorrow.

[Gabe Feenan]

. You don't have to use glow in the dark flies, you can catch them on normal flies at night to.
would dark colors be a good choice if I don't have glow in the dark flies , maybe a black clouser?

[gigharborflyfisher]

One of my fishing buddies here in Gig Harbor has an online shop so I just swing by his place to get it. I think his site is (EDIT: Non-site sponsor URL removed). The morning hatch does have a few colors of glow in the dark flashabou but they maybe out of it since they are closing in a couple weeks.

[Clint F]

The report is not very good but I thought I would give it to you anyways. Friday nignt I had no success. So I tried saturday morning. All I had was a strike right at my feet but missed it. I saw a lot of jumpers but no takers.

Oh well. I might mave better luck next time.

[gigharborflyfisher]

I went out on Friday as well and it was dead.

[Jon Borcherding]

Mako, Are you absolutely certain that the jumpers are silvers? I was fishing from a skiff on several south sound beaches on Saturday morning and I ran into two fairly large schools of small blackmouth feeding in the shallows near the beach. They weren't nearly as interested in my flies as the silvers were. They appear to be feeding on something just below the surface and casting into the numerous swirls and rises only produced a few strikes. I tried small Clousers in pink/white, chartreuse/white, brown/white and only got the occaisional strike. At one point a change up to a beadhead olive sparkle bugger produce instant results but after the fish was released I returned to the school only to find that they had lost interest in the bugger too. I wouldn't normally condone a lot of fishing on a school of fish that were obviously under the legal limit but, I wanted to find out what they would respond to. Does anyone know what young blackmouth are feeding on when they are are rising this way? I couldn't see anything in the water. I have a nagging feeling that I need to learn to tie some shrimp patterns.:confused:
JonB

[Jake Bannon]

Those fish that night could have been blackmouths, they were constantly making boils and swirls instead of jumping completly out of the water like the silvers did the next day.

[Jon Borcherding]

Those fish that night could have been blackmouths, they were constantly making boils and swirls instead of jumping completly out of the water like the silvers did the next day.
YUP!! That's what I was seeing too! I caught 4 of them and they were definitely little blackies. Black gum lines, teeth on the whole tongue, spots on the whole tail. The question is: what are they feeding on when they're rising like that? Did you see any bait in the water?
JonB

[Blake]

Hey Gary (gigharborflyfisher),
Interesting that they removed the link you put on there for me even though I've contacted them several times about sponsoring the board and I've never gotten a response...

[Jake Bannon]

YUP!! That's what I was seeing too! I caught 4 of them and they were definitely little blackies. Black gum lines, teeth on the whole tongue, spots on the whole tail. The question is: what are they feeding on when they're rising like that? Did you see any bait in the water?
JonB

Yes I saw alot of little baitfish being pushed around with big swirls, like 5 at a time. They would move down beach and I would try to get ahead of them to cast my fly towards them but they were moving too fast for me.

[Clint F]

Yes those fish very well could have been black mouth but something about them
made me think coho more.

[Jake Bannon]

I went down today and the same fish were their feeding on bait and a olive and white clouser landed two. And they were black mouth but I thought they were silvers since they jumped completly out of the water

[gigharborflyfisher]

When hit the beach at night a few weeks ago, I could hear fish surfacing but there was no sign of coho just a lot of blackmouth and some cutthroat. They were hitting glow in the dark clousers and tube flies so I would assume that they were feeding on fish, although shrimp and squid are also possible.

Blake I too find it interesting that they removed your link even though they haven't gotten back to you about sponsering them...