When fishing for coho in the ocean, anglers often have the best luck trolling within 15 feet of the surface using a spoon or artificial squid tipped with a piece of herring or anchovy.
For those new to the fishery, you’ll find a wealth of information on techniques and locations scattered on the web. I’ve broken down some of my thoughts on cohotrolling into Ten Rules of CohoTrolling. Coho tend to be a pretty cooperative salmon when it comes to catching them.
If your fishing on lockjaw coho try a small "Dick Nite" spoon, #114 in half n half....various color combos you'll have to figure out. Sometimes they will take when all else fails.
Here are a few of my favorite Coho Salmon lures, these have become my full arsenal for Silvers over the years of fishing for them in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska.
Quick to bite, and even faster to jump, there is nothing like catching Coho in the ocean and Puget Sound on a cool September day. Here's a few tips to help you find more fish. When in big, open water such as the Strait of Juan de Fuca or the Salish Sea, Coho like to travel in deep water, but not deep down.
When fishing for Fall salmon on the Columbia it’s undeniably that Trolling spinners is among the most effects tactics for catching both Columbia river Chinook and Coho.
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On very large rivers like the Columbia or Fraser River, the lower sections are wide and resemble lakes, and anglers will use trollingmethods for catching coho salmon. Shore and bank anglers will also fish deep edges and areas that funnel the coho salmon.