Garibaldi coho June 23 & 24

Went down on Thursday the 22nd and got an early start to fishing for coho Friday morning, fishing with my friend Troy. It was rough, some boats turned back at the jaws, although the bar was unrestricted. We ventured west, and hoped it would calm down as we got a little more west. It did indeed calm down a little, but not “calm” by any means. We deployed triangle flashers with 4.0 Spinfish, Lemon Head Glow, used 10 oz of weight at 32 on the line counter. After about 20 minutes I began to wonder if any coho had arrived yet. Then., fishon!, Troy had a nice hatchery coho. From this point, in about 200’ of water just south of the south jetty we had constant action, and at least four doubles. Every time one rod went off, the other did also with three or four seconds. We ended up with our four hatchery coho, after releasing some natives, fairly early and headed back to the dock.

On Saturday I fished with my friend Todd, we only went one for three, and it was a native which we released. That’s the story of fishing early coho in Garibaldi, it can be vey hit or miss early in the season. From here the fish should become more numerous and start getting larger. Hoping the ocean conditions will allow us to access this incredibly fun fishery next weekend.