nope. but I did check the mouth of Siltcoos river today at high tide and there was a nice connection to the ocean, with 5 seals in it. so that should be SRC, perhaps some coho jacks but I will be very surprised to see any adult coho activity yet. always a chance however...
@@RogerEmigh yea its gonna be interesting. I'm gonna keep trying lower siuslaw and maybe up by the train bridge on 126 from shore, then maybe siltcoos river upstream of 101 and siltcoos lake by Ada
Why do you reel right handed control your rod right handed then try netting the fish left handed when you have to switch your rod to your left hand to reel why not just hold the rod in your left hand and the net in the right hand if you need to puck up slack in the line you can just drop the net and reel instead of switching hands with the rod to reel then switching the rod back to net? Right handed reels are not for right handed people its just weird to me? 🤔 🤷
a couple of reasons- I have my kayak rigged so that I do all my big fish netting on the left side, nothing mounted on that side in the way and if you try that side with net in right hand, you are coming across and down in front of you, not sweeping up the side of the kayak like I do with my left hand. also, to control the fish better and pull it towards the net, I like to grab the rod up just behind the first guide, so I do that with right hand that was on the reel handle, let go with my left and grab the net. also, I'm left handed.
Nice coho, we saw a seal take a fish away on the Siuslaw when we were there a few weeks ago. Still brought home a chinook :)
Well done sir...and Pepper! Thanks for sharing your day and gear set-up, too. Have fun on the lakes.
Nice!!!
Nice fish. Go Cougs!
Good job as usual Roger, and pepper. Do you think the siltcoos arms have any fish up there yet?
nope. but I did check the mouth of Siltcoos river today at high tide and there was a nice connection to the ocean, with 5 seals in it. so that should be SRC, perhaps some coho jacks but I will be very surprised to see any adult coho activity yet. always a chance however...
@@RogerEmigh yea its gonna be interesting. I'm gonna keep trying lower siuslaw and maybe up by the train bridge on 126 from shore, then maybe siltcoos river upstream of 101 and siltcoos lake by Ada
Why do you reel right handed control your rod right handed then try netting the fish left handed when you have to switch your rod to your left hand to reel why not just hold the rod in your left hand and the net in the right hand if you need to puck up slack in the line you can just drop the net and reel instead of switching hands with the rod to reel then switching the rod back to net? Right handed reels are not for right handed people its just weird to me? 🤔 🤷
Nice fish though looks fun in the yak
a couple of reasons- I have my kayak rigged so that I do all my big fish netting on the left side, nothing mounted on that side in the way and if you try that side with net in right hand, you are coming across and down in front of you, not sweeping up the side of the kayak like I do with my left hand. also, to control the fish better and pull it towards the net, I like to grab the rod up just behind the first guide, so I do that with right hand that was on the reel handle, let go with my left and grab the net. also, I'm left handed.