Port Hope salmon fishing

[whtwolf]

Thanks to everyone that gave me some fishing tips about Port Hope.
So Saturday 8th of Sept. my father and I left Ottawa at 4am and started driving to Port Hope. We arrived at 7:00am and had a quick look around the area before we started. At 7:30 we dropped our fishing line in the river and waited, 3.5 hours later not a bite and my father was getting hungry. We decided to go to subway for lunch and a break, after lunch it was back to the river but this time to a different spot. I threw my line in and boom the fish took the hook and took me for a ride. 15 minutes later the line went loose and the fish was gone, I still saw the fish in the river so I proceeded to walk toward the salmon and when I got about a meter away I jumped on the fish and cought him. a nice size 35lbs (sorry no pictures I forgot the camera at home), But I have to say that coho salmon are ugly looking fish. My father and I weighed him and pulled all the hooks out that we found on him (6 in total) and back into the river he went. After all that excitement we continued fishing and before we knew it it was 7:45pm so we packed up and started driving back to Ottawa. All in all it was a nice day spent fishing with my father, I do have to say it was a slow day, The only thing that bothered me at this river was that everyone how caught a fish fillet it on the spot and threw the carcas back into the river. In this one small stretch we noticed around 16 salmon carcasses at the edges of the river. The only reason that we did not keep the fish and have a nice Salmon dinner that night just incase anyone wants to ask is because the fish going up river to spawn did not look healthy they were all large 25 - 40lbs and looked sick (Tired with one fin in the grave already) not something that I would like to sit down and eat.

[troutnmuskiehunter]

whtwolf said:

I still saw the fish in the river so I proceeded to walk toward the salmon and when I got about a meter away I jumped on the fish and cought him.

Holy Crap....you must outweigh that fish by 6:1... ...hopefully after you jumped on him you didn't land on him hard with your full weight and damage him!! .......

[whtwolf]

actually I am only 135 lbs I was very carfull not to hurt the fish. After letting him go i watched as he made his way up river. I think I had more fun watching the fish jump over rocks and up the river ladder. These fish have brute strength the journey the have to endure is really amazing. I wished that I would have brought the camera that day, I am thinking of going back up the locals told me that last year the real salmon run did not start till the 27th of sept. I would like to go up for the day with the camera it must be an amazing sight just to see these salmon fly over the falls.

[Jale]

If I read this correctly, you said that you had a 35 pound coho????

Joe

[Wallyboss]

Joe your right on the ball on this one !!!

this is the Ontario record
Coho Salmon
26.64

[troutnmuskiehunter]

might be a WWF record lads...

[whtwolf]

All the fish up in the area are large there all ready to spawn aswell. I was told it was a Coho might have been another kind of Salmon the back was brown and spotted, inside of the mouth was white and black one of the lips extended around the other just like a hook. I just googled it and your right sorry it is a shinook salmon, forgive me for my lake of salmon expertese this was my first time salmon fishing.

[FLOATFISHIN]

COHO:



Chinook:



Steelhead:



Brown:



Hard pressed to see a Coho in the shallows, esp during the day.

Eitherway, good fishin!

Hope these pics will clarify a few of the fish that run in the fall and some ditinct coulor patterns they hold

[Jale]

I figured it was a chinny....at that size......

Float....you still have the best pics around......that damn brown
Joe

[wolfe]

You finished your catch Grizzly style...wild story.

I think the fillet'g on the spot would turn me off, as well. Still, those big fish (alive) must be something to see.

Glad you had some fun out with your Dad.

W.