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Fossil Fish	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 01:44 pm #permalink #1
Adult Trout Group: Members Posts: 245 Member No.: 4236 Joined: May 17, 2013	So Thursday my boss asks if I'm busy Saturday. When I said "no", he asked if I was interested in going salmon fishing on Lake Ontario in his boat. How could I say no to that. We were on the water out of Bluffers by 5:30 and downrigging by 6. It took a while to get the first one, but when I did, it would end up being my first ever Coho salmon. 4 Chinook salmon rounded out our day. It was certainly a workout, with one pulling over 400' of line, but it was a great morning. The Coho was my 79th Ontario species.

Fossil Fish	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 01:45 pm #permalink #2
Adult Trout Group: Members Posts: 245 Member No.: 4236 Joined: May 17, 2013	1st Chinook

Fossil Fish	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 01:46 pm #permalink #3
Adult Trout Group: Members Posts: 245 Member No.: 4236 Joined: May 17, 2013	2nd Chinook and largest at 17 1/2 lbs

Fossil Fish	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 01:49 pm #permalink #4
Adult Trout Group: Members Posts: 245 Member No.: 4236 Joined: May 17, 2013	3rd Chinook, the one that took over 400' of line. The 4th was a little shaker, so no pic.

sabmgb	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 03:48 pm #permalink #5
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 2266 Member No.: 15901 Joined: April 12, 2018	Got to love it when your boss asks you to work on Saturdays doing that. Nice fish.

Mike33	Posted: Jul 20, 2024 - 08:29 pm #permalink #6
Lunker Trout Group: Members Posts: 322 Member No.: 19120 Joined: March 09, 2021	Awesome! Love the cohos, they’re pretty good eating too.

crappeeeman	Posted: Jul 21, 2024 - 07:51 am #permalink #7
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 3205 Member No.: 18589 Joined: September 15, 2020	Seventy nine species in Ontario. What do you think number eighty will be? What is left on you bucket list?

Fossil Fish

Posted: Jul 21, 2024 - 08:30 am

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QUOTE (crappeeeman @ Jul 21, 2024 - 07:51 am)

Seventy nine species in Ontario. What do you think number eighty will be? What is left on you bucket list?

I'm hoping #80 will be a brassy minnow next weekend, but we'll see. As for the bucket list, I'm planning a fall trip north to try again for lake sturgeon and sauger. Living as close to Simcoe as I do, it's a bit odd that I still need burbot, whitefish and cisco, but I've never really tried for them yet. The closest I got was losing a cisco at the hole while ice fishing a few years ago.

Longshank	Posted: Jul 22, 2024 - 10:25 am #permalink #9
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 11028 Member No.: 118 Joined: February 11, 2011	Nice outing and congrats on that coho..nice fat one nothing beats chinook screaming out drag....music to my ears

Disco	Posted: Jul 23, 2024 - 08:39 am #permalink #10
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 2493 Member No.: 10908 Joined: January 25, 2016	Now you’re hooked. Pun intended. I also just took two friends out their first time ever. They each got a mid teen Chinook for their first. Sure puts a smile on the face of the captain watching first timers get their first King. Beauty Coho.

Drew	Posted: Aug 02, 2024 - 08:18 pm #permalink #11
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 2329 Member No.: 8190 Joined: January 11, 2015	Very nice !

metalbuckle	Posted: Aug 02, 2024 - 09:17 pm #permalink #12
World Record Trout Group: Moderators Posts: 10065 Member No.: 2 Joined: February 09, 2011	Nice coho and Chinooks.. Need my shades for all that silver. Well done! Thanks for the report.

Fishnhunt	Posted: Aug 05, 2024 - 08:05 pm #permalink #13
World Record Trout Group: Members Posts: 1466 Member No.: 15869 Joined: April 04, 2018	Beautiful chinooks and coho too!

mykola

Posted: Aug 14, 2024 - 10:08 am

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QUOTE (Fossil Fish @ Jul 21, 2024 - 08:30 am)

QUOTE (crappeeeman @ Jul 21, 2024 - 07:51 am)

Seventy nine species in Ontario. What do you think number eighty will be? What is left on you bucket list?

I can help you on the whitefish and Cisco part if you’re ever up Haliburton way.

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