I am busy writing my free E-Letter on Fall fishing, and much of it will be about fishing for Fall Chinook. However, I will be dedicating space to fishing for coho salmon in our region. I was looking back at some old photos and found the shot of the first coho I caught on the Icicle, below the National Fish Hatchery in Leavenworth. That was in 2021. There have been enough fish in the stream to have a couple of seasons open prior to that, but I didn’t try it until then. I had my doubts about the quality of the fish so far upstream from the ocean and was amazed when I got this fish home and filleted it. The flesh was a deep, dark red and the fish was delicious. I didn’t know much about how to catch coho. Only that you just needed a good spinning rod and reel and a few jigs. I dug out an old box of jigs and picked out a Rock Dancer in the cerise and black color and that’s what did the trick. I checked the counts at Priest Raids Dam and there are a bunch of coho headed our way.