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Since the better action sounded like Gary light, we headed there from ec as the sun started to break the horizon. First pass along the wall yielded 4 fish. Good start. It slowed after that.. we had fairly steady action though and by 920 we had our 2 man limit of coho along with 4 we tossed back to grow up a bit. All on the normal body baits. No particular spot over there either. Just scattered around. Was a fine morning out.

We also caught a fish that seemed to have some sort of skin disease. We sent him back also... He are some pictures of it. It had these bad spots which covered in some brownish goo. Hoping our local biologist here can chime in on what he's got going on.

Way to get 'er done Brooch.

I'm interested in hearing what that jelly like stuff is on that fish too. I've never run into something like that before

Great job, thanks for report!!!

Possibly a released fish that was touched when un hooked. These fish loose their scales and slime layer when touched which leaves them open to infections when released. Very important if you are going to release a salmon to shake it off with pliers at the side of the boat.

I'm not a fish pathologist or disease expert but it almost looks like a lamprey wound that has become infected. Even looks like a slide path the lamprey made from one wound to another. Just one possibility though

Before Ben chimed in, I was going to guess it was a lamprey wound. You see a lot of lamprey wounds that look fresh and pink, but most of those (I think) are fresh. Like when the fish is hooked, there's a lamprey on it and it drops off during the fight. The few that hang on and fall into the boat, leave those fresh looking scars. I would guess the fish that survive the bite go through some level of infection before healing up and also think like when you are sick, may go off the feed for a while before becoming chipper enough to bite the next lure to come along. Thus, not catching many lamprey wounded recovering fish.
Luckily, we don't have the lampreys here like we did historically, and not as bad as in the northern end of the lake.

My first thought was that it had been caught previously and handled or wrapped in line which scraped the scales off. Did not think about the lamprey idea. I would have looked a little closer had i thought about that. Either way it did not look like anything either of us wanted to put on the dinner plate.. Thanks for the feedback.

Also i totally agree with Tim on not grabbing the fish if you are releasing. The little ones we caught were shook off at the side of the boat with the pliers. This guy was an exception and we netted him because he was keeping size.