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05-08-2000, 03:09 PM
Nutt.- Nothin' better eatin' than those Trask springers right out of salt! Would you try a technique for me; and report here or to my e-mail the results. Check the old Discussion Board back down to 3/1 for my Custom Prawn Rigging for trolling. Try trolling them hooked up that way with a mid-leader spinner blade for flash & color attraction. For up there I use about a 50 to 55" 20# leader & about a 15" lead dropper with about a 2oz. lead to get the bait back from the boat aways. Slowly troll this setup with twirling bait action around the Cap Johnson to Oyster House areas in upper T- Bay and thru some of the deeper holes up in Trask tidewater (electric OB's are better for that- but not neccesary). If you cure the prawns yourself it is better to color them a light pink for clearwater situations, as opposed to bright red for the colored Willamette R. (but I think the red ones will work). They also work well threaded on a single hook tidewater/bobber rigup to fish as you would eggs or shrimp. I haven't fished T. springers since before the '96 floods, but the few times I tried the prawns there met with immediate excellant success- and I would like to hear how it works now (when you know fish are there of course). Thanks. - Steve