Chinook tactics

[Pete]

It seems to me like the kings are pretty well disbursed throughout the TBay system. I've seen a slow bite everywhere from the outer edges of the bubble to tidewater, but I don't see many fish on the finder and the bite just hasn't turned on. I believe the fish are there, but have lockjaw. I have two questions.
- First, why don't the fish show on my finder (Lowrance x28)?
- Second, (and more serious) does anyone have tactical theories? If the fish are gorged on the abundance of bait fish, has anyone had success with different presentations such as putting a spinner on the nose of a plug cut herring or slowing the troll down or using a fast spin or smaller baits or yarn on the front hook or dead drifting or mooching sand shrimp? These fish can be caught! My successes so far have been a 20 #er in 8 feet of water between Garibaldi and the G Hole and an estimated 35 #er in 50 feet near the green can buoy. In general, there isn't enough catching going on to fine tune a theory.

[Pilar]

I second the slow troll theory. Or maybe even that motor mooching thing. The several boats I see with fish on a regular basis go slow.

Up off the bottom seems to be the ticket as well. Thump the bottom and crank it up a few turns.

Amazing how what has always worked before, in years past, gets turned on its head by a slow spell.

Last thing is to be different. This strategy works for me every where I go. I hate jerking prawns in Oregon City for springers. So ....... I troll herring on a diver. Get laughed at too, until I net a chromer.

The bend is your friend!