Wow! Fish just in from Alaska with Chris Sessions

[Jennie@ifish]

...morning limit caught just behind where we are standing....as you can see, it is very crowded.....with salmon....and... Clay with a 20 lb silver caught on a pink and purple silent approach jig. This fish would have won the derby a few days earlier and 10 thousand$$. An 18 pounder won this year. We caught lots of fish on those jigs! I don't know how to post this with pictures on your board but would like to.
Chris

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Way to go, Chris Sessions and Silent Approach!
Jen

[Osprey]

Wow.....nice fish Chris, images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif

Glad to see those awesome Jigs work in Alaska too. images/icons/wink.gif

Just got a report from the River from another happy
Silent Approach (http://www.silentapproach.com)customer who is slaying Kings as I type this.....(called from his cell while hooking up with a King) images/icons/rolleyes.gif

Is there a Fish that doesn't like these Jigs images/icons/rolleyes.gif .......Os

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[LCRiver]

Chris,
My employer is interested in booking you for next year. He watched you fishing in Seward last week and recognized your boat. Please e-mail me at: wintergrn43@aol.com.
Vickie

[whitewaterbill]

Hi Chris,

Looks like low tide at Miller's and he put some $$$ in a new ceaning table! Brings back some great memories of cleaning 50 some silvers each night and the vacume packing and a little Black Velvet before bed and do it all again at sunrise. Those are some great looking silvers you have there!

I don't need to ask why you have 3 nets in the boat!!!!

Got to find a way to go there again!!!

Bill

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[chuckee]

can you catch the silvers around here on those jigs??? if so where can i get some?

[Deleted User]

Nass feesh Chris. Is that 'the' Clay that I know? I haven't seen him in a few years, so if it is he's lost more hair than I have. images/icons/wink.gif ... 18 lbs. wins the Seward 'ho derby this year, then you haul in the big 'ho. Timing man, timing. ... I recall when we went over there that big hill above town where they have that famous annual down hill race. I have been practicing diligently for that event by rolling down hills in the Wilson and Wind canyons. My buddies think those were just slips - nope; practice. Toughening the hide. I know I wouldn't have a herring's chance at buoy 10 of winning that downhill race by actually running down that humongous mountain side. But I will rock the town of Seward next summer with a landslide victory! ... Literally. images/icons/grin.gif

Steve

[First Bite]

Nice pics of salmon Jen. Jigs work great for all salmon and steelhead. Trout like them too. I had a friend take some jigs to Alaska this summer and hammered huge rainbows using pink/white jigs. Coho will take jigs just as readily as steelhead will especially in low water conditions. In the following months the Sandy and Clackamas rivers will be prime targets for catching Coho salmon with jigs.
Mark
Mark

[Fuzzybutt & Angel]

Congratulations Chris!!! Well done *thumbs up!* Great pictures images/icons/grin.gif

Chuckee,
The jigs we supplied Chris with were palmered marabou jigs (known as the alaskan popcicle-orange, purple and pink was the colour of the jigs I think he was talking about, Chris?)
Jigs can also catch fish in Washington Rivers too.. the winter runs, especially, love the unique action of the palmered marabou, send us an
silentapproach@qwest.net and we can give you more information images/icons/smile.gif

Tight Lines
Angel
Silent Approach Jigs (http://www.silentapproach.com)

[Deleted User]

Hey Mark, that reminds me; the 'hos love the pink worm on your nickle plated brass jigheads too. We hooked a bunch of them in the salt recently, both out in the ocean and in the lower Columbia estuary from Buoy 10 on in. I just twitch jigged them about 10' to 15' down and got hits right and left. I haven't thought to take some floats offshore yet. I know float fishing them in all directions of the boat with 4 rods, while free drifting, would be a kick. The action on the worm, or jig, that the waves and chop would create via the float would bring some real vicsious bobber downs out there! Don Larson trolled some pink worms behind a double hook spinner rig and got more coho hits than on herring when we were out with Jerry last Saturday fishing Ilwaco to the bridge areas. I bet some pink and white feathered jigs with silver Krystalflash, or just some blue feathers with the silver, would work well out in the ocean - jigged, floatfished, or even trolled. ... Maybe that's what they did out in Seward Bay? Fun.

RT

[First Bite]

RT that is so cool that Coho would take a pink worm in the ocean. I like that idea of using spinner blades in front of the worm. The flash of the nickle whether it's the jig head or spinner blades must be just enough of an attractor for the fish. Blue and white or silver should work great especially tied on a large 4/0 jig hook would do the trick. To the salmon it probably looks like a bait fish.
Mark

[Osprey]

Wow a spinner blade in front of a jig.......Redneck says then thar things are called spinnerbaits images/icons/shocked.gif ...what does he know.
I had great succes fishing for Coho with Jigs,Last year I hooked 6 fish on 6 casts,with the same jig (a Pink Osprey series)

Roger has come up a few new patterns also that are already proven to catch fish.....Os

check them out.... Silent Approach Jigs (http://www.silentapproach.com)

Takeing over the Nortwest One Chromer at a time...even Alaska

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

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I know the silent approach maribou works on pinks images/icons/wink.gif I also hear that you guys have this jig that catches chinook images/icons/wink.gif

[Osprey]

Boy does it ever images/icons/grin.gif
No bait ...no scent ....just real sore arms....Os

[THE REEL HEY_YALL]

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[Chris Sessions]

Thanks for your help posting those pictures Jennie.
Yes Lynn, Clay's 20 lber bit the largest of the purple and pink jigs you sent me but all of em worked. We started out using light gear and line and the fish were so aggressive that we broke some off on the hookset...should have ordered more. We caught fish on Silent Approach jigs, Amerman eggs, spinners, herring, anchovies, sardines, mooching/trolling/casting, but everyone agreed, the most fun was fishing jigs or eggs under a bobber.
Osprey, I sure would be interested in more info on jigs that are working for Chinooks.
Bill, the corian cleaning table is the same when you were there, just looks clean in that picture, and again I was lucky and had a great bunch of guys that helped me clean/filet 30 silvers and various bottom fish at the end of each day. BTW, Crown Royal was the drink of choice at the table for these guys.
Steve, they still have that down hill race every year but you better wear your 5mm neos for that one...lots of razor sharp rocks.
SS

[Chris Sessions]

I Gotta try this picture upload thang. Thanks again for the help Jennie...I'll get it right....some day. Picture is of Ed taking a vacation from playing keyboards with the Jim Messi Band and enjoying resurrection bay silvers and a cigar. http://www.ifish.net/uploads/591213240.jpg

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Leave um be, sharkie!

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[Fuzzybutt & Angel]

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[Fuzzybutt & Angel]

Chris,
E-mail us at
silentapproach@qwest.net regarding the jigs that are working for Chinooks images/icons/grin.gif

Angel
Silent Approach Jigs (http://www.silentapproach.com)

[jawbreaker]

Great pics Chris,

It looks like you've got the whole place to yourself. Hows that new cabin working out? I can't wait to get back up there next year.

jb

[Deleted User]

I just read the second half of this thread here ... Os, to clarify, the worm trolled behind the spinner was on a double hook trolling rig with the spinner and beads on the leader above. This is one of those rigs intended for trolling prawns or herring. Don tried it with a pink worm and they were all over it. We didn't try trolling a feathered jig behind a spinner blade as you mentioned, but who knows - I bet it would work. Another thing I've bet a lot of money on recently is a whole lot of differnet type and color of rubber things intended for bass feeshin, to use on jighead hooks to float fish for steelhead/salmon. I think there are more bass lures/baits that will work on steelhead than many guys would have thought of a few years ago. Going to be very interesting and fun experimenting this fall and winter! The colorful grub tubes with hootchie tails look inviting. I even got a clearish rubber crawfish full of silver specks to try on a jighead, among some other radical stuff. Silly or .....

..... stay tuned. images/icons/wink.gif

RT

[Osprey]

Thanks for clearing that up for RT images/icons/rolleyes.gif

But Redneck says anything plastic behind a spinner blade is a spinnerbait..... images/icons/confused.gif ..Bass fisherman

But hey ....what ever hooks you up....Os

Time to start planning Foatilla the Hun 3#.....revenege of the Rednecks

[Chris Sessions]

Hey Brent,
This pics for you. Ed and Dan posing in front of the new DEELUX accommodations.
crossing my fingers on the picture upload thing.
SS http://www.ifish.net/uploads/062209241.jpg

[jawbreaker]

Those are some fancy DEEELUX accomodations Chris. There's actually a real door with real door hardware. Is that Millers house?
Jk. Roll out the red carpet, its the Resurection Bay Hilton. Great pics Chris.
Call me when you get back.

Brent