Your Favorite Salmon Lure or Bait

[Bobberdown]

Ok lets see how many people can be honest. You know willing to let the cat out of the bag. Or are there too many people afraid that if they share there wont be any fish left for them. You know you can give people all the right gear doesn't guarantee they will catch fish. Presentation is everything. I have two favorites. For wobbler fishing I like to paint my own. Chartreuse and blue tipped. But tipped on the hook end of the wobbler not the top. The other is a black and white k-15 quickfish with green and Chartreuse dots on it. Well belly up boys and girls and share! images/icons/wink.gif

[Dogfish]

Three words.

PLUG CUT HERRING

[Threemuch]

Herring

Plug Cut
Whole
Rotary Salmon Killer

All catch fish, some days one outfishes another, but day in day out, for salmon on the ocean or in a bay, herring is the best bait IMHO.

I am also a BIG fan of Apex spoons in the ocean, pearl or silver in color, and also green or blue mackerel stripe crocs.

If the fish are feeding krill in the ocean, I like a red spoon or an orange hoochie behind a big hotspot.

[Firedog]

Plug cut Herring or in the rivers Eggs and shrimp. I do like to cast spinners for them also. My favorite is whatever they want that day images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/smile.gif

[FishinMission]

Two words...WHOLE HERRING (smallest legal that you can use)...NO SCENT...FLASH GLO'S....SILVER ALVINS....CURED EGGS...WIGGLE WARTS...RED PRAWNS..RAINBOW SPINNERS...I think that just about covers it for me. images/icons/grin.gif Oh yeahhhh forgot SAND SHRIMP.

[ 08-28-2001: Message edited by: FishinMission ]

[RichH]

I would rather catch a salmon back bouncing eggs than any other method. Second would be back trolling kwikfish and the other methods go down from there for me tho spinner fishing Tillamook bay is a blast too.(can you say slack line bite?)

[Rauly]

EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...
EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...
EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS...EGGS... images/icons/grin.gif Any questions? images/icons/confused.gif

Rauly

[Capt. Hook]

1. Chrome and chartreuse K15, preferably wrapped.
2. Eggs
3. Plugcut herring/ purple
4. Half/half Toman blade home made spinner.
red/white.
5. Whole green label herring.
They all work for me!! images/icons/cool.gif

[Get Bit]

EGGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beek]

river fishing
springs: red/white wool ties
coho: fresh guts
chum: brass blades
steelhead: ghost shrimp
sockeye: bare hook
pinks:K3 wobbler

[Deleted User]

Won't post mine but here is RT's
Steelhead-Bow and arrow
Chinook-Gill nets
Coho-Kid Valley Spinners images/icons/grin.gif
Stew

[WaterDog]

I like hardware!

1)Spinners using a clam shell or cascade blade in my favorite color combo's
2)silver clancy's and alvin wobblers tipped blue or chartruse.
3)K13-k15 kwikfish, silver with chartruse tip.
4)Eggs,sand shrimp, and herring if I absolulty have too. images/icons/rolleyes.gif

[Roeboat]

For rivers roe...large king eggs
Ocean images/icons/tongue.giflug cut herring, white 6 oz dart type jigs, abalone spoons (when fish in upper 60 ft. of water, hot spot/army tank for searching troll, and the old reliable atomic plug, chart/chrome, silver/blue, silver/pink spot kwikfish and I've witnessed quite a few nice kings taken on large silver/blue blue foxes at times
This is one productive arsenal

[ 08-28-2001: Message edited by: Roeboat ]

[hoochie]

Hooooochies!!!! behind Green Glow-in-the- dark Hot Spots with scented foam inside the hoochie head.
Upper 20' of water column at 3 mph.

Coyote spoons after that.

[Deleted User]

Bobberdown quote "Ok lets see how many people can be honest." Hey Bobb', this is a fisherperson's discussion board. How many fishermen do you think will be honest?!? images/icons/rolleyes.gif Certainly not 'Stew. He knows darn well I don't use a bow and arrow on steelhead - in fact, I use a sharp tinged barbed pitch fork on their spawning beds; like most successful fishermen. images/icons/tongue.gif ...

Actually I like using about what RichH and Capt. Hook listed; except I now prefer to floatfish jigs for early fish instead of go spinner 'weeding' in T-Bay ... plus a couple secret tricky things. images/icons/wink.gif

RT

[Ramstrong]

I'd Have to say that corkies and yarn with a bit of eggs is tops for me. There's something about feeling a fish chomping on your eggs that makes you want to just cross his eyes.

Also chucking spinners is pretty fun as well.

[bait boy]

Here's what works best for me

Rotary Salmon Killer
K14 Chartreuse hottail Quikie
Glo balling

[First Bite]

My favorite Salmon lure without a doubt is a pink/white feather beaded jig. When you get the first fall rains of the season that raise the rivers just a few inches that is all it takes to bring in the those fresh chromers. A simple jig fished by itself or tipped with a sand shrimp tail is all I need.
Mark

[4Salt]

For me, it used to be herring (plug-cut or whole) out in the salt. This year, chartreuse & chrome Coyote spoons have outfished everything! Neah bay, or Sekiu, the Coyote spoon, 6ft. leader, 3oz. mooching sinker, kicked butt!

Freshwater, it depends on the species, location in the river, bank or boat etc...
All of the baits & lures listed above in other posts, have gotten the job done at one time or another.

[finclipped]

I can't believe nobody has said Anchovies and a hoochie skirt. Very deadly. Only works in salt water though. Don't try it anywhere else.

[rags]

Wow! Backbouncing eggs!!!! Diver with Shrimp and eggs with something spinning above it....Kwikfish with wrap....fish on!!!!

[Master Baiter]

Dupont Lures on those days when nothing else seems to work! images/icons/grin.gif

[parker]

Chinook

-Mooching herring in the salt.
-Backbouncing wrapped Kwik Fish in the rivers.
-Backbouncing eggs in the rivers.

Coho

-Dik Nites
-Jigs
-Michael Bait

Chummers

-Wrapped Kwik Fish

Sockeye

-Michael Bait

Pinkies

-Jigs
-Dik Nites
-Michael Bait

[springer_97011]

large rapalas for 20lb. browns

[willierower]

Eggs under a bobber for tidewater nookies. Once the get in the rivers, Nothing beats drift fishing good eggs.

[local_hooker]

I haven't seen any one mention a blue fox pixie? I lived in Juneau AK for 4 yr. and that was the only hardware anyone ever used, when casting from shore. I have yet to try one here, anyone else ever tried it here?

[Vinny]

What color is the Blue Fox "pixie?" What size, a #5 ?

[4Salt]

Not to down the Pixie spoon, but when I witnessed it being used in Alaska, it was VERY effective at hooking salmon in other places besides the mouth (with treble hook) images/icons/rolleyes.gif

That's not to say that if you put a siwash on, and fished it properly (quartering down cross current with a slow swing retrieve) it wouldn't be just as effective as some of the other spoons traditionally used down here. images/icons/smile.gif

[Deleted User]

For drift fishing I like a Birdie,yarn and either eggs or shrimp.Jig fishing I like the pink Berkeley PowerBait worm on a Schlappen feather worm collar.For fishing in a boat for salmon on the Columbia I like a kwikfish and Nanooks secret lure which I won't divulge what it is here images/icons/wink.gif
Stew

[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: BIGSTEW ]

[Threemuch]

Anchovy & Skirt is a new one to me.

How do you rig Chovies with a hoochie skirt? Anyone have a pic? Does it need to be fished in front of a flasher for action?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[Bobberdown]

Wow this is good stuff and entertaining also. How many people out there prefer the Flat Fish to the Quickfish? The flats have a little more rounded action compared to the Quickfish snappy, sharper action. Also for the most part the one thing I have enjoyed about this page is that people are mostly honest and give great reports and tips. Everybody give yourself a big pat on the back! images/icons/grin.gif

[finclipped]

Threemuch, use a two single hook liter (mooching) with about 4 beads above the top hook then slide on a white or pink hoochie skirt. Hook the top hook through the head of a small to medium size anchovy, from the chin through top of the head. Leave the trailer hanging. I have caught them with and without the dodger / fish flash. Its my number one favorite set up. Catches both Chinook and Silvers.

[fishbait]

A big gob of my eggs hanging about 7 feet below my bobber......

[Jeffhead]

Saltwater:
Cop car or Army Truck hooch behind a Chartruese Kelp Kutter or green Hot Spot.
Rivers:
Boondoggin' corkies and eggs.
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif

[seasel]

When the water is clearer than chocolate milk, I do well (in tribs, not mainstem Columbia or ocean) for both chinook and silvers with about an inch and a half of red yarn. This works well in even just a few inches of visibility. No, not for snagging. Silvers especially will go for any piece of yarn they can see when the water has some color.

If it's too murky, a big, colorful plug works wonders. Style and brand don't matter.

In crystal clear water, like now in the tribs, it's difficult but not impossible to get a bite on anything.

Seasel

[Johnny Mac]

Yarn on just a hook? That works?