Diver Bait for Chinook

[Lilcorky]

Whats your favorite diver bait set up? Want to try this more but would like to find a good terminal set up and bait to go with it. I was thinking that I might try the cured and dyed Prawns with a Spin Glow in front of it pulled down with a Mud Bug. Has any one had success using just a Jet Plane type diver?

[David Johnson]

I've used the Mud Bug w/ a sand shrimp with success but I mostly use the Jet Divers with eggs or shrimp or both.

Hundreds of fish can't be wrong.

[Artwo]

Lilcorky,
I preety much use the jet diver exclusively for my diver and bait set-up for spring chinooks. I rig mine on a sliding 6" dropper and have had very good success with this method. I mostly fish the sandy and the santiams with this set-up and only use the divers that will go down 20ft. I like the sliding dropper set-up because when the fish takes the bait its pulling only on my leader/main line and not against the diver.

JK

[kingofbacklash]

Lilcorky,
My favorite diver and bait set up is a Magnum Hot-In-Tot, spin-in-glow and Sandshrimp. Sometimes I'll add eggs to this set up.

God Bless
fearsnofish

[Bob Barthlow]

Lilcorky, we've been having very good luck on springers in the Yakima river the past couple of weeks. Were using #20 jet divers a 5' leader and a size 8 spin n glo in half & half, 3 small beads and a 3/0 red barbless gamakatsu hook with wad of eggs.
All our takes have been hard, they just crush it.
:grin: Now if the water would clean up we could be back at it. :mad:

[willierower]

I use a #30 Jet diver on a 12" dropper rigged sliding. To rig it sliding I use an easy slider made by Ubfishin. I slide thi up my mainline than I slide on a 6mm bead. Then I tie on bead chain. To the bead chain I tie on a 4 and 1/2 to 5 foot leader with a spin-n-glo, size and color to match water conditions. Eggs/sandshrimp cocktail finishes up the rig.

With the way I rig up I can remove the diver and dropper and then add a lighter dropper and lead so I can backbounce with the same rod.

[ 05-30-2002, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: willierower ]