View Full Version : Bank fishing Sixes...What to use???? FULL REPORT!!!
gimmeumpqua
11-22-2002, 10:29 PM
I have an invite to a large private dairy farm with huge frontage on the Sixes Sunday, apparently close to the mouth. I'll be a bankie, supposedly some excellent Chinook holes, and I'm told they are getting in. What lures/flies should I use? Corkies and Yarn? Spinners? bobbers and eggs? I'm new to this place. I'm also bringing my Scott 8wt. Fly suggestions?
Thank you!
Kurt
[ 11-24-2002, 07:47 PM: Message edited by: gimmeumpqua ]
roundbelly
11-23-2002, 06:12 AM
the water is still low, so bring everything. i would flog a spinner of the bronze varity first then a corkie with yarn, enough weight to do the slow hop and drag, then a gob of eggs, that hold in the current.
good lluck
I'd throw an anchovie.. or a small biat of eggs with a smaller sized drift bobber..
not much water, as stated below, so be prepared to fish early in the morning before the light gets to bright.
The fish won't be moving much during the day....
From the reports tat I have heard.. the fishing is pretty slow.. but there are fish to be caught!
ANDYCOHO
11-23-2002, 06:02 PM
Last year was the first year that I fished the Sixes and the Elk and I learned a lot. I saw a lot of fish caught with anchovies, rigged like you would for sturgeon, people would cast them upriver and drift it through the hole and let it sit at the tailout, where I saw most of the fish hooked.
But I stuck with good old drift gear, corkies and yarn, and was able to put some fish on the bank.
Good luck when you go, I will be heading down there mid December, so let us know how you did!
Good luck,
Andy
Steelie
11-24-2002, 06:30 PM
Well how did you do on the Sixes today?
gimmeumpqua
11-24-2002, 07:46 PM
Great Day!
Hooked 6, landed 4, kept 2..fortunately the first 2 Kings were the best...33# and 23#...both bucks. Interestingly, they weren't hitting flies, so I switched rods and went to spinners. They didn't like pink at all. The Chartreuse Blue Fox got a bump, so after a few more casts I placed a chartreuse puff ball on the hook shank (I replace the trebles with size 4 siwash) and Whammo! Got the 2nd fish 30 min. later. Then the bite ceased. I then tried an all copper Blue Fox with a chartreuse puff ball again, and caught 2 more. The last thing that was quite hilarious is that afterward I went to say goodbye to the landowners(who so graciously allowed me tresspass via a new aquaintance) and it turns out the river is the Elk, not the Sixes!...their ranch being about 1 mile inland from the mouth....A great day...
Kurt
Bill Monroe
11-24-2002, 07:52 PM
That sounds like Bryce Wagner's place...did you fish the car body hole? The old wigwam? Glad to hear some are in...I think it's too low to drift for a while, though...those fish will come on through December.
gimmeumpqua
11-24-2002, 08:07 PM
"Mckenzie" is the place...nice people...
Kurt