Been doing well with fire tiger warts lately 9 - 14 over 3 days in local tribs.... but what other plugs / Color patterns, are you plug guys using in the tribs for coho if any???
Just looking to add 2 or 3 favorites to the arsenal.
Actually Storm finally started making that color and I really liked it last year. I also have had good luck on solid fluorescent red, chrome with orange back, and fluorescent red/black herringbone. But firetiger is hard to beat!
Pink metallic worts have been a killer for me . 100 % of the silvers I caught last year were on this wort . It will be my go to lure again this year unless things change .
If you can find them, storm v94, they quit making them a few years ago, we bought 30 of them, but only have a few that still work out of the 15 or so left... v95's have also worked as a replacement (a little darker pink) but if you let them soak in the sun for about a week, they get closer to the old color, If you can't get either of those, we usually use brads in pink (not sure the pigment) but one year we got 27 silvers in 2 weeks with those colors! good luck!
-Michael
P.S. we usually take them and draw herring bone patterns on them with a sharpie to set them apart from all the other pink wigglewarts! just an idea for you to try!
Dan, just come by sometime and I'll show you my box. I'm heading out maybe a couple days this week to give her a shot, a little west, you know where, and then south a short ways, both tidewater. You in sometime?
Dont they all look camoflage to a color blind guy like yourself? You have some dirty rotten friends who have been playing an evil trick on you all these years.
Blue back and silver belly used to work great for me on coho in a hot shots and warts, not sure if warts still come in this color. That was my go to color, but others mentioned work too of course. Have fun!
When they're biting, I don't think there is a color made that won't work. When they're not biting, I don't think there is a color that will.
But if I needed to catch a fish to win a bet, a flourescent orange or fl pink would be my pick. Next would be blue/silver. Blue or green pirates are pretty reliable for me as well.
When they're biting, I don't think there is a color made that won't work. When they're not biting, I don't think there is a color that will.
But if I needed to catch a fish to win a bet, a flourescent orange or fl pink would be my pick. Next would be blue/silver. Blue or green pirates are pretty reliable for me as well.
Storm used to make one that was just a solid orange
No floro no glitter
I still have 2 of these and they always get the job done
Brads has one that is a shade or 2 darker and I have yet to get bit on one of those
The BW -94 (Cerise/Purple/char butt) as worked awesome for me as well as the BW-09 (fluorescent orange with silver flakes.) You also cant go wrong with the old chrome with blue herring bone.
What silver hilton and 5cents said.The best plug I ever had was a old pink wiggle wart it caught over 60 salmon and steelhead lost in in a ball of weeds at the John day fishing b- run.
u mean the thing in that picture above is a fire tiger??? have always called those the "Hot"(hence, the red belly) tiger and the "fire" tigers are the ones that are a flourescent reddish pink(and hence, whole thing is on "fire") with "herringbone"(black squiggles) on the sides???assout:
I have most confidence in trolling a "Firetiger" wiggle wart....either the original "Storm" or "Brads". both work :wink: The most important thing is putting the lure in front of the fish.
Have to put my two cents in....Down on the North Umpqua I have fished for about 10 years now - it's bank only fishing, but the way the river is set up it's like your out of a boat - pulling plugs are lethal.
I have used just about every color out there - and the HOT TIGER has outfished them all. I am not too sure if the color has an impact like we think it does. After evaluating this for a long period of time I am beginning to believe it's the contrast of colors (just like fishing with jigs). The Hot Tiger has one of the best contrast - under the sun or on a cloudy day.
so what does the majority say about the picture above....hot tiger or a fire tiger???? when peoples ask me what am using would like to tell them the correct color, so is it a fire or a hot tiger???
I have no idea what the majority want to call it....The Brads website name the pattern "Fire Tiger", and back when I used rapalas, bombers, rebels, etc, fire tiger is what you see...old storm colors and names may or maynot share some patterns.
Here's a link to the colors and names for Brads wigglers. http://bsfishtales.com/prod_alt.asp?alt_id=41&sub_id=1
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