Springers & Smelt

ssteelheadsteve · 03-17-2001, 05:52 AM

Who has caught Springers with Smelt in them ?

Pete · 03-17-2001, 06:34 AM

I fished Mult. Channel on Friday. Fishing was very slow. I saw three 'Nooks landed and, since they had all their fins, they were released. Each guy who netted a fish reported the 'Nook barfed up a bucket of smelt. ...and you wonder why the bite is slow? Smelt were jumping throughout the channel.

HOGTIDE · 03-17-2001, 01:25 PM

I have! Last four in a row...gaggin' eulochan out their gills!

Killertraylor · 03-17-2001, 05:44 PM

I got a nice 18 lb. hen this morning on the Multnomah Channel and it had 11 smelt in it's belly! Didn't seem to keep it from smackin my kwikfish though. I've got a good digital picture of it, I just need to learn how to put it on here.

Killertraylor · 03-17-2001, 06:00 PM

O.k. - this is my first attempt at posting pictures - I'll see if it works...

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bait boy · 03-17-2001, 06:05 PM

I couldn't get your pic to come up either try getting the url from the pic once you have put it in an album if you give me your username I could at least view your pics and maybe give you a hand that way. you can view other peoples galleries and see all of their pics if you get their username mine is rickh75 try it....

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Killertraylor · 03-17-2001, 06:08 PM

Still working on it...

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Killertraylor · 03-17-2001, 06:16 PM

Thanks, Rick. My picturetrail username is killertraylor. I viewed your album and I think I need to create an album myself. I just uploaded the pics - I'll try it again once I get an album set up.

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ssteelheadsteve · 03-17-2001, 06:54 PM

Thanks Guys
Pete, You made my point whthout knowing it.Springer Fishing is always slow in years we have big Smelt runs.It will improve drastically when the little ******* die.
The problem we now face is this.
Will the smelt die off before the water temp reaches the level at which the fish stop biting until they keg up at OC.Hope for Gray days.

Up-4-Air · 03-17-2001, 07:24 PM

The fish I caught in the channel last weekend had four smelt in it's gut. Makes me wonder if good fishing is going to have to wait until the smelt run is over. Fished Friday in the channel. I saw two on, one landed, and heard of a coulple others caught.

Killertraylor · 03-17-2001, 09:37 PM

O.K. this is driving me nuts - I guess the only way to see it is to clink on this link:
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/...004&uid=123028

This hen took a k-14 kwikfish - silver with pink dots - I call them clowns. I use a spreader bar on the tail of the kwikfish with 2 size 4 gamakatsu trebles and then I put a small swivel on the belly hook of the kwikfish to get it back a little. This fish was hooked on the belly hook only - which is rare. I find that I hook a lot more fish with the two trailer hooks, but you have to be real gentle playing them because they can straighten out easy. I definitely hook more fish this way than with the standard hooks that come on the kwikfish. I used a little sardine butter too. I was anchor fishing in the Mult. channel about 1 mile up from where it dumps into the Columbia. Current started running at about 11:30 today and I was home in Portland by 1:00! Lucky day!

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