Salmon HMB (Tip revealed)
Salmon fishing at HMB (Half Moon Bay, Ca) today with friend Rick Dixon. Easy launch and headed out to 20/38 and had a hook up in seconds, with a Red FBR at 30 feet on the wire... nice keeper. Wow we are cooking with grease now...Skunk off.......... so now some serious fun. Action most of the day with final tally 6 salmon to the boat kept 2 release 3 nice silvers and one under size salmon. (Much release all silvers (Coho) by Ca. regs and no more than 2 barbless hooks per rod hard tied while trolling. Only one rod allowed. When mooching for salmon (no more than 2 circle hooks no father than five inches apart)) limit 2 salmon minimum length 20 inches.)
I was testing 3 new ideas today and hey, they worked really well. I put a country boy (means made from spare parts in a junk box) rear steering at the back of boat to control the 130 Honda. Loved it......neatto. A country boy (means made from spare parts in a junk box) engine control at the back. Neato.. and a new FBR trick rig for a dropper that accounted for most of the action. The dropper rig was a red FBR (other colors as well) tied with only one-foot leader. 50 test P-line with a #1 Vision octopus hook snelled (Vision is a hook dealer that supplies my hooks for the SBR and MBR). The purpose of the small hook was for easy penetration with minimum line pull because it was on a dropper slid halfway down the blow back curve in main line. With the bottom FBR running at 40 feet the blowback slides down dropper was running about 20 feet down. In addition the hook point was bent slightly to one side for easy mouth hook. The purpose of only one foot leader was to prevent netting hook up with the 2 rigs running to close together. The heavy P-Line 50 test divorces well with the standard 30-pound test FBR P Line. The one-foot leader was snelled to the #1 hook and with a SS 4 ball bead chain at the tip to handle the FBR rotation. I use a Dacron uni-knot slider to hold hook at the FBR tail and didn't use a sleeve. The uni-knot is tied approximately 7 inches above the hook. It slides easily into the FBR rotor head and easily adjusted to get the Vision #1 hook just behind the tail of the anchovy. The stiff line makes the hook lie neatly at the tail and stand out straight for bullet rotation. This rig really hooked well.
Things to remember if you get a big fish--go easy on the drag because of a small hook. If you are in jelly debris, which is messing up your line don't use it, as the jelly line debris will prevent the rig from moving up and down line freely.
The main purpose of the short stiff leader is line divorce and minimum ability to tango and a distance separation of 3 foot from both FBR rigs with the bottom rig on a 4-foot and the slider on a 1-foot. This distance becomes increasing important when netting the fish. If fish caught on the slider when the slider bottoms out at the bead chain on the bottom rig you can net the fish with out tangling the net in the bottom rig. If you have a fish on the bottom rig the top rig is held 3 feet above the fish at the net still avoiding a foul up with the net. The purpose for the small hook is super easy hook penetration because on the dropper you don't have much hook penetration on the hook set. The small light wire hook will penetrate the salmon jam at the slightest of a bite. and as we all know they land huge salmon in rivers with them little hooks on eggs. Just go easy on the drag when you have El-wappo on. The hook was tricked out with the point bent off set to one side of the hook when the fish closes it mouth.
How the set works. First put on and lower your main bottom rig to the normal dept you run. Then use a snap to connect the dropper rig to the main line and it will lower itself down to the blowback curve. Place your rod in rod holder. Relax and wait for a hit. You will figure out the rest when you get a bite.
All fish today on FBR at 20 to 40 feet and number ranged from 20/38 to 23 /43
Last edited by StrikeFighter; 05-28-2007 at 12:10 PM.
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