Favorite Bottomfish Lure

Richter · 04-08-2002, 07:47 AM

Awhile back, someone started a post on this, I think it was Mr. Fisherman. When Ifish shutdown it was lost.

John, maybe you could retrieve it like you did the other posts. I would appreciate it.

Thanks, Rich

Threemuch · 04-08-2002, 08:32 AM

A few weeks back I said it was a swim bait, like those at

http://www.tomcodtackle.com/

They work great. Everything in the ocean eats em. But they are a shallow water lure, 60' or less.

Now, I would say, my home made shrimp flys. On the advice of Jon Arndorfer(Puffin), I went out and made some shrimp flys. I used various metallic tinsle pipe cleaners to wrap silver tinsle, white yarn, and mylar tinsle to an 8/0 hook. Really cheap, and super effective.

Pilar · 04-08-2002, 08:46 AM

Sorry Rich, I went through the whole pile and did not find it.

We could do it again ...

Halibut, see Halibut 101.

For Rockfish it's shrimpflies or chunkbait.

For Lings, a big jig with a glow worm on it. Or something red or orange.

For Salmon, recent favorite is mooched at a dead drift, whole herring and a trolling weight. Or whole herring and downrigger at 120 ft, trolled slow.

Deepslayer · 04-08-2002, 01:51 PM

Hey Kurt the shrimp fly sounds great! I like to use shrimp flies too. I would be interested in a picture or more detailed description of your creations. :whazzup:
Definitely sounds like something I would like to try.
Thanks,

,Ed

Threemuch · 04-08-2002, 03:07 PM

I will post a picture of my creations tomorrow.
KB

Richter · 04-08-2002, 07:11 PM

John Boy,

Nice to finally meet you at the sinker party. It was the big ugly bottomfish rig you had stated in an earlier post. A big orange nasty thing, I think you may have gotten it for Jon.

Thanks, Rich

Threemuch · 04-08-2002, 08:23 PM

Homemade Shrimp fly. Cost, about 35 cents and the hook's a quarter.

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Pilar · 04-09-2002, 05:33 AM

Hey Rich,
I'll try to get it digitized and post the photo.

Richter · 04-09-2002, 07:59 AM

Some of my favorite lures for bottomfish

Rockfish - shallow water
4" shad, pearl with black back
6" rubber worms, white, rootbeer

Rockfish/Ling Cod - Medium depth water (<150')
Jig head 8-12 oz. with 6" red shad or red split tail Scampi.
Pipe Jig with red reflective tape on it.

Anything over 150' its a large white or glow in the dark Scampi.

Halibut - Large Herring or Shad with Glow in the dark Hootchie

Rich

pirk fan · 04-10-2002, 09:29 AM

Home made diamond jig (weight appropriate to depth) with two bucktails (Joe Brooks blonde type in herring or surf smelt colors) on droppers. I use a homemade casting spoon in depths less than 50', but they loose "feel" at greater depths regardless of weight. Catches most everything, even greenling, big ones sometimes - you can tell when they're after it, because you get a lot of bumps and not so many hookups - I use a single siwash hook on the jig - greenling seem to try to smother the jig on the bottom rather than just biting it - often hooked under the chin. I'm sure you'd catch a lot more of them with a treble, but snagging the bottom goes way up too.

I fish in areas that get a lot of pressure, and I think these rigs work well because they're different than the usual commercial shrimp fly rigs.

Mr. Fisherman · 04-10-2002, 05:22 PM

Richter, yep, that was me.

My favorite has to be Johnboy's No Excuse Halibut Rig. I am heading down to Englunds to get my box of 100 16/0 circle hooks tomarrow to make some up.

This year I'm gonna coulple it up to a HUGE triple glow squid with a scent pad the size of a tampon. Load it up with that fishy smell and hang on

good things are gonna happen... Like a bend in my rod and a smile on my purdy mouth! :grin: .

I'm so stoked about this Halibut season I can't stand it. I'm even adding extra days by going up to Nea Bay on the 2nd.

I also like Bait Boy and Capin' Dan!'s "custom" FAB jigs, Their FABulouse!

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But in a pinch I'm happy with any jig that has a fish on the other end of it, I'm not picky.

Pass the strechy string and a Carona, I'm goin down......

Hamachi · 04-24-2002, 07:16 PM

I like bouncing the iron for rockfish. These jigs work well in Calif. for the cod. I used them with good success last May off Neah Bay. I got a 17lb Yelloweye on a white codmaster 20 tipped with squid.

[ 04-25-2002, 05:40 AM: Message edited by: Jennie@ifish ]

Hamachi · 04-24-2002, 07:19 PM

I appologize for the screwed up picture - don't know what went wrong. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Phil Layer · 04-25-2002, 07:15 AM

Screwed up picture? Oh, you mean the fish picture was distorted and not nearly that size in reality?

That is one nice fish!

Hamachi · 04-25-2002, 03:25 PM

No, Moby. When I uploaded the picture it was HUGE. I emailed Jennie and she was nice enough to fix it.
Thanks Jennie!