springer set up

gottafish · 03-12-2004, 02:55 PM

My 26 foot boat has a 350 in-board and no kicker can I still troll for salmon and be sucsesful or is it a anchor show for me? Never fished for them out of a boat

Pilar · 03-12-2004, 03:31 PM

I'm far from the expert on springers .. but I think you'll go broke feeding that 350 using it as a trolling motor. Most likely you'll have a hard time going slow enough as well. One last thing is to watch out for overheat when running at idle for long periods.

Do you have a trolling bracket and a kicker?

gottafish · 03-12-2004, 03:35 PM

no the boat is a big water boat that my wife go me as a suprise 100 gal fuel tank and a chev 350 and i believe its a 260 mercrusie out drive. I live in troutdale and want to take it out.

Pilar · 03-12-2004, 03:38 PM

Nothing wrong with the anchor Salmon fishery. You'll be comfy in that big boat, for sure.

Are you a Salt water fisher?

gottafish · 03-12-2004, 04:06 PM

I have been out on a friends boat a few times, i WENT TO THE CHICKEN RANCH with him but this is my first boat, it has accu nav and a lms- 350 gps system and all the raidios and what not. I would like to hit the salt for halibot and bottom fish, I think I have a lot to learn before I head to tuna unless I can team up with someone. My buddy sold his boat and moved to the east coast so I do not have the experiance. I was in the navy for 10 years but I was on subs so they tell me the water was blue but I only saw valves and pipes. I am a little puzzled as to how you can tell if the water will be ok to get out. I would hate to drive from troutdale to say newport to just have to haul it back. So any help in the big water arena would be a big help also? I have been reading on this board for about a month now and trying to learn as much as I can, to be honest I seem to be getting lost [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

thanks for the help Rich

Beer Waggin · 03-12-2004, 05:15 PM

Rich-
Go back to the beginning and start reading from there.

It sounds like you need to "get to know" your boat a bit. Drowning a herring or two is a good way to get started, although I prefer a prawn spinner. Questions, questions, questions. Ask and you will receive!
You can look here for buoy reports
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/Maps/Northwest.shtml
Look here for water predictions
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/Portland/afd?PDXCWFPQR
Look here for tides
http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/tide_pred.html
Look here for Tuna! water
http://www.terrafin.com/sstview/samples/freeoregon.htm

BTW- You'd have a heck of a time getting that boat to troll slow enough. You might be alright going down stream with the tide/current on certain days. Add a kicker, you'll want one for your Big Blue trips!

gottafish · 03-13-2004, 06:55 AM

Thanks for the help. brothers