Why are spin-n-glo's seldom used from boats???

joru · 04-15-2002, 06:09 PM

Talked to a friend today at work and was told the springers were slaughtered at Bonneville this weekend, most were caught by spin-n-glo's. I seldom see them fished from boats, why? [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Johnson_Bar · 04-15-2002, 06:12 PM

Don't know about the spin and glo's but we fished Bonneville on Saturday and only saw about 6 fish caught. We could see alot of boats from where we were. Mabey these guys were in another spot.

joru · 04-15-2002, 06:15 PM

Bill

Was told the lower end of Hamilton Island on Sunday afternoon was the hot area. He saw one group of guys with seven fish...he had two in very short order.

ampersat · 04-15-2002, 06:23 PM

probably for the same reason that steelheaders don't usually fish nightcrawlers: aw, that's just a bass thing. if i had to hazard a guess, it would be because all of the bankies are limited to fishing spin-n-glows so the boat guys go with hardware or something different. just trying to give them something they haven't seen yet (or lately, as in the last fifty yards of river).

Thumper · 04-15-2002, 06:27 PM

Year after year we sit on anchor out at Bachelor Island and watch the bankies just slaughter the springers with plain old Spin-N-Glos. We sit there with our bait-wrapped Kwikfish, our spinner prawns, herring and spinner herring rigs and watch them pull in the fish. A reasonably intelligent person would dump all the fancy baits and put on a plain old Spin-N-Glo. Right?

Wrong.

wiser · 04-15-2002, 06:39 PM

Jack,
You think that is why my JRT looked disgustidly at me as I put out another wrapped k-14?

DollarBill · 04-15-2002, 08:41 PM

My first springer of the year was caught on a spin 'n glo off the back of the boat. I especially like to use one if the current is slow like around high tide. I think they work best in slower water. I love to use them with a sand shrimp. When I lived near the Skagit River in northern Puget Sound we fished with spin 'n glos all winter both from shore and boat.

$Bill

fish_on · 04-15-2002, 08:49 PM

Do you just use the spin-glo and a hook, maybe a little bait?

AngleThis · 04-15-2002, 08:53 PM

I have often seen bank anglers outperform boat anglers using spin 'n glows. I think the reason is that they work well in lower current shallower waters (which the fish apparently often prefer when the water is really moving), and they cast well. But they don't lower well from a boat due to their bouyancy...they always seem to twist up the rig in higher current waters from the boat, just as casting a quickfish from the bank does not often work without a foul or a snag.

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Bob Barthlow · 04-15-2002, 10:59 PM

One of my top back bounce baits is a spin-n-glo and a plug cutt herring. Most of the time I run it off a couple beads in front of the herring, other times I'll run it half way up my leader.

Paddlefish · 04-16-2002, 09:11 PM

I saw more than 60 chinooks hooked from the bank Saturday, "somewhere below Bonneville." About 2/3 were landed and roughly half of those were fin-clipped. I believe every one was taken on a spin-n-glo.

Last summer, when the steelhead were running in the Columbia, virtually every successful plunker I saw added a prawn tail or similar to his Spin-n-glo. I bucked the trend. I also went without a strike in my several trips.

This Saturday I added the prawn sweetener. Landed one chinook; lost another. The vast majority of anglers, though, -- including a couple of 4-fish guys -- didn't bother with the bait. Different species? Cooler water temperature? More aggressive early season fish?

Also, for you compulsive lure changers: the hot color Saturday morning seemed to be some shade of green. During the afternoon with the same weather and water conditions, it seemed that the guys fishing the plain old flame red color were dominating. Or maybe it's what Jim Conway used to say. "The best color is -- whatever color you caught your first one on." Besides, if EVERYBODY was casting rusty tablespoons, rusty tablespoons would be catching all the fish.

Finally, we Spin-n-glo plunkers tend to obsess about getting out into fast enough current to be sure that our lures are spinning properly (and I've seen a couple who put their ear up against their line, claiming that they could "hear" whether their lure was working.

We never know for sure, though, and I've seen plenty of fish hooked on casts which didn't appear to reach the desired current flow. I often wonder, though, whether a couple large Corkies or Okies with bait, scent, and/or yarn, weaving in the current, might not work as well, even minus the spin. (OOPS!! I don't want to accidentally stray into the "Corkies-plunking-in-tidewater-on-double-hooks" minefield.) :shocked: Don't go there! :shocked:

crabbait · 04-16-2002, 09:36 PM

Found the hot ticket one year summer steelhead fishing with a birds nest. My spin'n glo went out about 20', I 'nested the reel, and the gear plunked into water shallow enough that I could see it.

Just about the time I got the birds nest worked out the whole caboodle came tight and a steelhead was in the air! Of course, my reel was out of gear and the resulting birds nest was much more impressive than the first one!

I did not land that fish but I did learn that fish will travel in a lot shallower water than I previously suspected. Made me laugh thinking about my buddy wading out knee deep to cast. Fish were probably moving out of his way so he could cast clear past them. :smile: :smile:

Wright Angle · 04-16-2002, 09:58 PM

12 or 14 years ago the Springer fishing had just closed in the main stream of the Columbia. (Somebody caught a fish) so they opened what they called a bubble fishery in front of the court house in St.Helens, two buddies and I went up to fish. There must of been over 150 boats trolling around in a big circle, we fished about 4 hours and didn't see a fish caught. So we anchored down in the middle of the circle in 40 feet of water a tossed out spin-n-glo's 10 min. and FISH-ON , everybody started anchoring down and several fish were taken on spin-n-glo's that day...it never hurts to try them

FishinMission · 04-17-2002, 06:55 AM

C'mon guys...do the "Math" here........

Bankies use Spin N Glos because they work well..right??

Water is high and off color...right??

Fish move next to the bank in higher water because of the visibilty factor, and perhaps less current.

So????

What's the answer??? Where are the fish moving????

Duh.........

Mark

Jooky · 04-18-2002, 07:58 AM

crabbait, I love casting next to (or downriver) from guys who wade out into a river to "cast to a good spot". I haven�t had the pleasure of catching anything yet, but my best friend has. He will never forget the look on that guys face. Especially since the guy was so rude splashing his way into the hole and didn�t even say hi

Kwiky · 04-18-2002, 09:37 AM

Can anyone recommend a size?

Wright Angle · 04-18-2002, 08:51 PM

I use size 2 for Salmon and size 4 for Steelhead, I will fish size 2 for everything in dirty water.
I have caught several hundred Salmon and Steelhead plunking Spin-n-Glo's in the Columbia in the last 20 years or so. Most people fish too far out.They do work.

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