corky snaggers at the salmon river

sliverslinger · 10-06-2002, 08:25 PM

We were at the salmon river tonight and seen alot of people using corkies, some of them were hooking up but most of them fouled.
Does anyone have any sure fire ways to rig this up to work well ( catch them in the mouth) instead of snagging them? I am a bobber fisherman, but I dont want to waste my bait until we get some more water.

MasterCaster · 10-06-2002, 08:47 PM

Best advice I can give is wait for the tap tap tap before you set the hook dont jerk on the steady pull downs or rod rippers. Kinda like a trout bite is what you want.

I dont corky fish much but when I do I dont foul hook many fish.

Jon :smile: :grin: :smile:

[ 10-06-2002, 09:49 PM: Message edited by: MasterCaster ]

KingFisher85 · 10-06-2002, 09:00 PM

Get yourself some flame red pea size corkies and green pea size corkies. Make sure that it floats, your set up that is.
The silvers like both green and red. When that water goes up use two flame red pea size corkies and you should do better then most all the snaggers.

ReelMcCoy · 10-07-2002, 05:33 AM

The key is like MasterCaster said wait untill you feel them bite on it not every line bump.

The largest Chinook I ever caught was in the ditch. We had launched at fifth street at 3 AM to get a spot to park and fish. We had tried up the Trask for the morning with no results. We then went down to the ditch and trolled all day with no results. We new the fish were there because they were rolling all over the place. At about 7 pm that night you know like 20 minutes before we would have to legally stop fishing we anchored in the middle just down from the first corner. My partner was throwing hardware at them. By this time I had a raging headache and just wanted to shut my eyes so I decided to throw a corkie out. What I used was a red gooybob (Looks like an oaky drifter but soft) then a green corkie with red spots then another gooybob with some green yarn at the hook. All this was covered with lots of smelly jelly in three sents. I thru it to within about two feet of Lewie's (not sure of spelling) field layed the rod across my lap and layed back and closed my eyes. Within a few minutes I felt a tap tap and set the hook. Fish on it was a nice little twenty five pound buck cool. So I put my stuff back out in the same place and started to fill my tag out. I got about have way thru when I felt another tap tap. So I set the hook again. Wow fish on. This one took a few more minutes to get to the boat. When he got close enough to net we saw how big he was. It took both of us to lift him over the side. By then our time had run out so we went home. I stoped at Joans creek (that spelling does not look right either) and weighed him. He came in right at 50 pounds. Both fish had the hooks halve way down there throats. So the answer is they do eat plastic. You just need to figure the difference between a line bump and a bite.

I have a picture of that one displayed on my living room wall.

fishing is life · 10-07-2002, 08:11 AM

you might try bobber and eggs/shrimp instead of the corkies. they always are fair hooked. but corkies are legit if you do what the others said, dont set on everything, you might get less action but your fair hook sucess will be better. good luck.

sliverslinger · 10-07-2002, 08:38 PM

Thanks guys for all the input. I went down there tonight and tried what you told me and i had 3 on and landed 1 which was a finclipped coho. Your advice really worked. they were trying to pull my rod in the water.
I couldnt have got any better advice. thanks again. I will be back there at daylight wed. :grin: