Hi all! I’m relatively new to plunking for salmon and I’m trying to learn all I can. What is the strangest plunking setup you’ve used successfully? Anything from “non-standard” hooks to crazy baits or lures. I’m hoping to expand my vision of what plunking can be 😉 Looking forward to hearing from everyone!
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Its legal now. Enjoy it and spread your tackle in front of ya...you'll come up with several of what you are looking for...Hi all! I’m relatively new to plunking for salmon and I’m trying to learn all I can. What is the strangest plunking setup you’ve used successfully? Anything from “non-standard” hooks to crazy baits or lures. I’m hoping to expand my vision of what plunking can beLooking forward to hearing from everyone!
Looking forward to hearing from everyone!
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Some good natured ribbing is all and welcome to ifish, buckle up.
Lordbitzalot would post he was new to a certain technique and then spend time doing things his way, my favorite being a down rigger for use on the “bank” at Cascade Locks.
You will spend years learning basic set ups and learning to cast and what weight to use. I would focus on some plunking set ups described in the Tech Tips section of this forum.
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my advice would be dont try to go "outside the box"
90% of what the fish want is in the box
the other 10% you cant get its unobtainium!
90% of what the fish want is in the box
the other 10% you cant get its unobtainium!
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My personal selection of non-standard hooks for plunking.
This first example is the captain of all hooks:
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This hook works well on larger specimens, and best of all it's weedless:
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The following set of hooks is good you have sufficient funds available for the double-rod validation, and have always yielded good results. You'll also notice this apparatus is barbless, so its perfect for fishing in Davis Lake or The Metolius.
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This first example is the captain of all hooks:
This hook works well on larger specimens, and best of all it's weedless:
The following set of hooks is good you have sufficient funds available for the double-rod validation, and have always yielded good results. You'll also notice this apparatus is barbless, so its perfect for fishing in Davis Lake or The Metolius.
Excellent! No offense taken just wasn’t sure of the reference 🤪 Thanks for the welcome and the advice!
I’m sure there’s valid reasons for doing what’s always worked, but sometimes it’s nice to explore a bit 🤪
I like the weedless hooks, but those look like they could use a good sharpening! Not sure about throwing the captain’s hook out with him still attached to it though 😉
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Twisted up some hoochie SnGs on spinner wire earlier - looking fwd to giving them a go.
Which would you guys fish?
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Give me that one second from the right.
The extra smile blade is interesting too. I kind a wish they'd make reverse-spin SNG so that you could have one going each direction inline.
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I found the one in the middle - reeled it in caught on somebodies gear they lost.
I thought I was really doing something with the smiley blade there
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It would definitely make me feel like a girly man if you fished this season only with a hula popper.
I'll await pics.Non-conformity is all fine and good, but there are underlying principles that mean only some things are likely to work. A topwater lure is a perfect example. We fish the bottom, because that's where most of this fish are. You can be a non comformist and fish the surface, but you'll most likely catch fewer fish, based on our common experience. In the same way, deviating far from the common approach doesn't seem likely and historically hasn't proven to be the best approach to end up with fish pics at the end of the day.
Detailed oriented subtle variations in the common approach has worked better for me over the years. Getting the combination of dropper, vs leader, vs type of lure dialed, so that fish see my lure, has proven to be more important than what color of lure, or even what lure I use. Where I have that lure is more important than anything else; no fish bites something it can't see.
I prefer not to experiment when catching is slow. If your experiment doesn't work, you don't know if it was ineffective, or if there were just no fish. When fishing is slow, I want to fish something I have good reason to believe is effective. I experiment when the fishing is good, so the experiment has a chance. For the next two weeks, I'm using tried and true. In the first week of april, I'll switch things up if I get bored.
My 2 cents, as I cross the line into 59 years of fishing the Columbia this weekend.
Exactly! How can new discoveries be made if we always do what’s always been done? You never know when a small tweak will make a big difference unless you experiment some 🤷🏻♂️
I’d try any of those but I’m not an expert yet 🤪
That’s an interesting idea to spin in the opposite direction. Might be worth playing around with!
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