I used your basic setup for 25 years until a Tillamook guide showed me what he called the universal salmon rig. Basically, the same setup, swivel for a weight slider on the braid mainline but forgo all the beads and use a piece of rubber vacuum hose about 3 or 4 inches long instead then tie in your bead chain swivel that goes to your bumper. On his recommendation, I started using welded ring ball bearing swivels in place of the 6 bead chain. They don't plug with the fine weeds as bad. How it works is the rubber vacuum hose grips and holds the ball bearing swivel eye. The dropper slider presses against the other end of the hose forcing the ball bearing swivel to work. There is zero line twist even using 360 flashers. Eliminates the need the three-way line dividers or filing notches into the plastic sliders. Your local auto parts store has spools of vacuum hose. The stuff I use came from NAPA and has roughly a 1/8 inch inside diameter and a 5/16 inch outside diameter. Three or four feet of it and you will be set a long time.
Aw heck, I've been setting my rigs up all wrong for years. So glad I stumbled onto this great explanation. Thank you for the well done step by step. Made simple enough even us Idahoans can follow along. (a little sarcasm)
Been there a million times as a kid, fishing with my grandfather and mom. Sturgeon fishing used to be amazing a few miles up the river too in the late 80s early 90s.
Fishing Lake Michigan in the past we've killed it on glow in the dark orange spoons and glow flies from 4am - 7am. Steelhead on purple/copper spoons, or watermelon on high lines. Planers or just dragging.
1st time'er rigged a 9' stiff Shakespeare pole with a spinning reel. Used the set-up here only used 50lb line with a 150lb bumper and 25lb. leader about 48"long. But stuck to the "crazy Crabby" spinner and anchovy set-up. Fished three days mostly from the bridge to up around Cliff Pt. Got razzed for being obstinate. Everybody else was using blades and at least 50lb leaders. RESULTS: got first bite, lost at the net; Captain got first fish (hatchery around 27"), I landed a slightly shorter one a few minutes later. Next day a nice 30" hatchery buck , day three rainy and foggy. skunked. Blessed with two nice fish for following your set-up. It does murder chinooks.🐟🐟 for 🐟🐟🐟
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Great instructional...those fish are only endangered due to the commercial fishing and seals... I've always felt that they shouldn't be sold in the grocery stores if you want to eat fish...you should have to catch fish...course that would put a lot of idiots on the water... can't win for loosing.
Question, is this the set-up that I want to use trolling for Coho and Pinks here in the Puget Sound (Areas 11 and 13 mostly). Thank you guys for turning out such great info.
I notice you run weights and not downriggers. I am new to salmon fishing...years of kokanee with downriggers. Even when I am fishing shallow waters 30' up I still use my riggers so I know I have my lines at exact depths. For example I may want lines at 10' - 15' - 20 and 25'. how can you get that accuracy with weights only
steve ashe My favorite of all time!! Crankcase in Rootbeer I think is what they are. I buy them from eBay because I can’t find them anywhere else. This is my third pair in like 5 years.
I’m sorry I watched this guy’s video. I thought it was the “murdering fish” comment that did it for me, but it was actually the open acknowledgment of fishing an endangered species for regulations be in place to protect said species, and being butt-hurt they exist. I did come here to watch his setup and, shameless plugs aside, that’s what I got.
Its a rod not a pole, and the rod is one of the most important factors to this fishery. We love okuma, yes they’re our sponsor but even if they weren’t, they make one of the best, reliable, rods out there, we would be using them anyway.
@@AddictedFishing So i am correct, they're your sponsor and instead of talking about the subject you're sitting here rambling about okuma. Smart mouth.
