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My Brother Fishes the Columbia Bar and the Pacific Ocean in Oregon a lot and he swears by the Brads Cut Plug. Use the Bead Chain Swivel and a single #1 treble hook for the presentation. The run a 6. leader off of a dipsy diver and load them with any oily type of fish they have available usually they use sardines packed in oil, fill the cavity with it and troll. They don't use downriggers on the coast as they are limited to 1 rod per fisherman and they have some serious limits. 1 King per day, and only 2 Silvers(coho) in possession. Barbless hooks too. But I got a couple of cutplugs and have only used them once. BTW I was on the West coast in July and they were catching a lot of mature 40# plus Kings.

Nice work Son!

Short morning for the Silverking, got to the boat at 5:45 and went to fire up all the electronics and my GRAPH GPS, FISHAWK AND RADIO WERE ALL DEAD.

Decided to give it a try and Doug Wiggins (charter captain) gave me the ok to follow him and gave me a hint on what was working. We fished for 3 hours completely blind, and managed a nice fat 12# King on a 300 45# copper with a Mtn Dew 8" pro troll and pickled sunshine (home tied fly). 1 other hit 90 down on the rigger, 11" Pro Troll with a home tied green tinsel fly. After being blind for a long period we pulled up and headed in. Beautiful day on the water and we kept the Skunk off the boat.

(Brians marina found the problem Monday morning and fixed it free, they were the ones that broke the wire while re working my blower motors.)

Lets all hope the Full moon syndrome is all over by Tomorrow, I am going fishing.

I need a cooler for salmon fishing !! I looked at a Yeti but $799 is way to much!!' Somewhere in the 150 to 200 mark for me! I could strap it down on my swim platform !!

I priced the Yeti Cooler and I can surely say I will never spend more for a cooler than I will for a Downrigger.

Or a refrigerator for the boat.

SAMs club dude 68.00 it just fine I've had mine for years

There u have it 180 quart Igloo 68 bucks at Sams Club.

Nice job Bob.

I will be back out of St Joe Sunday, last weekends blow will make it interesting.

Yes, hook it up! Being able to know and then duplicate the downspeed after a hit is the number one thing for me to have success catching these slimey critters. As Grant said, with the wind changes we are having it is really affecting the current speeds which then affects how well a lure is running.

My fishawk has become an integral part of my fishing. The speed temp at depth are often quite different than what u r seeing on your GPS SOG reading. Temp is critical. If you find water that is 44 to 48 degrees you will find bait fish and salmon with the bait.

Okuma catalina reels are flawless and you won't have the line counter jabbing you in the wrist if you pump your rods fighting a fish.

I second that!

My Boat is 12 feet wide, I run 5 riggers and 4 dipseys when we are fishing summer patterns we add full 10 color lead core and 300, copper set ups, I do add dive bombs to the lead core and coppers if I feel I need more depth. I would really hate to run 6 dipsey presentations, unless I ran small ones off my outriggers. Then it would only be in the dirty water pattern in fall.

I have a big boat and usually have 6 to 8 on board, and any more than 18 rods can get to be a real chore.

Jimmy said it perfectly. Start in about 40 and work out to no more than 100 to 120 concentrate on the top 30 and send one rigger down with a paddle or spinny and a meat rig. If u look at the preferred temp for King salmon it is 44 degrees or colder, The Pacific Ocean never reaches 44 degrees where they live.

Welcome back Jim. Not bad for the first trip after surgery.

Good Job Jarod!

The ultimate Chinese Fire Drill, 5 Kings on at the same time and only 3 people on board. Sounds like Heaven to me.

WTG Jim.

MC2 has been sold.

You don't have to swap out the backing, just splice in a 10' piece of 40# mono between the braid and the copper to hook your board to.

Works fantastic, its and easy way to get a little piece to clip a board to and also gives a small amount of stretch until you get the copper line on the reel.

I wouldn't put more than 225' of 45 lb on a 45, and preferably 150', a 55 is much better suited for longer lenghts than that. I think 300' of 32# would fit.

Yup 200 yards of 30# Power pro, a 10' piece of 40# mono to attach boards and 300' of 45# Bloodrun copper is perfect. You will never get 300' of 45# copper on a 45. Take a look at the reel fill calculator on this site.

Good job on the fish for the Girls. We fished Sunday in the slop.

The Lake has turned over. 63 degrees on the beach. We started at 100 FOW North in the 11's and ended up South in the 6's. Meat rigs down on the bottom and on wire dipseys out 230 set on 1. Ended the day 4 for 5 two 2 year old Kings, 1 shaker King and a 15lb Lake Trout. Lost a big KIng on the Wire dipsey with 11" Paddle Blue and white, with a blue Big Weenie Meat rig. Temperature at 110 feet was 44.3 degrees, at 90 it was 54 degrees.

Fished from 7am to 1. the Lake was 2 to 3 feet and was capping when we quit. I hope we get a nice 2 or 3 days of westerly breezes to set the lake up.

We catch live alwifes with a cast net in the am. Run fresh bait on your meat rigs. That might get you a big King.

You had better read the rules on catching ad using Alewives. I do believe that is a no no.

Well done Jarod.

This is a prime example of the bonus of running sliders on main lines off the riggers.

There u have it Ed.

check out http://qcove.com/ you can call him & do custom colors as well even if its only one flasher

We use 8 and 11" flashers that are very similar but don't break away, I may have to order a couple and try them out.

I'm in the search for new tactics & not many ppl have info on my slickcraft so I'm turning to where it came from. do you use break away flashers?

No we dont, our presentations are very depth controlled and we use different types of line releases on our downriggers. I prefer a #33 rubber band and a Big Jon Band buster release. 1 wrap of the main line around 2 fingers pass the rubber band thru the loop and pull it thru itself attach to the release. I usually run flashers anywhere from 6 to 15 feet from the release. The most important thing is make sure u r trolling fast enough to get the desired action with ospinning it out of control and causing line twist.

This is what the back of my boat looks like 4 down riggers and lots of rod holders. I am not sure what a break away flasher is. But I will post some pics of some of our stuff that works for us.

Jay:

Welcome to the site. I grew up in the PNW and have fished out of Johnsons Point when I was a kid. We fish a lot different here than in the PNW! First we are allowed to keep 5 Salmon or trout per day, 2nd we Troll with 3 rods per angler, and most of use only spoons and dodger fly combinations to attract and catch the fish. The lakes are very temperature varied, our surface temps can reach over 75 degrees and we are very dependent on the thermo cline developing and giving us a depth that we can zero in on. I am very dependent on my Fishawk X4 to let me know where the temp break is. If we have a constant weather pattern for a few days, we can get a set temp break and it makes the fishing a lot easier. My Brother lives in the Portland area in Oregon and he fishes the Columbia River and the Ocean off of NW Oregon, like you they have a different style of fishing. I showed him how to use downriggers and how to use directional planers to cover the water column. I think that the NW fishermen could learn a lot from us here on the Great Lakes. I am going to try to fish out there in the next couple of years and hope my ideas will prove useful.