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3 color with dbl orange crush 5 color with Silver Streak Yellow Tail and full core with Ace Hi Yellow tail. Pull the flashers and run a Orange Chilly Willie and a Screwball behind the divers if I am going slow enough to run them. Also Big Weenie Vibrator head flies for sliders on the rigger rods. Deepest rigger will have a big paddle and fly other rigger will have a Ace Hi Blue Mylar. Once you find them feed em whatever they want the most. If it did not cost so much to find them I would go after Steelhead every trip starting at about 8 am. Once the Salmon are all staging I am usually out west after them and love having the lake to my self while every one is running each other over in the channel.

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A j-11 orange/gold rapala 100' behind a board. I usually run 1/4 ounce of weight 6 ft in front of it, but sometimes no weight or more weight is needed, let the fish tell you what they want. The weight not only gets the lure down a few more feet, but it catches alot of crap that will otherwise slide down the line and foul the lure. I only run the rear hook, which I change to a larger treble than the stock one, I have had the front hooks foul on the line and nothing is more discouraging than pulling in a useless fouled lure and wondering how long it has been that way. I can't wait to get back out there!

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Well theres a couple few that always catch fish for me. Silver dipsey with a orange lazer red ladder proking 25-40 feet out set on 3 1/2 this rod will take strikes in 30-70+degree water it will suprize you....and my go to lures on the boards over the years....silver with a orange crush diagonal tape stinger, silver with a strip of orange lazer on one side stinger.....I know it sounds simple and lame....but they work...and its a good option for the lures that have lost there paint.....i'd put my steelhead catching abilities up against ne one and these have been my main gotos for 20 years +

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For my core and copper its Tangerine,Kandy Apple,Agent Orange,Steelie Stomper and yellow killer to name the top 5. For divers i like the orange slide diver with a 25 ft lead. Riggers pink panties were really good on free sliders and main line.( there all stinger spoons)

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As you can see by the posts' just about any spoon that has some orange in it in the top 50 foot of water should give you good results. I purchased my church boards in September with my lead core. I rigged my my 10 core with a double orange crush. I rigged my 5 core with a blue dolphin and both produced a lot of bites. I lost more than I got in the boat. I forget to slow the troll down I am sure that would help. Those fish will do anything to throw the lure. Some of them got some air! Troll very fast nothing under 3 mph. I even caught 2 going over 5 mph, when I was just trying to get the boat back to the harbor in 6 foot waves. That is a experience I don't want to repeat. I think the slowest I am going to troll this year is 2.8 and faster. When I target any fish out there. Cover more water and then your more likely to find that aggressive fish. Thats what the captain also said at your salmon fishing seminar. I will be at the swap. I hope to meet some of you guys in person. This is a very friendly informative web site I have learned a lot. Thanks again!

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