Fall Salmon

DixieFisher · 07-24-2007, 02:57 PM

Anybody else starting to get the itch??.....the fall run has to be my favorite of the season.....wild bouy10 ramps and multiple rods popping off all around you???.....excluding the 2006 season of course. Anyway, spent some of my evening time tying up some rigs and dreaming...anybody else???

Troutski · 07-24-2007, 03:00 PM

Man you Salmon anglers sure do get the bug, I'm glad I never got that bug, the Trout thing is about all I can handle....one thing for Trout fishing - its all year long. If you know what your doing a angler can really fish all year long

Chuck

Oregon4x4 · 07-24-2007, 04:07 PM

I may be a salmon angler, but I'm hardly racist - I fish for a wide variety of things here in the NW.

Bug, what bug?
I too have spent long nights putting new 50# tufline on all the boat rods, tied up dozens of jigs and made atleast 50 spinners, bought probably 100 new kwikfish for this season (new split rings and new VMC hooks on all of the old kwik's), tied up tons of mooching and single egg loop rigs. Not to mention all the reading lately!

I have some nice soft eggs for the early tidewater fishing, and I have some quarts that I used a tiny bit more cure in so they'll work in faster water like the clack. even stocked the freezer with fresh herring (sibiki'd out of newport)..

Last night I put new backing, WF floating fly line, leader and tippet on my loomis adventure 5, and strapped it to my 6wt.
At the rate I'm going, I'm gonna have some spare time before the season starts.. and It will probably kill me, literally.

Troutski · 07-24-2007, 05:42 PM

I can see your very low key

, you probably put more time in getting ready for angling than most people do angling....I agree with preparation, with out taking the time getting things ready the day is full of frustration. I do deep water trolling with flat fish and hot shots as well but mine are a bit smaller (Size 50/60's) I guess we have a lot more in common than one would think. I have been known to place a shrimp tail on a lure before.. As far as lures go I do make my own spinners and some spoons. Never did get the hang of putting up eggs, in my steelhead days I would trade my fresh eggs for cured ones from a friend. He did cook up some really tight bait balls. I am setting here looking up on the wall above my fireplace and I still get a quiverish stomach just looking at a 50# Chinook I managed to land on the Umpqua a few years ago.
Tight lines to you and I hope the season is full of monsters for you.

Chuck

Oregon4x4 · 07-24-2007, 06:55 PM

prep is definately a key to success! organization helps tremendously as well. looking at the barn or garage you'd think I didn't know what that word meant but all the gear has it's spot. you know, the important stuff is well taken care of..
I probably fish more than I should, and when my wife doesnt let me leave to fish, I walk down the hill to the bottom corner of my property and flyfish or use light spinning gear for trout, and panfish in the 1 acre pond

. there's a Beast of a smallmouth in there too, but just the one..

I pull 50/60's through low clear water for steel..
Try sardine, herring, or "butterfly" a piece of shrimp meat and wrap your flat fish sometime! I'm a huge fan of the sardine wrap.
for those lazy days using bait, eggs are still my favorite go to! my wife absolutely hates that I use my jeans as a rag on those days..

72# is my biggest chinook, but I guess you could call it cheating - Its a bristol bay fish.

Thanks, and if you ever make it up towards portland let me know There are quite a few great stillwater places for trout, bass, and panfish around here plus all the rivers diversity.. or if you wanna spend a day on the columbia (or most anywhere else) for steel, salmon, or sturgeon let me know. I have all the gear + boat

Osprey · 07-24-2007, 07:23 PM

I know what you mean by having the bug! I can't wait!!! I've got my rods ready and have checked, cleaned, fixed, what ever it takes, to get most of my lures ready to go. I think I'll probably buy a few new Quik-Fish, some of mine are getting pretty beat up. Plus I was at Joe's the other day and noticed there's some new colors out, gotta try'm you never know they could be the hot ticket. I also noticed there's a couple of new colors out in the Blue Fox line, I just might have to have some of those too! What ever it takes to fill my tag. I didn't make it out once last year for Salmon and am jonesin' pretty bad for some fresh smoked salmon.

Troutski · 07-24-2007, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Oregon4x4

prep is definately a key to success! organization helps tremendously as well. looking at the barn or garage you'd think I didn't know what that word meant but all the gear has it's spot. you know, the important stuff is well taken care of..
I probably fish more than I should, and when my wife doesnt let me leave to fish, I walk down the hill to the bottom corner of my property and flyfish or use light spinning gear for trout, and panfish in the 1 acre pond

. there's a Beast of a smallmouth in there too, but just the one..

I pull 50/60's through low clear water for steel..
Try sardine, herring, or "butterfly" a piece of shrimp meat and wrap your flat fish sometime! I'm a huge fan of the sardine wrap.
for those lazy days using bait, eggs are still my favorite go to! my wife absolutely hates that I use my jeans as a rag on those days..

72# is my biggest chinook, but I guess you could call it cheating - Its a bristol bay fish.

Thanks, and if you ever make it up towards portland let me know There are quite a few great stillwater places for trout, bass, and panfish around here plus all the rivers diversity.. or if you wanna spend a day on the columbia (or most anywhere else) for steel, salmon, or sturgeon let me know. I have all the gear + boat

Cool, I will keep it in mind....as a matter of fact I will be in Portland on th 17th of August for some classes, if I get the opportunity I will take you up on the angling. Thanks again for the invite.
72#er man that's a fish to remember.....gezzz that's a hog. The thing about mine is it was my first Salmon....kinda hard to beat that down here, that is why I got it mounted. The memory is still fresh in my heart, every time I glance up at the fire place I get the goose bumps.

Chuck

DixieFisher · 07-26-2007, 10:57 AM

I have always been a fiend for prep.....and it seems like it's only my fishing gear and tools that seem to be in order.....the rest of my house is a wreck!!...but, I would say 100 new kwiks beats my bug by a loooong shot...

Oregon4x4 · 07-26-2007, 04:53 PM

i bought 25 more kwiks today, all 13's and 14's, should have enough for this year, maybe.
browsing cabelas the other day I saw that they had the aerojig hackle jigs that are normally a couple bucks for $0.88 cents. Yeah well needless to say I bought too many.. I couldn't help myself.. Only all black ones are left, I think I got all of the others (don't think I didnt get a bunch of the black ones too).
I'm not just compulsive, I sorta need to have quantity of each due to "playing guide".

I don't even want to count all of my kwikfish that ive collected over the years!

like i mentioned though, Wrap 'em and use scent..

definately a lucky day hooking a #50, those are rare down here - and it being a first fish, now that's just the fish gods blessing you.

if you end up having some free time do let me know, probably cant get you hooked up to a #50 but I know we can hook some #2+ on ultra light gear in a couple beautiful spots..

cchinook · 07-28-2007, 03:46 PM

You guys are as crazy as I am . I am counting down the days but at a different location, below Bonneville at the deadline , from the bank tossing #3 and #4 blue foxes . They come in so close that we are sight fishing for them.
They are very aggresive on those spinners. Last year a lot of coho were mixed in with them . I have a boat but that bank does better . Best weeks last year were at the end of Aug. and start of Sept.

07-24-2007, 02:57 PM	#1
DixieFisher Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 91	Fall Salmon Anybody else starting to get the itch??.....the fall run has to be my favorite of the season.....wild bouy10 ramps and multiple rods popping off all around you???.....excluding the 2006 season of course. Anyway, spent some of my evening time tying up some rigs and dreaming...anybody else???

07-24-2007, 07:23 PM	#6
Osprey Master Angler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albany Posts: 314	I know what you mean by having the bug! I can't wait!!! I've got my rods ready and have checked, cleaned, fixed, what ever it takes, to get most of my lures ready to go. I think I'll probably buy a few new Quik-Fish, some of mine are getting pretty beat up. Plus I was at Joe's the other day and noticed there's some new colors out, gotta try'm you never know they could be the hot ticket. I also noticed there's a couple of new colors out in the Blue Fox line, I just might have to have some of those too! What ever it takes to fill my tag. I didn't make it out once last year for Salmon and am jonesin' pretty bad for some fresh smoked salmon. __________________ Ron _____________________________________________ Fishin's My Thing!But racing comes in a close second!!! Last edited by Osprey : 07-29-2007 at 07:17 AM.

07-28-2007, 03:46 PM	#10
cchinook Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Portland Posts: 92	fall fish You guys are as crazy as I am . I am counting down the days but at a different location, below Bonneville at the deadline , from the bank tossing #3 and #4 blue foxes . They come in so close that we are sight fishing for them. They are very aggresive on those spinners. Last year a lot of coho were mixed in with them . I have a boat but that bank does better . Best weeks last year were at the end of Aug. and start of Sept.

07-24-2007, 03:00 PM	#2
Troutski Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Springfield, OR. Posts: 1,700	Salmon anglers Man you Salmon anglers sure do get the bug, I'm glad I never got that bug, the Trout thing is about all I can handle....one thing for Trout fishing - its all year long. If you know what your doing a angler can really fish all year long Chuck __________________ Practice C.P.R. (Catch Photograph and Release)

07-24-2007, 04:07 PM	#3
Oregon4x4 Apprentice Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 53	I may be a salmon angler, but I'm hardly racist - I fish for a wide variety of things here in the NW. Bug, what bug? I too have spent long nights putting new 50# tufline on all the boat rods, tied up dozens of jigs and made atleast 50 spinners, bought probably 100 new kwikfish for this season (new split rings and new VMC hooks on all of the old kwik's), tied up tons of mooching and single egg loop rigs. Not to mention all the reading lately! I have some nice soft eggs for the early tidewater fishing, and I have some quarts that I used a tiny bit more cure in so they'll work in faster water like the clack. even stocked the freezer with fresh herring (sibiki'd out of newport).. Last night I put new backing, WF floating fly line, leader and tippet on my loomis adventure 5, and strapped it to my 6wt. At the rate I'm going, I'm gonna have some spare time before the season starts.. and It will probably kill me, literally.

07-24-2007, 05:42 PM	#4
Troutski Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Springfield, OR. Posts: 1,700	Salmon Bug I can see your very low key , you probably put more time in getting ready for angling than most people do angling....I agree with preparation, with out taking the time getting things ready the day is full of frustration. I do deep water trolling with flat fish and hot shots as well but mine are a bit smaller (Size 50/60's) I guess we have a lot more in common than one would think. I have been known to place a shrimp tail on a lure before.. As far as lures go I do make my own spinners and some spoons. Never did get the hang of putting up eggs, in my steelhead days I would trade my fresh eggs for cured ones from a friend. He did cook up some really tight bait balls. I am setting here looking up on the wall above my fireplace and I still get a quiverish stomach just looking at a 50# Chinook I managed to land on the Umpqua a few years ago. Tight lines to you and I hope the season is full of monsters for you. Chuck __________________ Practice C.P.R. (Catch Photograph and Release)

07-24-2007, 06:55 PM	#5
Oregon4x4 Apprentice Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 53	prep is definately a key to success! organization helps tremendously as well. looking at the barn or garage you'd think I didn't know what that word meant but all the gear has it's spot. you know, the important stuff is well taken care of.. I probably fish more than I should, and when my wife doesnt let me leave to fish, I walk down the hill to the bottom corner of my property and flyfish or use light spinning gear for trout, and panfish in the 1 acre pond . there's a Beast of a smallmouth in there too, but just the one.. I pull 50/60's through low clear water for steel.. Try sardine, herring, or "butterfly" a piece of shrimp meat and wrap your flat fish sometime! I'm a huge fan of the sardine wrap. for those lazy days using bait, eggs are still my favorite go to! my wife absolutely hates that I use my jeans as a rag on those days.. 72# is my biggest chinook, but I guess you could call it cheating - Its a bristol bay fish. Thanks, and if you ever make it up towards portland let me know There are quite a few great stillwater places for trout, bass, and panfish around here plus all the rivers diversity.. or if you wanna spend a day on the columbia (or most anywhere else) for steel, salmon, or sturgeon let me know. I have all the gear + boat

07-26-2007, 10:57 AM	#8
DixieFisher Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 91	I have always been a fiend for prep.....and it seems like it's only my fishing gear and tools that seem to be in order.....the rest of my house is a wreck!!...but, I would say 100 new kwiks beats my bug by a loooong shot...

07-26-2007, 04:53 PM	#9
Oregon4x4 Apprentice Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 53	i bought 25 more kwiks today, all 13's and 14's, should have enough for this year, maybe. browsing cabelas the other day I saw that they had the aerojig hackle jigs that are normally a couple bucks for $0.88 cents. Yeah well needless to say I bought too many.. I couldn't help myself.. Only all black ones are left, I think I got all of the others (don't think I didnt get a bunch of the black ones too). I'm not just compulsive, I sorta need to have quantity of each due to "playing guide". I don't even want to count all of my kwikfish that ive collected over the years! like i mentioned though, Wrap 'em and use scent.. definately a lucky day hooking a #50, those are rare down here - and it being a first fish, now that's just the fish gods blessing you. if you end up having some free time do let me know, probably cant get you hooked up to a #50 but I know we can hook some #2+ on ultra light gear in a couple beautiful spots..

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