New Forum.....Spin Fishing

[Raincatcher]

I like the Palomar knot. I read in one of the many fishing magazines that the #1 reason fish are lost is because the knot is tied "dry". The author said that if you don't wet it (spit on it) it will break about 50% of the time. A bit un-ladylike, but I spit up a storm to increase my odds.
Barb

[Troutski]

Originally Posted by Raincatcher

I like the Palomar knot. I read in one of the many fishing magazines that the #1 reason fish are lost is because the knot is tied "dry". The author said that if you don't wet it (spit on it) it will break about 50% of the time. A bit un-ladylike, but I spit up a storm to increase my odds.
Barb

I keep a bottle of Shrimp Oil in my tackle bag to use on my lures and being a flip lidded plastic bottle there is always a coating on it so I touch the top and use it to lube my knots instead of my bodily fluids. I know where my hands have been...
Just my slant on the line thing...I must admit I used to do the same to my knots..

Chuck

[Hawk]

I hav some crawdaddy scent oil & CA shad scent oil in pump spray bottles i use.................

[pamban23]

Have always wondered about spinner baits. are the expensive ones the ones that catch more fish or are we paying for ads in the fishing mags. The general idea in fishing is to get the bait or lure to where the fish are. When the water is warm or the sun is bright, trout head for coolest water they can find — deep shade covered holes. When fishing a river or stream, don't skip those long holes against the bank, the ones with all the overhanging branches. Running your spinner with the current will allow you to get the spinner right next to, and sometimes even under those branches, down where the lunker trout like to hide.
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Pamban23


Oregon Treatment Centers

[Raincatcher]

Welcome to OFF,Pamban23 and thanks for the advice. I do like using spinnerbaits,I just have a heck of a time "steering" the darn things. I know I need to practice,practice,practice...wish they had remote control ones. lol I am going to start keeping all the "stick" fish I catch and have a bonfire one day. It sounds like you have been fishing for a while. What part of the state are you in? Hope to hear from you in the future hopefully with some pictures...we love pictures.
Barb

[Troutski]

Originally Posted by pamban23

Have always wondered about spinner baits. are the expensive ones the ones that catch more fish or are we paying for ads in the fishing mags. The general idea in fishing is to get the bait or lure to where the fish are. When the water is warm or the sun is bright, trout head for coolest water they can find — deep shade covered holes. When fishing a river or stream, don't skip those long holes against the bank, the ones with all the overhanging branches. Running your spinner with the current will allow you to get the spinner right next to, and sometimes even under those branches, down where the lunker trout like to hide.
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Pamban23


Oregon Treatment Centers

Welcome to Off nice to have you on board...spinner fishing is truly an art form,although you would get a fight out of a Fly angler on this point. I love to fish regardless of the method, the idea of planning on and successfully fooling a fish into taking my bait...weather it be a spinner or crank bait even a fly.
The task at hand is to make a trip into the outdoors and enjoy all the nuance's that mother natures has to offer. Again welcome to OFF.....

Chuck

[ArcticAmoeba]

Spinners are great, especially if you build 'em yourself. I too have recently taken up the fun of twisting up spinners. Hey, I get alot of starange looks from the spey guys, when I drift fish my fly rod at Dog Creek on the Clack. Hey if I catch more than they do, even if they were all jacks. I would call that an art...Outdoing the crazy purists, right??? I recently have taken up the finger shredding art of producing my own lures in general. Needless to say the look, and fish way better than anything I buy in a store, and I believe that trout especially will key into these few that I have even when the bites off, that by chance were hand spun by a friend of mine, and member here. I pull them parallel to the dam wall at Faraday lake, and can't keep fish off of them...Even the excess Steelhead, that I didn't know got tossed in there are way easier to catch than ones running in the rivers. Surprise about the steel to me! I have found my happy place for building spinners, and I am comfortable with using them. On top of the fact that they work so well anyways. Spin fishing is definately different than working baitcasters, but again it is an art, and who can argue that catching big fish on light spinning gear isn't the bees knees! Steelhead on gear for kokanee or big trout...You have not fished until you hear your rods harmonics singing from being bent so far to the water, under so much tension! It's a trip, lots of lost fish for me in the beginning, but still a riot!

[Troutski]

Originally Posted by ArcticAmoeba

Spinners are great, especially if you build 'em yourself. I too have recently taken up the fun of twisting up spinners. Hey, I get alot of starange looks from the spey guys, when I drift fish my fly rod at Dog Creek on the Clack. Hey if I catch more than they do, even if they were all jacks. I would call that an art...Outdoing the crazy purists, right??? I recently have taken up the finger shredding art of producing my own lures in general. Needless to say the look, and fish way better than anything I buy in a store, and I believe that trout especially will key into these few that I have even when the bites off, that by chance were hand spun by a friend of mine, and member here. I pull them parallel to the dam wall at Faraday lake, and can't keep fish off of them...Even the excess Steelhead, that I didn't know got tossed in there are way easier to catch than ones running in the rivers. Surprise about the steel to me! I have found my happy place for building spinners, and I am comfortable with using them. On top of the fact that they work so well anyways. Spin fishing is definately different than working baitcasters, but again it is an art, and who can argue that catching big fish on light spinning gear isn't the bees knees! Steelhead on gear for kokanee or big trout...You have not fished until you hear your rods harmonics singing from being bent so far to the water, under so much tension! It's a trip, lots of lost fish for me in the beginning, but still a riot!

It is in fact an art form....and such a rush on light tackle, keep up the good work and again congratulations.

Chuck

[ArcticAmoeba]

Thanks Troutski! I really have taken kindly to spinner production...I love every bloody finger minute of it! And boy those excess Steelhead they toss in Faraday up here really made me wonder if I hooked up with a lake monster of our own. But no, just a sea-run fish grabbin gear designed for 6 lb. line! It is a total rush that is for sure. And, I will post a couple of pics of some of the lure combos I've thrown together so you can see what I've benn liking for spinners.