troutdude
Good point. Thank you.
I'm done.
Its absolutely possible, my opinion is its not probable. Its a pretty surreal story, especially reading back ground posts. At least, entertaining.
All I know is, those are all damn!! good salmon/steel colors. A fish story? maybe... but still. Why the flame on? Just wonderin??
Steelhead eat pink worms, I do believe one would eat a red salamander....they are such dumb fish sometimes!Probably not a springer in my opinion. :think: Springers typically don't jump out of the water after they strike a bait....sounds like a line brush!
How often do you see something Chartruese, Orange, Blue, Pink, or Purple naturally floating down the river? But yet, fishermen still catch Salmon and Steelhead on psychedelic colored wads of trash that look nothing like a natural food source.
Fish hit things out of curiosity, maybe a Chinook doesn't want some intruder coming into its territory, the curly tail of a rubber salamander might mimic the action of a spinner enough to tick the fish off.
Whether or not the Springers are in that area, I do not see it being near impossible to get a Salmon or Steely on a rubber lizard, those fish are pretty much bipolar, maybe not every fish will consider hitting it, but there are always a few that are extra curious/aggressive.
Luckily though I got a bite... eventually. I was using a 3" soft plastic salamander swim bait. Red with blue sparkles and a fluorescent orange tail.
I agree. Consider divers of various shape and colors, as well as jigs.. How do they resemble the more common food sources?
you all may not believe this but this weekend at the hatchery i hooked into a fish that spooled me.,. and i was using 15 lb test and a clump of roe i don't know if it was a springer or not but the glimps i got of the fish was a VERY BIG and chrome flash and it went strait up river and snapped me off at the spool and i even tightened my drag on my spinning reel as i fought it ,.,, so they could be up here already but i dont know what it was,., it could of have been a big steelhead ,., who knows
but the bass lure makes me laugh ,.,, ive seen many people at the river using top water poppers, buzz baits and all different kinds of bass lures and in all of the years of fishing,. i have never,ever seen or even remotely heard of a salmon being caught on a bass lure ,.,the olny chance you mite have is to foul hook one by accident ,.,,or you mite of have saw a really big winter steelhead ,., and some times the mind will play tricks on you when you are out there fishing for hours on end,. , what may have seemed like a 15-20 lb salmon,.,could of been a fat chrome winter steelhead ,., who knows