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2019, Pinks Reports
« on: July 31, 2019, 11:21:42 AM »
My goal is to land a few on 8lb line with my koke set ups. Please post updates and reports.

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2019, 11:23:56 AM »
Try twitching jigs too.  Good fun in the salt with no trolling.  Find jumpers and throw jigs at them.

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2019, 01:07:09 PM »
Try twitching jigs too.  Good fun in the salt with no trolling.  Find jumpers and throw jigs at them.

 :yeah:  Or buzzbombs/rotators with a pink mini squid over the hook. Highly effective.

Why don't you up the ante and just go to a snoopy rod?
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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2019, 01:31:59 PM »
I'm down for that.

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2019, 02:58:07 PM »
Try trolling a Coho Killer or similar flutter spoon with no dodger or flasher.

They are already here in decent numbers and good size.  I'll send you a PM.  There were only a few boat there today; I'd like to keep it that way.

 

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2019, 02:59:31 PM »
Yup, or text me.

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2019, 10:44:26 AM »
Shipwreck.   :tup:

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2019, 10:51:15 AM »
Theeeeyyy're heeerrrre
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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2019, 11:21:11 AM »
I got into a batch of them yesterday off Jeff Head, crazy deep for pinks, 105 - 120' on the wire! 


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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2019, 01:08:55 PM »
A couple of bucks this morning.


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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2019, 06:59:47 PM »
Ya know ... Moving here last year, I had no desire to catch pinks after catching them in the tributaries to the Great Lakes. However, these fish look much better prior to spawning. I might just have to give it a shot. Good work guys!

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2019, 07:09:46 PM »
Bleed them, put them on ice and they are excellent eating.  They aren't Columbia springers, but then again you can't catch springers in Puget Sound.  I would consider myself a fairly snobish fish eater and I have no problem cooking pinks up.  Like any salmon, treat them well and don't overcook.

If you toss them in a hot, empty fish box when it is 85 degrees out with sun beating down and troll around all afternoon, they won't be that great for sure.

I just got the boat trailer back in service and will be out in the next few days.

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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2019, 07:18:18 PM »
Got one on the vintage zebco!
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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2019, 09:12:21 PM »
Got one on the vintage zebco!

That's awesome.  A 202 trophy for sure.  Does the drag work?


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Re: 2019, Pinks Reports
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2019, 09:21:58 PM »
Ya know ... Moving here last year, I had no desire to catch pinks after catching them in the tributaries to the Great Lakes. However, these fish look much better prior to spawning. I might just have to give it a shot. Good work guys!

Yeah, come late September and they’re a few miles up their river, they won’t be so appealing.  Kind of like the swimming dead; slimy, tight scales, skin peeling off, humpback zombies.   


 


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