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Where you located? Many different ways to fish for them. Drift, bobber, Troll. My favorite is drift fishing. Get some eggs or a corky and a worm, some split shot about a foot away from the hook. Just enough split shot so the current still carries it. Keep your line taught and wait for the hit. Takes a little practice between feeling the river bottom and a fish but sure is a lot of fun. Then there's bobber fishing. Get a jig some shrimp and a slip bobber and have fun! Or you could just go plunking. That works well for salmon in my opinion. Spin and glows and shrimp or herring. My advice is get on Ifish.net and read read read. Talk to the locals. Watch what they use. Every river seems to have their own little tricks to them. Tricks I use on one river I will kill them on all day but switch to the next river and might not even get a hit. When I was learning I just talked to everybody I saw fishing. Most people are friendly and will help especially if you tell them your new to it. Very rarely was anybody rude. If your on the east side I know of a couple good rivers that I fish regularly that hold a large amount of fish.Im on the east side! where they at!
Quote from: JODakota on January 04, 2012, 11:48:30 AMWhere you located? Many different ways to fish for them. Drift, bobber, Troll. My favorite is drift fishing. Get some eggs or a corky and a worm, some split shot about a foot away from the hook. Just enough split shot so the current still carries it. Keep your line taught and wait for the hit. Takes a little practice between feeling the river bottom and a fish but sure is a lot of fun. Then there's bobber fishing. Get a jig some shrimp and a slip bobber and have fun! Or you could just go plunking. That works well for salmon in my opinion. Spin and glows and shrimp or herring. My advice is get on Ifish.net and read read read. Talk to the locals. Watch what they use. Every river seems to have their own little tricks to them. Tricks I use on one river I will kill them on all day but switch to the next river and might not even get a hit. When I was learning I just talked to everybody I saw fishing. Most people are friendly and will help especially if you tell them your new to it. Very rarely was anybody rude. If your on the east side I know of a couple good rivers that I fish regularly that hold a large amount of fish.lIm on the east side! where they at!
Where you located? Many different ways to fish for them. Drift, bobber, Troll. My favorite is drift fishing. Get some eggs or a corky and a worm, some split shot about a foot away from the hook. Just enough split shot so the current still carries it. Keep your line taught and wait for the hit. Takes a little practice between feeling the river bottom and a fish but sure is a lot of fun. Then there's bobber fishing. Get a jig some shrimp and a slip bobber and have fun! Or you could just go plunking. That works well for salmon in my opinion. Spin and glows and shrimp or herring. My advice is get on Ifish.net and read read read. Talk to the locals. Watch what they use. Every river seems to have their own little tricks to them. Tricks I use on one river I will kill them on all day but switch to the next river and might not even get a hit. When I was learning I just talked to everybody I saw fishing. Most people are friendly and will help especially if you tell them your new to it. Very rarely was anybody rude. If your on the east side I know of a couple good rivers that I fish regularly that hold a large amount of fish.lIm on the east side! where they at!
i say dont even think about it. if its about filling the freezer, you can choose to pay a thousand dollars a pound or 4.99 a pound. just think of all the cool smoked salmon, halibut and sturgeon, marlin etc etc, you can buy for a hundred times less, lol.
Quote from: GEARHEAD on January 04, 2012, 10:09:18 PMi say dont even think about it. if its about filling the freezer, you can choose to pay a thousand dollars a pound or 4.99 a pound. just think of all the cool smoked salmon, halibut and sturgeon, marlin etc etc, you can buy for a hundred times less, lol.I'm the kind of guy that likes to eat as much of what i catch, hunt or grow as I can.
Don’t start would be my advice You want to fish from a bank, boat of both? There is a lot of people that are always looking for someone to share expenses with and go out fishing on this site. Start with Salmon. There is a ton of opportunities for them all over the state. You can go simple with a nice rod/reel and minimal terminal gear and do well. Unless you have a good mentor it will be a little frustrating at first till you start to figure it out. It is a sport where you can keep it simple of spends thousands to put some fish in the freezer. Steelhead are getting harder and harder to catch; just not a lot of them any more.
I met a guy that says he caught over 65 steelhead this year, 20 or so this winter. I think he just fishes a couple rivers but knows them wellll! Ive been out for them 3 times, havent caught one yet. mostly bobber and drift fishin
I spent an entire year and only got one wild after about 100 hours of going after them. Then I got my first and then it clicked. It seems to be getting better and better. One thing I have learned is when in doubt set the D&@# HOOK! Seriously that has help a lot. If I feel my bobber is moving weird or the line is acting different than normal I set the hook. You will lose a little more bait that way but Ive also hooked up a lot more fish while as before I wouldn't have though anything of it!
It will become an obsession, it does with everyone. You will be seen driving like a mad man from store to store, looking for the new hot lure/spinner that you have to have, have 15 lbs. of egss curing on the counters at dinner time, going out the door with one rod, coming home with two hoping the missus does not count... Do not forget the Springer run is coming. Drano is a must experience at least once, in your lifetime.
