Post by: ffbowhunter on July 25, 2014, 01:39:20 PM
Post by: johnr060 on July 25, 2014, 02:32:32 PM
Post by: Shane54 on July 27, 2014, 03:44:44 PM
Post by: MADMAX on July 27, 2014, 06:45:33 PM
Indians on one side with trebel hooks and tuffline and white boys on the other with corkies and yarn
one and done for me
Post by: JimmyHoffa on July 27, 2014, 06:50:27 PM
Let the turd fest begin.Shouldn't be full force though, since a lot of the tribal hunting seasons open that same day (deer and elk I think).
Indians on one side with trebel hooks and tuffline and white boys on the other with corkies and yarn
one and done for me
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 27, 2014, 06:56:50 PM
Post by: _TONY_ on July 27, 2014, 11:27:04 PM
Post by: MADMAX on July 28, 2014, 04:04:09 AM
Post by: hogslayer on July 28, 2014, 05:55:48 AM
Post by: JimSR. on July 29, 2014, 11:00:43 AM
Post by: WSU on July 29, 2014, 11:03:22 AM
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 12:59:28 PM
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
Post by: WSU on July 29, 2014, 01:06:17 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
Wrong on all accounts. If you learned how to fish, you would learn that those fish are great biters. More power to you if you can't or won't figure it out, but claiming they don't bite is flat wrong.
Post by: _TONY_ on July 29, 2014, 01:14:04 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
They stop feeding yes, but they BITE lots of different offerings... Spinners, spoons, eggs, plugs, herring under a float just to name a few....
As for just hooking the little ones, that makes me laugh... I've caught kings 40+lbs on float and eggs... the reason those fish stop biting eggs as the day goes on, is because they turn into pin cusions. With most hooks catching them right in the A$$. Whats your foul hook to "in the mouth" percentage, huh?
Justify it how you fill, but flossin' is just fancy snagging.
Post by: _TONY_ on July 29, 2014, 01:20:47 PM
Post by: Damnimissed on July 29, 2014, 01:24:00 PM
Post by: MarkyMark on July 29, 2014, 01:38:02 PM
Post by: offdahook on July 29, 2014, 01:43:43 PM
Post by: offdahook on July 29, 2014, 01:47:34 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?+1 i woodnt trip so much i notice them bobber guy get upset cuz we hook quite few..i had one bober guy yell at me saying i spook the hole? i just ignore him keep fishing i mind my own business.. mayby they jelous :dunno:
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 03:16:03 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
Wrong on all accounts. If you learned how to fish, you would learn that those fish are great biters. More power to you if you can't or won't figure it out, but claiming they don't bite is flat wrong.
:tup: Thanks wsu! Bring the fly rod down there. You connoisseur you! what a joke.
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 03:29:18 PM
Well if that were the case, DIY, wouldn't that mean that all nooks on other rivers that just enter the river stop biting as well? I guess that means nobody catches adults on bobber/eggs? I guess I've been been imagining catching them? Boy, my mind sure comes up with some delicious fillets! :dunno:
Not at all. I've done very well with different color combos and eggs on other rivers. It seems to me the larger rivers like the Nisqually have fish that eat longer into the spawn cycle. I know the hump they bite like crazy and its a smaller river. Its just the skok. Its a snagging river. I have fished all over the northwest and could probably make wsu look like a little girl on the river. But that's neither here nor there. The fish don't feed in the skok period. They may bite at objects but not for the feeding reason. The rivers small and packed with native boats and hundreds of people fishing. The fish move as fast as they can upriver dodging hooks, nets, trash, trashy people, and any other crap that the natives throw in there. :chuckle: They have probably adapted over years of dodging stuff that they eventually quit eating. All I know is those big kings will swim right past some bait and into my bare hook and whack!!! :chuckle:
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 03:30:25 PM
oh yeah, if you hookset and the end of every single drift you are intentionally snagging in the eyes of the DFW... just an FYI
I don't hook set at the end of a drift, I hook set right about the time my lead hits bottom. :hello: :chuckle:
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 03:34:49 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
They stop feeding yes, but they BITE lots of different offerings... Spinners, spoons, eggs, plugs, herring under a float just to name a few....
As for just hooking the little ones, that makes me laugh... I've caught kings 40+lbs on float and eggs... the reason those fish stop biting eggs as the day goes on, is because they turn into pin cusions. With most hooks catching them right in the A$$. Whats your foul hook to "in the mouth" percentage, huh?
Justify it how you fill, but flossin' is just fancy snagging.
I agree they bite at things. Mainly in self defense. You wont hook a big king on eggs in the skok. trust me I lived minutes from the river for years. the big guys don't bite the eggs. Just the little jacks. :sry:
As for my foul hook percentage :dunno: I quit fishing that river a few years ago. to much trash and people and trashy people. But when I did fish it I would go all day and not foul hook any fish. Then the next day I wouldn't fair hook any so it just depends on the day I guess.
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 29, 2014, 03:45:11 PM
Post by: Forks on July 29, 2014, 03:59:31 PM
Post by: WSU on July 29, 2014, 04:12:57 PM
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 29, 2014, 06:13:25 PM
You guys are pinning one type of fishing against another and that's when we all lose. I knew BH 45 would chime in here :tup: It must be the rifle guys who drift eggs and the archers that floss... :hello: :chuckle: So you old timers and wanna be connoisseurs have at it with the eggs in the skok. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: floatinghat on July 29, 2014, 10:17:22 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
Wrong on all accounts. If you learned how to fish, you would learn that those fish are great biters. More power to you if you can't or won't figure it out, but claiming they don't bite is flat wrong.
:tup: Thanks wsu! Bring the fly rod down there. You connoisseur you! what a joke.
Guess you don't know that using a fly rod can be the easiest way to snag a fish. One just has too choose to be a loser and know how.
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 30, 2014, 06:36:37 AM
Post by: Shane54 on July 30, 2014, 03:10:35 PM
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on July 30, 2014, 09:10:05 PM
Those fish destroy good eggs. My biggest on the Skok is 37, but i guess that is a jack to the guys that need to hook 30-40 to get 2.
And if you think those fish don't hammer eggs it is to justify your snagging. Flossing is snagging.
Post by: Shane54 on July 30, 2014, 09:20:59 PM
Post by: bankwalker on July 30, 2014, 09:38:02 PM
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
I'll bet you all your fishing gear (except you're a skok flossers so your gear probably sucks) that I'll out fish you 20 to 1 with my float and eggs. Come take a stroll into my world and my group of egg fisherman will shut your mouth quick.
Post by: bankwalker on July 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on July 30, 2014, 09:48:01 PM
Post by: Shane54 on July 30, 2014, 09:56:05 PM
Post by: offdahook on July 30, 2014, 09:56:39 PM
Post by: offdahook on July 30, 2014, 09:58:55 PM
why u mad cuzThe skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
I'll bet you all your fishing gear (except you're a skok flossers so your gear probably sucks) that I'll out fish you 20 to 1 with my float and eggs. Come take a stroll into my world and my group of egg fisherman will shut your mouth quick.
Post by: Shane54 on July 30, 2014, 10:07:40 PM
Post by: bentley30-06 on July 30, 2014, 11:17:17 PM
Post by: boneaddict on July 31, 2014, 12:15:33 AM
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on July 31, 2014, 05:06:45 AM
The klickitat kings eat eggs the same way. But 150 miles from the ocean. And people still think they need to snag there.
I was raised on the Washougal, everybody told me the Chinook didn't eat once in fresh water so I learned how to snag fish.
Then I grew up and learned how to egg fish and all of a sudden I didn't need to hook 20 fish to keep 1 hooked in the head, of course there were days I would hook 2 in the head right off the bat. But fishing eggs I get to choose if I keep it or not and I don't have to look over my shoulder for the game warden.
I have been on the Skok where me and my biddies have putfished the snaggers five to one. Must have been a had day for them. Or they were not as expierenced at snagging as offdarock.
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 31, 2014, 06:35:37 AM
Bank walker i gaurntee you don't catch as many fish as you think u do? Do you know how much 20-1 is. That means you hook 20fish to his 1 fish :chuckle:. Now if your brine is that good I will pay 10k for your recipe. I'm a bait fisherman on every river besides the skok. This may be one of the most overly exaggerated claims I have seen. I would love to see you fish high banks with your eggs :chuckle:. I hope your post was a joke.
The skok fish are done feeding by the time they get in the river. You yuppie fishermen who say you float eggs while the snaggers ruin it are funny. I see you guys floating eggs and you hook up every hour or so. Never the big fish just the small jacks. Cause that the only fish that might want a bite to eat after they get inland. There is no other way to fish a river like that. The fish don't eat. so if I don't want to be labeled a snagger I need to cast out drift the pocket and reel my line in after I feel no bumps? If I did feel a bump set the hook? The only bump I might get in the skok is my line going through a dozen fish? So if I set it then I would most likely foul hook the fish or Snag the fish?
My point is there is no feeding that goes on in the river and the only way to catch fish consistently is to floss them in the mouth and keep the fair hooked hatchery fish right? I could go waste my time waiting for a takedown but it would take all day. I have had one fish bite my corkie and yarn in the skok. It was a big buck and he probably wasn't eating more defending his pocket that I kept throwing into. That's after ten years of fishing the skok. One bite. So good luck to you egg floating guys. Knock them little ones dead!
I'll bet you all your fishing gear (except you're a skok flossers so your gear probably sucks) that I'll out fish you 20 to 1 with my float and eggs. Come take a stroll into my world and my group of egg fisherman will shut your mouth quick.
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: TOOL! I could fair hook two fish within the time it takes you to tie up one time. I could probably fair hook two fish before any of you old guys could even tie up. The skok is not your world unless your a meth addicted tweaker. :dunno: I would bet you all my snagging gear but I don't fish the river anymore. you couldn't keep up on a 1-1 basis let alone a 20-1. What a joke. I have filled multiple catch cards at this river all with fair hooked fish. So why does it matter how I get a hook in their mouth? OH I can do it quicker than the egg guys and catch big fish so now your mad.
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 31, 2014, 06:52:55 AM
Post by: turkeyfeather on July 31, 2014, 07:32:12 AM
Post by: _TONY_ on July 31, 2014, 07:48:01 AM
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on July 31, 2014, 08:00:53 AM
I fish the skok a lot because my dad lives in Union. So I fish it when I visit.
I also don't feel the need to challenge people. So what, you will always be a better snagger than me, good for you.
And what really sucks is I got a ticket egg fishing the skok while all the snaggers were ripping every cast. I hooked 18 fish and I didn't keep any, I hand 1 to my son and I get a ticket for trying to exceed my daily limit. Flowers commended me for teaching the boys how to fish the right way but I can't hand the rod off to every kid in the neighborhood. We kept 1 dam fish. This was 6 years ago so I am over it now.
Post by: TheHunt on July 31, 2014, 08:05:14 AM
Post by: WSU on July 31, 2014, 08:10:19 AM
This really shouldn't be a debate about numbers, but one of morals and ethics...
That's the rub, isn't it. Numbers are why salmon season brings out the tweekers and snaggers. I'll take a frozen day and two steelhead over 1000 skok kings.
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on July 31, 2014, 08:16:02 AM
Post by: Igottanewknee on July 31, 2014, 08:22:23 AM
Post by: TheHunt on July 31, 2014, 08:42:47 AM
Post by: offdahook on July 31, 2014, 09:37:57 AM
you aint lyen steelhat taste so good got this one peach cork 8'leader 1/2 oz cannon!This really shouldn't be a debate about numbers, but one of morals and ethics...
That's the rub, isn't it. Numbers are why salmon season brings out the tweekers and snaggers. I'll take a frozen day and two steelhead over 1000 skok kings.
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Post by: turkeyfeather on July 31, 2014, 09:41:42 AM
Post by: bentley30-06 on July 31, 2014, 09:42:20 AM
Post by: Shane54 on July 31, 2014, 11:52:40 AM
Post by: MADMAX on August 11, 2014, 04:15:27 AM
I never seen so many guys on a river
geez
casting from the road as well on purdy cut off
wow
Post by: sirmissalot on August 11, 2014, 07:17:02 AM
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on August 11, 2014, 08:02:59 AM