Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: h2ofowlr on August 10, 2009, 08:09:06 AM
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Anyone have any good tools of the trade that the pinks really like? Spoons, sandshrimp, jigs, flat fish, etc. or any color besides pink that they really Q in on? I have been fishing them the last 4 nights and trying a little of everything. I have caught quite a few, but have put a lot of hours in. Always good to try something new that may work just a bit better.
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little tiny dick nite spoons in 50/50 chrome/brass...real small...i wanna say the smallest ones they make or 1 up from there.
i fish them on a downstream swing with 20" of leader and some pencil lead ticking the bottom.
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Trolling or throwing?
These work for throwing:
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I picked up 4 dozen of the pink ones with skirts. They had them for $1.89 per dozen at Warhouse Sporting Goods. I assumed it was priced incorrectly, so I picked up extra just in case.
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Old school guppys are killing them. We boated 50 this weekend
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that would be the dick nite i was talking about.
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where can I catch them around tacoma ish within an hour. sorry for the threadjack
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i been slaying the pinks on the skagit at johnsons bar there on the left at gardner rd with a pink, black and silver tiger striped wing bobber and sand shrimp there may be snags but i have yet to cast and not get a bite
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Take a chartreuse or red and yellow fly with a larger hook about 24" up the line put enough weight to just touch the bottom and bounce through without snagging, normally three large split shots to start then adjust from there. As your facing the river straight out is 12 o'clock. Depending on flow of river cast to 2 O'clock and let it flow to 10 o'clock and pull up and flip it again to the 2. Or opposite casting if on the other side of river. If the Pinks are there you'll catch one. Normally put out as much line as where the fish are running, you want the back of your drift to hit that magic area. Most Salmon will run lines up river, find that line and walla, your into them. When you feel a bump more than bottom pull up on the rod and state loudly, FISH ON!..... I never used anything else. I really like using a larger fly rod, seems like I have better sensitivity and exactly know when I get a thump on my line quicker. I have watched 2 years ago on the Pyullap River folks casting across river and reeling like crazy and wondering why they never caught a fish. I po'ed the whole lot, going and fishing right next to shore and hooked and released 6-7 within a few minutes, really po'd them when I let them loose.... GO with the drift of the water no faster and you don't need to be way out either, in fact don't where waders unless you need them to access the area, it will keep you out of the prime part of the river... If you want to fish the other side of the river then go to that bank, no need to cast all the way over and miss the best parts of the river..
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Wicked Willies & pink jigs do the job for me :chuckle:
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where can I catch them around tacoma ish within an hour. sorry for the threadjack
There's a ton of them that go up the Puyallup. Not sure if they're in the river yet, or if it's even open yet, but they floss them by the carload when the pinks are in. Don't have any personal reports, but I heard that 100+ were caught off the Redondo Pier on Saturday. Also heard they're killing them off the beach at Brown's Point (just north of Commencement Bay) although I don't know what the access is like down there.
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thanks!
