Waiting for a chance to go fishing 🎣 is sometimes painful 😣. , so after many delays the big tides stood in the way.... viola, let's go fishing to get some bait! Plan a.
Troll in the early morning, n fish for pink salmon. These are smaller and sometimes available and are legal in our state to use as bait for sport fishing.
We used a flasher/ n dodger and a small hootchy or buck tail trolling fly and had a lot of fun.
The carcasses always make 🦀 bait oars some shrimps. Nothing is wasted. Except a burp. 😹
Spots and sea slugs!
Those look like coonstripe shrimp. Pink salmon are ok for the smoker. Our local run is shut down because poor returns. We used to get average of 8-10 million into the river right by my house. 4 per day limit, but nowadays it's closed.
Gary, please tell me you are note disrespecting the Great Red Cooler by sitting on it!?!
That cooler looks to be in to good a shape to be THE red cooler. Besides that one looks pink. ;D Rudy
Looking Good Gary! ;D
Nice salmon Gary, not a bad looking decky either, you have all the luck, cheers Don.
We have ups n downs in our fishery much like other areas, butt when a plan works out it's worth doing sometimes, this year is a good pink/humpy year. These smaller salmon return stronger every other year.
Meaning next year might be poor in their abundance is expected.
I keep them whole and freeze them individually. Nothing is wasted. The head is a very good halibut bait.
We used a flasher or dodger ahead of some small buck tails fly, or plastic hootchy .some patterns are shown.
Slowly trolling about 100 feet behind a boat in the upper water column in the morning wokes best, then usually go deeper to 100 feet if sunny.
Making your own flys is kinda fun, here's a little coho/ silver we got as well. These are excellent eating fish.
Using light tackle makes these fun to play, bbq, tonight...🎣🤷♂️
By spoon scraping the spine about a cup of nice small minced meat can be salvaged ant then plan fish patty's or crocqetts for a little lunch 🥗. Wish you were here. Thanks 🙏.
Wish I was, too. Better fishing there, than here, I'll bet( that is if you're limited to shore and Kayak fishing). Overcast, windy, rains 3-4 times/ day. Just turn down the temp. bout 30 F, decrease the humidity 20 points, remove most of the tourists and it's Alaska here, all nice and green, but without that great cold water fishery. You, me and your "decky", or just me and your decky! HA!
It's about that time eh, Silvers! I hit the "on" year for Pinks when up there years ago, it was fun in the river, then it got too easy, but I'll take easy any day over skunk.