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[Paul1913]

Fishing salmon 20+ years started with my father but took a break in there so many 10 in total.

Best bait for opener, fresh roe bags. Recently adding beads which help under right conditions

Salmon well.. fire tiger style spoon / rapala

[Paul1913]

TI how do you rig the sponge. I’m curious. Do you trim it to make it look like egg?

[Huronfly]

Been river fishing 6 years now.

 

Bait? never used any. Opener steel- black stoneflies, pheasant tail nymphs, san juan worms

Fall salmon-I'm still chasing resi's... then straight into ---> fall steel.

 

Fall steel-marabou spey flies, has to have some black in it.

[DILLIGAF?!]

I've been salt water fishing since I was 7....started fresh water 8 years ago....salmon, stripping streamers. trout, night crawler.

steel, flies, roe bags beads...centerpin or fly fishing.

I can't say there's one particular offering that stands out, under right circumstance and time in the water. all of them work.

confidence is key.

[FrequentFlyer]

Been fishing for almost 30 years, river fishing for 10 years.
I use nymphs for steelhead
Big streamers for salmon

[IR4J]

This year will mark 15 years fishing fishing the anadromous species.. 

 

Spring my favorite fly is this dumb looking black and gold nymph I found in a river 12 or 13 years ago that seemed easy enough to tie. It has become my best producing fly and those of you that fish with me know I have one box full of these dumb things.

 

Fall run salmon; skein, end of story.

 

Late fall steelhead, if im on the pin you cant beat roe. If im on the fly I tend to be confident in a black and blue hobo spey. 

[fisherman2280]

30 years now but I don't look it eh , I grew up at a home that backed right onto a nice stretch of river that had decent runs every year so my brother and I were always out there.

 

I started by fly fishing when I was a kid but then grew up got old and got a boat so I rarely fly fish anymore.

 

Ultimate lure was the panther martin in orange it just caught everything. But like anything else knowing how to read a river was key.

[johnprov]

Mostly Float fishing for me, been out of the game for about a decade. Use everything for bait and when nothing works or to lazy to tie flies or roe, use worms , worms have never failed me. I recall a magical time in the early 90's when the streams of Lake Ontario's northern Shores would fill with Brown Trout after the Salmon runs and before the Steelhead Runs.  Like you I await the rains, wish everyone good luck and good Karma, stay safe.

[Trev]

I started fly fishing first, in the mid-eighties, then float fishing later, in the early nineties.

I think my best pattern for the spring opener was a hares ear, with or without bead head, depending on the flow.

In the fall, my favourite pattern by far was the glow bug. Deadly.

On the occasion that I float fish, I will use a spawn bag or small worm and a stonefly dropper.

[Swing4Steel]

Michigan Cricket is my top salmon fly