NADO
Unaccomplished Steelheader
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- Aug 14, 2010
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People need to be educated that sitting on bottom for salmon IS NOT CATCHING FISH.
They are LINING THE FISH.
I really wonder if people are doing it on purpose knowing this, or if they are just plain ignorant.
Like the guy who was fishing the ganny on Monday, and asked us if it was a sanctuary because he didn't know and didn't look in the regs.
Meanwhile he was fishing there for the past 3 hours "not knowing" whether it was a sanctuary or not.. WTF????
Back to my original point. No matter what you use while sitting on bottom... Roe.. Styrofoam... Cigarette butts, earplugs, marshmallows, .. ANYTHING.. The fish are NOT BITING YOUR "bait". They are simply running into it.
Ive been to the trench once and it seems to me like lining off of the bottom would really be the only option. I started off casting lures but realized that there were guys across the river not too far upstream that were probably getting pissed off that I was casting my lure right infront of where they were standing. So I just followed suit and proceeded to tie an egg singer below my hook waiting for the sun to come up.
I did have a thought though. What if your bottom rig was made like this, egg sinker at bottom, 3' of line to a three way swivel where one end is attached to your mainline and the other is attached to a 18" section of flurocarbon which will make your bait sit just off of the bottom? This is the rig I use for shore fishing for silver perch and channel cats and thought it might work in this situation too.