Hey Wondermur, love the sound of this setup. How much line between the swivels to let the Jetdiver move? I assume it's rigged main line - bead swivel - line w jetdiver - bead swivel - leader - bucktail? CheersSaanauk
No I haven't tried these Olympic lures. They look like an option for trolling in the wash with the blade on the front.
I think the name grandslam bucktails misleads us BC folks a bit. It sounds like a coho fly and we want to catch springs! Plus bucktailing is often not very productive in my attempts.
What has worked great for me is a variation on bucktailing. I use my 9wt fly rod, flyreel and 70yds of 20lb mono over dacron backing. Then I take jetdiver a couple of 6 Bead swivels and thread that onto the main line so it can slip up and down the main line. Attach your end tackle with leader to main line and check it behind the boat. It digs down to 10-25 feet below the boat and zigs and zags about and coho will hit it if they are nearby. They don't have to come up to the surface to hit your gear. I often use coho killers for that. And if you stop the boat it all floats to the top as the jetdiver is full of air and only dives when you are moving like a plug would. You just point the rod directly at the water and adjust the drag tight enough to set the hook and put it in the rod holder. When the fish hits it hooks itself as there is tension on the line from the jet diver and no bend in the rod. The fish takes off and the jetdiver runs up the line and provides no drag when the fish runs.
This is a lot more effective than using sinking fly line and hookup % is way better imho.
If you only run two rods this is an easy third rod option. And if you have other boats nearby you can fish your gear just 20' behind the boat and maybe 8' below surface below the prop wash and not be the annoying guy in the fleet with a trailing line way behind your boat
Wondermur
Can you be more specific about the poor behavior? Was it at the ramp or on the water trolling/fishing?Just back from a quick trip to Nootka-painfully slow for most folks and a real Gong show inside and on the ramp. Burdwood produced a couple for us on a chovie and a Ccar coyote. Never saw any other nets there and fished it twice at prime times. Beano Creek was like a parade of boats at Easter --we got Nada but not a prime time--we did talk to one guy who said he had one. So bad I went bottom fishing and picked up some nice lings, yelloweye and 1 121cm Hali-not all lost. So where are the fish--happened on some nice ones about 3 miles outside the Bajo moaning buoy but it was very lumpy and booted a few beside the boat-got a few in the low 20's before basically getting kicked off--but they were there-guess I traded the bottom fish for 3 hours of flat water. Word of warning--I have fished Nootka for over 20 years and have never seen so many boats and folks with so little regard for boating rules or even common sense. If you don't like fishing with road rage and attitude and aren't prepared to go outside and get away from it all -then don't bother. I will be giving it a miss and will go back to Winter Harbour. Quit it once before in 2003-should have stuck to my guns and given July and August a miss-Good Luck guys--DFO is there in full force!! I was there for 2 days fri am to sun morning.
Just back from Nootka, we were cut off, boats at full speed in the pitch black ripping by us,out at the light house had a boat running full speed rip between me and another boat 40 feet away.( we were the only 2 boats in this spot, but he save 18 seconds heading out). Never seen so many boats inside the sound ever in 10 years. Lots of deep breaths and counting to 10, or do what we did and move away from the crowds.Can you be more specific about the poor behavior? Was it at the ramp or on the water trolling/fishing?
Just back from Nootka, we were cut off, boats at full speed in the pitch black ripping by us,out at the light house had a seaport running full speed rip between me and another boat 40 feet away.( we were the only 2 boats in this spot, but he save 18 seconds heading out). Never seen so many boats inside the sound ever in 10 years. Lots of deep breaths and counting to 10, or do what we did and move away from the crowds.
I have used that method, and it does work very well. Lol. I like you, now do the count to 10 method, but there are many a day that I think I should go back to my old days.View attachment 34572I did not even respond as I say you can't reason with a idiot and just kept on trolling along. Now in the old days I would have reeled up my gear and dropped my cannon balls down and grabbed 2 flasher and all there line.
Its typical on the inside to be cutoff. The right to the rocks actually works. I had never heard of it until reading on the vancouver thread. It works great until someone really needs to do what they want LOL.Sounds like Otter Point on a weekend.
Sad but true !!!!!!!!!!Good report Spring.
It's unfortunate how inconsiderate people can be isn't it. We face the same thing at our boat launches on my home lake. It's a big popular lake and on the weekends it gets busy, in all honesty I just stay away on the weekends ans only fish most of our lakes during the week. Ignorance is one thing but just being ignorant I can't stand and I have no patients for. People have been raised different the last generation and it's all a me, me mentality. Boating licenses should be no different than drivers licenses, they have to tighten up on the schooling. Proper boat launch etiquette should be a huge part of the training. Not that all would follow it anyways but at least they would have a clue.
It's to bad to hear that it's spreading like a disease, unfortunately I feel it's only going to get worse as more of the new me, me generation gets older.
Can you be more specific about the poor behavior? Was it at the ramp or on the water trolling/fishing?
Sure-the ramp was an absolute Gong show-everyone wanted in and there were 8 to ten boats waiting in the river to get out-there was absolutely no attempt at control-guys were launching between boats and this on a low falling tide. There should have been an in/ out designated side. Guys were just pushing in where ever and then sat there getting their boat loaded after they'd jumped the line. The FN just took money-no attempt at control or direction.
Camel rock-the tack belonged to the brave and fearless--forget right rod to the beach-in fact forget everything you thought you knew-he with the biggest cojones and oldest crapper boat wins the tack---same around the monument. Bound to happen really--the number of boats from tinnys to 40 footers was hard to comprehend. Off-shore was really quite good-I put that down to fewer boats of course but probably more experienced boaters. I'm sure some guys get off on it-there is a bit of a carnival flavour to it but my report was meant to warn people what to expect for the first time--yes you get a shot at some really nice Springs- will it be once in a lifetime experience---you betcha!!-IF your boat driver can get over your fish and get you to the outside so you have a chance to land it. I would call it Combat fishing or perhaps contact fishing. I know it will sound like sour grapes to some--which is Ok-if you are good with it and don't mind it-enjoy. I had a look and a laugh this time and decided not to play-Went outside to take my lumps with the Pacific--much safer and way more peaceful. My 2 cents