Beach fishing Chum
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pretty straight forward; if the fish are around and you can reach them, you will get them. Sometimes they are just uninterested in lures... and then a bite comes on and suddenly you start catching them, it can be day to day.
i prefer the fly rod (if they are close enough ) but spoons and spinners work as well. no particular color has ever out produced for me.
i prefer the fly rod (if they are close enough ) but spoons and spinners work as well. no particular color has ever out produced for me.
lazylump
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I have had good luck with either chartreuse or fl pink. If you don't have a fly rod, a pink or green fly and a couple split shot under a float or just a fly 3 or 4' behind a few split shots and slowly retrieved works too. Cast beyond the fish and retrieve slowly through them.
Dogbreath
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Orange Buzz Bomb or small Pink Zzinger not too slow though.
Any spoon that works in a river-Gibbs Koho for instance any colour really
only problem with the buzz bomb is i dont like the smack it makes when it hits the water... it can spook the fish - and the action require tugging - which results in foul hooking... usually the spoons out produce. Plus everybody on the beaches hates buzz bombers. i dont really mind... but man... i have seen more then a few purist fly fishers walk away in disgust... lol
Dogbreath
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That's good the fewer of those asswipes the better.
You really must be a class act....perhaps we could just keep it to the topic....I confirm that chartreuse flies work well and I have always been curious to try marabou jigs which they do use in certain parts of WA State in Saltwater.
Rum Buddies
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lol - you don't like the funny hats and nose in the air attitude of the purists?
Rum Buddies
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that's interesting, just dead drifting the herring I assume?
Yep - typically 6-10' down from the surface in water that's maybe 20-40' deep depending on location. Usually the small "firecracker" size herring.
A fly fisher may think that about 'gear chuckers' but would never actually put it in print on a public forum.
NautiGirl
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Personally, I have found that asswipes come in all gear types, but they are most easily identified when they anchor right on top of you for halibut, or troll right into you when you are obviously playing a chinook. If you are a flyfisher who insists on solitude and a quiet delivery, GTFO to somewhere quiet and uncrowded, then enjoy. Salmon University needs a class called "Sharing the water - for asswipe fisherman". LOL
You are 100% correct, all gear delivery 'types' have a small proportion of inconsiderate, rude and unsportsmanlike fishers. After 60 years of fishing, be it troll, cast, jig or fly, personnally I have found that the proportion of flyfishers that behave in that manner is slightly smaller than that of the others. Any flyfisher with an ounce of brain that insists on "solitude and a quiet delivery" (and I'm not one of them) would do exactly as you suggest...."GTFO to somewhere quiet and uncrowded" and they would "enjoy". On those occasions when I do flyfish I have no problem "sharing the water" (as you put it) with fishers using alternate delivery methods and I don't know any flyfishers that do so long as that fisher doesn't cast over top of the fly line or spook the fish with a 2 lb Buzz Bomb. "Salmon University" (or any species of fish) only needs 1 text book; it's called Articles of Faith for Good Anglers. It was written by Roderick Haig Brown for LIFE magazine. You can find it by Googling "Articles of Faith for Good Anglers-LIFE MAGAZINE 1960" All fishers should read it, asswipes included.
