Casting for sockeye or chum in the chuck??

[Haze]

I know I sort of mostly missed out on this one, but I thought I better ask for next time around.
With all the sockeye that went through I had thought it would be a riot to catch some on the spinning rod from the boat like I do with pinks. However I find them awfully hard to get to bite on just about anything I could think of throwing at them.
Anyone have much luck tossing gear from a boat at the jumping socks and actually getting them to bite?
I also have the same question for Chum. Not long from now Chum will start pouring through and will surface lots, enough to drive you mad. Anyone cast for them from the boat or shore on the chuck and have any luck?
I'm specifically on the inside passage but if your method works anywhere else I'd be willing to give it a try.

 

[Rob H]

Haze: A couple weeks ago when my group had got our sockeye we decided to try jigging in the tide lines before we went ashore to try for a halibut or ling. We fished 40 to 80 feet down as that was the depth we caught most trolling. Two of us hooked a double of 8 pound sockeyes (which we easily released - hooked in the corner of the mouth) in the 20 minutes we jigged. One was on a 40 gram pink and white perkin, and the one I hooked was on a 91 grams nickle plated pirken (my favorite jigging lure). It might be worth a further try jigging.

...Rob

 

[Haze]

Yea I can give that a try, I was hoping more for some top water or just sub-surface options similar to buzz bomb casting from the boat, but I just might have to try.
Just seems like there ought to be some way to catch the little buggers on trout gear and what not. What a hoot that would be.

 

[bigsbee]

I fish for Chums in the Cowichan every year and have had great success with a #4 or 5 gold metric and bounced it off the bottom. I worked
it close to the shore line in about 4-5 ft of water. They are strong fish and once into the current are tough to turn around.

 

[Cuba Libre]

quote:Just seems like there ought to be some way to catch the little buggers on trout gear and what not. What a hoot that would be.

You go right ahead-- I am sure the tackle manufacturers will just LOVE you!!!

20ft Alumaweld Intruder

 

[Lipripper]

quote:Originally posted by Cuba Libre

quote:Just seems like there ought to be some way to catch the little buggers on trout gear and what not. What a hoot that would be.

You go right ahead-- I am sure the tackle manufacturers will just LOVE you!!!

Thx for the great time in the ditch 'Nog
If you use the right line trout rod can handle them.

 

[Haze]

For sure sockeye could be caught on light tackle I catch pinks on light gear casting all the time.
The chums on the other hand tear through most of my gear big time, so if you are saying the tackle companies will love me for trying to catch chum on trout gear - you'd be right. Chum would tear the stuff to bits.
Still nobody has any successful method for casting from the beach or a boat for sockeye or chum?
Too bad, figured someone had to have found a way to catch them.

 

[tubber]

I spent many(50+) hours casting to jumpers and finners while anchored waiting for seine openings in Johnstone Straits. Never caught one. Pinks were easy, and got the odd coho and spring, but never a sockeye. I'm sure it can be done though.

 

[Haze]

quote:Originally posted by tubber

I spent many(50+) hours casting to jumpers and finners while anchored waiting for seine openings in Johnstone Straits. Never caught one. Pinks were easy, and got the odd coho and spring, but never a sockeye. I'm sure it can be done though.

I agree tubber, it wasn't that long ago they said catching sockeye on gear was impossible and now look at us... -SOMETIMES we can get 'em.
There has to be something out there we just haven't chucked at them yet that they'll take.
What about chums ever catch them as they go finning by? Drives a guy bonkers to watch the whole school swim right by ya in the fall, mouthing their way along the surface.

 

[tubber]

I was always back in university or at a real job by the fall dog season. Never tried for them.

 

[Cuba Libre]

I have done very well a few times casting to travelling sockeye using a hot pink Zzinger. But I was not shore fishing... and the key was to work the lure FAST , I have literally drawn a dozen sox to the side of the boat. One would hit it, get off , only to have another slam it. Vertical jigging did not work for me, but as Rob H pointed out, it can be done.

As noted, pinks are easy prey for this method of fishing. However, there are times when they get lockjaw in the estuaries.

Years ago there used to be a big chum buzzbomb fishery in Cowichan Bay.. funny thing tho.... almost all bit on the back or tail! [xx(]

As far a chums on a trout rod-- change that to a steelhead rod, and then you have a fair fight.

20ft Alumaweld Intruder