albernifisher
Well-Known Member
Sure lots of boats on the web Cam this morning and no one has any reports???
Great report Trendsetter , you in the silva bay Derby next week?
Fished yesterday evening off gabriola from whalebone up to entrance. Hit three fish near entrance in 400'. Landed an 8lb white and a 20lb red. All fish hit on irish cream spoon with gold betsy flasher. 125' on the rigger trolling fast.
For those of you not having much luck get yourself a Silver Horde Irish Cream 4" spoon. Run it with a 6' leader behind a gold betsy, chartreuse or purple haze flasher. This setup has consistently caught fish on every trip for me this year. It out-fishes bait and other spoons 3-1 or better every time I'm out there.
Then why not fish all your lines with this combo then? Yesterday you would have doubled your production...![]()
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It's funny how it can change from one boat to the next. We weren't getting much action last weekend over there on anything but bait and it was one combo doing the damage. Had a bit here and there on spoons/plastic but a Krippled 602 glow head behind a glow Boogie Man flasher. We concentrated on the same area as you trendsetter....and all action for springs was at ~120 for the most part. We worked Entrance down to just in front of the hotel both inshore and out in the deeper water for the bulk of our time.
The weekend before.....spoons and blue splatter hoochies were the ticket with Irish Crème and Homeland Security spoons doing the damage for us.
I must be about the only one who won't touch an Irish cream. Kitchen sinks and green/ glow spoons or anchovies for me. The Irish creams I've tried have done nothing. That said, I've got spoons that look identical, but one will out fish the other 3 to 1 due to action I guess. Maybe the Irish creams I've got are just duds.
You weren't wearing the Pink shirt so they didn't know it was you Scotty... Lol. Just kidding!!!![]()
I have some Silver Horde Canadians painted in Cookies and Cream and Irish Cremes if anyone wants the commercial versions for $5 each. I am in Kits.
When I fished a lot of steelhead, in the beginning I couldn't catch a damn thing on spin-n-glows yet everyone around me were catching fish with them. When my success grew as time went on I was using other tackle for my success. Then, after I got pretty good at it, only when I was having a bad day would I put on a spin-n-glo when my regular stuff wasn't working. But that's when fishing sucked, so really nothing was working but I blamed the spin-n-glos and my hate for them grew. LOL
Here we are, 30 years later and I still hate them. Haha.
Totally agree. Top 3 or 4 combos get all the action while fish are biting (which this year has been most of the time). Other stuff gets a soak when nothing is happening. What I'd like to try is some plugs to target larger fish. Anybody have any good tips for plugs off Nanaimo?
If you ever get a chance, go into the Pacific Net and Twine in Parksville. Talk to Rob and and he'll set you up for plug fishing on the inside. He's been hammering them with 6" plugs.