salmon plugs

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Hi there,

I am a big fan of using plugs and was wondering what everyone used for of the west coast of VI out nootka, barkley na renfrew way. I a partial to the 602,and 500 but was interested if anyone has other plugs for the west coast that are lights out?
 
232 works every day and every where may not be the hotest plug every day but it's consistant every day.
i might be a little biased because thats the plug i got my 62 on.
 
232 is a killer. I also have great luck on the 23. 500 is my standby and a good call for offshore. 94 works consistently. 368 is a newer colour for me that I have tried that worked great last season. Don't forget about the 700 too.

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Do you use a flasher with a Tomic?, and if so, how far behind is the plug. Thanks
 
I agree with bananas 232 is probably most consistent for me too and the 602 would be a close second.I have also caught some pretty nice fish on the 109 plug as well.
 
639 is a great plug, it is the 500 on a glow body.

530 glow is one of the new ones they made for me. It is the UV purple haze on a glow body. The UV is the last color in the spectrum to lose it's light, add that to the glow body to top it off. I use the tubby for more action.

Pull them at 2.8 to 3.2 mph with a dummy flasher on the cannon ball so you don't lose any of the fight of the fish to the flasher. Dummy flasher length 3 to 4 feet and run you plug 6 to 8 feet behind that. Just like if you had a flasher and lure on your rod. No sense running the lure 20 or 30 feet back as you lose the flasher effect.

The most important part is your speed, you can only go toooo slow and never to fast.
 
Well R. here is another one. The 248 glow is a great plug for bottom fish. I spend lots of time trolling for Haly's and that plug produces. The 6 inch Tubby or the 7 inch classic work best and you can throw a chuck of octopus for scent. The best part of that is your covering lots of ground when you searching for a big one.

662 is also a good plug for bottom trolling, its glow green. We caught a 42 pounder last year on the 662 at 180 foot offshore.

I'm going to get a pilchard plug made for this year. We had a lot of success last year with the pilchard spoon, so I want it on a plug.

I'll put pictures of them on this site when there done.

My son and I won the Critter Cove derby last with a 41 and 36 pound spring. We were trolling in and out of pilchards all day so I took a black sharpie and drew pilchard spots on my 639 double sided 6 inch spoon. Within two hours we had 3 springs over 35# and thru back 3 that were around 25#. That spoon will be on the drawing board for this year also.

I'm getting all worked up talking lures, to bad I'm at work instead of out on the boat.
 
602 and 158 pink side are my faves, no flasher. Cut the pull bar and get rid of it and use a swivel so if that big slab breaks your line you get your favourite plug back. Man its almost time eh?
 
kelly, you cut the tow bar out of the plug.

Use good sidecutters to cut the top part of the tow bar closest to the head of the plug (away from the nose). Then pull the lower part of the tow bar out, it takes a bit of a pull. Then pull the bottom bar out that the hook is attached to. Now you have a plug that looks like it has two holes thru it. Only the top hole goes thru, so you feed you line from your rod thru the plug and tie on a round bead, then your hook with the swivel on it that you took off the plug. The round bead between the bottom of the plug and the swivel/hook will prevent your knot getting jammed into the plug. I use a orange bead, but some guys like a glow.

So when a fish breaks you off, he takes your hook to china and the plug floats up for you to tie on again. That means you have to tie from your rod to the plug without a leader or it would not break clean off.

Sorry, I got a call. I'll finish this later.
 
Kelly the Codfather explained it perfectly. The real fun is loosing your favourite plug in the middle of the fleet and deeking around trying to find it bobbing in the water before someone else gets it!
 
quote:Originally posted by adrianna3

Pull the pin! It's the best way to fish plugs.
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My question is.....WHY are you breaking these plugs off?! In my opinion, if you have to worry about breaking plugs off...then you have bigger things to worry about. I picked up a lot of 10 of plugs with pulled pins. In my experience fishing these, pulled pin plugs don't respond well to slower troll speeds....the moment you slow down for whatever reason, the action turns into a waggle than a dart...and while waggling plugs catch fish....tomics were designed to dart..and that's what I'd rather have my plugs do.
 
fishin magician, the reason I have to worry about breaking the lure off is from the new people on my boat. When your guiding some people know what to do and some have no idea what to do. I have a 639 5' Tubby that has been broken off 6 times, but I still have it. It's caught thousands of fish and having the tow bar removed you get it back.

As far as trolling slow, never, never never if you can help it.

How do we attach a picture? I'll try and post my setup.
 
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