spring fever
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This is an entirely new salmon fishing technique I have developed over the last month. I have never seen this used for salmon before but if it has been then I apologize-it is entirely unintentional and without malice.
Before I show you the system let me say I thought long and hard about showing this to anyone other than my close friends but it is so much fun and effective I couldn’t keep it to myself. I am not selling anything and I have no financial axe to grind. It is entirely legal as long as you follow the measurements I give you and then check the regulations yourself. All the benefits of a flasher but none of the draw backs.
Take a good cuttlefish hoochy such as a purple haze, or a translucent green cuttle fish and put in a Pirates Den LED (what I use) or any other GOOD double flash LED and tie a quality swivel right after the hootchy and in front of it. The LED will go in the hootchy easier with Vaseline or better yet- Smelly Jelly. No Hooks!!! IT’s a TEEZER!! Try to match the colour of the LED with the hootchy. Then tie an anchovy holder or a spoon onto the rear swivel of the cuttlefish with enough line so that from the hook to the light is no greater than 1 meter.
This is important-the law says the light must be WITHIN 1 meter of the hook-measure it to be sure. Tie or clip the front swivel to your main line. Make sure that you have enough line between the TEEZER and your anchovy or spoon so that the action is correct!!! Attach to the downrigger as normal. NO FLASER!! Have fun!!
There are a few variations I have thought of as you can see in the photo’s- I am sure that different coloured hootchys and LED’s may produce different results.
I basically brought this system out because I wanted to fish without the flasher or a dummy and I usually fish deep. Bringing a flasher up after a pinpopper at 180 ft is hard work-but this is easy . It was meant for large fish who are getting flasher shy . It was successful beyond my best hopes!! The system is still evolving and if you have any thoughts please either PM me or stick it on the forum. Only works with lures or bait with its own action-ie. Won’t work on hoochys or flies. Obviously I would have preferred to have 6 ft between anchovy holder and light, but that is not the law-however I have not tried a glow hootchy without the light at a 6 ft distance-that may work as well.
Only draw back is -if you give the fish slack line-you have no flasher to help with the tension -you have to play the fish a little tighter than some of us are used to. LOL
Before I show you the system let me say I thought long and hard about showing this to anyone other than my close friends but it is so much fun and effective I couldn’t keep it to myself. I am not selling anything and I have no financial axe to grind. It is entirely legal as long as you follow the measurements I give you and then check the regulations yourself. All the benefits of a flasher but none of the draw backs.
Take a good cuttlefish hoochy such as a purple haze, or a translucent green cuttle fish and put in a Pirates Den LED (what I use) or any other GOOD double flash LED and tie a quality swivel right after the hootchy and in front of it. The LED will go in the hootchy easier with Vaseline or better yet- Smelly Jelly. No Hooks!!! IT’s a TEEZER!! Try to match the colour of the LED with the hootchy. Then tie an anchovy holder or a spoon onto the rear swivel of the cuttlefish with enough line so that from the hook to the light is no greater than 1 meter.
This is important-the law says the light must be WITHIN 1 meter of the hook-measure it to be sure. Tie or clip the front swivel to your main line. Make sure that you have enough line between the TEEZER and your anchovy or spoon so that the action is correct!!! Attach to the downrigger as normal. NO FLASER!! Have fun!!
There are a few variations I have thought of as you can see in the photo’s- I am sure that different coloured hootchys and LED’s may produce different results.
I basically brought this system out because I wanted to fish without the flasher or a dummy and I usually fish deep. Bringing a flasher up after a pinpopper at 180 ft is hard work-but this is easy . It was meant for large fish who are getting flasher shy . It was successful beyond my best hopes!! The system is still evolving and if you have any thoughts please either PM me or stick it on the forum. Only works with lures or bait with its own action-ie. Won’t work on hoochys or flies. Obviously I would have preferred to have 6 ft between anchovy holder and light, but that is not the law-however I have not tried a glow hootchy without the light at a 6 ft distance-that may work as well.
Only draw back is -if you give the fish slack line-you have no flasher to help with the tension -you have to play the fish a little tighter than some of us are used to. LOL