Target for Spring not for Pink

[Discus]

The baits are so expensive .. How can we avoid target on the pink? We want to catch some springs on the bait or something.

What is your best advise and great tips.

Thanks
Discus

 

[Rum Buddies]

stop using bait and fish spoons and hootchies.

you'll still catch pinks but you'll be able to have your gear back in the water faster and fishing again. Or if you get a short bite from a pink on your spoon it's still fishing properly, instead of dragging around an anchovy that's messed up.

 

[scott craven]

fish deeper for springs.... 90-120 ' except early morning and evenings

 

[Whole in the Water]

Or use bigger spoons or plugs 6 inches or more with no pink or red in them.

 

[SpringVelocity]

I run my gear deeper if I start getting tons of them. They are usually right underneath them. Not always but sometimes.. At least that is what I find...Been getting a few springs in the 140-150 feet mark right off bottom just this past week.

If you think about its an easy meal to sit underneath a school of pinks as they break up bait... Also I noticed the andrew P spoons the pinks don't take that much and the springs like them... Avoid the blood nose teasers they are worst I find...

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

I tried an experiment the other day with large cut plug herring, and the pinks loved it. Same with the 6" 502

 

[Whole in the Water]

When the pinks are thick, very hard to keep them off anything. Need to go deeper until you stop getting them I guess.