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mooching
Posted by TradBow on Aug 24 2005
We used cut plugged herring instead of the method dipnet was mention. Basically the herring spins on the way down and again on the way up. For kings we ran longer leaders and the weights were usually 6-8oz, the idea is to have enough to get down but not to much). For halibut the reel up a couple of crank and wait deal works though you usually gut hook them along with everything else that takes it.
For salmon, watch your fish finder for bait balls or fish...drop down THROUGH the school of fish plus 10 to 20 feet (usually one pass on a baitcaster is somewhere in the vicinity of 8 to 12 yards per pass of the line guide), then reel back up.
For kings you want a wide slow roll....for coho's the faster the better. To achieve this start behind the gill of a herring much like you were going to fillet (blade is held at a 90 degree angle to bait here to the fish however is angled along the gill). Now angle your blade 20 to 25 degrees or more (now the blade is essentially leaned over so you end up cutting a sort of a compound angle, much easier to do then it is for this non english typing guy to explain :D). The more of an angle the faster it it will spin.
Some of the spin is determined where you place your FIRST hook, not the trailer. Hook up through cavity towards the dorsal and off to the side then run the trailer through the belly and let dangle, or on short strikes I started running it as far back behind the anal vent as possible with out impeeding the action . If it doesn't spin right adjust the first hook left or right.
While dropping if she goes slack, reel fast...dont set the hook till the rod is bent over hard if at all. The way the canadians set up is with a 1 to 1 reel and a much longer rod. WHen a bit is felt they reel till the rod is doubled over. Instead of setting the hook they keep reeling till the drag starts to slip, essentially the hooks are set at that point and no hook set is needed. Realize when fishing deep with mono most dont realize how much mono stretch's, if you're missing fish while fishing deep this is usually the case, just keep reeling!
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