demoman wrote:
Scott....this might be way out to lunch but has anyone tried to jig for salmon. This is done out in BC and a guy I work with did it in Californa last month. They were jigging at 80 feet over 200 feet on a charter boat and getting them. What do you think about doing that here ?
I haven't heard of anyone jigging them here, but I know a guy that butterfly jigged for salmon State side. Last year I came close to trying it a couple times, but the best time to try it is when the fish are stacked up over bait and usually when you find that there is like 20 boats trolling a pattern so it would be pretty ignorant to stop on the fish and start jigging. No reason why it wouldn't work though. Sure is fun to feel a King hit when holding a rod.
Last year I had a double header where I was clearing a 10 colour core rod cause we had a good fish on. I must have burned in 2 or 3 colours as fast as I could when a Salmon hit it like a ton of bricks. Took me about 3 seconds to process what had happened and that I had a fish on, I was completely caught off guard cause I was burning that rod in at well over 10 MPH. It was pretty cool to feel the fish hit. I have had my hand on rods that are in holders ready to clear them when fish have hit a few times which is really cool too, but this was the first time I was physically holding the rod when the fish hit. It was a 25lb King too so a decent fish.
Scott