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One thing I don't like about fishing is it tradtionalist tone... I have to admit I will always use a single action reel and love Drift Fishing - Buzz Bombing - however, adavistic it becomes. But my exparamental and crazy side has not die and ideas theories and such pop to mind sometimes... ambler pointed one out about plugs and the Cap. - I was talking in the ocean infront of the Cap with plugs bothering spring in the same way as they used old lure to agravate a Tyee pool. Both place have migrating chinook hanging right on the bottom taking the biggest lure possible, but the Cap. is 70' to 120' where the fish hold and they hold in tidal pools like Tyee pool and very much like river minus the fesh water. Now I am just rambling. But the bigger the bait the big the fish in those places, possibly because of reason unknow, like egg eater that size - cuttie, squaw fish and others... damn you carp!!!
That was Crazy Idea 1.
Crazy idea 2 is that bait fish are not selected to be eaten for there defects. Bait fish are not impalas on the African plain, there is no way a smelt, shinner, herring or anchovie can get away from a salmon... that is why holes in currant work, the hydrolics of the place forces the bait to be there and the salmon can swim through the rapids. Bait fish are not prey upon expressly cause they are wounded. If you watch any planton feed fish it opens its gill and spins to feed - a flash is given and a twirle - but most of all it brakes from the school. And from obsurving juvinille anchovies get eaten by grilse I know that when they bait fish feed the juv. salmon tries to take them. If it was true only wounded or dieing bait was salmon food we would still fish with chunk of herring and that is never done... not successfully. So I don't use lure with nicks and mark in them if at all possible.
The one biggest counter intutive idea is one we all fallow and that is matching the water to the bait. Standing out should work best but it does not. One of the best fisher I have known a guide from the hay day of Campbell River would put colour in his bait tank to make the herring adopt the colour of the water. Sometime it was copper, sometimes green or blue but alway the colour would be to blend in to the water colour and it work... he was one of the guys in the Bucktail artical in sport fishing BC.
So lets all give our crazy ideas a chance, maybe more than one of us has had them and then we have more data to test with.
Have fun, Jason
That was Crazy Idea 1.
Crazy idea 2 is that bait fish are not selected to be eaten for there defects. Bait fish are not impalas on the African plain, there is no way a smelt, shinner, herring or anchovie can get away from a salmon... that is why holes in currant work, the hydrolics of the place forces the bait to be there and the salmon can swim through the rapids. Bait fish are not prey upon expressly cause they are wounded. If you watch any planton feed fish it opens its gill and spins to feed - a flash is given and a twirle - but most of all it brakes from the school. And from obsurving juvinille anchovies get eaten by grilse I know that when they bait fish feed the juv. salmon tries to take them. If it was true only wounded or dieing bait was salmon food we would still fish with chunk of herring and that is never done... not successfully. So I don't use lure with nicks and mark in them if at all possible.
The one biggest counter intutive idea is one we all fallow and that is matching the water to the bait. Standing out should work best but it does not. One of the best fisher I have known a guide from the hay day of Campbell River would put colour in his bait tank to make the herring adopt the colour of the water. Sometime it was copper, sometimes green or blue but alway the colour would be to blend in to the water colour and it work... he was one of the guys in the Bucktail artical in sport fishing BC.
So lets all give our crazy ideas a chance, maybe more than one of us has had them and then we have more data to test with.
Have fun, Jason