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10/02/2011
Casting
Coho Salmon
Jig
Noon
10/04/2011
2
1566

Didn't manage to catch any fish in the maybe 10 minutes I fished. Spent as much time walking to a couple spots to clean up alittle bit of garbage. The dag gun beer cans had been there awhile so I figured their time had come.

Also, someone had asked what one of my jigs looked like awhile back so took a quick pic of it. VERY cheesy and simple. Uh, and excuse the oldtimer's rotary vise. Hopefully Norm doesn't see it LOL (especially the lousy-tied jig!). The Nor Vise has improved over the decades but even this functions very well still.
Anyways... It's very easy to tie and fast. My 8 year old ties them no problem. I use some dyed pink turkey feather for tail (cheaper than marabou), a little piece of pipe cleaner wound around the cheapo Cabela's 25 pack jig hook (1/4 ounce) starting at tail and winding forward, then make a small whip finish either below the upper jig shank body or else wind the pipe cleaner all the way up to the head and finish it there. It's a bit quicker just winding it on the lower half and seemed to transition to the main body OK so I left it that way on this one giving it a bit of 50/50 pink color look. Pinks don't care though LOL. Maybe a coho might.

Why 2 stars? Cuz I caught garbage :-) Gotta clean up after the massive pinks fishing crowd. Have fun out there all.


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returnofthefish
10/4/2011 11:42:00 AM
Thanks for cleaning up the mess Knot
islandbass
10/4/2011 12:23:00 PM
x2 with what Return said. But it is getting aggravating to have to pick up after these fools. As long as the fish like the jigs that is all that matters. How do you like the Cabela jigs? I've been using RvrFisher jigs, but they aren't exactly cost effective with how quickly I can lose them to snags (debris, not fish, folks!) lol
knotabassturd
10/4/2011 2:28:00 PM
ib- the hooks are probably the worst I've ever used for hook strength. That said, they're cheap and on pinks I don't have to sweat losing one too bad and the hooks are reasonably sharp. But fishing for coho I wouldn't use them unless I had a stronger stinger hook along (if a second hook is allowed).

Not the first bag of garbage pickep up but that bag was actually light cuz I only had a few minutes on the way to work. But ya it can be a bit annoying. I will give a little bit of positive note in that at least the beer cans were clustered into a neat little pile LOL. They musta been there for 2 weeks maybe? I only fished that exact spot once before but upon returning to see them still there I decided to hoof it back to the car and grab a bag. Fish weren't jumping anyways.
Today there were more jumpers and less current but at least a few of them were ugly pinks. Fished maybe 15 minutes, not really worth a report considering all I got was a follow by a pink hen that was marginal (it chased the jig all the way up and even stuck around for a few jigs while I jigged up and down off the rod tip so got a real good look at it). Geez, shoulda gone to the Tilton floss fest for some decent coho. I know in a couple months when the freezer pinks and little bit of coho are gone thru, I will be complaining to the Mrs. Her solution will be work more OT and go to the store (BOOOOO HISSS). Ah well. Good luck out there on one of your semi-patented mini fishing vacations ;-)
islandbass
10/4/2011 4:35:00 PM
Good to know and that's too bad about the hooks. Thanks!
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