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Glug – Splish – Glug – Splish…KABOOOSH!!!
This is, my friends, time for topwater froggin’ on bass lakes all across the country and it’s one of the most exciting types of fishing you’ll ever do. When a big bucketmouth blows up on your lure, your heart is guaranteed to skip about three beats!!
Here’s how to do it:
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The threadfin shad were thick that day in this little corner of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta where we were fishing topwater baits for stripers as evidenced my double-barreled catch…
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Kokanee trolling leaders….how long to make them? There’s a really easy answer! Watch the vid:
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Until recently, there was quite a bit of confusion surrounding what was officially the closure date for salmon fishing in the Central Valley’s rivers.
Many anglers believed that it was July 15 and and some thought it was July 1. In fact, many Department of Fish & Game wardens weren’t even clear on the regulations, as there was a gray area as to whether or not the Fish & Game Commission had officially signed off on the new regs.
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I am heading to the Kenai Peninsula and will probably fish for king on the Kenai River in a week or so.
I don’t really have heavy duty 30lb test line rated rod and reel. I don’t really want to buy them either unless I have to.
I was planning on using a Abu Garcia Ambassadeur 6501-C Casting Reel with a Shimano Clarus – Med, Heavy – 8 1/2 Rod. I also plan to use 20 lb test line even though I was told that 30 lb is
probably best to use.
We will be fishing from a non-guided boat for Kings.
Do you think this is big enough gear?
Thank you, Ben L.
Hey Ben!
Going to the Kenai, eh? Sweet! That’s the good news. The bad news is you had better say a few last words to your tackle before it meets its untimely demise. One of those Kenai kings will atomize your gear and turn it into a smoldering heap of graphite shards and melted drag washers before you can say “fish on.”
The Kenai is a big, extremely fast-flowing river with about 200 million other boats on it and you have about a zero percent chance of landing anything but humpies on that rig. Twenty pound test is suicide and will not make you guys real popular with the locals because you won’t be able to control a king in crowded conditions.
Up there, most of the guides are running 80-pound braid and 60-pound leader (at least) on rods like GLoomis’ SABBR965C or Lamiglas’ Kenai Pro and big reels like Shimano Calcutta TE 700′s or Abu Big Game Series 7000′s.
Sorry to say, but in a spot where a 50 pounder doesn’t get a second glance, you’re gonna get smoked.
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JD,
I am looking for a steelhead trip next year. Last year we did a float trip on the Aniak which looked alot like the trip you just got back from. I really like the do it yourself fishing but not apposed to some guided. I guess what I’m saying is I don’t want to be in a Vegas style
lodge and satisfied with a tent. Looking for a killer steelhead trip and not paying a killer amount of $. See you on the Klamath. Talk to you soon,
Eric
Eric, I’d head for Terrace, B.C. Lots of incredible water up there with HUGE fish! You can go guided with some outfits and pay a reasonable rate for lodging and then do your own food to save $$. A lot of it, you don’t even need a boat!
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A fellow named, um, The Una-Basser (he wouldn’t provide his name), sent in this photo of himself to be entered into our 2008 Smoker of the Year Contest.
U.B. says that he lives in California and, with all the salmon closures this year, he won’t be able to inhabit his favorite perch at the infamous “Wall” in the Nimbus Basin on the American River, where he had been a fixture — and 20-foot leader and bead flossing specialist — for the past decade.
“No Wall means no black beauty kings to submit this year,” he says. “So, I thought I’d enter this wretched, sorry excuse for a fish…though in all honesty, I’d probably never soil the grates of my smoker with one of these things. There’s not enough brine in the world to make one taste good!”
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Okay all you rookie river salmon fishermen out there…don’t fear the sardine wrap! Here’s how to do it…
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