Hello again from Oregon. Still researching where to fish for our July trip. We don't fly fish, we use bait casters. What are the best lures would you suggest for pinks and chum? I know we will do the Kenai floss fishing thing for sockeye.
You can floss with your bait casters as well. Same thing that you do for sockeye. I'll put out a video that shows this in the spring to get you dialed in for the season. If you are casting and retrieving, any spinner/blue fox/ pixie/ vibrax can work. You can also use kwik fish or mag lips. I've seen people catch them on nearly any color, but I personally would only fish hues of pink/orange/red as it best looks like eggs being released. Salmon love eating eggs. It's an instinctual thing for fish to eat eggs that have been kicked out of the redd. It is very popular to float eggs on a drift under a slip bobber or weight a spin and glow with eggs for bait as well. In my experience, if you are coming up late July, using eggs in bird creek gives you the best chance of finding a silver.
@wickedalaska Can't wait for your video! We use slip bobber here for salmon as well. Last part of outgoing tide and the last part of incoming tide is best. For some reason, slack tide low and high, the bite dies here. I troll the tidewater sections of the Nestucca and Siletz, and the freshwater near Portland on the Columbia River. Although the Columbia gets the largest king salmon run, they are hard to get to bite because the river is so wide, and you have to find them, they don't follow the bank like sockeye. And when they arrive, water temp is typically 68 to 70 degrees, hard to get them to bite in bath water.
@@stevepreston7030 technically, yes, but that doesn't matter, I promise. The biggest thing you are hoping for is good water level in the rivers. If it's raining hard leading up to your day of fishing the river will be blown out and the fishing will be very difficult. Not because the rain is unpleasant to fish in, but because the depth and speed of the river will push them deep or out into the salt.
Maybe one day, but I probably won't do much canning or smoking in the near future. That being said, we filmed the processing of the 2 dozen sockeye we caught this season and will probably release a short video showing all the work involved in that!
This was super helpful thank you! Up from CO with my wife and daughter for the week and have never fished for salmon before. We were told they were behind this year and I wasn't sure how to time it correctly so this was exactly the update I needed. Is Glacier creek another good alternative?
Alaska Fish Hunters has some of my favorite videos
Awesome! Him and I have had some fun adventures. Can't wait for our next!
Nice to see them starting to show up. Thanks for the updates!
You bet!
Hello again from Oregon. Still researching where to fish for our July trip. We don't fly fish, we use bait casters. What are the best lures would you suggest for pinks and chum? I know we will do the Kenai floss fishing thing for sockeye.
You can floss with your bait casters as well. Same thing that you do for sockeye. I'll put out a video that shows this in the spring to get you dialed in for the season.
If you are casting and retrieving, any spinner/blue fox/ pixie/ vibrax can work. You can also use kwik fish or mag lips. I've seen people catch them on nearly any color, but I personally would only fish hues of pink/orange/red as it best looks like eggs being released. Salmon love eating eggs. It's an instinctual thing for fish to eat eggs that have been kicked out of the redd.
It is very popular to float eggs on a drift under a slip bobber or weight a spin and glow with eggs for bait as well. In my experience, if you are coming up late July, using eggs in bird creek gives you the best chance of finding a silver.
@wickedalaska Can't wait for your video! We use slip bobber here for salmon as well. Last part of outgoing tide and the last part of incoming tide is best. For some reason, slack tide low and high, the bite dies here. I troll the tidewater sections of the Nestucca and Siletz, and the freshwater near Portland on the Columbia River. Although the Columbia gets the largest king salmon run, they are hard to get to bite because the river is so wide, and you have to find them, they don't follow the bank like sockeye. And when they arrive, water temp is typically 68 to 70 degrees, hard to get them to bite in bath water.
Oh, and is this year a non pink year at Bird and Resurrection?
@@stevepreston7030 technically, yes, but that doesn't matter, I promise. The biggest thing you are hoping for is good water level in the rivers. If it's raining hard leading up to your day of fishing the river will be blown out and the fishing will be very difficult. Not because the rain is unpleasant to fish in, but because the depth and speed of the river will push them deep or out into the salt.
Do you plan on showing us some canning and smoking recipes for those fish?
Maybe one day, but I probably won't do much canning or smoking in the near future. That being said, we filmed the processing of the 2 dozen sockeye we caught this season and will probably release a short video showing all the work involved in that!
This was super helpful thank you! Up from CO with my wife and daughter for the week and have never fished for salmon before. We were told they were behind this year and I wasn't sure how to time it correctly so this was exactly the update I needed. Is Glacier creek another good alternative?
Thanks! Be on the lookout for another update coming from the channel @Alaskafishhunters7474
All the rivers were behind in this area, though, I suspect there are fish to be caught right now in all of them!
There is a NO bait restriction and only 1 silver
What is this in response to? I caught 0 silvers and kept 0 fish.
Mine was bigger.
Hah! Not a chance!