Thanks KerryS. Please pull forward.

RT

I'm wainting for your next poem. Last time you got your [Bleeeeep!] caught in a ringer you blessed us with a poem. I think it went something like this.

No body loves me
I've been banned
Unfair BB
No body understands
Yada yada yada

Anyway, knowing you, your stewing up some brilliant litterary masterpiece as I write.

I hear the same lines out of you ever time Bob tells you to knock it off. Do you know how pathetic you sound? Obviously not.

Hey by the way, river should be in good shape after this highwater, should be some big fish coming in.

Good one RT.

Hmmm, 3 posts. I wonder who that might be.

Nice take 'shrimp. If you said such lame creeap on Romey's "The Last Word" (Jim Rome's sports talk show) it would have gotten a quick gong buzz. Try another league. ...

Ooops, thought I was in the trash talkin thread there for a minute.

Clicked on this thread this early morn to see if anyone found which post or thread all the fuss was about. Nuttin. But you are right Jerry G, if it had been a mistaken impression about my post it would have been deleted if deemed so offensively questionable, so apparently the one in question was deleted. (Please pardon - I was just touchy about past inaccurate accusations behind the scenes about me and some friends). ... About that bobber and herring fishing tech; if I make it up your way late summer to early fall (may be going up with family) I would like to try that out. I'll shoot you an e-mail if I can get away for a few hours on a day you are doing that. Never fished for saltwater salmon that way. Should be a cool bobber down to see! When people do that on the jetties on the Oregon coast the rollers and chop there give the herring action. Do you get enough water chop in Puget waters to give the herring action, or do you have to slowly retrieve it or something? Just curious.

Ask Bobber Down [Matt] when you see him as he is the RT of coho bobber fishing. As in any fishing you have to be flexible and change techniques with the conditions

I forgot Matt was Bobber Down, JG. Yes, I am taking him and his friend springer fishing in early April on the Columbia. There could be some experimenting going on ... last year I was going to try float fishing prawns or eggs or sandshrimp out there on the big river. Didn't get around to that, but with so many fish coming up, this should be a good time to see if it works out there - especially on the slower current tide changes. ... Hey Matt, if you read this, let's try some of your plugcut float fish tech on all those springers and maybe we can come up with a new one that works? Could be the '[Bleeeeep!]' boondoggin the Columbia! - Steve

RT:

Actually I have already tried fishing a bobber herring rig on the Columbia in the past during springer season and caught something that was very unexpected.

One day many Aprils ago I was in the hog line at the mouth of the Lewis. Well springer fishing was slow, so I decided to tie up the rig and give it a shot. I put my stopper at the water depth under the boat (10') and then just simply cast the rig about 20 yards behind the anchored boat. I could hear the snickering from nearby boats and heard on guy even say "hell that will never work!". The bobber really went all over the place in that current so I knew I was getting some great action on my plug cut below. About 15 min. went buy and then all of sudden that bobber just got slammed and long behold up came a 14-15# native spring/summer steelhead. Fought it for a little while and released it. It was the only fish that was hooked that day. It just goes to show that it's never a bad thing to experiment on a slow day of fishing.

BD

Rt,bbdown,
I fish plug cut in the rivers for salmon alot.I have never used a bobber but I do cast it and let it swing,spin in the current,alot like a spoon or spinner.I have caught silvers,huge kings,large cuttys and alot of down river steel in the springer fishery.It is a favorite method but has taken awhile to perfect!

I tie a fixed double hook rig spaced to the size of the bait.I then tie a barrel swivel an inch or so above the hooks.If you don't the leader will twist in no time.I then add a nother sixteen inches or so of leader and another barrel swivel and then a short leader to a small keel sinker apropriate to the river current.Idealy I do not have to reel while making the swing.Having to reel against the current destroys the bait even quicker.The trick in the river is not slamming the hook home right away but feed the bait for a delayed hook set.

I also cure my bait ahead of time with salt or borax depending on the amount of time I have before use.

This is also killer for silvers first rolling into the eastuaries in the fall.It is so deadly I do not use it when the crowds show up.I catch b-mouth in shallow water tidal movement ereas from shore doing this also.I have said before that this method is plumb deadly!