Got in a discussion on fishing spoons. I have never done it. I usually fish the Puyallup, cast across, and let a weight with corkie/gamkatsu hook tied about 2 feet away drift past. Try to feel for it to stop on the bounce.

One guy said to simply change out the corkie/hook for the dick nite and let it drift the same with slow retrieve. Someone else said no, you would just loose them all, to use a heavy weight and just let them sit and wait on the bank for a hit. Third guy said no, use a slinky weight sliding on the line, stopping at a ball bearing swivel. Use about 6 feet of fleuorocarbon line with the dick nite on it. Let it drift with the slnky. Fish will pound it.

Ok, help this nimrod fisherman. Who's correct? How would you fish a dick nite in the puyallup? I have a few, but got the $2.48 specials at wally world.

Thanks in advance for your help. Photos of gear set ups are greatly appreciated.

Steve aka Gear looser aka fishless blunder.

Use just enough weight to get to the bottom and then a slow retrieve to keep just above the rocks. Leader length and weight rigging vary from person to person. I prefer a sliding weight and 3-4' leader.

I like a 5 or 6 foot 8# leader with dicknites, and you want ot use a #0 or #1 size spoon. Not the #2 that comes with a little barrel swivel on the top of it, those ones don't catch crap, I don't know why.

I believe the #0 is possibly labeled as a wee. This is just as hot or hotter spoon than the #1. The leader lengths and slow retrieve are correct. Good colors are the 50/50-chrome and brass or chartruese spatter back.

Shaggy,

There are as many ways to fish spoons as there are to fish eggs, or any other tackle.

I would recommend Herzog's book "Spoon fishing for steelhead". It gives a wide variety of recommendations on ways to fish spoons, and Herz. has fished just a few.

I typically fish DN's with just enough pencil lead to be able to adequately cast them, attached at the swivel where my leader attaches. Leader I use is rarely over 30".

Personally, I prefer bigger metal...than them little bitty things...but I do try them when nothing else is working. Haven't caught Coho on them either...but did get a nice Dolly on one last weekend.

Mike

I don't think the water has enough visibility to fish a dick nite anyway.

hehe...dick nites are for lining fish in the snohomish.

sol duc fish ACTUALLY BITE. That's why we use real spoons like stilly's, bc steels, and lil cleo's to hook them.



use a siwash, quarter your casts downstream and use the size that lets you drift (not retrieve!) through the hole close to but without touching bottom.

spinners, in my experience, will catch more kings than spoons.

also.....you may give pixie spoons a try.

Shaggy,

I've yet to catch my first silver on a Dick Nite. However I have hooked a lot of silvers on Steelie/Half Fast spoons. I basically fish them the same as a corkie rig. Cast across and then feel the spoon tap the bottom. If it stops pull up tight. The fish will usually hook themselves when you pull up tight. If it's the bottom and you are using a siwash hook it'll usually pull itself free and continue along the bottom.

For the Dick Nite's I tried them with no success last weekend on the Sky. I'm thinking the water was too slow and clear for the way I was fishing them. I don't know. We saw plenty of fish just never got one interested in hitting. Of course nothing else worked either so who knows! I'm going to head home a little early today and hit the Snoqualmie in Fall City and see if I can tempt anything under the bridge for an hour or so.

BTW: If you are putting a siwash on a Steelie/Half Fast spoon put the point on the same side as the dished part of the spoon so that as the spoon wobbles the hook is pointed up. You'll hang up on the bottom much less that way!