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Tuna Balls for salmon

Scents for salmon have long been known to help improve angling success ... especially in years like this when the water levels are quite high and the visibility is limited.

A trick that we learned about a few years ago that often works quite well for fall kings is the addition of the "tuna ball" to salmon baits. There isn't a whole lot involved in this trick, but it is best suited to backtrolling kwikfish or bait behind jet divers.

All you need to do is to take a piece of maline cloth (roe rap) approximately four inches square and place a wad of the smelliest, oil-packed, tuna fish that you can find in the middle of the cloth. Then you will want to wrap the cloth around the tuna so that it forms a little sack that you can tie off with your magic thread (that you probably have for sardine-wrapping kwikfish).

Spingers love tuna balls!

Then all you have to do is to attach this small sack to the bottom of the jet planer...a good place is that small welded ring that hangs there when the planer is set up as a slider.

That's it  ... fish the ball in front of an spin 'n glo and egg combo, plug-cut herring, or your kwikfish and watch your strikes increase.

Another option is to make roe sacks with tuna instead of eggs. It's a way to get at some of those finicky fish from time to time, especially in very low clear water!

We can't readily explain why this works better than some of the other scents or remember where we first heard this, but it does work!!! Try it!