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[halcyonguitars]

Just wondering if there is a preferred color for targeting chinooks when choosing wool and jigs?

[Hike_and_fish]

chartreuse

I use a wet bring for my roe when targeting Chinooks.  Chartreuse will out fish everything else when you hit a hole that crowded with guys. Red will work yes. But when all the fish see is red roe, chartreuse will nail them. Jig ? chartreuse and black or chartreuse and blue. My favorite

[CohoJake]

For wool, chartreuse can work.  I usually start with peach and add and subtract other colors until I find something that works.  Last weekend the trick for me was steelhead orange with a tiny dab of baby pink.  Peach with a dab of red is also good. Having a couple colors with contrast seems to be a good thing.  Peach and chartreuse has also worked for me in the past, or chartreuse with a dab of red.  Size seems to matter as much as color - sometimes you need only half thickness of wool, and trim it to pinky nail size.

[halcyonguitars]

Thanks.

Been thinking it'd be nice to learn to fish wool rather than costly jigs, and they seem to come out of the rocks better...

[fishtruck]

I've had good results with red with a touch of white inside. Like others have said, two color combos seem to do better than straight peach, red or chartreuse. Often, I'll tip it with some prawn as well.

[96XJ]

Thanks.

Been thinking it'd be nice to learn to fish wool rather than costly jigs, and they seem to come out of the rocks better...

I have been trying wool more often as well , jigs always seem to get hung up where I fish anyways , did good for chums last year on wool  , definitely will try on coho - when it stops raining...

[CohoJake]

I have been trying wool more often as well , jigs always seem to get hung up where I fish anyways , did good for chums last year on wool  , definitely will try on coho - when it stops raining...

  A couple of years ago the coho really liked orange with a dab of hot pink.  I like to add some shrimp scent when I am after coho as well.

[bobby b]

for Springs I have had luck on red/white, red/chartreuse and red/peach ... on single colours I do ok on Red or Chartreuse ...combos work better 

For Chum... I rock  Purple or sometimes Purple or the odd time I'll use Purple or if I'm bored... I will even use Purple!

For Coho I don't have much luck at all with wool... but the odd one will hit Steelhead Orange or Red.. but yeah....I find wool rarely works ..ymmv