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[Salmon__Slayer]

Hello,

In hopes to avoid spending money on roe , I am hoping to learn how to float fish with wool for salmon. any tips on how I should present the wool.

Do I just slip the piece using a bait loop knot , or is there any tips and techniques that are favourable for salmon.

I am particularly targeting chum and coho salmon

 

[CohoJake]

Try blending 2 or more colors, and trim it very small - like thumbnail to pinky nail size.  You basically want the silhouette of a single egg.  If it starts to develop a tail, trim it off.  Coho will hit orange, hot pink, purple, and some swear they bite very pale almost white but I don't know if I believe it.  Chum favor cerise, chartreuse, purple.  I met an old timer who fishes the Vedder exclusively with Steelhead Orange wool and has caught many salmon and steelhead over the years.

[psd1179]

I saw some people bottom fishing salmon with a piece of wool. And they caught a lot

[Salmon__Slayer]

Try blending 2 or more colors, and trim it very small - like thumbnail to pinky nail size.  You basically want the silhouette of a single egg.  If it starts to develop a tail, trim it off.  Coho will hit orange, hot pink, purple, and some swear they bite very pale almost white but I don't know if I believe it.  Chum favor cerise, chartreuse, purple.  I met an old timer who fishes the Vedder exclusively with Steelhead Orange wool and has caught many salmon and steelhead over the years.

Thanks I am gonna use some peach wool for coho , as personally I think it’s the closest colour to a natural egg

[Salmon__Slayer]

I saw some people bottom fishing salmon with a piece of wool. And they caught a lot

I am guessing the would most likely get into a lot of snags. The rivers I fish are to small to even think about bottom fishing.

[wildmanyeah]

I am guessing the would most likely get into a lot of snags. The rivers I fish are to small to even think about bottom fishing.

Lots of pocket fisherman fish pink wool under a float

[Spoonman]

Thanks I am gonna use some peach wool for coho , as personally I think it’s the closest colour to a natural egg

.......try adding a red or orange centre to the peach.....chartreuse when the water is coloured

[psd1179]

I am guessing the would most likely get into a lot of snags. The rivers I fish are to small to even think about bottom fishing.

bottom fishing is not bottom bouncing. There is no snag in bottom fishing at all.

[DanL]

bottom fishing; do you mean like with a bar-rig and/or weight the sits right on the bottom?

[Snagly]

Please ignore the fact that liners/snaggers/bottom bouncers often put yarn on their hook to create the pretense that the fish they are snagging (hooked outside-in in the scissors) are actually eating the yarn.

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Fishing yarn is a legitimate and deadly way to catch steelhead and salmon. As others have mentioned, a multi-color, nicely trimmed yarn ball from the size of a thumbnail down to a 10mm Jensen egg emulates roe as it drifts through the water. I had a guide in Alaska who used 4 colors in each tiny yarn ball: orange, cerise, peach, chartreuse. His theory was that on any given day, the fish would key on one of the colors. The other three didn't matter: as long as the fish saw one that was attractive, it would eat.

As long as the visibility was 3' or more, he'd fish yarn in preference to any other method as it was effective, cheap and easily replaced.

There are three ways to fish yarn:

1. On a fly rod with a sinktip, and swung or cast 45 degrees upstream and dead drifted (high stick nymphing)

2. Under a float just as you'd fish a bead, using a spinning reel, baitcaster, centerpin, or a fly rod and indicator

3. Drift fished on a 24" (plus or minus) leader--NOT 4' or 6'--with either split shot, a slinky or pencil lead to allow it to be drift fished and swung.

[psd1179]

bottom fishing; do you mean like with a bar-rig and/or weight the sits right on the bottom?

Yes, the river flow is very slow.  They sink the yarn to the bottom and wait.  They simple use a small piece of yarn as bait. It is hard to believe until I saw a fish caught

[Salmon__Slayer]

Yes, the river flow is very slow.  They sink the yarn to the bottom and wait.  They simple use a small piece of yarn as bait. It is hard to believe until I saw a fish caught

I am guessing this would work for pockets of water with a slow current. But wouldn’t the weight likely get stuck up on river rocks and such.

[Wiseguy]

Some guy was on here was selling roe flys made out of yarn a few yrs ago. Can't remember who? Said they worked better then roe.

[Fish Assassin]

Some guy was on here was selling roe flys made out of yarn a few yrs ago. Can't remember who? Said they worked better then roe.

Everyday

[Salmon__Slayer]

will tie my own for now , and if I have no luck will look into buying some then