Trolling for Salmon (Area 11)

[fisherhall]

What color and lure are they catching the silver/pinks/kings on while trolling?

[Easy Limits]

My standard set ups for all three fish are a white/glow Hot Spot with a white glow hoochie or a white/glow Hot Spot with a 4.0 silver Coyote spoon.

[fisherhall]

How deep are you catching the silver/pinks/kings.

[Easy Limits]

Silvers and pinks run fairly shallow. Say less than 40' down. Kings, on the other hand, tend to run a little deeper (50'-100').

[Bodofish]

Depth is determined by time of day. Early morning they may be in the top 20' and by noon they can be down at 100' then back up as the sun sets. gotta find'em. that's fishing.

[Dave]

I'm sure set-ups vary with anglers. This is what I have found success with:

Pinks: White flasher or dodger, 16 to 20 inches of 20 pound test mono, pink squid. Squids come in large which require a 2 hook leader, and a small squid that uses a single hook, All must be barbless. Depth is about 20 to 30 feet at first light and as the sun rises, the salmon go deeper, up to 100 feet but usually found at 60 to 80 feet with the sun up during mid morning hours.

Kings and Silvers: Green Hot Spot flasher, 42 inches of 20 pound test mono leader, and a green squid or coyote spoon n green or "cop car", or a Coho killer in green. Kings like to be on the bottom in my experience and are often found on a shelf where the water is say 100 feet deep but drops off. Good example of this is at Possession or the Race Track .Silvers seem to be between 30 and 100 feet and are often found in very deep water, for example south of the Mukilteo ferry dock between Whidbey Island and Mukilteo Beach, in the shipping lane.

Anyway, this is just my take on this topic. I have had good luck with these set-ups and depths. Good luck to you....

[fisherhall]

Thanks for the help everyone.

[gpc]

With not having a down rigger how deep would you guys say I would be with 80 pulls of line out running a 6oz weight and a dodger going 2 miles and hour. Or is this just an impossible question?

[Mike Carey]

estimate depth 2/3rds of line out, depends on the angle of your line to the water. i.e. 60 pulls I figure around 40 ft deep.

[gpc]

Cool thanks Mike. I kind of figured it was something down those lines. But its always good to have professional advice:cheers:

[flying_soldier]

GPC, buy one of the plastic divers from Joes and you will do just as fine and not need the additional weight. We fished Elliot bay last week and there where tons of boats with the same set up doing fine. They are only about $6.

[Jake Dogfish]

If you don't have much weight the current/trolling speed determines what depth you are fishing. If you are going against strong current you would need about twice as much line out as going with the current... The only problem I have with this is, 20 foot boats with downriggers like to follow right behind me and criss cross over my bait...

[fisherhall]

How do you tell how deep down your divers are.

[gpc]

flying_soldier, are you talking about a Deep 6?

Fisherhall, The Deep 6 divers can dive 40' down so I was told to just let out a lot of line and you know your at 40'. But they also have a double Deep 6 that goes down 60'. I have heard a lot of good things about them. I had 2 of them but a fish snapped my buddys line and I lost one and the other one is laying around somewhere.

[fisherhall]

I think I might use my linecounter reel.

[flying_soldier]

flying_soldier, are you talking about a Deep 6?

Fisherhall, The Deep 6 divers can dive 40' down so I was told to just let out a lot of line and you know your at 40'. But they also have a double Deep 6 that goes down 60'. I have heard a lot of good things about them. I had 2 of them but a fish snapped my buddys line and I lost one and the other one is laying around somewhere.

I am not sure of the brand but Joes sells one that dives deeper than 40' I am going there at lunch and will check on it.

[flying_soldier]

flying_soldier, are you talking about a Deep 6?

Fisherhall, The Deep 6 divers can dive 40' down so I was told to just let out a lot of line and you know your at 40'. But they also have a double Deep 6 that goes down 60'. I have heard a lot of good things about them. I had 2 of them but a fish snapped my buddys line and I lost one and the other one is laying around somewhere.

I am not sure of the brand but Joes sells one that dives deeper than 40' I am going there at lunch and will check on it.

40' with a diving kwickfish or other lure should easily do the trick for Pinks though. We landed a limit last weekend both days and only trolled 30-50 and they where all decent pinks