How To Rig Bobber & Eggs For Float Fishing Chinook & Coho Salmon

[Music] okay let's talk a little bit about setting up for false unit in the fall in the tributaries I personally primarily like to float fish for fall chinook simple it's deadly effective it's also easy for my clients to use they're oftentimes not very experienced and this is one of the fastest ways to get in to catching fall chinook salmon consistently so when I are gonna start out if I'm looking at a rod I'm gonna want to pick out a rod that's rated at about fifteen to thirty pound or even fifteen to forty pound rating line and anywhere from a nine foot six to a ten foot six length run a good long rod the reason you want a longer rod is when it comes to float fishing you're always going to be picking up and mending your line so a long rod helps make that much easier picking up a lot of line setting it down keeping that ball or vertical once you have a rod picked out you want to then pick out a good reel and any casting reel you prefer that can hold at least about a hundred and twenty yards of line and as far as line goes I'll go with a 50 to 65 pound braided line braid is important for float fishing because braid floats so you don't use braid using monofilament you're trying float fish with it the line is going to sink down in the water and cause a lot of problems we're not going to be able to mend it's gonna drag your float it's gonna be more trouble than it's worth next thing I'll do is look at all my terminal tackle fall chinook fishing and tributaries I'll use anywhere from a 1 ounce float like this one here up to a 5 ounce set up when I rigged that up I always start will start up top first take our mainline we'll take a store-bought Bob or not these are pretty cheap slide it on the line you'll pull it off the tube pull your tags tight not too tight to where it bites on the line but tight enough to where it's gonna hold wherever you put it next when you buy your bobber knots they provide the little stopper bead that goes with it right there next up the line then I usually like to put a bright color Corky or a bead in this case some little extra to add on top something to look at and we feed our float through slide it up the line and then another thing that is often done look overlooked I'll put a bead below the float and this serves as a bumper between my the stem of my float am I not so that might not isn't getting stuck in the stem of the float and the float isn't slipping freely after that the glue are one ounce I like an inline weight I'll use an inline weight for salmon fishing anywhere from half ounce weights up to about an ounce and a half once I get above that so the two ounces up to 5 ounces I'll switch and use a cannonball and the only thing we do different with the cannonballs we put a snap swivel here the lead on and attach our leader so speaking of leader the leaders for fall chinook they're not shy I'll go heavy heavy as I can get away with 25 pound minimum I like 30 and sometimes even 40 far as hooks goes it's gonna kind of depend on the size float setup you use for like a 1 ounce or a 2 ounce set up I'll go a to otter a 3 OTT hook and I always fix it with an egg loop to hold our bait now the larger float set up you go in the heavier line you can go all the way up to a 6 aught hook for fall chinook I'll hold a big bait oftentimes we're fishing a large bigger than a golf ball size bait plus shrimp and other things on there you need a big hook to hold all that on there and enough hook that is exposed so when your fish does bite on that bait you can help now let's talk about tributary fishing for coho issued for coho is extremely simple in my book all you really need is some steelhead gear here we have a 10 foot long nine for the Levin 8 to 12 rated steelhead rod I've got 30 pounds high vis braid on size 35 spinning reel same as before got my bobber not a bead a bright Corky float this is a half-ounce set up for tributary coho if I'm Bob were fishing tributary Coe I prefer a half ounce to maybe a three-quarter ounce inline set up pretty much mimic everything you do for the fall chinook setup just go a little lighter litre I'll do a 12-2 maybe sometimes a 15 pound fluorocarbon leader and we'll try to look at anywhere from a two to two and a half foot long leader book sizes we stay smaller for coho typically fish a size 1 or a 1 aught like this here we go again rigged with an egg loop to hold our eggs on the other thing I'll do some times since coho can oftentimes be found in steelhead type water bouldery water and flats sometimes even fix a split shot in the middle of my leader here halfway between my lead and my foot and that'll just kind of help get things down more vertical down in that faster current in those flats that's the basic setup right there for finding tributary coho when your float fishing the hardest part about float fishing that I learned when I started was judging the depth of the water you're fishing you're new to a hole that's gonna be the first thing you need to work on is figure out how deep to fish a spot there's a few ways to go about it some guys I know will cut their leader off and just use their lead and slide their Bob Arnot up and keep casting until they find where bottom is they'll see that bottle that bobber ticking bottom they know that their lead is bottom they'll look at that distance and say okay this holds 12 protect me that'll give you an idea of where to start when I approach a hole and I'm gonna target either Chinook or coho I'm gonna start at a depth that's suspended oftentimes really in the morning even in a hole you know it could be 12 or 15 feet deep but early in the morning the fish may be suspended up in the water column they may be only down six or eight feet it's all starting that six or eight foot section of the water column and make four five six really good casts cut with a whole entire hole I don't get a bite fish keep rolling okay I'll go foot deeper repeat the process repeat that process until either one get bit or two you hang up on bottom if you hang up a bottom before you get bit it's probably time to start switching bait or tactics and one of those two things or maybe even moving on maybe the fish aren't in the mood to back [Music] so it's not that it wasn't that tough to set up it's pretty basic to get out on the river and do some ball right a good bobber and it really is about as easy as it gets you know if you're just getting into this that's where I would suggest you start so for the guys that aren't able to and this is just another quick tip I wanted to kind of get in there as the guys that can't cure their own eggs or they don't have access to it what do you suggest just going to the store buying some store-bought eggs you got some store-bought stuff you know there's other alternatives you don't even have to use eggs all the time sand tripper available shrimp prawns and now the last person the last few years jigs taking a huge huge role and accounting for a lot of Babur chinook and coho so don't always think eggs with all that being said the last part of this equation is kind of just attacking the river right like how are we gonna fish this this ball burn egg set up how are we gonna attack chinook vs. coho and that's what you talked about in the last video of the series yeah where we're gonna place our casts everything from mending line what to look for what to avoid those kind of things so as always you've heard me say this a thousand times but if you haven't subscribed to our videos please please hit the subscribe button we love having all you guys on our Channel and we make these videos for all you anglers out there to help you learn and catch more fish Kevin you have some guided trips probably available coming up in the fall you booked out or wake up early stuff so Mico stuff is booked out but beginning in the middle of October through about the first week of December I have just a scattering of openings available kokin to fill them up get those seats filled exactly so if you guys want to learn this video kind of stuff more in depth or if you just want to get out and kill some fish and put some cocoa and Chinook or whatever in your freezer give Kevin a call you can get a whole room on his guide service page Kevin Gray's died service over on Facebook you have a youtube channel too actually don't have a youtube channel if you just simplest way now is to put my name in YouTube you'll find my page Kevin gray perfect so if you guys want to go check them out on YouTube you can do that as well thanks so much for tuning in we'll see you guys on the river thank you you [Music]

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Length: 9min 51sec (591 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 06 2018