I never liked jigs, till last night.....

[FurFishGame]

After seeing a bunch of spawners across the lake, I decided to hoke over there and see if I could tie onto one.....I got 3. First off, they were like any spawner, and wouldn't take anything I would throw at them, then I found I had 2 jigs in my tackle box, one was "regular" with pink black and yellow, about the right size for steel head. The other one was one I tied onto one of those hooks that come with the salmon vibrax's, not expecting to ever use it, but I had some loose material, you know how that is. it was purple, yellow and black, with a itsy bit of olive.

I hooked one that was about 27-30 inches, that hit and snapped my line in about 3 seconds, I was fishing about 4 feet of the bank, in 5 inches of water. using a bobber (that barely held it up) so I switched to my "bad" one, and in 10 seconds WHAM! it got hit by a 20-22 incher that made it on to the bank, but got off before I could take a picture.

The next one I got on video, and it is a pain in the butt to reel in a HAWG while videoing it.

3 fish, that, had I not got the guts to call a girl that I know (I studder, so that had a bit to do with it,Thats when I saw all my 'stuff" laying there, and tied while I was talking)...

I think I'll use jigs a little more for spawners in the future....maybe I'll call that girl back, and get out my hackle, maribou, maybe some yarn, and see what comes out next. :think::topjob:

[c6 batmobile]

Nice catch! You have that jig hooked to a bobber? Never would have thought of that.

[FurFishGame]

Nice catch! You have that jig hooked to a bobber? Never would have thought of that.

Ya, the were in 5 inches of water with a ton of rock that I kept getting hung up on, so I rigged up a bobber to keep it a couple inches up, in the picture, the bobber is a little higher than I would have had it rigged when fishing, but it would work at any depth, I spose. This time of year the trout are spawning in the shallows so they are easy to get to from the bank.

When they swam by, I would give it a little twitch....seemed to work good.

[Dirtofak]

I'm gonna get some popcorn.

[Waterlover]

Awesome fish!!! Fun stuff!

FF

Great pic BTW

[FurFishGame]

Awesome fish!!! Fun stuff!

FF

Great pic BTW

Thanks! I usualy manage to pull 4 or 5 of that porportion outta the lake, I kinda got a system down in the summer, I've never caught 3 that big in one night though!

[AlaskaHippie]

Here comes the Valley Closures because of this very sh*t...

Ripping spawning fish off of their beds in 5" of water, dragging em up onto the gravel for a pic.......

Dude, they where BIG fish because they are mature spawners. Harassing 'em whilst they spawn is a pretty good way to um.....PREVENT THEM FROM SPAWNING....


Yeah dirt....Pass me some of that popcorn, while we wait for the "How to dynamite Kings in the redds for pure enjoyment" thread.....

[Dirtofak]

Ripping spawning fish off of their beds in 5" of water, dragging em up onto the gravel for a pic.......

Dude, they where BIG fish because they are mature spawners. Harassing 'em whilst they spawn is a pretty good way to um.....PREVENT THEM FROM SPAWNING....


Yeah dirt....Pass me some of that popcorn, while we wait for the "How to dynamite Kings in the redds for pure enjoyment" thread.....

Dang Hippie, at least wait for the microwave to beep!

[ret25yo]

haha... Somehow I saw that coming.... like JMG hunting with Vince..

[power drifter]

WOW!! You must be so proud! Pass the pop corn?

[tjm]

can rainbows spawn successfully in the lakes?

I've always been curious since I've heard many times that they can't unless there's some running water...any truth to that?

[jkb]

So you let the pictured fish go?

[Albradley]

Actually if that is a stocked lake there is a pretty good chance that they were sterile fish(For the slightly less informed that means they cant reproduce/Spawn).So Ripping them off of their redd's means absolutely nothing.

[Fishwhacker]

Im assuming hes fishing at biglake according to his location, which is wild.

[AlaskaHippie]

Actually if that is a stocked lake there is a pretty good chance that they were sterile fish(For the slightly less informed that means they cant reproduce/Spawn).So Ripping them off of their redd's means absolutely nothing.

After seeing a bunch of spawners across the lake

Based on the OP's own statement, they where spawners.