What do you use for feeder kings besides herring? Do you ever use J Plugs or spoons? What colors?
What is your favorit for kings in the salt besides herring??
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Apex Spoons from Hot Shot, with hoochies and a herring strip coming in third.
Run out of herring before and switched to Apex, and didn't notice any difference in catch. But I always start with herring."Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good."
Merle Haggard
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Gotta add one point-
There's "herring" and then there's herring.
I've come to prefer cutplug to whole, with the catching results to go with the ease of rigging.
But guess what-
Troll herring can run short each season, some years earlier than others, but at some point you're going to find the freezers bare when you need it most.
Meanwhile there's no trouble getting the big herring. It's everywhere, but waaay too soft and usually too big to use for trolling. Right? Wrong!
I've been experimenting with an old form of trolling, made easier and better with some additional gear. I'm talking trolling with herring strips. Cure or salt fillets from those big old herring to toughen them, then cut into strips. The additional gear is the rotary style nose clip, the kind with the built in planer or whatever to make them spin. Dang! Been quietly using them this spring, and I may never buy another tray of troll herring. Here is a short writeup on preparing and using them. I'm sold that it's at least as effective as tray herring, whether whole-rigged or cutplug."Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good."
Merle Haggard
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Originally posted by BrownBear View PostThe additional gear is the rotary style nose clip, the kind with the built in planer or whatever to make them spin. Dang! Been quietly using them this spring, and I may never buy another tray of troll herring. Here is a short writeup on preparing and using them. I'm sold that it's at least as effective as tray herring, whether whole-rigged or cutplug.Experience is a hard teacher because you get the test first and the lesson afterwards.
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Originally posted by kodiakbound View PostAwesome! Can we get those nose clips in town? Just what the doctor ordered I just got a big batch of the big guys from a friend. Will have to brine them up and cut some strips!!"Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good."
Merle Haggard
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You should be able to buy those nose clips (aka bait biters) at your local fishing store. I run cut plugs sometimes, but nowadays I prefer to use a whole herring in a bait biter when sport fishing. It's nice not having to check your bait so often, and a whole herring lasts longer than even the heaviest salted cut plug. A lot of the time though I will use several different hootchies which have been productive in the past.
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I go completely artificial and lean towards plugs but a hooch gets it done too.sigpic
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The old saying is "nothing outfishes a flasher" when it comes to trolling. An 11" flasher is a power king attracting tool, based on the motion it puts out in the water that simulates feeding salmon. So, tow a herring, spoon, or hoochie behind one, and you are stacking the deck in your favor. Other baits/methods have their moments, but the old 11" hot spot or okie is one hell of a producer.
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Originally posted by AK2AZ View PostI go completely artificial and lean towards plugs but a hooch gets it done too.
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