Salmon Fishing Techniques

Let’s face it. You suck in salmon fishing. It annoys you how those salmons tend to shy your meticulously tied flies while they gobble those other lines like flies on a meat pie, or salmons on a fly. Maybe it’s your luck setting in. But maybe it is because of your salmon fishing techniques, which may need considerable refinement.

Tempting the salmon to bite is overly tricky. Sometimes they bite hard and sometimes they never bite at all. Many experts have attributed the non-bite activity to its migratory purpose (being that salmons reduces all sorts of feeding until spawning period is over) but yet there are some reports that salmon do bite hard even on spawning grounds. One theory supports by saying that salmon often takes care of each others’ eggs, that why using salmon roe makes baiting a more win situation. Salmon encloses those roes into its mouth and depositing it to where it would be safer. Others would support that salmons do tend to bite because it is protecting its breeding vicinity, which could also be true given that salmons are often seen snapping at each other on the breeding grounds.

But if ever those salmons are biting, it’s best to tilt more probability in your favor. A salmon biting is dependent on several factors, one of which is the skill of tempting the fish to your bait, a method known as “jiggling”. Read through these salmon fishing techniques as we take in detail how to jig for your salmon.

Jigging for your Salmon

What comes first is to know where those fishes lay. A good fishfinder like Humminbird Matrix 87 can do a healthy job for you. Sonars like these can show you details of the depths below you and crevices by which fishes hide. Next is the color of your jigs. As the migrating salmons prepares for the spawning season, their vision goes sensitive to shades of green from blue, so having jigs of this color increases chances of biting.

Though sometimes you can land a perfect fish, odds are slimmer if you are to jiggle a fish out of nowhere. Be sure you either jiggle through a bait school, particularly a school of minnow or jiggle through a school of salmons. Jig the rod and always follow it with the rod tip as it drops. The element of this activity is to make the bait move more realistic, so to narrate the movement: cast the line and let the jig fall on a tight line. as it sinks and falls, follow it with the rod tip, after a pulse reel up the slack and draw it back and let it fall again. Slack and draw. Slack and draw. A strike can be determined if the line twitches. In that case let it fall back a bit before setting the hook immediately.

Water skimming is another salmon fishing techniques and it is especially effective on flats. Cast out, and without waiting the jig to sink start a deliberate and steady retrieve using the reel or with the rod. This would make the jig to skim the top (or near top) smoothly through the water like a minnow.