Sockeye
Posted:
Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:22 amby Eddy C
I'm looking for techniques on trolling for sockeye in the salt?? I can't find anything. I know the Canadian commercial trollers fish for them. What do they use??
Let's figure out how to catch these things since the limit on kings is going to be 1
Re: Sockeye
Posted:
Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:35 amby NOFISH
Eddy:
My friends and I have been fishing for sockeye in Barkley Sound since 1993. Multi-colored flashers with 16" leaders to a 3" pink squid, double-up the rods on each downrigger, 40-60 ft of cable out with the releases about 10 feet apart, 2.5-3.5 knots trolling speed. Lots of doubles and triples when you hit a school!
I think Barkley is unique in that when the river system warms up, the fish school up in Alberni Inlet, and they are also biters. We've caught them on coyote spoons targeting kings! But everyone I've talked to about trolling for them in Puget Sound say they just don't hook them in the salt.
Head to Barkley this summer after Father's Day.....it's supposed to be a BIG run year for 'em too!