ORIGINAL: retired guy

This year I'm gonna set a trot line.

although not a trot line; there are the guys who fish browns in oswego with an egg weight on the end of their line with a snap or 3-way swivel a foot or so up with a tail and hook with an eggs sack coming off the swivel. they let that rig sit in the slack water until a pig slurps it up and starts pulling.... god bless em; any fish they are catching is as legal as legal can get...

      Dja ever read bout those guys someplace in the upper mid West who have a pickerel- or pike- hunting season.
    Guess the fish come near shore at some time of year and these guys go out with their deer rifles and shootem.
   Whatever floatsyer boat I guess.
     THAT would be fun on the SR. Would sound like Gettysburg.

    Maybeeee not fun to actually be one of the shooters  but can ya imagine the scene at lettttts say ---Tressel pool. One  ambulance standing by for each half dozen shooters.
    Brought up Gettysburg cause there would be a hundred shooters lined up on each side blasting away.
   Would hafta imagine it would clear the area of future snaggers cause they would definatley be right up front for the rifle season too.

Bings,you must be bored that you're lurking over here now :)
Hey Drake how would you like to make a wager on your theory that Salmon won't hit once they come in the river.I fish the zones and 90% of the Salmon that I catch are hooked inside the mouth ,and I catch a bunch!These are fish that ran the gauntlet!!

ORIGINAL: pafisher

Hey Drake how would you like to make a wager on your theory that Salmon won't hit once they come in the river.I fish the zones and 90% of the Salmon that I catch are hooked inside the mouth ,and I catch a bunch!These are fish that ran the gauntlet!!

What's the L I N E on the bet?

get it??

L I N E ?


bbbwwwaahhhh !!!!!

    Do ya hafta shoot them in the mouth or head to be doing it properly as opposed to a unsportsmanlike body shot ?  And is there a derogatory word for those who hit them in the body having no regard whatsoever to the guys around them who are trying for head shots?  ( trying to stay on topic)

ORIGINAL: draketrutta

ORIGINAL: pafisher

Hey Drake how would you like to make a wager on your theory that Salmon won't hit once they come in the river.I fish the zones and 90% of the Salmon that I catch are hooked inside the mouth ,and I catch a bunch!These are fish that ran the gauntlet!!

What's the L I N E on the bet?

get it??

L I N E ?


bbbwwwaahhhh !!!!!

How about $50.00,if I hook them in the mouth you lose and tell the board they will HIT!

guys- please continue. This is getting pretty fun now.
Beagler- good post.

as you can see there is no crying from me except drake thinks they dont get snap happy. Jeebus.
Why shoot fish that want to eat everything? sounda fun tho.
leave the poor froggies be.

ORIGINAL: salmotrutta

as you can see there is no crying from me except drake thinks they dont get snap happy. Jeebus.

The SLAMMIN's do get snap happy,

- when Xpurts raid their redds,
- when they are force fed a backtrolled plug,
- when PAFisher lines them right in the mouth,,,bbbbwwwaahhhhh!!!!!!!!
- when Coho's chase a cheesedoodler fly 50, no make that 100 feet, across multiple seams of Doougieland...

I would love to mount a few underwater cameras in the LFZ (a.k.a. PAFisher's Holy Land).
At times there are so many fly lines dangling in the water via the "shoulder-to-shoulder" Orvis clad nitwits that the sun's rays cannot penetrate to the river bottom.
Yup - right in the mouth!!! bbbwwaaahhhhh!!!!

I honestly don't care if every fish was hooked in the motor. I have no aspirations to become a DEC Deputy Dog, would never call their 1-800-RAT-LINE. The SR Salmon run is a man-made pescatorial cash regsiter - it is what it is.

Slammo - stop fishing for Cohoes like you are fishing for Pa trout and you too will hook up. It's a darn shame you don't like the cold weather, the real biters show up in #'s when the snow starts flyin..

later.



I just laugh when the "true believers" cannot admit that 95% of their catch was lined...

Hey Pafisher - if you come up in Sept for the DB get-together, I would like to fish with you.

No zones though...

How bouts mid-river?

Seriously about the salmon biting.

I never claimed that there are no instances where a slammin will bite.
I stated that probably 95% of the salmon hooked in the mouth are lined, and I also think 95% of the fishermen either don't know it, or won't admit to it - for whatever reason.

As far as the age-old question of "Why did the streamer cross the Salmon's mouth?",

it all depends on the angle/force of the hookset, the degree to which the salmon's gaping mouth was open, the sharpness of the hook, the fish's position when it was lined, the angle of the hook when it enters the salmon's mouth, the water currents,,etc.etc,etc. Many factors involved.

Q: Why is color important?

A: So the folks fishing above the DSR can spot the "decorated fish" without the need for polarized sunglasses.


Hope you make it up to DBland.
We need to fish and party a bit.
Since it looks like there will be no "Summerfest" this year, we just got dropped off that invite list..

later.

I'm ready to fish.

DB is right on about the time frame.. Sept 18th is a good one for lower river and some of my strongest catch rates give or take a week around then.. Dont know about being done with them, usually the week after columbus (zoo time) i make the switch to trout and or tenderloins..

Funny how the time just rolls on and dates become obscure.. Right now I'm looking into some brookie trips in Sept and at least hoping to get some salmon fishing in..
We will see.. The Nastier the weather the better chance for me on the river.. Going from 30 some days of salmon fishing a year to just trying to plan a day or 2 ..

I Don't Know, Why do You Do It ?

ORIGINAL: retired guy

Dime and Tuna- I got to DSR  the following week for years and generally did reasonably well.Usually round the 24th to the 26th.

throughout the years; i think i can recall a good run of fish in dsr for all weekends from 3rd week in august to 3rd weekend in october. but i have brought salmon to hand as early as the 12th of august ... but 3rd week of sep is usually a hot shot down low

The weekend we picked is prime historically. Hopefully drake will learn us some things.