barrelroll
Red Skull Member
The wife and I moved to Juneau, Alaska this spring, bought a boat, know nothing about ocean fishing, and our lake fishing experience is limited to throwing in a worm and catching a fish. We've tried fishing twice with 0 luck and I think it has a lot to do with where we are fishing, what we are using, and how we are using it. We need some pointers. I'd like to catch some salmon and a halibut or 2 after we get the hang of salmon fishing.
We are at the end of the king salmon run with silvers starting to show up and there's a fair amount of halibut in the area. The boat is a 17' alumaweld which gets us out to most of the local areas depending on weather. It has 2 scotty manual down riggers, lowrance 5HDI with sonar and a 7" with charts, and the boat has a kicker for trolling.
Recommendations on poles and gear? Right now we have 2 8' poles with spinning reels that were cheap combos and I'm going to look at this stuff tonight https://juneau.craigslist.org/spo/d/...163202873.html It was recommended to get them strung with 20 or 25 pound mono for salmon or 60 pound braid for halibut
Tackle, we don't have much, we had a couple spoons we donated to a kelp bed and the wife bought a bunch of "pretty stuff" at a bait shop that I think are mainly halibut jigs and didn't work at all trolling for salmon. A lot of the youtube people like flashers with various things or hearing dragged behind the flasher. What would you try using for salmon?
Techniques? Tolling, jigging, mooching I've learned the differences on youtube but that's about it. I'm thinking trolling with down riggers is our best bet and it seems like speeds should be 1-3mph depending on the bait you are using. Or should we try something besides trolling with down riggers. How do we figure out how deep to set the down riggers/ how deep we should be trolling?
I've started to watch a bunch of videos on how to do use the lowrance sonar and I'm starting to understand what's on the screen. I think that will help a lot the next time we go out
How do tides factor into fishing? We have huge tides here.
Any recommendations on some reading or you tube channels would be great. I'm just about through sonar for dummies. Any pointers would be great.
We are at the end of the king salmon run with silvers starting to show up and there's a fair amount of halibut in the area. The boat is a 17' alumaweld which gets us out to most of the local areas depending on weather. It has 2 scotty manual down riggers, lowrance 5HDI with sonar and a 7" with charts, and the boat has a kicker for trolling.
Recommendations on poles and gear? Right now we have 2 8' poles with spinning reels that were cheap combos and I'm going to look at this stuff tonight https://juneau.craigslist.org/spo/d/...163202873.html It was recommended to get them strung with 20 or 25 pound mono for salmon or 60 pound braid for halibut
Tackle, we don't have much, we had a couple spoons we donated to a kelp bed and the wife bought a bunch of "pretty stuff" at a bait shop that I think are mainly halibut jigs and didn't work at all trolling for salmon. A lot of the youtube people like flashers with various things or hearing dragged behind the flasher. What would you try using for salmon?
Techniques? Tolling, jigging, mooching I've learned the differences on youtube but that's about it. I'm thinking trolling with down riggers is our best bet and it seems like speeds should be 1-3mph depending on the bait you are using. Or should we try something besides trolling with down riggers. How do we figure out how deep to set the down riggers/ how deep we should be trolling?
I've started to watch a bunch of videos on how to do use the lowrance sonar and I'm starting to understand what's on the screen. I think that will help a lot the next time we go out
How do tides factor into fishing? We have huge tides here.
Any recommendations on some reading or you tube channels would be great. I'm just about through sonar for dummies. Any pointers would be great.
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