Thanks Stic


Cool Kirk

These things have a very cool feature too. They have a built in release system. That's what the little plastic hooks i milled are for. They use 18" of heavy braided line much like the bow string material we use now days. This is inside the 1/4" surgical tubing which is cut about 5" in length. It is stretched a few inches and hooked on the back of the flasher.  When a salmon hits this, it stretches the tubing out and disengages, or releases the back of the flasher so there is no drag while you fight your fish. It just dangles there instead of rotating. This also works as a "Snubber" helping keep tension on the line when they shake their heads. They cannot get any slack and that tubing keeps the hooks set deep. This is a nice feature for less experienced fisherman in case they let a bit of slack in the line.

Here are a couple more photos of the release system.  Fun project!    Kirk

https://photos.app.goo.gl/nUHAR6wcb2GSiFrC7

Are you sure the fish aren't just being hypnotized by the swirling Disco reflector

Actually....with the water turbidity at 15 right now , the visibility is only about 3 feet to the human eye. But as the water clears I hope it does hypnotize a few this year. These Spring chinook are the best eating salmon there is. Hands down.   Kirk

I use to go Salmon fishing with my Uncle on the Trask, near Tillamook. Don't know if they were Chinook.
Whatever they were, it was good eating.

Quote from: Flem on March 20, 2022, 11:58:17 AM
I use to go Salmon fishing with my Uncle on the Trask, near Tillamook. Don't know if they were Chinook.
Whatever they were, it was good eating.

I fished the Trask river for many years in the fall and caught some monster sized fish in the late 80s and early 90s. We used to run a drift boat down there a lot until it started getting to crowded. That and I got too old to enjoy the drift boat as much as I did in my younger years.

We fish the Willamette a lot in Spring,  and in Fall we run our bigger boat in the Columbia and in the bays on the coast a lot more. I'm just starting to get comfortable with slipping out over the bar on blue bird days into the ocean to do some bottom fishing. The 19' Bluewater boat does well in rough water conditions and handles 5-6' swells just fine. But we don't fish out there when it gets that lumpy by choice.  We do a lot of crabbing in the bays too. It's good sport.    Kirk

You guys are making me hungry. Keep it up! 

This one was a new one on me.  SIL  caught it last week.

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What is it?

The missing link

Just letting you guys know there is a Smart Alec over on Imgur 

It's called a Tautog.

Quote from: Crooked Stic on March 22, 2022, 10:01:04 AM
Just letting you guys know there is a Smart Alec over on Imgur 

I'll be a son of a gun.. They got them over there too?

Middle son Brandon is visiting so he got put to work in the shop.  Maybe he will wanna carry on there if I ever get old and retire...

Quote from: kennym on March 22, 2022, 05:12:18 PM
Middle son Brandon is visiting so he got put to work in the shop.  Maybe he will wanna carry on there if I ever get old and retire...

Too late
you are old and retarded 

Older than dirty dirt..

You set yourself up for that Kenny

Yeah me got dirt younger.

Tough crowd, but yall aint botherin me.