Salmon Tackle

Question for all:

Do you still have to use barbless hooks for Salmon?  If so, can you still bend down the barbs?  Are the hook requirements the asme for lures and bait?

Yes. Yes. Yes,

thanks metalhead for the advice, cameron

for mooching does everyone use two hooks

Trolling you can use j hooks, mooching circle hooks only  both barbless

Trolling you can use j hooks, mooching circle hooks only  both barbless

Not in Eureka though...  It's legal to mooch with sliding hooks up here and they don't have to be circle.

so if im not in Eureka can I use a mooching rig similair to the one below. As long as they our circle hooks.

so if im not in Eureka can I use a mooching rig similair to the one below. As long as they our circle hooks.

Bingo! Also, a side-note the hooks must be hard-tied (the top hook can't slide). There is a surplus of pre-tied mooching rigs w/circle hooks at most of the local shops...due to the fact that nobody's been buying them for the past 3 years.
2010 regs attached

so if im not in Eureka can I use a mooching rig similair to the one below. As long as they our circle hooks.

Bingo! Also, a side-note the hooks must be hard-tied (the top hook can't slide). There is a surplus of pre-tied mooching rigs w/circle hooks at most of the local shops...due to the fact that nobody's been buying them for the past 3 years.
2010 regs attached

and no more than 5 inches from eye of top hik to bottom curve of bottom hook.

Im sorry these guys cant put in simple terms so no sliding rig... the two hooks have to be tied and must not be able to move.

the weight question on trolling - i almost exclusively used 1 and 1.5 pound. Two pounds was too heavy- mind you that's with braid, and i typically fished at about 40 feet.  10% of the mono weight line capacity is a general rule- so 25# mono gives you 2.5 # weight.  Y0u're basing the weight on the drag created by the line/set-up system. More drag means shallower-- with the same weight. The other piece is how many "pulls" or feet-- if you paddle to run your rig at a 45 degree angle its easy to determine the depth you are at by pulling line off a foot at a time (you just have to remember a bit o' trig)

watermelon apex has always been my goto...fish lazer sinker release, and flasher.

I can still vividly remember my first yak salmon, and that crazy crazy year at Linda Mar (one hour car-to-car limit) and back home to watch the TT

I can still vividly remember my first yak salmon, and that crazy crazy year at Linda Mar (one hour car-to-car limit) and back home to watch the TT

yeah....I remember that, I had just put in and you were going home I hated you that day

I can still vividly remember my first yak salmon, and that crazy crazy year at Linda Mar (one hour car-to-car limit) and back home to watch the TT

yeah....I remember that, I had just put in and you were going home I hated you that day

I seem to recall that you limited out as well, so you must not have hated me that much - or maybe that's why you never fish with me... 

I can still vividly remember my first yak salmon, and that crazy crazy year at Linda Mar (one hour car-to-car limit) and back home to watch the TT

yeah....I remember that, I had just put in and you were going home I hated you that day

I seem to recall that you limited out as well, so you must not have hated me that much - or maybe that's why you never fish with me... 

...yeah...but I had to work a little harder for mine

I did fish with you before......you guided me and a couple of guys to a phenom striper bite at the Brickyard (waaaaay back when). I had a hell of a day too Don't recall how many I caught (and released) that day but it was EPIC

*I don't like fishing with you cause you never post pics with your reports

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