Category: Salmon Fishing
The what, where, when and how of catching salmon.
Anise scented eggs are a go to bait for a lot of people who fish the salmon and steelhead runs around the Great Lakes. They are more popular in some areas than others, but they actually work anywhere you can fish salmon and steelhead. Although we might call these “anise salmon eggs” they actually aren’t salmon …
Beads can be very effective for catching trout and salmon. But how do you fish with just a simple bead? The rigging is quite simple. The fishing isn’t too difficult either. The most important aspect of it all is presenting a bead in a way that mimics a free floating egg in the water. The basic …
Salmon in the Great Lakes run into the tributaries to spawn each fall. This usually starts in September and ends at some point in October. In most of the Great Lakes king salmon and silver salmon predominate. During the annual salmon run countless anglers from all over the United States and even the world show up …
Every September huge numbers of king and coho salmon make their semi-annual spawning runs into the tributaries that feed the Great Lakes. Waters like the Salmon River in New York fill up with salmon that often weigh twenty pounds or more. Countless anglers arrive at the same time, trying to hook up with these bruisers. Once …
It has long been believed by scientists and anglers alike that Pacific salmon stop feeding when they enter freshwater rivers and streams for their annual spawning run. Sure, they take the occasional salmonid egg, but it’s argued that this is done out of instinct or to give their own progeny a better chance against the competition. …
On September 19, angler Tom Olivio of Montana caught and released what he claims could have been a world record coho (silver) salmon on the Salmon River in upstate New York. The Salmon River is home to an annual fall run of chinook (king) salmon, coho salmon and what remains of the Atlantic salmon after which …
The black kokanee ("kunimasu" in Japanese), which has been presumed extinct for the last 70 years, has recently resurfaced in a lake around 310 miles south of its native lake.