salmon fishing

ive never fished for salmon on the ocean and was wandering if any one could let me know a good rigging to use from my kayak thanx   

'bout time another Brookings resident chimes in here!
 as many Yaks as we have riding on top of rigs around here...you would think half the town should be on our site.
 Welcome to the NWKA Bfisher
 I'm sure one or two of these Salmon Slayers will get you rigged and trolling soon.

thanx ill see you at the derby

So, does anyone care to share info here?

I want to give this a shot myself.  Other than trolling a Blue Fox with 1 oz weight, I have no idea...

Keep it simple. 

Option 1
2 foot leader, diver, 4 foot leader, Coyote spoon, 15 to 20 pulls (2ft/pull), troll, troll, troll

Option 2
4-6oz weight on a sliding swivel, 5 foot leader to Coyote spoon, 15 to 20 pulls, troll, troll, troll

Option 3
Find a bait ball, look for baitfish jumping, throw heavy spinners at them

Option 4
Troll Option 1 or 2 upwind and then mooch herring or anchovies back downwind

Good Luck!
-Spot-

#3 has another option.  Pt Wilson Darts or something similar.  3 or 4 ounce ones in greens blues whites and combos of them for king and coho.  pink buzz bombs for pinks.

if you want to get fancier, try the konezone flashers featured on the front page and troll a hoochie or ace hi fly.  i'm going to experiment with Zak's "royal flash" flies that have a little lip on them that is supposed to give them the proper action without the need for a dodger.  there are some very positive first hand reports on them from westport. i thnink they show great promise for yak fishers.  use a banana weight or a diver and skip the hassle and drag of the dodger.  i'll let you know if they work.

Bobby

Awesome guys.  Thanks!

Hopefully I am off to get my kayak today.  Hobie Revolution.

Fish on!

15 to 20 pulls (2ft/pull),

as a total newbie, what's this mean?

As you're cruising along trolling, you'll have you're rod out in front of you somehow with you're line in the water. As you get up to a decent trolling speed, you grab the line near the reel and strip the line off with as many "pulls" as needed to reach a desired depth as you're moving along. That way, you can reach a good trolling depth without letting out line from the start when you're not moving and risk getting hung up on the bottom from the get-go.

15 to 20 pulls (2ft/pull),

as a total newbie, what's this mean?

Welcome to the cure rschmid67!

As yakinup describes, it's a unit of measure for how much line you've "pulled" from your reel.  A pull is generally taken to mean the distance from your reel to the 1st eyelet on your rod.  For most rods this distance is approximately 24".  


It is a total pain in the ass to pull that much line out while maintaining momentum!  (Pay attention now, I'm giving you a pearl here)  If you know how deep you're going to be fishing, use a florescent bobber stopper to mark your shallowest target depth.  Then it's just a matter of hitting free-spool until the bobber stop shows.  From there you can increase depth by watching the position of the bobber stopper in relationship to the reel.

-Spot-

Excellent.  Thanks for the advice.

How bout' those Ducks. Great game beating up on SC. Good luck fishing