Chasing Dirty Dogs

[lost360]

I love fishing for chum

[RiverChromeGS]

yessir, gotta get me some bright green fluffy jigs. does anyone think shrimp tipped under float is better than twitching?

[Steelheadin360]

18 count sand shrimp tails can sometimes turn on a slow bite. the damn things get so mad at everything though i've never had to use bait.

Have you ever tried tying you own jigs?

[beachbum97]

yessir, gotta get me some bright green fluffy jigs. does anyone think shrimp tipped under float is better than twitching?

I'd say its around 50/50. I prefer fishing with the float though, it's fun to watch the float go down. Then again it feels great to a fish pound that jig. I don't really know. HA! But I always add shrimp. I put my shrimp in pautzkes borax o' fire to toughen it up and to add that krill scent and dye. Pink, orange, or Red is the way to go. They just ram that stuff. And as for jigs, I tie my own. Chartreuse/pink/purple/ black combo jig on a 3/8ths ounce jig head with a 1/0 hook

[MikeLFP]

FF listen to this. Starts around the 24 minute mark. Herzog talking bout chum.

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Hot pink sounds like the ticket!

[Bodofish]

Yeah but he like hot pink for everything.

[strider43]

How do you tell the hens from the bucks

[Bodofish]

How do you tell the hens from the bucks

Hens have the fat bellies and Bucks have the big hooked jaws and gnarley teeth.

[FishBaitThe2nd]

Ive already caughten over 40 chum this year.! Fun to fight.

[Bodofish]

I hope so, Belfair = chum city. Casting fly's into Case Inlet is a good tip if one wants to hit chums on a fly. My dad has a place on Case Inlet just before the hatchery creek and his neighbors are always out whipping up a fish or two. See kings heading that way too.

[RiverChromeGS]

awesome guys thanks for the GREAT info! im gonna go out and get some serious bent rods on the big nasties

[Brat Bonker]

can't go salmon fishing with out my beads haha, orange w/ #1 hook cast and retrieved=deadly. Good bank fishing on the skagit at the big eddy and olsen & swift creeks, might even tie into a steely when working jigs. Hawg quest has a cool vid in the achrive videos called "sum of chum" which they are fishing on the skagit I believe below sutter creek.

[fear_no_fish]

purples, pinks, whites, orange, green, lots of colors work. Jigs, yarn, cork and yarn, dick knights, plugs, spinners and my favorite way to catch them, big leach flies. Never really fished bait for them, don't really have to most of the time

I think you were using chartreuse on sunday when i pulled up and you had that beast on.. ;)

good to meetya

Yep that was it exactly, just yarn and nothing else. You should have seen the one i lost a little latter, solid 25#
It was nice meeting you too.

[bigskyx]

FF, I think the most important task is finding a school and presenting it, they aren't picky. Next to steelhead they are my favorite. Big & STRONG! I used mostly pink on the Nooksack, my best jig was black with pink head. Use cheap jigs because they will tear them up! Check the regs though, I don't think you can legally target them on the Skagit? The Nookie is closer!

[Dan Boone]

gettin` pumped!

[Brat Bonker]

that is one chrome chum dog you got there, thinking of trying jigs with prawns this year at the skok

[fishingmachine]

Caught this big ole dawg today on the SKY.
Brutal fight. One of the best fights ive had in a while.

[RiverChromeGS]

pig beast!!!!

[fishingmachine]

Thanks man. That chum could run circle around the coho fights we had today for sure. Was nice to bonk some chrome coho though as well.

[MikeLFP]

I caught 3 chums sunday on the hump.They fight WAY HARD!!!! That river is full of them. Story of the day to everyone we talked to. Chum chum chum. Everybody was catching them.