Salmonizer
We commonly fish cut plug herring for salmon in the northwest. The most effective way to fish them is a method we call motor mooching. It is basically trolling a herring and a sliding weight with a controlled presentation. We use the motor to control the boat in the tide currents, since you don't have tide currents you will need to use the motor to make the herring spin. There are as many variations for rigging the herring onto the hook as there are fishermen around these parts. (whole,spinners,cutplugs)
The most important part of the setup is good bait(fresh or quality frozen), bait that spins and sharp hooks. I have a tiny bit of information of the mooching technique on my site. http://www.steelheader.net/Salmon/mooching.htm

Hope this gets you started in the right direction. We have also used this technique to catch trophy sized trout from lakes.

Tight lines




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Marty
www.steelheader.net
marty@steelheader.net