Got my first brat today. Looks like they are coming early in good numbers. Thats not the first one ive had on or seen in the past few weeks.

Actually ill put in on anyways so you can see what it bit on.




[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: Bob ]

I cant fix the stupid picture untill I go home and do it on my photo software. Its on the visitors pics so you can peak at it there.

fixed

Ok fine now I'm not only drooling from the flu! Can't see it clearly but I'm wondering if that might be a brand new Vibrax Worm spinner? Or is it just my fever?

Gooose

Nice little fish Rich, Great Job.
That is kindof an odd looking spinner/worm combo that you are ussing but it oviously got in front of the right fish at the right time. Which brings up another topic: does it matter what your presenting to the fish if its in the strike zone as in in that "fishes" zone of atack?

I am thinking that it might matter becaus I know that i have had my gear go righ by numerous steelies with eggs or what have you and not gotten one to hit, and then you change your aproach and use a float and worm and first cast the bobber goes down.
Well just though I might throw that out there, it could just be non-sence to.
Thanks,

TrAvIs

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That may be an odd looking spinner that I concocted but it accounted for more silvers then I can count. Believe it or not It took 37 landed in one day all to my hand. Not to mention 4 steelhead and 4 Kings so far this fall. Three of the steelies came today, which were all winters. Id say its more then an odd spinner that got infront of the right fish. It was top secret but since salmon season is about over and Ill be putting the crazy spinners away soon I dont care. It wasnt designed to catch steelies but it does.

May I suggest "Horror of the Hoh" as a name for that thing? Heard you guys were working on some new zipperlip spinners...wait til you see my new special high carbon fiber polymer stealth technology designs with a d#mm pink worm attached. :p

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Gooose

We call it the MACHINE. It looks goofy and gets you some dirty looks when you pull it out in a crowd but if it works then who cares. That worm has some awsome action that the Slivers cant resist.

Rich is that just a #5 red Vibrax with a 6" pink worm that was cut a bit?
It looks like the worm would wobble enough to really intice some fish.
But I would imagin that other luhrs work better

Its a Custom painted #5 with a 3.5" worm on it.

GO AHEAD AND DOUBT ITS POWER! GO AHEAD AND TELL YOURSELF THAT OTHER LURES WORK BETTER IF IT WILL MAKE YOU SLEEP BETTER

Good going Rich! Send that pic too
if you don't mind. We've been finding
so many ways to effectively fish the
pink worm (other colors too - such as
black with a chartreuse tipped tail and
transparent purple in clear water)
for salmon and steelhead. Trolling the
lower Columbia earlier for silvers,
Don put on a spinner and pink worm
and got more strikes than the rest
of us using good plug-cut herring!
I also like to do a slow twitching
retrieve with them on a jighead hook.
Summer steelhead and early silvers
particularly go for this presentation,
maybe with the water no so cold yet. But
I will be trying it on winters too - soon!

RT

I already sent the Pics out. I only have that one on the Digicam but if you want it I could send you a quaility print, Just as good as a regular picture.

Hey Rich...

Got to tell you the Vibrax with the pink worm was a beautiful play. I told myself... why didn't I think of that. I fished the Sop this weekend and had fish rolling all around me and only hooked four and landed one. Anyway, they have been using Jigs with a pinky on it and it has been knocking them dead.

Anyway Congrats on a new trend...

Steve Novotny

So tell me ole Rich is that thang rigged
Tex-ass style or is'n that the ole Carolini
riggin. jk

She's a beaut I just hope this is the
beginning of a steelhead run to match
the salmon run we're having.

Damn... to think of just how much money
has been generated for the state thru tax
dollars, jobs, and divorce lawyers because
the fishing is as good as it is this year.
I know personally I have pumped my fair
share in. Just maybe the state will
realize how much money we generate for
them and maybe someday the scales will
tilt in the sportsmans direction.

Oh well hears to dreaming...

Thanks for the picture Rich



[ 11-08-2001: Message edited by: Pickled Herring ]

Just a thought but anyone considered handpouring some worms with a mixture of sandshrimp colors? Pink mostly with splotches of orange and white. Same thing for crawdads. Brown, orange,a speck of white and blue.

Gooose

You guys are starting to sound like bass fishermen!!!... you can buy all sorts of soft bait stuff made for bass, in every color imaginable... [Bleeeeep!] I've even seen brown rubber crawdads for sale at WalMart up here. Someone's just got to have the balls (and know-how) to try all that stuff.

-N.

Nice fish Rich!1 You just gave RT more motivation to use pink worms for every application in fishing. Including fly fishing Heck, RT probably showers with pink worm soap.

Nice going Rich on the presentation. I am sure there will be more of your invention out there after seeing that photo. Hopefully someone with a 15# plus Steelhead.

Rich, it's nice to see that a few brats are showing up. I might have to make the long drive from Sequim to Forks soon.

Keep experimenting with plastics, there are a lot of different ways to rig them. I moved here form E. WA with a tackle box full of bass and walleye stuff.
Hint: Start experimenting with 3/8 and 1/2 oz. tube jigs. You can cast and work them into very specific "fishy" spots. Bass pro shops also sells painted jigs with little spinners on them.

Catch and eat,

Ive already used it for fly fishing. threaded one on my fly leader and killed the Humpies up on Kodiak a couple months ago. Even made up a new fly the other day. I call it the egg sucking pink worm. Im going to try it this winter.

I've done some bass fishing in my life. Looks like the spinner is fully colored (Both sides of blade and body) with just one color (Red or Pink or Whatever). The pink worm doesn't look like a "worm" buy more like a "slug-go" on a single hook. A leech would also have good action.

Congrats on the fish. Do you sell those lures?

Matt

StorminN, there is this guy that has the nads and know how to try a myriad
of rubber bassy looking thangs for steelhead and 'hos, even the 'nooks - me.
I'm an avid experimenter and have been after this stuff actively for a couple
years now. I PROMISE you that you are missing out if you aren't trying a lot of
different colorful rubber 'thingies' from the "bass salad bar". There are
several ways to effectively present the stuff, but I best like putting them on
jighead hooks and float fishing them. I also take the float off and do a combo
of drift fishing them and a slow twitching retrieve with some remarkable
success at times. Cats out and running now. Rubber ain't just for bass and sex
anymore. Get after it!

RT

[ 11-09-2001: Message edited by: RT i ]

Oh, I'm not doubting they might not work, and work well, in fact, I've tried rubber worms and crawdads myself on the Sol Duc, I just don't have a solid river fishing foundation to start with and don't put in enough time river fishing to get a good feel for what is working and what isn't... I spend too much time in the salt.

I'm sure there will be a day when I come across some guy catching steelhead with a pink banjo minnow, I just can't guarantee I won't laugh when I see it.

-N.

Vouch for what RT said.......Fished with him and saw him using crappy jigs for silvers....said he hooked a couple, but I did not ever see the fish........