Dogfish,

Excellent. Let's plan on Saturday the 23rd. You won't need any tackle for that day, I've got you covered.

Those drinks are "buttery nipples", made with 1/2 Baileys Irish Cream and 1/2 Butterscotch Schnapps. Add an equal amount of vodka for the "panty removal" feature when drinking/fishing with the wife. She'll be naked before she realizes she's even got a buzz going!!! This concoction is also known by other names, but I kinda' like this one the best.

I'll call ya' later this week...after I talk with Jeff.

What does the WD-40 do? I've heard that many times, just get the human scent off?

where do you get herring scent?

Thanks,
BEn

I think it's important to "match the hatch." This time of the year, most of the bait is pretty small, depending on where you are. Lots of time it's candlefish.

So if you're using spoons, use coho killers and smaller style spoons. Green, green/glow, that sort of thing. If you're using hootchies, use the thin needlefish-style hootchies. If you're using bait, either buy small bait, use herring strips, or cut your big bait down to present a small profile.

I like the Smelly Jelly pastes, they are the consistency of Vaseline, I use the herring (blue) and the anchovie (off white), I've had really good luck with both of them. I've also heard Tom Nelson talk a couple of times about mixing them with garlic, but I've yet to try it.

Most important this time of year is fish on the bottom... like within 10 feet of the bottom, the closer the better. That's where the blackmouth will be most often.

The WD-40 cleans off your gear, removes the human scent, and if you add Smelly Jelly or some other oil to your gear, it makes a scent trail, this is what's I've been told. The "WD" in "WD-40" stands for "Water Dispersment"

Check out Tom Nelson and John Keizer's black mouth articles in the last two issues of The Reel News, they've got good info in there.

You can find Smelly Jelly and free issues of The Reel News at most good tackle stores, I know Outdoor Emporium in Seattle will have them both.

-N.

Can you buy Hering the size of your thumb? or more like 3/4 the length?

Where I fish in the summer, I sometimes stay out late (11:00) sometimes just casting and catching nothing and little schools of bait fish will start popping up all around me so I cast into them hopping for a big salmon, and sometimes hook the little guys... they are soooo small, I don't see how the salmon could mistake the herring I use for those little ones.. geuss they also agree bigger is beter :p

- can you use casting nets in area 11? I could pull in a lot of my own right size bait that way

for fishing off a dock or from shore they are the best size, cast them cut plugged to jumpers or swimming fish or suspend under a float, hood canal bridge can give limits of those fire cracker size herring in salmon season and you a single 2/0 hook finish hook. red label are good too but there harder to find, but the herring company there in purdy can have them fresh sometimes. Ben

It's the base "oil" that makes WD-40 so good...
Keith

this may sound really stupid...

But I have a simple idea..

what if you were to soak your herring in oil? then mabye partially freeze them so the oil crusted to them and then disipated as they thawed in the water...

good or stupid idea