Try Wiggle Warts. The medium sized ones. In silvery colors. I use them in the tidewater of the Green River and knock'em dead.

try a herring fillet about 3 inches long under a round cork float pegged with a piece of lead like for driftfishing for casting distance. it works the best for me in that situation. or if you fly fish attracter flies in short rapid hops work killer also. Ben

A super lure for this situation is the Bud's #3 spinners, I like the brass best. Vibrax #3 and Mepps #4, I think, worked well too. Light lines to get the lure out far and a slow retrieve enough to keep in off the bottom has worked very well for me especially on the incoming tides. If you're working the shoreline you'll probably need to go to a smaller, lighter spinner though. I have always thought that this is one of the funnest fisheries we have around. I'm always amazed at how few people take advantage of it. HAVE A BLAST!

What is a Bud's #3 spinner?... I don't think I have seen them before....

Thanks

Bud's is just another brand of spinner.

Brings back memories of the first time I fished for "net pen" silvers in Oak Harbor. I used to limit out, on silvers to 12 lb.s, in about 20 min.s.

It probably wasn't even 15' (more like 2-6', at the most) deep, and many times I was sight castin to the fish! Boy, is a fresh silver hooked in water that shallow a "hot" fish!!

One of the funnest fisheries I've experienced to date.

I was fishin from shore and using mostly buzz bombs and a trout pole w/4 lb test line.

I think I was usin mostly the two to two and a half inch buzz bumbs, but they may have been even smaller.

I like to use the largest buzz bomb that won't hang up on the bottom. I think that the larger the buzz bomb the greater the distance from which it will attract fish.

In most fisheries I replace treble hooks w/either a single siwash or with a double (octopus style) hook leader, sometimes adding a very small hootchie or aerofly to the buzz bomb.

If the silvers are in thick, like they were in Oak Harbor, I don't bother makin any modifications, not even replacing the trebles (don't fergit to mash them barbs down if it's required in the area that you fish).

In addition to spinners and B-bombs, Krocodile and Kastmaster spoons worked well and I even caught one on a Super Duper!

Hope this helps. And, if it's a net pen fishery, the fish will get stale (develop "lockjaw") pretty fast cuz they're lookin fer a river to spawn in that isn't there.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,
Roger