Also if you happen to be rowing a boat while Todd is fishing up front... Wear body armor, safety glasses and most importantly a helmet !

"Look I'm attracted to metallic flash and action but that man killed both in the assembly of his whirler".

very cool, you have time to make spinners? i dont even have time to go buy them right now...

My understanding of the best way to fish the Rvrfshr spinners is to tie a swivel to the main line and snap the spinner in? Presentation would be a little up river, let in sink and slowly start reeling and changing speeds? Is correct? How about choosing size and color for river conditions?

Thanks for the help in advance.

As far as giving the fish different rhythms with retrieve speed, that isn't a bad idea, and sometimes thats all thats needed to get finicky coho to bite.

My understanding of the best way to fish the Rvrfshr spinners is to tie a swivel to the main line and snap the spinner in? Presentation would be a little up river, let in sink and slowly start reeling and changing speeds? Is correct? How about choosing size and color for river conditions?

Thanks for the help in advance.

RVRFSHR should make their own brand of knee pads. They'd be big sellers on this site.

I saw you guys were runnin a mixture of herring and hootchie spinners on sunday, what was the results between the two. What out did what.

ls, Rvrfshr spinners come with a pre-installed swivel, so no need for a snap swivel.

The technique you are describing is excellent for summer runs, and works pretty well for winter runs, too...for coho, and other salmon, too, for that matter...I think it works better to either cast it into froggy water and retrieve it, or to toss it across and down slower moving water and let it swing, hopefully so it will be moving quite a bit slower than an upstream/reel down presentation.

Fish on...

Todd

Both worked great, which boat were you in?

So...a couple of weeks ago at the Chehalis Fish-In I slipped Dr. Francis a couple of my RvrfshrHootchieSpinners...you can see one stuck in the maw of his "coho or Chinook?" thread...

Anyway...I made a bunch more up this morning in anticipation of a weekend of coho fishing, so I thought I'd share with the crowd...here they are...

First, I start out with Sampo swivels...I take off the stock metal rings, and put on split rings...here's all the parts:



In the next pic you can see the spinners sans hooks, and the hooks on the Sampo swivels...



The next pic shows the hootchies on the hooks...I open up the nose of the hootchie just enough to get the head of the Sampo through it, then put on the other split ring...



Put the split ring on the tail of the spinner, and you're good to go...



Today's selection...



The Sampo swivel? Yeah...probably not required, but here's why I use it...

Rvrfshr spinners don't really have rotating shafts...all well-built spinners ought not, and since Joe designed 'em and I built 'em, well, they don't spin The swivel actually allows the hootchie to flap around and twist around behind the spinner rather nicely.

It also helps with one other thing...I mostly fish with barbless hooks, and with no barb and the damn hootchie covering up part of the hook, I find that the swivel helps keep the hook jammed in the chops of a death-rolling silver better...

For steelhead in the summer I'm a big fan of the "toss it up, drag it down" type of spinner fishing...the exact opposite is employed for coho...

I'll typically toss it straight across, or downstream to about 45 degrees, and then reel it as it swings...but I only reel it just enough to keep the blade barely turning, which is an easy deal with a size 5 Rvrfshr...they spin nice and slowly.

Next steps include the fish hammering it, me setting the hook, and then playing the fish...hopefully resulting in a large two-tone hooknose in the box about five minutes later.

Fish on...

Todd

and I can make about one per minute once I get rolling...

Pink Hootchies are really hard to find right now.

I hate pink years.

I know it's not a RVRANYTHING product, but the 4.5 Pentac blades and bodies sure have a put a flaming metric buttload (FMB) of coho on the bank for me.

Finatic...I make my spinners, and the thousands that end up in stores, with a pair of needlenose pliers, and pair of wire cutters, and my fingers...here's a video that someone else on another site made of how to put them together...it's pretty good.

http://steelheadnotebook.net/forum/index.php?topic=547.0;p=11

I find that the spinner twisting tools work OK, but they wear out before they could make anywhere near the amount I need to build, and my fingers and a pair of pliers never wear out...and I can make about one per minute once I get rolling...

Fish on...

Todd

Andy, you can get reflective tape and hootchies at most shops...Sportco in Fife and OE in Seattle have both, as I'm sure many other stores do.

I'm looking into securing some rubber squid for this purpose, in bulk, to make available to our customers on a seasonal basis...if I get that done, I'll let you know here.

Fish on...

Todd

My usual color combos are silver w/ orange or pink hootchie for colored or big water, and Gold or Copper with blue or green hootchies for clear water...that's about as technical as I get on the colors.

Fish on...

Todd

OK. Order #2066. Need an email too?

I might have to actually use a steel bearing between the clevis and body.