My post about the downrigger clips got me thinking about picking up a few more lures to drag behind the boat this upcoming King Season. Just curious to see what everyones faves are for fishing Puget Sound. If I only had 2 to use this season due to the abundance of 5 to 6 inch herring I would use the cop car tomic spoon with the prism tape straight off the rigger with no flasher, and the old standby green spatterback hootchie with a mylar insert behind a green 11 inch hot spot flasher. What are your faves?

green point wilson.

K 13 X Tiger Taxi w/ sardine stink...
Whole herring in the salt (but that's not a lure)
or super secret coho killer...shhhh...

green pt.wilson in the salt, my k14 grinch with more teeth marks than you could count and a smiley face on the bill in the columbia

coho killer rigged with a split ring/barrel swivel/rvrfshr siwash.
Standard hoochie setup would be #2.
#3 would be a Funky Chicken spoon no flasher.
Also like cutplug no flasher or a whole herring toothpicked behind an Abe and Al.
So there's five. Like em all.

I had a crappy king season last year but the "go to" was not what you are mentioning Chuck.
A couple of guys hammered em up north with something different.
I do like the Ace Hi's though....not crap talking those.

Coyote green and white that is the only lure I carry but I only fish with herring so I not too sure if it really works

Green spatter back ACE HI all the way. . . . . . can't beat "Ole Blue" . . . .

I fish 5 setups.
Silver Horde Coho Killer or Sonic Edge Spoons (mostly in the outer sound) CK Colors are White Lightning, Army truck, Sonic's in UV purple or green.
Hoochie and a herring strip (primarily in EB and other terminal fisheries..) Hoochie colors are Purple Haze, Aurora, green splatterback, or all glow with green stripe.
Ace-Hi's in white or green splatter back
Cut plug straight off the dr with only a bead chain, anywhere.
& Plugs, I only fish all glow with a green stripe.

atomic 603 gets the big ones every time!!!

Ace-hi. It's where it's at. Kingers can't resist 'em.

What about the "mreyns special"

Coyote spoon in Funky Chicken.

That color sure produces well for BIG river kings as well.

Doc, are'nt you supposed to be hooking numerous Kings on the fly rod here soon?

summer kings for me has to be a blue label cut plug by itself with 55ft of wire out

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Anything Captain Downriggin's

Just out of curiosity, anyone ever try an Alvin or Simon wobbler out in the salt??

Keith

Coyote spoon in green/white glow. Cut plug a close second.

I've successfully fished Apex lures for kings, but strangely had no luck here. All much fish came from BC on trips up near Campbell River and farther north.

Nothing like the motor mooched plug cut herring for kings... No flasher, just plain, unadulterated, slow trolled herring.

Whole herring slow spin w/4-5 oz.

Secret brine, cut plug green label, guts in, no weight, no flasher...

#6 Bue Fox Vibrax in blue or purple, silver blade slathered in krill scent.

agree on the apexes, never had any luck on them in Puget Sound but they work great off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Makes no sense to me since they are the same runs of fish.

My faves dont always catch them.

#1 Tomic Plug 602, 603, 230g 4" and 5"

#2 Dodger and Convict Hootchie

#3 Flasher and Spoon, Army truck Coyote, or Coho Killer

#4 Cut Plug Herring, a little messy for me but sometimes a must

the old stand by, green/white coho killer
new stand by, purple haze hoochie behind a purple haze uv flasher
secret weapons, ace hi behind a uv flasher with a red stripe and a uv coho killer in white with the white (i think its called plaid) uv flasher.

All of the above smeared with some sort of stinky stuff you can't get off your hands before you get home.

Does it smell like fish?

Tough to outgun the Hoonah Slow Roll,with the toothpick retaining the subtle bend. A broken tail don't seem to hurt.

I used to use a Rhys Davis helmet, but went to a FBR. Is that a lure?

Other than that, I troll the 3.5 version old school Coyote spoons in the Wonder Bread and glow/green. Recently converted to the Tomic 3.5 glow 603 or glow 530 to get a better paint job and better hooks than the newer versions of the LJ .
Next year I'll certainly be trying out some of the Tomic, glow 512 spoons come blackmouth.

We used to troll a cutplug stick of non-salted butter on a triple hook set up with a toothpick in the front to hold it... Make sure to keep the the stick-o-butter on ice prior to fishing, the bait has it's best results in water temps around 50 degrees so the meltoff isn't too quick.

When they bite it, make sure to let them take it good. Once they get the mouthful of butter you don't want to set the hook too soon as the hooks could slip out of their mouth...

Killer bait, really.......

Keith

Yep-My favorite is what worked yesterday but they don't allways last very long. If I see bait and aint getting bites I switch real quick!

If I could only carry three-

Green label herring
Green glow/white 3.5" Coyote spoon
Gold Star # 142R squid/candle fish with a twinkle skirt inside.

Cut plug herring.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

purple haze hootchie is my fav with a twinkle skirt and three beads...

then i would say the green splatter back hootchie...

and then the purple haze coho killer...

i wonder what will work the best this year....c