Day on the Nehalem with spinners

While the catching this weekend was not great the fishing was. We did bring in some great chinooks fresh from the ocean. A father and son team from Idaho took home forty plus pounds of fillets. Our Portland State connection lost a good Chinook at the boat and Coach Wally and Jim from ADT each landed perfect salmon.









While we love talking about our trip we want to speak about how we were fishing the spinners. New things we were trying. Spinners properly tied and fished at the right speed have always produced salmon. Fall chinooks are made crazy at times and cannot resist these spininng balls of color. What has always been missing is a good way to add another important eliment. Scent!

Many various sprays and rubs have been used with limited success. Sprays come off in a hurry and gel based applications are good for scent but make blades not bright or sticky. Unless cleaned and stored right they lead to the spinner going bad.

But recently I have been working with a metal scent tube. Various colors, sizes. At first I fished them below the blade by resucing the number of beads. These newly tied spinners caught fish at once. But at the end of each day the inside of the blade was always coated with the Gel and extra time was needed to clean up.

Last Friday evening I tied six with the scent body on top of the blade. Here is what I now had. The body loaded with Pautzke's Gel Krill now spun vs. being fixed. This in the water created more spin/motion, created a turbo noise with the water running thru the holes and made the scent trail largeer and more effective.

The fishing was slower the last three days Sat-Mon. But we had more hits and fish on then most. All of our fish were caught on the scent spinners. I fished three regular and two scent most of the time.

Check out the fish that almost swallowed this spinner!




If you want more information on the Scent Spinners or Pautzke's Gel Krill contact us.

Upcoming more tips on Fall Chinooks in tide water, drift boating and getting preped for Winter Steelhead.

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Val Perry
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