Brown Blast Techniques

[GLF]

One of the goals of this site is to help everyone become a better fisherman. For those of you that were successful during the Brown Blast, what worked for you? What was your hot baits? What was your presentation?

Do you mind sharing some information with everyone?

[Catfishhoge]

Well I must say it was definatly a "Blast"!

I had Trout Tracker and his cousin Don aboard and with our knowledge we were able to get the second place award! We run a planner mast with Otter Boats, three lines off each side all with stick baits in various patterns. Two riggers with spoons usually but they were dead untill we changed up and put a mustard thunderstick on one. Orange jointed rapala was the best bait for us but we picked up fish on several others as well. No spoon bites. That is unusual for us. We got all the hits under twenty fow but one hit close to thirty on a yellow hot-n-tot which we missed. Also ran a flat line down the shute and took a fish or two on that.

Two browns and seven coho with several misses. Not a bad day!

Rick

[Steve Arend]

We started our program targeting brown from the get-go. We ran to the pump house and set lines between the sand bars with 4 body baits on high-lines off inline boards and 2 (2) colors with spoons off inline boards and spoons off 2 riggers set up tight to the ball and we ran 1 wire diver with flasher/fly looking for a king. We went 1 for 3 out in front of the junk cars and worked down to the new houses flipped her and picked up our king back in front of the junk cars on the outside of the second sand bar. After that we went dead in the water for a long time (to much boat traffic.) We made a troll to the end of the piers and hit a school of small Cohos and boxed 3 with in 15 minutes. Took a troll on the north side of the piers (less traffic) and then headed out to 50fow were we picked up your bigger Coho. After improving are box with the bigger Coho we switch gear and rigged for kings with stacked riggers, 2 wire divers, and some highlines out looking for some big browns. By this time the wind had picked up and was making the north-south troll next to impossible.