How was everyone's salmon season this year? Mine was wonderful, I brought in well over 30 pinks(humpies) about 10 silvers and a couple kings.  I usually run 2 corkies, a piece of yarn, and a bait of eggs.  What do you use and why?

I had a lot of luck with the spinners this year, got to remember to clip those barbs before you put it in the water or it might cost you some money, your fishing pole, and on some occasions your vehicle as well.  No luck for me on the steelhead yet though, but I have caught a few chum.  Chum make some nice smoked salmon, and I use my own smoker. 

Does anyone have a special recipe they use for their own smoked salmon?

Fishing for trout

Over the last 15 years I have caught so many trout, I can't even remember them all.  I would always catch 2-5 trout in a day, and it usually took all day.  I always bought the most colorful powerbait, the colored worms, the coolest looking rooster tails, and whatever caught my eye at the local fishing shop.  

It was always on and off with those things, some days I could catch my limit in under 2 hours, and other days I could sit all day without catching a thing.  I tried asking other fishermen what they were using and how I could do better but they would show me a yard and a half or some other expensive gear that I didn't have the time to learn to hook up or pay for out of my thin wallet. 

One day about a year ago I did an online search to find some more advice on how to catch trout, but not just trout, we're talking BIG trout.  I took my boat out after reading this guide and each time since has been a bit better for me.  There are many good techniques that I was unaware of and I had no idea about where the fish would hold in the water.

I have learned so much about fishing that an average fisherman just doesn't know.  How a trout thinks, where they like to be, under what conditions.  Check this guide out, I know it will be worth your while just as it was worth mine!