pre season

mx19 · Senior Member

pre season

brian clemens · Senior Member

i havent been on in a while, where abouts did you go.

WT · Senior Member

I have heard about the technique of beading, I know they do it in alaska, but I dont know too much about it. Without giving away too many secrets, can you explain it.

Chris Laskodi · Veteran Member

There's really no secret to it. All a bead is supposed to represent is salmon spawn. Generally you use different sizes and colors to imitate whatever eggs are in the water. In AK the fish key in on certain colors and sizes, but here its less important. In places where there aren't even salmon they work too imitating other species spawn. I've used huge beads on steelhead in AK and am going to try using them in CA on steelhead. They are just basically giant attractors.

Here's a link on several ways to rig them:
http://www.troutbeads.com/How_To.html

You can also buy them from trout beads. They are the supplier for most of the beads for this purpose.

mx19 · Senior Member

I buy most of my beads from troutbeads.com...I dont rig mine like they show on trout beads .com but there method works great as well..I suspend my bead with a nail knot so it can slide up and down...other than that you fish it like any other nymph rig... Another good thing about beads is you dont have to have a perfect dead drift to present them...And they are cheap to buy....I know for a fact size and color is important and can change from week to week....There are a few go to colors and my favorte recomended color is a 10MM peach glitter pearl...

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mx19 · Senior Member

�� I left the location out of my post on purpose...I was hoping to fish it a few more times before the fall season crowds roll in...

shon42073 · Senior Member

you guys ever fish a corkie and yarn around here ? Was my goto spin setup for washington salmon a few years ago. Man those chum salmon just loved the green ones !

-- Edited by shon42073 at 17:35, 2008-09-24

brian clemens · Senior Member

the guys that usually fish that basin use corkies and yarn a bunch, but because there are no one salmon fishing (WHICH YOU CAN JUST CANT KEEP ANY, dfg requests that you do not target them, but it doesnt say you cant target or fish for salmon as long as you do not keep any) its great fishing for the fly guys.