Feeling Nauti
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Hey Everyone,
I started this new thread about the Jughead's after getting a selection of them from A.J. and then taking them up to Rivers Inlet for 5 days this past week to see how they performed. This is just a summary of how well they did, how we rigged them, and the comments from the guides that also tried them at the Good Hope Cannery.
On day one we started with a trip across to Calvert Island's East side to troll for Coho. One thing about going to a fully guided lodge is that the guides have their own ways of catching fish for their clients, and a new client that comes up there and wants to try their own stuff, lures, or methods is nothing new. Usually the guide will humour the clients at first until they fail to catch fish and then step in with their tried and true methods and catch the fish that the client came for.
This was no different for me and my friend Stu when I asked Joe(our guide) if we could try a new lure a friend had designed. Joe graciously agreed to give the Jughead a try on one side of the boat while he used his methods on the other(a flasher and spoon).
It was about 1 in the afternoon when I put the Green Spatter Back Hoochie on a Green Jughead down 6 feet behind the flasher. It took about 30 seconds to get our first hit, a 10lb Coho was hooked and subsequently netted.....a good start. So back down went the Jughead for another try........this time it took a little longer to get our second hit......about 1 minute, give or take a few seconds. So that's Jughead 2, Lure 0.
So for about the next 30 minutes the Jughead drastically out fished the spoon and we caught 9 Coho in the following 30 minutes. With Joe convinced of the performance we decided to put down another Jughead on the starboard side, this time A white Hoochie on a white Jughead, but both without the flasher this time.
For the next 30 minutes we fished like this, and once again the Coho slammed the Jugheads, but now the White on White was kicking the Green on Green's butt by a large margin.....about 4-1. Needless to say we pulled the Green on Green up and put another white on white down. To make a long story short, for the next 3 hours, on our first afternoon of being at Rivers Inlet, we caught and released 24 coho and kept 3 each....Oh yeah...they weighed between 10-14lbs. All and all a great first afternoon.
Each day, in the Mornings, we headed up to the Head of the Inlet to fish for the big Whonnock River Springs that run up to and over 80lbs. These fish are extremely hard to catch and are always mooched for using cut plug herring, so se didn't use the Jughead while we fish the head of the inlet and I managed to catch a 25lb Spring that morning.
Each afternoon after lunch, we headed back over to Calvert Island to fish for Coho. Day number two I fished solo with my guide Joe as they had an extra guide that wanted to fish, so they split Stu and I up and gave us our own boat and guide for the day.
We had the lines wet for Coho at Calvert Island around 2:30 pm after successfully jigging and catching our Halibut further up the island. We continued with the White on White on both sides without flashers for the rest of the afternoon. Now seeing it was just Joe and I, we both took turns fishing, and just like the day before the action was spectacular....and had an Epic afternoon. To summarize our day 2 afternoon results, in 2 hours and 20 minutes, we caught and released 30 Coho(between 9-14lbs), had 7 double headers, 3 back to back to back double headers, and kept 3 14lb Coho's.
So I guess everyone is seeing the trend by now so I'll just summarize the week overall. All in all we(Stu and I) managed to catch 3 nice Red springs 23, 25 and 26 lbs, a hundred and five Coho's from 8-15 lbs in 3 afternoons and one 2 hour period this morning, as well as getting both our halibut the first afternoon we were there.
The guides that tried the Jugheads had the same results, and even they changed over to the Jugheads from how they had been fishing with their methods.
So there you have it, the Jughead's performance was spectacular, and YES these numbers are 100% accurate as we did keep track of all fish caught.
I have some pictures we took on the trip but I just got home at 12:30 and wanted to get this write up of our results for AJ written up before I go have a nap....LOL.
One last note......Up until this point in my life I have never asked my guide to stop for a few minutes so I could take a break from catching fish because my arm need a break.....But, as bad as that sounds, I actually did once on this trip.
AJ....I'm happy to say that the Jughead out performed everything else when it came to catching Coho at Rivers Inlet, As far as the Whonnock Springs are concerned we didn't get the opportunity to try them as we used cut plugs all week.
Cheers Everyone(I'll upload some pic's later)
I started this new thread about the Jughead's after getting a selection of them from A.J. and then taking them up to Rivers Inlet for 5 days this past week to see how they performed. This is just a summary of how well they did, how we rigged them, and the comments from the guides that also tried them at the Good Hope Cannery.
On day one we started with a trip across to Calvert Island's East side to troll for Coho. One thing about going to a fully guided lodge is that the guides have their own ways of catching fish for their clients, and a new client that comes up there and wants to try their own stuff, lures, or methods is nothing new. Usually the guide will humour the clients at first until they fail to catch fish and then step in with their tried and true methods and catch the fish that the client came for.
This was no different for me and my friend Stu when I asked Joe(our guide) if we could try a new lure a friend had designed. Joe graciously agreed to give the Jughead a try on one side of the boat while he used his methods on the other(a flasher and spoon).
It was about 1 in the afternoon when I put the Green Spatter Back Hoochie on a Green Jughead down 6 feet behind the flasher. It took about 30 seconds to get our first hit, a 10lb Coho was hooked and subsequently netted.....a good start. So back down went the Jughead for another try........this time it took a little longer to get our second hit......about 1 minute, give or take a few seconds. So that's Jughead 2, Lure 0.
So for about the next 30 minutes the Jughead drastically out fished the spoon and we caught 9 Coho in the following 30 minutes. With Joe convinced of the performance we decided to put down another Jughead on the starboard side, this time A white Hoochie on a white Jughead, but both without the flasher this time.
For the next 30 minutes we fished like this, and once again the Coho slammed the Jugheads, but now the White on White was kicking the Green on Green's butt by a large margin.....about 4-1. Needless to say we pulled the Green on Green up and put another white on white down. To make a long story short, for the next 3 hours, on our first afternoon of being at Rivers Inlet, we caught and released 24 coho and kept 3 each....Oh yeah...they weighed between 10-14lbs. All and all a great first afternoon.
Each day, in the Mornings, we headed up to the Head of the Inlet to fish for the big Whonnock River Springs that run up to and over 80lbs. These fish are extremely hard to catch and are always mooched for using cut plug herring, so se didn't use the Jughead while we fish the head of the inlet and I managed to catch a 25lb Spring that morning.
Each afternoon after lunch, we headed back over to Calvert Island to fish for Coho. Day number two I fished solo with my guide Joe as they had an extra guide that wanted to fish, so they split Stu and I up and gave us our own boat and guide for the day.
We had the lines wet for Coho at Calvert Island around 2:30 pm after successfully jigging and catching our Halibut further up the island. We continued with the White on White on both sides without flashers for the rest of the afternoon. Now seeing it was just Joe and I, we both took turns fishing, and just like the day before the action was spectacular....and had an Epic afternoon. To summarize our day 2 afternoon results, in 2 hours and 20 minutes, we caught and released 30 Coho(between 9-14lbs), had 7 double headers, 3 back to back to back double headers, and kept 3 14lb Coho's.
So I guess everyone is seeing the trend by now so I'll just summarize the week overall. All in all we(Stu and I) managed to catch 3 nice Red springs 23, 25 and 26 lbs, a hundred and five Coho's from 8-15 lbs in 3 afternoons and one 2 hour period this morning, as well as getting both our halibut the first afternoon we were there.
The guides that tried the Jugheads had the same results, and even they changed over to the Jugheads from how they had been fishing with their methods.
So there you have it, the Jughead's performance was spectacular, and YES these numbers are 100% accurate as we did keep track of all fish caught.
I have some pictures we took on the trip but I just got home at 12:30 and wanted to get this write up of our results for AJ written up before I go have a nap....LOL.
One last note......Up until this point in my life I have never asked my guide to stop for a few minutes so I could take a break from catching fish because my arm need a break.....But, as bad as that sounds, I actually did once on this trip.
AJ....I'm happy to say that the Jughead out performed everything else when it came to catching Coho at Rivers Inlet, As far as the Whonnock Springs are concerned we didn't get the opportunity to try them as we used cut plugs all week.
Cheers Everyone(I'll upload some pic's later)
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