lordofthesprings
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hmm did you have any coho gear out ?
This is the closest result I could find for Mongoose. Coyote and Oki make the mongoose pattern but it's Green/Chartreuse/Nickelexcuse my ignorance kelly but what pattern is the mongoose coyote just moved back from two years in the yukon so switching from lakers back to a real fish haha.
hmm did you have any coho gear out ?
Out yesterday off F.C. Fished both tide changes and inbetween.
Slowest day ever. Fished lure depths of 30ft to 230 ft. From inshore to humps to out 400' beyond humps.
Tried all the goto plugs,hoochies, C.J.'s, spoons, squirts, needlefish behind 8 different flashers. Then tried the "experimentals".
Only thing that worked was a shortened to 3 inch green splatterback behind a Super Gold Betsy.
The fishfinder was mostly a vast wasteland....a few pockets of fish here and there but not much. No baitballs. (Unless there's something wrong with my finder but I don't think so.)
Tried a Mongoose spoon for quite awhile......absolutely nada zip zilch on that. Zero hits of anything.
Managed a couple of nice big hatch Coho. 130ft lure depth at South hump.
Now that said, when I got back to the dock the guy beside me had a couple Springs about 14 lbs. He got those at 200ft on the south hump. Didn't tell me what lure.
He also said he got a sockeye.
South hump was the only place I got any fish either.
I was down 200 to 230 deep on the humps at times but I guess it wasn't my turn for Chinooks.
Got a few Coho all day but no Springs at all, not even shakers.
That was 8 hours of straight trolling without the motor turned off once.
When I change tackle (and I'm really fast at that) the other side is always in the water.
Even when I get a fish the other side rod is still fishing.
I have a boatload of "goto" tried and true different lures/flashers that have caught fish. And I've always found that the right flashers can make a difference.
I don't believe in using one lure or flasher all day if it isn't producing.
"Produce" being the key word.
I've found time and time again that if you put the right combo down it's likely they'll hit.
Different things work better on different days.
I like catching not fishing.
Sometimes a "goto' will be hot on one day and another it won't.
To me it's like going to a restaurant when I'm not hungry. I may not want anything but if the chef keeps making different stuff and bringing it out, sooner or later he'll make something I can't resist.
"Find the bait"? In all that time I never saw a single baitball. Actually haven't seen a baitball on any trip out this year so far. (Off F.C.)
It's what you don't see off F.C. that can tell a story.
Almost zero diving birds. Zero seagulls squawking over surface bait. Almost zero seals hunting. Zero Eagles scavenging on the water. Zero sealions except when the herring are spawning.
All my trips are basically like yesterday...6 to 8 hours of trolling, sometimes punctuated with an hour of stationary jigging.
Some days I get a lot of hits. Some days are slow.
As far as the mongoose spoon goes......I've caught fish on it before in the past. As I have with any number of other spoons that worked as good or better.
But I certainly wouldn't rely on it exclusively and I find it odd that the person who raved about doesn't mention it anywhere in his old posts gone by over the years that I remember or can find.
If he did I stand corrected.
Oh my, granny, what big hands you have!Hooked into a few nice coho and springs off the humps tonight