Searching for Early Season Chinook Salmon with Soft Beads

Searching for Early Season Chinook Salmon with Soft Beads | Fishing with Rod

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@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

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@avid.venture Ай бұрын

Hey! Good to see you finally made the switch to a left handed reel 🙌🏻😂

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

lol I still use right handed ones too, go both ways. 😂

@gabrielaskew9484 Ай бұрын

Great video Rod. I enjoyed seeing the progression through the season.

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

Thanks! I hope you enjoy the rest of the season.

@ЗазаХаребашвили Ай бұрын

Hello. If possible, please recommend a set of casting spinning rod and reel for float fishing. Thank you.

@P.N.W.adventures Ай бұрын

So glad the early season chinook are still in season! Summer is the best! I hope this October will be good...

@gregoryfuzi4745 Ай бұрын

Good morning Rob it's October 16th but I'm still enjoying the video and thanks for giving it an early try. You couldn't keep me away with a big stick.

@ryanli2047 23 күн бұрын

Quick question! I've noticed you pinning and baitcasting when you float fish - what's your preferred approach here (species?location/size of flow)? When I first moved to Vancouver in the early 2000s (I've seen moved back East), there were way fewer people centerpinning (as I'm used to from the Great Lakes), but I soon saw a lot more over the years. To me, baitcasting in the river was almost unheard of - I typically would run a second setup (baitcasting) for lures, but the pin would be my primary float setup.

@FishingwithRod 23 күн бұрын

My preference when fishing at a high pressured fishery like the Vedder is to go with a low profile baitcasting reel like the one in the video, Shimano Curado 200. Just fast retrieve so I am spending more time float fishing.

@dragonflytoo Ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I caught my first Chinook of the season yesterday😊. Only 9 pounds and just starting to colour, but certainly works for my needs. Rod, I would like to ask your opinion on dispatching a fish, other than bonking. I have a thoracic back injury and realized yesterday that I do not have the strength in my arms to successfully bonk a large fish. I ended up taking my knife and slicing through behind the head. I felt terrible😢. Would you suggest other options?

@philabowl8073 Ай бұрын

Ikejime method lots of videos.

@andykjohnsonjohnson7622 Ай бұрын

Good evening Rod. As we are 8hr ahead of you, here in England. That last fish was a arm rencher 🎣, tight lines Rod 👍😃

@jorgemartinez-compains8369 Ай бұрын

So happy for you! Thank you for showing all the days you had to go before catching one. Usually, we tend to assume that if we go to the Vedder, we need to come back with a fish in our cooler. But the reality is very different! Thanks for your videos, there are one of the most helpful! Also: Do you find that the white chinook's meat gets softer quicker than the rest of chinooks? I got my first one this season. No one could guess that it was salmon looking to the meat since it was extremely white. But it was kind of soft and not very tasty x/. So I wonder, whether the white chinooks taste very different.

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

I think salmon in general the meat just gets softer if you don't process it quickly enough. White chinook salmon, the meat is in fact tougher/bouncier once cooked than others, this is what I've found anyway. I really like using it for chowder or other soup dishes because the meat doesn't fall apart that easily.

@anthonymcfarland3563 Ай бұрын

I enjoy the scenery and sound of the river has much as the fishing.

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

Yep! 👍

@sosai8406 Ай бұрын

This was great. Good resource

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

@Graceclaw Ай бұрын

Do you see similar results for soft beads as roe sacks? Are there conditions that beads seem to perform better?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

These days i carry both roe bags and soft beads. For chinook salmon, I don’t really find much of a difference between beads and roe. Notice at the end of this video, there were probably 20 guys fishing on the other side and most were using roe. In the end I think I hooked more fish than all of them. That said, the location of the drifts mattered a bit because most of the bites came from the tail end of the run, where I was. For coho salmon, I would run roe bags in the first half hour of the morning as soon as it is light enough to fish. It tends to do better than beads. After that, beads would catch just as many fish as bait throughout the day if they are biting.

@RompTheYard Ай бұрын

Are regs different for river? If I caught that spring at 15 minutes on the ocean I might have thrown it back for being too small

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

Yes. In saltwater fisheries, minimum sizes are there to prevent anglers from retaining premature fish. In rivers, beside the 30 or 35cm minimum size, specimens like that one in the video are jacks and can be kept.

@DanWood318 Ай бұрын

Hey Rod, what is the yellow line you’re using in the video? Thanks!

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

That’s 15lb test Maxima Hi-Vis.

@fordraven5884 Ай бұрын

Good morning Rod 🎣🎣🎣

@MM-jn2ny 15 күн бұрын

You could see Jeffs hands shaking after landing that lunker. 😅 I get the same way after catching a nice fish/any fish after not catching anything all day

@FishingwithRod 10 күн бұрын

The first one of the season always brings out so much excitement and anxiety!

@hunterrockburn9486 Ай бұрын

Hey Rod an example for you here. Let’s say you had a red and white spring both same 10lbs, both been in river same time and the temp of river is the same for both of them. Identical fish and river conditions just one has red flesh and one has white flesh. The question would be “does a white spring or red spring fight harder pound for pound?” Thank you

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

I have no idea really, I wouldn't think they'd be a difference, not that I've experienced anyway.

@oldpolak5203 Ай бұрын

I find that red ones taste better then the white ones

@Hiener1 Ай бұрын

Nice edit Rod, my friend from Newfoundland caught her first west coast salmon in one of the runs in your video, so at least we got a couple things right with the setup vids. What net are you using?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

That's awesome! The net I'm using is a Moby Net, the model is called DK Special.

@WilliamWinsor Ай бұрын

I keep hearing on your channel how those Chinook smell which puzzles me as I don't know why.

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

Chinook salmon in general just have a strong odour coming from their skin/slime. This is particularly noticeable on these white chinook salmon. Remove the skin and avoid getting slime on the flesh, they'd taste excellent once cooked.

@oldpolak5203 Ай бұрын

I wash the slime away with river sand and gravel by rubbing the skin vigorously , it helps

@Snowsz-h5n Ай бұрын

Hey rod, I’m 13 and I fish the vedder every year and I would like to some tips for fishing tamahi lol prob wrong spelling and also why don’t u fish it?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

The type of water around Tamahi is quite different to the rest of the river, not really the kind of water I like to fish but it does get productive. Look for pocket waters among rapids, shorten the leader, bigger bait, and short drifts, and use heavier gear because the takes are usually hard and you have to be able to turn the fish around right away before they get into the rapids.

@Snowsz-h5n Ай бұрын

@@FishingwithRodty!

@sttokes Ай бұрын

what reel is that? New Curado?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

Yeah that’s this year’s Curado. CU200/201HGM.

@sttokes Ай бұрын

@@FishingwithRod you know when it’s getting released?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's already released/available, the retailers locally may just not have received their orders yet.

@romank6195 Ай бұрын

Is this upper river?

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

No.

@NorthweSteelheadJunkies Ай бұрын

New Curado M Series is best Curado ever!

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

I'm loving mine right now...

@ChipDarby13 Ай бұрын

Looks like I should be staying down there for 2 weeks, not 2 nights🤣

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

You don’t need two weeks in October, but a couple more days than two would be helpful. 😉

@ChipDarby13 Ай бұрын

@@FishingwithRod Next year😜

@Tommy7Speed Ай бұрын

Oh come on when I was there caught nothing!

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

That’s why it’s called fishing and not catching, gotta keep trying.

@Suspicious0ne Ай бұрын

I gotta say thank you. Your videos were very helpful in getting me back into fishing this year. Haven't fished since I was a teen. I managed to land All 5 pacific salmon species this season here on the island. I just have one more fish on the list.... the illusive steelhead. I have a challenge for you. Try and land a Chinook fly fishing.

@FishingwithRod Ай бұрын

That's awesome! Keep it up.