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 2 ай бұрын

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@avid.venture 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@gabrielaskew9484 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@gregoryfuzi4745 2 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.

@P.N.W.adventures 2 ай бұрын

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

@jorgemartinez-compains8369 2 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 2 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.

@dragonflytoo 2 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 2 ай бұрын

Ikejime method lots of videos.

@ЗазаХаребашвили 2 ай бұрын

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

@andykjohnsonjohnson7622 2 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 👍😃

@ryanli2047 2 ай 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 2 ай 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.

@MM-jn2ny Ай 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 Ай бұрын

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

@anthonymcfarland3563 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

Yep! 👍

@RompTheYard 2 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 2 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.

@Graceclaw 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 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.

@Amir-zx5xh 13 күн бұрын

Im thinking metanium 71xg any good?Thanks

@sosai8406 2 ай бұрын

This was great. Good resource

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

@DanWood318 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

That’s 15lb test Maxima Hi-Vis.

@Hiener1 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@fordraven5884 2 ай бұрын

Good morning Rod 🎣🎣🎣

@WilliamWinsor 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@hunterrockburn9486 2 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 2 ай бұрын

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

@oldpolak5203 2 ай бұрын

I find that red ones taste better then the white ones

@romank6195 2 ай бұрын

Is this upper river?

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

No.

@Snowsz-h5n 2 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 2 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 2 ай бұрын

@@FishingwithRodty!

@sttokes 2 ай бұрын

what reel is that? New Curado?

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@sttokes 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@ChipDarby13 2 ай бұрын

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

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@ChipDarby13 2 ай бұрын

@@FishingwithRod Next year😜

@Tommy7Speed 2 ай бұрын

Oh come on when I was there caught nothing!

@FishingwithRod 2 ай бұрын

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

@Suspicious0ne 2 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 2 ай бұрын

That's awesome! Keep it up.