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norm_2

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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2018, 10:09:16 AM »

Great footage!  Thank you for sharing.   :)
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sbc hris

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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2018, 01:36:26 PM »

Very cool! I can’t even imagine how many coho I must miss... ???
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2018, 01:52:18 PM »

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I can’t even imagine how many coho I must miss...

The places I have fished recently have somewhat fewer fish than wherever this video was shot.
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2018, 03:03:03 PM »

I suspect very few Coho would even blink at a short floated jig laying dormant under a float.  It does happen but it is pretty rare.

However, if you twitch baby twitch, you will get a far more aggressive response by almost all salmon and trout species and are more likely to feel a bite. 

The only exception that would likely prove the rule is a purple/pink jig with shrimp and a river full of chum. 
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2018, 05:11:33 PM »

The video says many bites didn't move the float. Need a more sensitive rod?
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2018, 05:27:53 PM »

The video says many bites didn't move the float. Need a more sensitive rod?
Rather float.
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2018, 11:39:13 PM »

The steelhead in this video look old and stale in stagnant water. I'm pretty sure not that many fresh hot aggressive steelhead in faster water would pass up a jig or anything at all like those ones do
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2018, 06:53:14 AM »

Those are Pink Salmon not Steelhead...
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2018, 04:19:59 PM »

Those are Pink Salmon not Steelhead...

I think he was trolling, not jigging.  ;D
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Re: Jig under a float fishing - look at how many bites you missed
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2018, 05:12:37 PM »

Should be ripping that hook through all them fish.
Wind and rip,wind and rip.............
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