Start fishing off the piers around the rivers where they will be coming. Right now they are staging and waiting for the fall rains to raise the water levels. They come very close to shore between about 1am and 2 hours after sunrise (extended on cloudy days). As the season moves on, they will spend more time close to shore, and eventually move up the rivers. Now is the best time to catch them for food because they haven’t gone into spawning mode yet, so most of them are still silver in colour “Chromers”. Once they turn black brown and green, they taste nasty, but good to give to your trapper friend if you have one.
Use salmon spoons like Northern King, glow in the dark is great for night fishing. Little Cleos are good too (they work for anything). Also try big suspending crakbaits like Rapala X-Raps. They like a slow wobble. They seem to be very attracted to spinners but in my experience they seem tro hesitate and not bite at the last minute. I have caught a couple on #4 Blue Fox vibrax, with pink body and silver blade. You can try roe sacs (salmon eggs) with some floatation in there, and let them sit a 2 or 3 feet off the bottom, but that bait will work better as the season progresses.
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Start fishing off the piers around the rivers where they will be coming. Right now they are staging and waiting for the fall rains to raise the water levels. They come very close to shore between about 1am and 2 hours after sunrise (extended on cloudy days). As the season moves on, they will spend more time close to shore, and eventually move up the rivers. Now is the best time to catch them for food because they haven’t gone into spawning mode yet, so most of them are still silver in colour “Chromers”. Once they turn black brown and green, they taste nasty, but good to give to your trapper friend if you have one.
Use salmon spoons like Northern King, glow in the dark is great for night fishing. Little Cleos are good too (they work for anything). Also try big suspending crakbaits like Rapala X-Raps. They like a slow wobble. They seem to be very attracted to spinners but in my experience they seem tro hesitate and not bite at the last minute. I have caught a couple on #4 Blue Fox vibrax, with pink body and silver blade. You can try roe sacs (salmon eggs) with some floatation in there, and let them sit a 2 or 3 feet off the bottom, but that bait will work better as the season progresses.
Good luck.