Small Dodgers for Kokanee: The Ultimate Summer Fishing Secret Weapon
Downsizing your dodgers can be the ultimate secret weapon for finicky late-spring and summer kokanee. While large, aggressive flashers have their time and place, smaller profile dodgers (ranging from 4 to 4.5 inches) offer distinct advantages:
3.75 Spinner Blade
If a 3.5 Spinner Blade is Good, What About a 3.75?
Does a Bigger Blade Make 360° Salmon Trolling Better?
To increase the odds of a salmon seeing your offering when trolling with a 360° flasher try the largest spinner blade that still allows the flasher to function as designed. They won’t bite it if they can’t see it.
New Kokanee Lure, Twirlee-Gig, Surprises Anglers
New Kokanee Lure, Twirlee-Gig, Surprises Anglers It’s Also Great for Walleye, Perch, and Smallmouth Bass! Lure design is more art than science. The ideas usually come from the minds of anglers, not fish. Since no one I know speaks ‘Fish’, we are left to create and test…
A Different 3.5 Spinner for 360° Flashers
A Different 3.5 Spinner for 360° Flashers Wise Guys Stand Out in a Crowd of 3.5 Colorado Blades A round, or Colorado-style blade is not always the best choice for 360 salmon trolling. It has its place, but sometimes there is a better option. Under certain…
The Truth About 3.5 Spinners and Blades
The Truth About 3.5 Spinners and Blades How Spinner Blades Get Their Sizing By Tom Hester – As a spinners and spinner blades manufacturer, we are often asked for a particular spinner blade size. You would think that such questions would be simple to answer. But rarely…
Kokanee Trolling Without Downriggers
Kokanee Trolling Without Downriggers Flatlining or Toplining for Kokanee Whether you call it top-lining, Flat-Lining, Long-Lining, or Dropper Rigging, trolling for Kokanee without downriggers is a practical, cost-effective, and often deadly-effective method of...