What flies are best for salmon?

What flies are best for salmon?

The Clouser Minnow in bright colors can be effective Pacific salmon flies. They are a classic baitfish pattern that are especially useful when targeting fresh salmon. Fishing this fly on the swing or stripping the fly can produce big fish.

What flies do Atlantic Salmon eat?

Traditional Atlantic Salmon and Spey patterns below. These include, Harewings, Bombers, Buck Bugs and more.

What flies for pink salmon?

Pinks eagerly attack a striped fly with reckless abandon. Like chum salmon and silver salmon, pink salmon will hit dry flies and are a great fighting fish for their size; often looking like big trout and jumping several times after being hooked.

How long are salmon eggs good for fishing?

You should now have a tight bag of eggs that you can use for bait. If you don’t plan on using the bags immediately, you can store them in the refrigerator for up to 3 months. Most roe bags are 1–2 inches (2.5–5.1 cm) in diameter.

What color salmon eggs are best for trout?

The most difficult thing about switching from red to natural colored eggs is breaking through a barrier that has developed over the years where anglers believe red eggs are the only color that works on trout.

What size flies for silver salmon?

7 – 8 weight 9 foot fly rod is the best choice for casting for Silver’s. Your Silver Salmon fly box should consist of lot’s of pink and purple flash flies with varied weights. The best fly line for Silver’s is an intermediate or sink tip. Floating fly line works but make sure you have heavy fly’s that get down quick.

What is the best lures for pink salmon?

Sea-Run Fly & Tackle’s Top 5 Casting Lures for Pink Salmon

• Gibbs Kodiak Spoon – 1/4oz, 3/8oz 1/4oz.
• Pink Gibbs Croc Spoon – 3/16 oz, 1/4 oz 3/8 oz.
• Pink Buzz Bomb – 1.5”, 2”, 2.5” / Zzinger .5oz, 1.5oz.
• Pink/Silver Vibrax Blue Fox Spinner – #2, #3, #4.
• Pink Curly Tail Twitching Jig – 1/8oz #4, #6, #2.

What size fly rod for pink salmon?

8 wt.
fly rod so we recommend using at least an 8 wt. rod when targeting pink salmon. A 12 pound chrome chum salmon could also hit the fly, and this is not something one would want to tango with using a 7wt.

What is a nuke egg?

The Nuke Egg is one of the first egg fly patterns to be considered “advanced” – that is, one that goes beyond the single dimension and solid-looking Glo Bug. The veil of egg yarn over the nucleus is what gives the Nuke Egg its translucent appearance and separates this fly from so many other egg patterns.