plunking

[bennysbuddy]

I'm curious how many folks will admit to plunking, I've spent 40 years developing my plunking game & love getting together with my gang to plunk & BS. plunking is a real social event for me almost like a family reunion.

 

[_WW_]

Don't have the patience for it.

 

[Stonedfish]

Good times drinking and eating around the fire waiting for the rod to go off. Rigs nearby if you needed to really warm up.
@SilverFly will show us how it is done out of his new plunking shack.
SF

 

[Pink Nighty]

Growing up I thought plunking was the only way to catch a river salmon. Just ask my dad! He had an epic skunking streak going at the time, but that's for another time.

If it's a meat fishery and I dont know how to do it on the fly I've been known to recreate my childhood as an adult. Sockeye on the lower skagit in july with a shade tent, some sand shrimp and a case of beer? Guilty of plunk.

 

[Divad]

I’ll save it to learn in my old age. Sitting in one spot like that all day would wreck me.

But I could see the Bbq, beers, buddies maybe the game going on in the background kind of thing being fun. Fug it rig up beersbee or cornhole too

 

[Pink Nighty]

I’ll save it to learn in my old age. Sitting in one spot like that all day would wreck me.

But I could see the Bbq, beers, buddies maybe the game going on in the background kind of thing being fun. Fug it rig up beersbee or cornhole too

You are ready to plunk. Drive your rig right down to the water and have at her! That's tunes AND ac right there

 

[Divad]

You are ready to plunk. Drive your rig right down to the water and have at her! That's tunes AND ac right there

But I could walk that same run and find more lies. Tunes could still be an option.

Not saying plunking isn’t off the table for me. But I’d be flexing all the multitasks I pulled off while landing a fish

 

[Greg Armstrong]

My uncle was a plunker. He started taking me when I was about eight years old, early ’60’s.

I caught my first steelhead that way. Orange and yellow Spin-N-Glo and yarn.

I also got an education hanging around that fishing shack with what to me then we’re a bunch of old guys. Fond memories!

 

[bennysbuddy]

Don't have the patience for it.

I never did either until I learned there's a whole lot more going on than throw it out & drinking beer. How far to fish from the beach, where to fish on the bar depending on water height, zip lining plugs & spoons. I can really enjoy a day plunking when theres a high water & some fish around

 

[bennysbuddy]

I’ll save it to learn in my old age. Sitting in one spot like that all day would wreck me.

But I could see the Bbq, beers, buddies maybe the game going on in the background kind of thing being fun. Fug it rig up beersbee or cornhole too

you forgot the game of wingbobber toss,its like washer toss but with coffee cups & wing bobbers

 

[Jerry Daschofsky]

I started as a plunker. How you fished the Puyallup by my house.

 

[Nick Clayton]

Did some plunking from time to time while growing up. Never seemed to be super successful, but looking back on things it's apparent that while my step-dad loved to fish and got me out often, he wasn't a terribly good angler.

Still, I always enjoyed getting to hang out with the grown ups, often around a fire, while waiting for something to come along.

 

[PhilR]

Keep wanting to try it on some of the Columbia beaches, but end up getting distracted by salmon flies and lakes starting to open.

And my friends laugh at me.

 

[bennysbuddy]

Keep wanting to try it on some of the Columbia beaches, but end up getting distracted by salmon flies and lakes starting to open.

And my friends laugh at me.

on the Washington side maple grove or county line park near longview are spots I have done well at, but they are crowded

 

[Porter2]

I was a plunker too, but I stunk so I tried spoons, and then the famous frog flatfish troll method which caught plenty of larger sized trout. On light spinning gear it was a nice little rush.

My main weapon for gear fishing was/is an Eagle Claw 8’6” Powerlight Spin Rod circa 1980-82, and an older all metal garcia mitchell 300 reel.

 

[G_Smolt]

Pa was always pissed at the fellas that developed Southcenter mall...the additional traffic and development led to the end of most of the Green River "Plunkin' Shacks" on W Valley south of 405. That double S bend between the train trestle and 405 coughed out a shitpile of steelhead for me when I was still riding Metros to fish. I was never into waiting around until a fish found my gear in the crick, but I had some interesting conversations with the half-in-the-bag plunkin' shack denizens while rippin' fish off the soft inside water on the other side of the creek...

Dang, the early 80s were pretty good. Zero responsibility (besides high school and chicks) and steelhead in every ditch...

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

Used to like me some boat plunking a whole herring on the Icicle in the spring.

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

I had terrible luck plunking for steelhead, I bet I had a tangled spin'n glo 90% of the time. Many a 30-lb tidewater extra-chrome steelhead was tempted I am sure if I could keep the system working..

We used to successfully plunk for jacks and sea runs when the rivers were wiped out way back

 

[SilverFly]

Good times drinking and eating around the fire waiting for the rod to go off. Rigs nearby if you needed to really warm up.
@SilverFly will show us how it is done out of his new plunking shack.
SF

Kinda thinking just plunking a big ol' purple bugger with extra flash. Buggers push a lot of water and should wave around like mad hanging in the current. Hopefully I'll be testing the idea next winter but we're at least 4 months out to start construction.

 

[CRO]

My dad and grandfather started me plunking when I was 8 in 1959 at the white gate on the Hump. My dad had won a quick 220 and a Wright and McGill rod on punch board for me and was first outing for winter runs. He set me up with a cherry bobber on his rod and put a bell on it and left me as he went up to the head of the hole to drift fish with my new rod. It wasn’t long after he left that the bell started ringing. Not haveing learned how to use the saltwater level wind, I grabbed the rod and ran up the bar landing my first steelhead. In my travels with grandpa I even fished in the shack, now gone, where Gyrfalcon lives. My grandfather also took me plunking for salmon, cutthroat, and sturgeon. We fly fished small streams and lakes as I got older.