Non-Fly SRC & Coho Lures

[jaredoconnor]

Planning to do some beach fishing, in the near future. I'm giving my dad a spin setup, because I don't think his fly casting is up to it. What are some good lures for SRC and resident coho? Also, how should I rig them up and fish them? I have very little experience with gear.

 

[Mossback]

Rooster tails used to be the go to spinner for cutties, and the smallest buzz bomb type jigs were used as well.

 

[Shad]

Small twitching jigs (1/8 oz. or so) should get it done. Olive is always a great color to start with.

+1 for Rooster Tails.

 

[SilverFly]

Can't go wrong with rooster tails.

Or the light weight wobblers my Dad made out of brass shim stock. I know, not any help, but they were money on cutties and even adult coho. Maybe I'll do a SBS since they're so simple to make.

 

[Stonedfish]

Small spoons and spinners for cutts. One of the beach owners I fish with has great success on dick nite’s spoon. He used a light keel weight.
For rezzies, as mentioned small buzz bombs but spinners and spoons will also work.
A casting bubble with a fly behind it would work for both cutts and rezzies.
SF

 

[Scudley Do Right]

Small kastmaster or krocodile also small xrap or countdown. Light braid will help cast the light lures farther.

 

[Matt B]

Can't go wrong with rooster tails.

Or the light weight wobblers my Dad made out of brass shim stock. I know, not any help, but they were money on cutties and even adult coho. Maybe I'll do a SBS since they're so simple to make.

Anything like this? @_WW_ ’s SBS

Post in thread 'Making the Wells Spoon'

Aug 28, 2024

Bumping this up for the season.
I also fish these with the drift rod. I use a 3/4oz sliding dropper weight on 12" of dropper line and about a 2' leader to the spoon.

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[SilverFly]

Anything like this? @_WW_ ’s SBS

Post in thread 'Making the Wells Spoon'

Aug 28, 2024

Bumping this up for the season.
I also fish these with the drift rod. I use a 3/4oz sliding dropper weight on 12" of dropper line and about a 2' leader to the spoon.

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Actually very similar, at least in terms of materials and fabrication technique. The lure itself is quite different, being much more angular with a "folded" design.

 

[G_Smolt]

In the 70's, while growing up on the beach between mee-kwa-mooks and Lincoln Park, we would absolutely CRUSH srcs and the occasional resident 'ho on Crocodile spoons and 2.75" floating rapalas cast from the beach. We also trolled Dick Nites and small Pt Defiance spoons for 'em as well.

 

[troutstalker]

Some very good recommendations here but I would not recommend using lures with treble hooks for catch and release. It’s best to replace them with single point hooks. Just my opinion.

 

[Creatch’r]

An all silver kastmaster spoon with a small strip of red or blue reflective tape on it was my number one SRC lure as a kid and teenager at the family beach property. Jig it around and fish it erratically especially at the end of the retrieve. Crocodiles work pretty good too and I’ve done well on dick nites as well and especially so when chum fry are around. But the trusty kastmaster was always the favorite. The two smallest sizes where absolute slayers.

Another one I forgot about was the smallest size crippled herring, those things cut the wind really good and came in some really sweet colors once upon a time but I always had trouble getting my hands on them. Spinners get caught in the breeze and don’t launch as well in ultralight sizes as a spoon does IMO. Casting far isn’t THAT important but if you can fire a spoon at a 45° angle down the beach you can cover a ton of ground quick which is a definite plus. I have a lot of fun memories walking the beach with my old man throwing spoons at cutts and bulls and whatever else latches on.

 

[SilverFly]

Anything like this? @_WW_ ’s SBS

Post in thread 'Making the Wells Spoon'

Aug 28, 2024

Bumping this up for the season.
I also fish these with the drift rod. I use a 3/4oz sliding dropper weight on 12" of dropper line and about a 2' leader to the spoon.

• _WW_

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Still unpacking at the new place, but by some miracle I found a couple of Dad's, not at all famous, but certified cutt killer "Jacobson Wobblers".

 

[speedbird]

I discovered fly fishing slaying cutthroat using lil cleos, jakes spin-a-lures and size 3 blue foxes off the beach for them with downsized hooks. Smaller lures in summer and bigger in winter, I'd even put a pink mini hoochie.

I am really surprised there is not a larger community of catch and release gear fishing for cutthroat

 

[Stonedfish]

I am really surprised there is not a larger community of catch and release gear fishing for cutthroat

I don’t run into a lot of folks that gear fish for src, but most I do run into almost always mention they wish they could keep and eat them.
SF

 

[Mossback]

I don’t run into a lot of folks that gear fish for src, but most I do run into almost always mention they wish they could keep and eat them.
SF

Yup...
Hear that out here also. Most of the locals that fished gear for them quit when it went cnr...
So they were glad to talk about locations and timing when I asked 10-12 years ago.

 

[jaredoconnor]

I bought a bunch of rooster tails. How do you make them regulation compliant? Just snip off two of the hooks from the treble hook?

 

[Stonedfish]

I bought a bunch of rooster tails. How do you make them regulation compliant? Just snip off two of the hooks from the treble hook?

No, cut the treble off and put on a single point siwash hook.
SF

 

[Matt B]

I bought a bunch of rooster tails. How do you make them regulation compliant? Just snip off two of the hooks from the treble hook?

If you bought rooster tails that have hair or feathers dressed on the treble hook, you kinda have to do that to keep the lure working and looking the same way. Ideally you get lures that have a split ring to attach the treble, and you switch the treble to a slightly larger single hook, or you get a slightly larger open eye hook, cut off the treble, and then squeeze on the open eye hook.

 

[Tallguy]

Or, being a fly tier, you tie roughly the same feathers, or better, on your replacement single hook and snip off the stock trebles for replacement.

My kids rock some pretty sweet rooster tails when we troll for truck trout.

 

[rotato]

I’ve had my best luck with kastmasters sometimes I paint an eyeball on one side
I’ve currently been trying to feed them soft plastics
I know a small paddle tail would crush in the right situation but haven’t experienced it yet
Good luck out there!