Commercial Salmon Trolling Forum

You are putting Jon on the spot. I will try to shed a little insight from running crews for many years.The answer to the length of the season is that you would be active from the first of July until at least the 20th of September (with the possibility of a short fish management break for coho escape...

Yeah I know what you mean - I have bitten on a lot of hammered spoons myself.

Zack - the best place to hand-troll is in a spot where you can access a lot of fish every day and have a quiet place to anchor for the night; where you can get rid of your catch everyday because you have filled your holding space; where you can get gas, gear, or groceries whenever you want to withou...

I love to tow bright spoons around and have gone through the entire learning process for keeping them as shiny as possible. There is a lot of good information in these posts. I always wipe my spoons dry and lay them out on layers of paper towels to keep them from clattering together. I am a fan of a...

Handtrolling out of Juneau can be a bitch. The expenses of running back and forth to the open legal areas usually puts the ki-bosh on someone trying to get started. Back in the 60s and early 70s it was possible because the areas inside of Retreat and all around Shelter Is. were open to trolling all ...

I got to thinking after I had posted that there are some excellent info sources on water heating coils in stoves in periodicals on living in and/or constructing log buildings and associated alternative life-style projects. Anyway it sounds like you have a plan. . .best of luck.

It is ancient history now but I ran an older salmon tender back in the late 70s that had a coil and remote hot water tank. I am guessing now that it was about a 30-gallon galvanized round tank like the type that used to be fairly common for heating water off stoves in houses. It worked great as long...

Good old Salty - without his help I wouldn't have been able to access this forum. But a quick email to him and even when he was away from his home computer he sent me a message with the info I needed. Glad to see he also got voted onto the NSRAA Board - he will do a good job on there. Anyway, it wil...