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you got a fisherman on your hands there.
can see the determination in the fish hold stance.
hooked for life.
remember my son's first fish, searun Cuttthroat on North River off Willapa Bay 30 years ago trolling. outfishes me now

look at the hog gut on those 2.

try a little gob of the eggs on your front hook ahead of the corn.
 
Thanks for the idea on a make-shift downrigger. I have seen the simply trollin' device before, didn't know if/how they worked. I will have to pick one up and give it a try. My season up at Merwin may be over too, my brother is talking me in to hitting the Columbia and going for some "full size" salmon this weekend (along with everybody else:) ) If that doesn't pan out, I may try Merwin one more time.

Tight linesthumbsup
~Koke-n-a-smile
 
ps. Get'nJiggy - those are great looking kokes! I see they are a little pink, the couple I landed on Friday were still bright silver. Weird. How deep were you trolling at?
 
We were at about 45 ft before the sun hit then kind of dropped down to near 60 ft later on. The problem with that was all the pike minnows we'd get. The koke's were real aggresive and even if they didn't trip the downrigger you knew they were there, the pike minnows on the other hand, if you weren't really paying attention you'd drag them all over the lake.
 
Great report Get'nJiggy! Yep, your partner has got the stance down! thumbsup

Hey Smokin'Kokes...I have a couple of Shuttle Hawks, looks pretty much the same as your Seps Simple Trolling Device. I have yet to give them a try. One question...If the fish doesn't make the clip release, can you give it a tug up to get it to release, or would that just slide the devise up the rigger line to where you would have to reel the whole devise up to unclip?
 
the fish will bring the slider release up.

just pulling up on the line puts the slider in the Beam Me Up Scotty mode.

i seldom have a fish that's hooked not pull the line out of the release clip. i use scotty hair trigger releases
 

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