Using The Right Salmon Fishing Lures

Picking the right salmon fishing lures based on water conditions and salmon’s feeding behaviors will increase the chances of landing that trophy salmon or just bringing home enough for dinner. There are many types of salmon fishing lures in the market today, picking the right one will need some strategies and tips.Northwest

With variety of colors and sizes, Spinners are very popular, especially in the Northwest area. It has a flat metal disk, often painted red, white, yellow or green or a pattern, which is closes to the line, followed by a brightly colored body, then the hook which is unweighted to give a floating appearance as it spins through the water.
The spinner’s body usually have bright colored beads that are made of reflective material and give both sound and motion as the lure glides through the water. To entice the fish, bait and scent may be added, it is especially good when water is cloudy or murky or in darker fishing conditions such as heavy cloud or early dawn fishing.

Ocean and Great Lakes

Spoons are used in various types of fishing, especially in cases where the salmon are actively feeding and are moving and feeding with schools of bait fish. Spoons are typically brightly colored and are also typically very popular with larger salmon and the key to using spoon’s as salmon fishing lures is to ensure that the spoon is moving through the water in the same fashion that the bait fish are. Salmon that are aggressively feeding will not need additional scent or bait, they will simply hit on the movement of the spoon through the water.

Rivers

When fishing at rivers or mouth of the river, plugs and Rapala type salmon fishing lures are ideal. These lures are thick, bait looking lures with a series of hooks. They are often used with scent or bait, but again the action of the plug in the murky water or moving water is the biggest attractor for the fish.

In places where the river water is clear and very fast moving, small plugs or Wiggle Warts can provide a high level of movement in the water, the hungry salmon will strike when the lure literally wiggles through the water.
Often salmon fishing lures are painted in bright color reds, silvers, golds, blues, greens and yellows, to draw attention from the fish. When using any type of river lure, it is best to keep it close to the bottom of the stream, trolling against the current and the direction that the salmon are swimming. The movement of the lure will often cause the fish to strike, even if they are not feeding.