Using my trusty [easyazon_link identifier=”B01MAWGG0S” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Water Wolf HD[/easyazon_link] underwater camera, I threw some [easyazon_link identifier=”B00LDYMGNG” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Pline Pro Steel spoons[/easyazon_link] which were designed for steelhead at some salmon to see how they’d react.
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While California’s ocean salmon stocks were down in the dumps the past few years, it was an entirely different story inland. Thanks to the efforts of the DFG and organizations like Project Kokanee and Kokanee Power, landlocked salmon are thriving in more Golden State waters than ever before. Of course, they’ll never be able to outgrow or taste better than their ocean-going cousins, but these pint-sized inland salmon provide anglers with plenty of good action throughout the year.
While there are similarities between the three, each species has its own attractive qualities – and unique fishing techniques attributed to it. Let’s take a closer look at California’s Inland Salmon Slam and get to know landlocked kings, kokanee and coho a little better.
Headed for a river that has salmon in it this summer and fall? Take some diver & bait rigs with you – it’s a super easy and extremely deadly technique that you can pick up in no time!
While there are several good ways to get a big, juicy glob of hot red sulfite eggs (or sand shrimp) down in the faces of river salmon, the ol’ diver and bait is often the first one to which I turn.