Trotline Salmon Fishing

Video Transcript

"OK. Now we're going to show how to run a line for Salmon. What we are thinking about here is finding a current that might come around a point or down through a stream underwater or a river like this behind us that comes out into a bay. The Smelt will tend to run up into the river or the ayowives; whatever bait fish might run up into that river to spawn and the salmon are going to come up stream chasing them. What we want to do is set up a line. We'll drill a hole here. We'll go twenty yards, we'll drill another hole. Another twenty yards, drill another hole and perhaps even a fourth or fifth hole. Now, be careful that you find out the state regulations on how many lines or trap lines or tip-ups you can have, because some states only allow you only so many per person. So, here we've created a line of four holes all the way across a current, the river behind us. As the Salmon come chasing the Smelt or bait fish up through the; up toward the up current they come through this trap line."