Trolling

= ﻿ Trolling is a type of fishing. There are 3 different types of trolling. There is surface trolling, middle trolling and deep trolling. When you want to get a lot of fish the temperature in the ocean should be all the same. If not the fish will go down to the bottom of the ocean. There are different types of bait. One kind of bait is called a lure. A lure is a type of bait that looks real but it is not. It looks like a fish but it does not move. There are soft or hard lures. Specific lures catch 90% of the salmon. They come in a variety of sizes and colours. Some lures glow in the dark which is very effective because salmon like the dark. Flashers and dodgers cause vibrations. They can pull salmon from about 30 - 40 feet away. Salmon detect vibrations with their lateral line. They are tricked into thinking the flasher is a feeding salmon. Feeding salmon then charge the flasher. Red and green are the most popular colors for flashers.= = = =Salmon can be found in open water, Pacific Ocean, inlets, large lakes and reservoirs. For surface trolling, look for birds diving and feeding. There will be salmon in the water where the seagulls are diving into the surface. Fish will be about 40 feet below. Surface trolling is having different lengths of lines behind the boat. You must drive the boat slowly through the water. Middle trolling is in the middle of the ocean. Thats is where most of the fish are.= =Salmon do not like warm water above 58 degrees or more. They will stay in ideal conditions for months, if the temperature is around 55 - 57 degrees. They do not like bright light, clear water or calm water. They also don't like lots of boats, predators such as sea lions, sharks or larger fish. Unattractive smells repel salmon such as gasoline, oil, tobacco or jelly fish. Their sense of smell is so strong it leads salmon to their spawning process each year. Salmon do like large schools of small bait. They enjoy the company of other salmon so they can navigate together. Small salmon follow bigger ones. They do like cloudy water full of plankton so the salmon feels safer from larger predators. a Rough ocean or lake surface is ideal. Salmon like white caps to help him feel secure to swim to the surface for food. They like the dark water and night time. Salmon use their three senses to catch their prey: sight, smell and laterline response. Ocean water is murky so the fishers can't rely on sight alone. Fish need to be right behind the bait to smell it. Down a dalmon's side and on its head and back are tiny hair like features called capula. Each capula has a nerve cell which detects bivrations in the water. This is called the Lateral line response. Salmon can detect live bait from thirty feet away using their lateral line response. Salmon know exactly where the bait is. Lures are designed to take advantage of this sense. The lure creates a vibration which attracts the salmon.= =Fishers can troll different lines set at different depths at one time.= =Deep trolling is when you drop your lines near the bottom of the ocean. Downriggers are required for deep trolling. They are spools of heavy wire which and weights which take the lures to the exact depth wanted by the fishers, down to where the fish are feeding. A "counter" tells the exact depth. With modern technology it is possible to locate salmon. An electronic fish finder locates the salmon and the counter takes the lure to the exact depth where the fish are swimming. A spool of wire is mounted on a boat. A heavy weight is connected to the wire. A salmon lure is rigged onto a rod and reel. Ten to twenty feet of line is dragged behind the boat. The rod will spring upwards when the fish bites. The thinner the line used by the fisher, the less friction (drag) is caused in the water. The thicker the line used the greater the drag (friction). TVari9ous sizes of weights help to balance the line. Some fishing line is stretchy and allows for more flexibility when the fish bites.= = = =Salmon have a strong sensitivity to weak electrical charges in water. The boat and the downrigger create a small electrical charge. This energy attracts salmon to your active lures. If the charge is too high or too low the salmon will be repelled. The black box allows the fisher to set the ideal charge. When fishing in depts of 100 feet or more, deep sea trollers use flashers which are white, glow in the dark or bright colours which reflect light.= =Flashers and dodgers catch the most fish! A flasher is a large colored plastic blade with silver or coloured tape on both sides. It is about eight to eleven inches long and is made to rotate as the boat trolls. A bait or lure is connected to the back of the flasher. The front is narrowed and tapered. A dodger is metal and is about nine inches long. It is not made to spin. It is even at both ends and swimgs back and forth like a pendulum. Dodgers and flashers both have the same job. Their action or movement puts out strong vibrations which imitate the vibrations made by the tail of a feeding salmon. Other salmon are attracted to the vibrations because they are tricked into thinking there is food in that location.= =To catch really large salmon you have to troll near the ocean floor, in reefs or inlets. You can troll 200 - 350 feet deep, use a twenty pound weight and the boat speed should be about 1.5 m.p.h. Great bait for deep sea fishing includes schools of small herring. The salmon will injure the herring then eat the helpless ones.=

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