Quest Outdoors

Ironhead · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:27 am Post subject:

The rod is a 13 foot custom built St Croix, 3 piece, rated 4-10 lbs.

The reel is the brown Milner "kingfisher", bushing model.

Line is 20 lb glowing green trilene Laughing

, with 12 pound Seaguar floro leader(the only brand leader I will use).

The fish on the end is a 20 pound Harrison River "blackhead" Chum salmon. These are the hardest fighting salmon you will ever do battle with.
They are a very late run which most anglers have never experienced and we get a few lucky groups of anglers every year who join us in early mid November for the "war of the blackheads". You finish the day off with a few 5-8 foot Sturgeon Laughing

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I am grimacing for real in that photo, I am hurting.

Heres a few pics of the " blackheads" , many are bars of chrome while others display some colors but have tons of fight.

We catch all our Chum on float and jigs.

I keep the clicker on when I fight fish, beacuse I can, and have done it for decades and never had one burn out, just need a well made reel is all.
Love the ziiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnggg, only with a pin.

S Mick · Eyed Egg Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 7

Awesome......... Bad azz colors on the fish.

Flyfishmich · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: NE salt

Stripers like c-pins...

axisgear · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject:

Dorado will take a greenback on a c-pin. Wink

As a pike takes a shiner on the same pin.....Slow and easy until you set the hook! Good fun,all of it!

FishKilla419 · Alevin Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 11

I smashed some walleyes in the river last winter w/ my pin. It was fun.

michipin · Egg Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 3

Small world. I fished the Harrison in late September last year. I recognize my guide, Oliver, holding the fish in the boat. He's a great fisherman. Knows his way around the pin. He laughed like hell when I had one of those 20+ pound chums give me a knucklebuster with my offset Spahr. He thought my 13'4" IMX was wimpy even though by Great Lakes standards its considered a meatstick. He tried to teach me the BC cast and couldn't understand why everyone from the Eastcoast uses a sidecast. Both of you guys drooled over my solar mint Ironsilk. Nice to see you finally found some out your way.
If any of you guys ever get to BC look these guys up. Oliver is a great guide. I fished both of the spots in the pictures along wiht a few others. I think my final count for an 8 hour trip was 5 kings (spingers), 5 big chums and 5 pinks not to mention a cutthrout trout and way too many pike minnows. One of the humpies pushed 10 pounds. Don't fib about only taking chums on jigs/shrimp. I think we got all of ours that day on skein under floats. What a great day. We never got to try for those massive sturgeon because I didnt want to leave to slams. The scenery out there was amazing. We saw dozens of mature Bald Eagles eating salmon carcasses on shore. Unreal.
If I can figure out how to post pics here, I'll put some of mine up. Peace!

stumpguppy · Egg Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Terre Haute, IN

Carp,Drum, Bluegill, Catfish. Pike, sauger

Also do not limit the CP to simply drifting but also use it all manner of fishing, on bottom, european style floatfishing etc. I have even used a side cater CP in salt water for various species in the gulf of mexico.

stumpguppy · Egg Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Terre Haute, IN

FishOn13 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: andros

Gonna be trying a the pin in the bahamas for sharks and tarpon. While im there for school.

Treven · Lunker Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 376

Lucky SOB... Cool

FishOn13 · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: sfsf

Yeah Trev, I posted on another board about the bonefishing where Im going. Andros Island and was told its some of the best bonefishing in the Bahamas with fish in the double digits being common. So now all I have to do is work on my sloppy fly casting.

Ironhead · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

Hey Michipin glad you had a good trip, looking forward to seeing you again some time, check out our site and soon we will have our accomodation pictures up.

We only use jigs and prawn to target Chums directly, if you were using spawn then Oliver was looking for Chinook/jacks.

We picked up some Maxima "fibre glow" in pink that we use for all float fishing now, great stuff.

Treven · Lunker Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 376