To the uninitiated, mooching looks like a no brainer. All you do is hook a plug-cut herring to a set of tandem hooks on a 7 or 8-foot leader. Tie the leader to a mooching sinker of four to eight ounces; drop it all in the water and fish it until a salmon rings your bell.
You may be asking “What gear do you need to mooch for salmon?”
All you need to mooch for salmon is a rod, reel, line, mooching sinker, two-hook leader and a couple dozen herring for bait. Buying the gear is the easiest part of the experience.
While most anglers are busing trolling for salmon, on days when the bite is slow we like to take a more active approach and mooch., and what’s mooching? It’s basically jigging for salmon using a plug cut herring ( preferably a brined herring ). But do you know how to tie a mooching rig for salmon? You will soon!
How big is the salmon fire?
, [note: inci Web reports as of 11 a., and m. That the Salmon Fire is now 550 acres] Inci. Web describes the fire as located “at the top of Eight Mile Creek in the New River Basin in the far northwest portion of the Trinity Alps Wilderness.”.
What is happening to the red salmon fire?
Increase in heavy dead and down fuels smoldering across the eastern flank of the fire and in isolated pockets in the interior of the fire. The Red Salmon Complex acres burned on each Forest is as follows:.
When I was researching we ran into the inquiry “What towns are near the red salmon fire?”.
11-7-2020 Friday’s fire behavior on the Red Salmon Complex remained unchanged from the last few days.
What is “mooching?
Mooching is a much slower, and some say calmer method of fishing. Stories abound as to where the term “mooching” originated, all of them involving a scenario where one angler “mooched” a bait from another. Whatever the origin, mooching is a primary salmon angling technique, and anyone with just a little knowledge can mooch for salmon.