Pautzke's for Springers

Good Morning Just a few notes of Pautzke's and Springer's for the Northwest.

Colored Herring or Anchovies

We have been having great success over the past 10-12 years with this process. No doubt the color is amazing and without the issues of other bait companies dye. But the part many people miss when using anything other then Pautzke's is the Scent. Eggs/Krill is the scent. True mothers milk and major ocean food combined.

Now we all know that when fishing is hot and the bite is hot it makes not much difference. But on those days when the fish are tight lipped being hammered with hundreds of silver, herring/anchovy smelling baits laced with the norm in secret scents, ha,. That is when this process makes the difference.

The same goes for curing your Sardine or herring fillets for wrapping your Flat-Fish, Quick-Fish or Sting-Fish. Would also be awesome for Brad's new Super bait Cut Plug.

The following

Borax-O-Fire Herring/Anchovies Brine

In a half gallon container

1cup of Pautzke's Fire Cure (sulphate) or Pautzke's Borax-O-Fire Natural

3/4 Cup Rock Salt

This is the base Brine

Then to get color add two bottles of Pautzke's Red, Blue, Yellow or Orange Nectar

This Brine will last week to ten days with adding small amounts of above as needed.

For Curing Sardine or Herring fillets for your Wraps

1/2 Cup of Pautzke's Fire Cure Pink, Red or Orange

1/2 Cup of non-ionized salt

20-26 fillets

sprinkle on lightly and put in gallon zip lock bag will fish great for three days if it lasts that long.

If you want the Chartreuse color then use the Natural Fire-Cure and a bottle of yellow Nectar.

So from trolling to anchored Pautzke's has you covered for 2010 springer season.

Hey for those who are in the Market for a new Drift Boat better set up a test drift with Paviti Marine in Medford. They have the most advanced thoughts in the market in 20 plus years, doors, floors, and new structural design it is going to have an impact for years to come. They will make you a truly CUSTOM boat.

In the Glass boat area checkout Rivtech they also have NEW processes which make the boat Rigid and yet light weight and quiet.

Tight Lines See you on the water and make sure you take a kid fishing.

Sturgeon Video

Jon's Seafood Market 2010

We have decided to not reopen Jon's Seafood market this year to just focus on the Guide and Charter Services. In addition we are excited to start a few new projects workig with Kids to get more anglers in the younger generations "hooked on fishing" which is very important to our belove sport.

The 2010 line up looks strong for us and we encourage you to check your calendars for dates you want to come fishing this year. We are doing the Show system right now and we are booking at a better pace then last season.

We are excited about our continued relationship with Pautzke's bait Co.. In the next issues of STS and Northwest Sportsman's we will have information on the hot Pautzke's Nectar lineup for adding color and EGG scent trial to your prawns, herring and ancovies. Will help increase bites on those tough days.

New Drift Boats; New ideas hitting the drift boat market both in the metal and glass markets. Pavati has come up with some great new ideas from the access doors, new Pat. Pending adjustable floor to heated Seats and the list goes on. check them out at pavatimarine.com

Rivtech has made the first that I have seen glass boat with a stiff-rigged floor! Injected resin not hand laid. The boat is tight and right another new excellant product for the new season. rivtechdriftboats.com

We are alos working on a series of youth fishing clinics and summer fishing camps so stay tuned for more on this exciting project.

Jon's Seafood Market & Smoke house

We are processing, shipping, packing and custom smoking salmon caught at Buoy 10!! Call for help or information.

503-861-6070

Hot Salmon Fishing at Buoy 10

If your looking for great Chinook and Silver salmon fishing get to the lower Columbia and Astoria asap. The fishing will continue for another four weeks.

Today we started fishing the last of the incoming tide and hit five fish in the first hour. Two chinooks and three silvers. The hot action continued until we had six nooks and six silvers andto the dock by 10:30am. Cleaned the fish boat and headed back out with three other folks and had six more by 1:45!!

We caught fish on bait and spinners and plugs and well alot of things. items to have in your boat if your fishing without a guide.

Great cured bait. We like Blue & Chartuese colored herring by using pautzke's Nectars and kokenee fuel.

Vibrax spinners, fatal flash spinners and coyote spoons. Brad's Super Baits all coated with Pautzke's Gel Krill with some added Fire Krill for an extra hot scent trail.

Call for available seats we are fishing 2-3x a day and can find space for some AWESOME salmon fishing!!!!

Strugeon Continues, Salmon on the Ocean underway this Sunday

Hey what a few weeks with Keeper Sturgeon season out of Astoria. While the fishing has been slow in the total number fish caught per day the numbers of KEEPERS has been just fine. We are starting to see more "shorts this week" coming from up river and the bait is arriving late but arriving which means the FAT Sturgeon are right under them.

We have seen several fish close to 55 pounds this week in the Shop.

We believe that the state might extend the season a few days in July. If this happens or you just want a hot day of fishing for your friends or family July is the time to Sturgeon fish the Astoria area as it is flat great. So keep informed!!

Ocean Salmon gets underway this Sunday and we will as normal get off to a fair start for the coho but the size will be small as normal. After about the 15th of July these fish start putting on wieght fast and we expect solid Silver fishing the rest of the ocean season with the largest qouta we have seen in years.

Call anytine for fishing reports, booking information and real time conditions.

Thight Lines

Val Perry

Catching more Sturgeon

When fishing the lower Columbia for Sturgeon during the months of June & July fishing many days well is just plain easy. No doubt there are plenty of people who do catch alot of fish each and every day. Everyone else does well but just not Slammin the Sturgeon daily like a few boats.

Let's give you a few tips today:

Bait:

Always use preimium bait and use the right bait in the right area. Sandshrimp awesome as everyone knows fish in shallow to mid shallow water. Avoid areas with alot of bullhead and other trash fish.

Anchovies fresh caught the same 24 hours is key keep cold.

Smelt from the columbia river always great.

Squid great with trash fish around and deeper water.

We use alot of fish sauce (in asian food section Safeway) Pautzke's Nectars, Fire Krill and Fire Cure to add to baits when the bite is alittle off or fishing in an area with alot of anglers you want a hot scent working to draw fish to your boat.

Water movement: always look for water movement on either incoming or outgoing where you can fish 3-10 oz of water. This is the ideal that is why you will see a boat who is slamming the fish pick up and move while the bite is still on because they know in a few minutes the bite will move based upon the current changing. Once it slows way down yo should have already moved out and down.

Fish will move with the current feeding the whole way. Also find channels even small ones entering the sand flats to catch fish as the enter and exit the flats at the beginning of water coming up and the end of the water going out. This is a time where large numbers of fish will use these channels to move and you can have some great success. once the tide is moving and the fish spread out on the flat these fish can be anywhere but I like areas where the current pushes them up against real shallow water. they will hold up stack up until the tide gets high enough for them to push on over the real shallow area.

Find areas where they get trapped for a hour and hook as many as you can in a small time frame.

Watch everyone fro the boats who are slamming them and those who are not.

Do not use a Short leader i like 36-48 my self 3/0 gamakatsu 65lb braid by suffix and my reel of choice is Fin-Nor great line capacity and baby butt smooth drags. Quantum 9' rods 15-50.

Call anytime for current conditions, boat availablility and trends.

Thight Lines take a Kid fishing Today!

Val

Sturgeon are Here

May 28th, 2009 yesterday was the best overall bit for Sturgeon on the lower Columbia River!! We see fish moving from the transition water into the flats, groves and holding water looking for food these fish have just come out of winter slow bite and are feeding hard the last 72 hours.

Fishing through out the lower river is producing today and we had ours by 8:30.

Freesh Anchovies, Shrimp are the go to baits with everyones secret cure bait working as well. We have been curing Squid in Pautzke's Fire Krill and nectar and have seen very agressive bites this week.

Call for updates fishing reports and conditions anytime. We also have a few seats available for those looking to get fresh sturgeon for the year and to also learn the area to fish later in their own boat.

We are fishing Quantum 9' 15-50 rods witn Fin-Nor reels awesome reels, loaded with 65lb sufix. Great fun something for every aged angler and a great family trip.

Tight lines

Val Perry

fishingwithval@msn.com

www.fishingwithval.com

866-738-6991

2009 Fishing Forecast

Fishing 2009 on Oregon's north Coast

Well in a few words it is going to be the best in ten years! now fishing is still fishing but no question the salmon runs for the Columbia are up for Spring and Fall Chinooks and the Coho Numbers are some of the best this decade.

Ocean salmon fishing will be good based upon ocean conditions and coho numbers with some access to Chinooks later in the summer. Fall Tillamook and Nehalem Bay news is better then last year again with average Chinook Numbers and very Good Coho Numbers.

Sturgeon Season begins May 9th and continues until June 28th or until the qouta is reached. Catch & Release sturgeon fishing which is the best in North America in July and August.

Columbia Seasons not to miss.

Springers. three days a week until April 18th

Sturgeon seven days a week May 9th - June 28th
Catch & Release July-August

Buoy 10 August-September

Ocean Salmon season not yet set but plan on July-August five days a week

Nehalem & Tillamook Bays Late September/October

Crabbing October/November

Always reach us for fishing reports, tech tips or to book fishing trips or lessons call toll free 800-738-6991 email val@fishingwithval.com www.fishingwithval.com

Fall Chinooks, Dungeness Crab and Smoked Fish

Wow,

What a six week span. Fishing and Crabbing on the Columbia and Starting the new venture Jon's Seafood Market! Coming soon will be the website for Jon's Market which will allow you to purchase Seafood like Salmon, Sturgeon, Halibut, Tuna and DungenessCrab and have it shipped directly to you. We also are a smoke house and can send out smoked fish or smoke your personal catch.

But Fishing is what we are here to talk about. We are now making the move South for Salmon. Large Fall Chinooks can be had on both the Tillamook and Nehalem bays this next six weeks. We are running trips on both systems and have three boats available.

Trolling Spinners, Herring, Stingfish with E-Chips, bobbers/eggs cured with Pautzke's Fire Cure are just a few ways we will get those Fall Chinooks to the boat.

We will also be posting some Bait cure information in the next few days along with some how too's.

We also want to let you know about our new services for Crabbing on the Columbia River now thru December! $99.00 a person for 4-5 hours of Crabbing with pots and rings. Price includes cooking of your limit a Jon's Seafood Market & Smoke House. All you need is your Shellfish License!

If you have a group or family and want the boat to yourself the Prices is $499 a saving of close to $100.00.

We look forward to helping you have a great outing for Dungeness Crab and Fall Chinooks.
Call us today to make a reservation.

Val Perry

866-738-6991

Jon's Seafood Market
503-861-6070