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So I was out to Strawberry last week going for kokes. Me and my brothers bagged a total of 9 nice kokes on the Soilder Creek side. We also probably had 25+ hits , and 3 or 4 get off right at the boat. My question is would these rubber snubbers help? I've used them a couple of times and the line they are attached to never hook up with any fish. Always have caught the kokes without them, I'm just wondering if anyone has any luck landing more Kokanee with them.
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they do help, but also feel that I don't catch as many on the rods with them on. I prefer a really light kokanee rod that will do the same thing as the snubber without having to use it.
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[quote Devildog09]So I was out to Strawberry last week going for kokes. Me and my brothers bagged a total of 9 nice kokes on the Soilder Creek side. We also probably had 25+ hits , and 3 or 4 get off right at the boat. My question is would these rubber snubbers help? I've used them a couple of times and the line they are attached to never hook up with any fish. Always have caught the kokes without them, I'm just wondering if anyone has any luck landing more Kokanee with them.[/quote]
I tried snubbers a few times last year with the rods I was using and had limited luck, recently I switched to lighter action rods and haven't lost a single koke at the back of the boat so far.
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I've been using the red/orange snubbers for two years now, and have not seen any loss of hits because of them...and I believe they are doing what they are supposed to, esp. since I don't have real light tipped rods (yet)....my friend doesn't use them, because he has the light tip kokanee rods, sometimes he gets the hits, sometimes I get the hits, sometimes we both do at the same time...so when they are hitting, they're hitting...Guluk...
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if you have a good rod the snubbers are really just a thing of the past unless you are using braid or something crazy like that. fish will hit you stuff and not hook up it is very normal .
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I'll throw in my 2 cents if anyone is willing to listen to my theory?
As all us kokeheads know, the landlocked sockeye salmon is known for it's strong runs and top notch head shaking characteristics, thats why we LOVE to catch them!
While a super noodly rod is essential, I believe there is another force at play that a super soft rod will not cure.
Envision in your mind the strike of a koke. It slams your squid/spoon/etc and immediately tries to go the opposite direction of the force pulling it the direction it does not want to go. Not only do they have soft mouths most of the year, but 8"-18" in front of the hook now in its mouth is a big wide flat piece of metal (dodger,flasher,etc) that weighs a few ounces. Not only is the weight of the attractor a factor, I believe most fish come off due to the resistance of pulling that attractor side to side and up and down through the water column, especially if the axis of that chunk of metal is perpendicular to the direction the fish is pulling.
To counteract this, someone came up with the rubber snubber between the hook and the attractor.
I personally won't use a snubber because inside my tiny pea sized brain I believe the snubber will affect my hook in a negative way.
I would rather believe I get more hits without the snubber and my superhuman angling skills (also worth about 2 cents) will allow me to land the fish with my whippy rods.
Sometimes it actually works!
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I used to use snubbers years ago when I used lead core line and heavier rods, but since I went to down riggers back in the early 90's and went to lighter tipped rods I prefer not to use them. You always seem to lose some kokanee due to their aerobatics but that's part of my enjoyment in fishing for them I love to watch them jump, they are just an all around great fish to go after. I'm so glad we have lakes in Utah to catch them and I hope we can add them to a few more of our lakes.[fishon]
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Thanks all for the info! Is much appreciated! I'm gonna try a lighter rod without the rubber snubber and see how I fare. I'll let ya know this weekend
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