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Ok... So I recently went salmon fishing in Shakotan Hokkaido with some friends on the 20th. The spot we first went was teeming with people so we quickly gave up and started looking other places. We eventually found a small beach near the only main road with like no people and a small creek which poured freshwater into the sea, but was not large enough for the salmon to climb. 43°15'16.2"N 140°40'57.3"E cords for the curious niggas.
After an hour or so the waters started absolutely teeming with Chum salmon, and I even saw some Sockeye. They were basically up to the waterfront and you'd often see fins and even the fish itself kind of pop out of water as there were small waves.
So yeah we start casting and uuh, don't get a single bite for like 4 hours of fishing. Yes its breeding salmon, yes it does not bite usually, but at such a high density for 4 hours? Our setups must have been scuffed. 2 of my friends ran the basic Japanese setup for salmon which is just a bobber rig with no swivel and a lure, picrel. This is basically what the 100+ people were using in the crowded ass first spot we went to. Halfway we tried hooking store bought bait to the end of the tako lure to no effect. I ran a simple snap to lure setup and tried spoons and a minnow lure with a slow crank and little to no action to no effect.
So yeah, I would love to ask here for any advice to make these fuckers to actually bite something. According to the post op research I did, I figured that perhaps a roe like smelling lure/bait together with a minnow or other small fish like lure might work. Breeding salmon biologically stops feeding, so only provoking aggressiveness can make it bite right? So shit that smells and looks like roe and what appears to be a small fish predating on it should make at least 1 of the many dozen salmon angry and provoke a bite. Of course, this is my schizo theory based on 0 experience, so thats why I am asking for any other advice.
