Merrill Creek Res. 6/15/13:

[Gatto1227]

Originally Posted by AndyS

It's a machine you stick your rod into and it pulls forward and drops back. You can do it by hand but the jerking machines are rising in popularity.

Lol

[GetANet]

Has our society become so lazy that we need a machine to JERK IT??????LOL

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by GetANet

Has our society become so lazy that we need a machine to JERK IT??????LOL

I myself prefer the old fashioned hands on approach

[Fish n Jeep]

Too easy, Gatto.

[Big Steve]

I also hit Merrill sat. and observed the jerkman wondering what the hell was going on. All stockies no holdovers 3 lakers one of which tipped the scale at the boat launch at 8 3/4 lbs. WE drifted for a while then anchored in 80fow and chummed our dead herring. big laker hit at about 60 ft. I am also a follower of Manny L.

[Art Berkman]

Originally Posted by Big Steve

I also hit Merrill sat. and observed the jerkman wondering what the hell was going on. All stockies no holdovers 3 lakers one of which tipped the scale at the boat launch at 8 3/4 lbs. WE drifted for a while then anchored in 80fow and chummed our dead herring. big laker hit at about 60 ft. I am also a follower of Manny L.

Yo Bro

Welcome aboard !!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Sounds like a great day on the water. We don't need a stinking jerk machine. There's massage parlors for that!!!

[Super]

10 dozen herring?

Question 1 - How do you fish that many?

Question 2 - Have you ever needed/used 10 dozen?

Question 3 - how can you afford it$$$?

[AndyS]

I am live lining 5 rods at once. I look like a ballerina when I'm in the boat alone, I don't sit down. I'm shooting live herring off in all different directions, and chumming livies along the way to fuel the mix in the water. Some times I feel it might not happen but I'm going to try my hardest to make it happen. I change baits often. 10lb. plus Brown Trout are really smart. I dropped down to a #8 thin wire hook because the baits were small. I keep things moving and looking as natural as I can, tryin to fool that fat boy brown. If the herring isn't swimming right or looks beat up, I change baits. Lastly - I HATE RUNNING OUT OF BAIT. I'm only on the water for 4 maybe 5 hours at the most. In those few hours I bomb the area with live bait, it's a do or die kind of fishing. I look up at the wall and see an 11lb and 18lb brown caught with these methods so I think it works, kinda. I'm lookin for a needle in a hay stack, a 20lb. brown would be nice. Methods of madness !!!

Fished like this back in the day at Round Valley, always fun watching 8lb. browns blowing up on live bait. I fished party boats out of San Diego, they pretty much fished the same way, chummed out a lot of live bait and made it happen !

[Art Berkman]

10 Dozen Herring

Your welcome to join us anytime

You know what I would do with them !!!