How to Catch Salmon Anglers

How to catch salmon is a question on many anglers minds. Take it a step further to how to catch salmon anglers. Using a variety of salmon fishing techniques, we catch salmon fishermen and keep them captivated. Hence, this issue is the subject of this month’s blog. 

If you follow Scent Striker, you know that the Bait Set-up Triangle is the foundation of rigging for salmon. All salmon bait setups should activate three primary feeding perception mechanisms: sight, smell, and sound. 

How to Catch Salmon Anglers using the Catching Salmon Angler Triangle

As I have shown with the Bait Set-up Triangle for salmon rigging, so is the Catching Salmon Anglers Triangle for hooking the next generation of fishermen. Really, it’s a simple way to remember and apply the three primary tools needed for making an outing fun and, therefore, worth remembering. 

The discovery of the Catching Salmon Anglers Triangle has been a few years in the making. It has evolved through trial and error and is summarized like this. Firstly, at age five, you begin your salmon fishing indoctrination by joining grandpa for an afternoon of saltwater salmon fishing. Secondly, you experience your first overnight “boat camping” fishing trip at age seven. Lastly, at age nine, you’ve been on enough fishing trips that you feel you should be captain. 

Generally all of these trips are without a parent—it’s the old man, grandma, and youth. As a result, three have come of age and are in the learning-to-love salmon fishing process, and three are awaiting the magic marker of five. Captain Nine-Year-Old is good enough that I’ll call him a true salmon angler.

SALMON ANGLER TRIANGLE EXPLAINED

To further explain, the three elements of the Catching Salmon Anglers Triangle are: Hands on, variety, and praise. "Hands on" means they hold, turn, tie, reel, touch, or net something, while "Variety" means short attention spans that need to mix it up and change activities. To illustrate, the five-year-old needs grandma aboard for game playing during a four-hour troll. Hence, it is important to think before you go out on the water about how to break your fishing trip into smaller time chunks. Keep ahead of their “I’m bored” statement. Finally, "praise" is telling them what they are doing right. It is also holding your tongue when they accidentally drop your new net overboard, and together you watch it sink. 

I once heard you should give fourteen positive comments to one negative comment. The individual that came up with 14 “way to go” to the one “how could you” understood how to catch the next generation of salmon anglers. Fishing is supposed to be fun, and praising the small accomplishments grows confident anglers. So, as you lead your young fishers, shower them with praise. It can even be a small thing like, “you held the rod with all five fingers this time. Way to go!”

SCENT STRIKER SUCCESS

This issue is the subject of this month’s blog because it also touches on the Scent Striker ethos. A Scent Striker tagline is Fill Your Fish Box. Our fish box, however, is bigger than the one on the boat’s back deck. It’s a part of a personal and company core value. 

A full fish box is a symbol of success on the fishing grounds. A full fish box for Scent Striker, the company, is your success—yes, on the fishing grounds and in your other life endeavors as well. We want you to be successful. It’s why we are in business.

Lastly, a full fish box means passing on the love of fishing and life to the next generation of salmon anglers. 

Striving for these successes is the Scent Striker ethos. At Scentstriker.com, our fish box is full—we want yours to be full too!

Add scent – catch fish, Don Habeger, Founder