Getting Salmon To Bite

Getting salmon to bite can sometimes be tricky. Many of us go through a slew of lure shapes, colors, and sizes, trying to improve our chances of hooking a big one.

Yes, on some days, we hope and pray even a small one will bite.

The Vortaks rotating bullet head was designed with flexibility in mind. Do you need a different skirt color to get the bite?

No problem. Just pull the old squid skirt off the skirt-shank, snip a nose hole in a new plastic squid skirt, and slide it over the tail-flare.

Pull old plastic squid skirt off Vortaks

Cutting a nose hole in a new squid skirt.

Squeezing the new squid skirt’s head over the Vortaks tail flare.

Thread the newly dressed Vortaks onto your leader. Finish your bait setup as you usually would and catch a big one.

Matt’s Successful Rogue River Vortaks Bait Setup!

From time to time, customers will send in other great ideas for using the Vortaks rotating bullet head.

Matt sent in a fantastic photo with this caption: “Oddly enough, this setup was quite popular with the late spring run.

Matt’s Vortaks rotating lure head bait setup for Rogue River salmon.

Hats off to Matt for one of the most imaginative AND SUCCESSFUL Vortaks combinations we’ve seen.

Adding icing to the cake, Matt enclosed five images of beauties caught with Vortaks’s help while fishing the Rogue River this spring.

Sam’s Eighteen Pound King on the Black Fox Skirted Vortaks

Tried and true also does the job. Sam testifies to this fact with this message sent in June of this year. “I landed a nice 18lb king with the black and silver Vortaks skirt.”

Sam’s 18-pound king salmon caught on the Black Fox.

Nice, Sam!! Your picture is worth a thousand words!

Whether you dress Vortaks yourself, as Matt did, or pick up an already skirted one like Sam, adding increased skirt action to your bait setup can help get finicky salmon to bite.