VOL.39 • ISS. 14
June 26, 2020
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Willfish Tackle: Small Shop Big
Selection Of Lures, Gear & More!
W
illfish Tackle isn’t a big box
store. In fact, the store isn’t very
large at all, but it has everything you
need for catching fish from the coast to
the Sierra.
I’ve been shopping at Willfish for
a long time because they
stock a full line of gear and
components. Line, hooks,
rods, reels, lures and an
array of natural baits.
Owner Craig Newton
even stocks some hard to
find items such as wooden
Lyman Lures, the 2 inch
Lyman and Arctic Fox
trolling flies as well as
products from Luhr Jensen,
Mack’s Lure, Yakima Bait
and GVF Lures.
Craig loves to fish and he’s
always ready with advice
whether you’re looking for a
limit of stripers in the Delta,
a double digit cutthroat at
Pyramid or just want to
enjoy an afternoon soaking
PowerBait at a local lake for
some pansize rainbows.
If you need to top off your
trout and salmon fishing
supplies, drop by Willfish
A
nglers everywhere often combine lure and bait,
or scent, in an effort to make lures twice as
effective. Consider, for example, how walleye anglers
often tip their plug or spinner with a worm, savvy bass
anglers’ spray a fish attractant on lures – even soft
plastics, and those chasing steelhead add an egg cluster
to a single egg imitation drifted near river bottoms.
A new concept in combining lure-and-bait to
produce more and bigger fish is a new trolling lure
called SpinFish®. SpinFish, made by Yakima Bait,
is a pull-apart, fallible plug featuring a patented
“Easy-Fill” bait chamber that disperses scent as
it’s pulled through the water column. And while
it’s non-buoyant design makes it more of a trolling
plug, it can be still-fished in river current, even
back-trolled down rivers behind a diver or weight by
rigging a buoyant bobber or float a few feet up the
leader to prevent the plug from hanging up where
bottom currents might go slack.
SpinFish produces a vibrating, spinning, wounded-baitfish
action when pulled through the water. Because it’s
designed to spin, it can be rigged to spin clockwise or
counter-clockwise, just re-thread your leader through the
by Cal Kellog
and marvel at the wide selection of
gear that Craig has packed into his
shop!
Willfish is located at 11944 Masters
Court, Auburn, Ca. For more information
call (530) 887-0839.
B
uck’s Outboard of Sacramento has
a long history of meeting the needs
of California anglers, whether you are
looking for a new motor or a completely
new boat. Buck’s is a proud provider of
Arima Boats.
Arima Boats
Arima’s line of fishing
boats, from 15 to
22 feet in length,
feature hardchine,
modified
V-Hulls
designed for
the everchanging
conditions
of California
waters.
These
boats have
developed
a reputation
for getting anglers out of a jam when
sudden Pacific squalls roar in.
High decks and upturned bows deflect
spray, keeping passengers dry. Arima’s
ride is soft and stable, even in rough
water.
For a sleek nimble fishing machine
with saltwater credentials many anglers
SpinFish: The Revolutionary Salmon Lure For Both River & Ocean Fishing!
opposite hole in the lure lip. It can be rigged 36-to-60
inches behind Fish Flash®, Free-Sliding Spreader, diver,
Spin-N-Glo® Bottom Walker, or conventional sinker;
18-to-42 inches behind dodgers or rotating flashers. To
reduce/eliminate line or leader twist it should be rigged in
Want Ocean Salmon?
You Need an Arima!
by Cal Kellog
are turning to the Arima Sea Chaser.
If you want to get really serious about
your saltwater action in pursuit of
Farallon Island lings, offshore albacore
and salmon on deep reef where the
going can get sloppy, the Arima hardtop
series is just what the doctor ordered!
The Arima Yellowtail
The All New
Arima Yellowtail
features new
style Hardtop,
100%
composite
fiberglass
dual hull
construction,
fiberglass
stringer
system,
molded in
fish box and
cooler, 5-gallon
Bait Boxes, 48-gallon fuel tank, Stainless
steel bow and grab rails, your choice of
Yamaha outboard, galvanized trailer and
much more!
Buck’s is located at 2750 47th Ave.
Sacramento, Ca. You can give them a call
at (916) 428-3917 or visit them online at
www.bucksoutboard.com.
by Buzz Ramsey
conjunction with a swivel.
It’s easy to add bait and/or scent to this lure, just
pull apart and fill with any fresh or live bait, which
might include: tuna, herring, sardines, candlefish,
alewife or other critters game-fish prey on;
prepared bait like Pro Cure, PowerBait, or Gulp!
work too. To keep your SpinFish fresh smelling, it’s
important to clean this lure thoroughly after use.
And, because the leader is threaded through both
halves, there is just no way (bar a line break) you
can lose or misplace the lure halves. The all-new
SpinFish comes in two sizes, a 3.0 three-inch and
4.0 four-inch version, rigged and ready to fish.
What I noticed when trolling this lure in combination
with a Fish Flash at the Columbia River mouth
for fall salmon is that I had a better hook-to-land
ratio if I let salmon pull the rod down a couple times
before setting the hook. If I yanked back to set the
hook too soon, I would miss hooking a least half of the
salmon that attacked this lure. In addition, I discovered
that the lure had more lifelike/aggressive action if I
didn’t over stuff the bait chamber. Bait cut from anchovy
is what I used. For more visit YakimaBait.Com
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(360)607-8511
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www.columbiariverfishing.com
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