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Here’s the author’s buddy Dave Stumpf getting it done on the Egegik River with a twitching jig. Stumpf, like many anglers, has great success twitching jigs for coho. (SCOTT HAUGEN)
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ADVANCED JIG TACTICS FOR ALASKA COHO SHARED BY 2 GUIDES, EXPERT ANGLER BY SCOTT HAUGEN
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ecently, some buddies and I hammered the coho on spinners; then the bite stopped. Coho are notorious for going off the bite when they get tired of seeing
the same presentation over and over. So I tied on a twitching jig and the bite resumed. In five casts I landed five silvers and my buddies begged me for jigs to twitch.
On another trip my buddy Dave Stumpf and I did well twitching jigs for coho in multiple rivers throughout Southwest Alaska. “I like using Get’m Dry jigs due to
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