My friend Blair and I fished West Pt. this morning. It only took us 45 minutes and we were headed back to the launch with our limits. In addition to the two keepers we also caught four shakers. Blairs fish weighed six pounds and mine was five pounds.

What did you catch them on ???

Hot Spots and hoochies.

Damn I knew we should have headed in that direction today! We opted to fish Jeff Head and Edmonds and got skunked for the whole weekend, first time in a log time.
Glad to hear you caught fish!

Did you get them south of the bouy?

Easy

Nice pictures, keep them coming.

nice fish, send some up north will ya....

Carl,

Niiiiccceeee Feeessshhhh!!

Just 5 short weeks ago... It appears you're addicted now!

Glad to see you are enjoying Blackmouth fishing! It's an addiction that I have never been able to explain to my wife.

Keep those pix coming.

Downriggin'

Easy, You must of already been gone by the time I got back over to the East side.
I fished Manchester and Blake Island with only a couple of shakers. Oh, that's right! I also caught a nice crab pot and rope on my DR ball.
Need to replace the float for it was water logged.
Got over to 4 mile Rock about 11:oo and put 1 8lber in the boat. Man I love those Coyote spoons.

We caught all of our fish today straight out from 4 Mile Rock. We did not scrape the bottom either. The fish were suspended today. We were fishing 100' down in 120-140' of water.

I got my fish in 78' of water and my gear set at 70'. Ya just never know. It's funny how it seems I'm never marking fish on the screen when I get bites. They must be drawn in from outside the FF cone.

Looks like Sunday was better than Saturday.
Started the morning out at 4 mile rock. Worked it for about 2 hours after tide change. We got into about 10 shakers there with my buddy mearsuring a 21 3/4. We headed over around the corner down South by the marina, saw fishslayer out there and it looked like he was doing well. We ended our day there with 5 more shakers. No keepers, but all it matters that we were on the water .

Have a question: Does anyone know about a wreck / container out by mile rock? Earlier in the morning we were trolling about 90 ft and lost my Hot Spot and Spoon . Looked on the depth finder and looked like a boat down there. Lucky by downrigger didn't get caught. Had rust marks all over it and scuffed up the rubber coating on it. And you think we would of learned after loosing my gear the first time. On the second pass my buddy lost his gear.

Well if you do not know about it watch out for it. If you're headed NE out from 4 mile rock in a angle its about 150 / 200 yards out.

Fish On,

ErnDog

We had a great day Saturday. Caught a couple dozen shakers/flounder, and then landed a 25" keeper at about 4:30. Also got to watch a bald eagle kick the crap out of a seagull. Drowned him, pummelled him and left him floating with a broken back and half a beak. Wildest thing I ever saw, wish I had my video camera.

Met Erndog at the ramp putting out-great to meet you! Also cruised by EasyLimits, good to finally meet you too, Carl. That sure is a purdy motor on the back of that boat!

We have had a great time, we think we got it figured out now, been trying different leader lengths/hoochies and foil skirts, think we finally may have it now that we landed a keeper. You really see how big a container ship is 30' away in a 19' Bayliner! Makes you feel like you are standing in a bucket.

Hope to meet some more of you maybe this Saturday. Helped another guy get his truck up the ramp, but don't know if he posts on here or not. He took a little dunk hooking the boat up and didn't have 4x, so needed some weight on the back tires to get up the ramp. Nothing like a couple of fat guys on the bumper to get some traction! If he reads this, great to meet you too, glad to be of help.

Keep it up guys, amazing how many people live in Seattle and how few people are out fishing.

Steve, good job. Good to meet you also. Hope to meet up with you again. Are you going to fish the 23rd? Looks like Sky-Guy doing a great job putting it together.

Fish On,

ErnDog

Erndog...
I am not sure about the rock you referenced, but from the depth and where I think you were trolling I think you found the Barges. Have not dove them yet so I don't really know what they look like but they have been there since the '80s at least. Might want to keep track of where they are if you do any bottomfishing.....zip......

Hey Erndog, I'm am SERIOUSLY thinking about it! I do have a commitment that morning, but I am really thinking of ditching it and going fishing. All I would have to do is look at my pal Trent and he is there! I need to start making some calls and find someone to cover for me. If I do see you this weekend, point out that container or wreck on the bottom for me, would you? We haven't lost anything yet, but don't have a spare ball or anything. It is also nice to see I am not the only one who turned the family party boat into a fish slayin' machine! With some of the waves those big tugs send out I am glad we're in the Bayliner and not the little SmokerCraft!

See ya' out there!

Erndog-
Wonder if this is the hang-up? If travelling along the 90' contour from the south east going northwest the ground comes up fast to 60'?
[img]http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm?lat=47.64089&lon=-122.42457599999999&scale=25000&zoom=100&type=1&icon=19%5Fblue%5F32%5F32%5F0%5F0%7C47%2E638986%7C%2D122%2E433909%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emaptech%2Ecom%2Flocationmaps%2Findex%2Ehtm%7C%5EPossible%20hang%2Dup%3F&width=498&height=498&searchscope=dom&scriptfile=http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm&latlontype=DMS[/img]

Lat/Lon = 47d 38.347N
122d 26.031W

Let's see if this get's the map:

Steve, good to have crossed paths with you this weekend. Maybe next time we can get close enough to shake hands.

I am planning on fishing West Pt. next weekend too.

Unfortunately, the whole fam damily is coming in to town the weekend of the derby so I doubt I will be able to make a showing then, at least not Sunday.

That mound sure looks interesting to a bottom bouncer. Hard to fish it I'll bet. One puff of wind and then you're done.

JohnnyDeep mentioned it already, but I found this brief description of the barges Erndog hung up on.

"The West Point Barges are a pair of barges that sank in the same place, but many years apart. Kind of wild, huh? This dive is a boat dive only, and I only know of one charter captain that dives this site."

So how deep are those barges and does anyone want to give away the GPS numbers. Pleaseeeeee?

Those "mounds" may be the barges. The bottom contours are calculated from a grid of depth soundings and interpolated - thus showing a rounded mound rather than the sharp contours of a barge. I also found this description:

"The barges sit upright on the bottom. Each is about 200 feet long and 50 feet wide. The top of the barges (the cargo bed) is about 15 feet above the sea floor. They sit parallel to each other and about 50 feet apart. The shallower barge is in 75 feet of water and the deeper at 85 feet. Their sterns point to the north.
These barges lie a quarter-mile offshore north of Four Mile Rock in about 75 to 85 feet of water. They are on a line from the Kingdome and the Veterans' Hospital on Beacon Hill (the southern-most tall structure on the hill), which intersects a line to the blue water tower on Magnolia Hill. You will be in front of a brown house on shore with a white house to the left of it."

This description seems to fit Erndog's find.

http://www.nwdivenews.com/MC/index.asp?showcol=Y&ID=106

No Lat/Lon but a sighting (replace Seabird stadium for the Kingdome. I may check these out myself in the next couple of weeks.

LF, CD, JD,

Thx for info guys. CD lookn at the map you provided, good job, its more in an angle heading north west in to 90 ft of water. As LF was mentioning I'm know I hit at least one of them. If you're looking at shore there is a white house, very square like, that it looks like 3 stories high. Also next to it there is a large tarp / plastic covering the ground. Just head straight out from there. You can't miss this house.
I'm thinking buddy and I are going to hit this when Ling Cod opens. I'm sure theres some biggies in there.

Good info guys, Fish On,

ErnDog

Current Drifter,

Looks like I was typing in when you posted. Thats about right on that info. Interested now finding the other. A: not to loose gear again, and B: LINGCOD.

Great reaserch,

ErnDog

Don't talk to much about certain bottom fishing spots. Need to keep them under your hats. Otherwise, our fellow fisherman from other countries will rape the spot.

Oop's , good call Easy. Just got a little happy there.

ErnDog

Indeed, with zipperlip info like this, I may be tempted to turn the ol' Bayline into a floating Japanese cod processing plant and sell it right there to the Pike's Place Market!

Seriously, I'll have to look those up, I am interested to see what they will look like on the 3D Humminbird.

You know, son of a gun, I think we lost a rig on those two now that you mention the white house! We got snagged on something making a turn just about there and it would not come off. Since Trent just upgraded his reels with braided line, the leader snapped off saving the flasher, thank goodness. I was wondering what was down there, since we have drug the bottom all over the place and never hit anything until that spot, and there was no getting it loose no matter how we circled or what direction we pulled on it.

Damn barges........

Steve, your're completely right about that. We circled every which way and no give. I'm lucky I didn't loose my DR cable. It did fray one of my DR clips. Plus the DR balls had scuffs and rust fragments all over them.

ErnDog

Steve, your're completely right about that. We circled every which way and no give. I'm lucky I didn't loose my DR cables. It did fray one of my DR clips. Plus the DR balls had scuffs and rust fragments all over them.

Hey I'll join ya selling to the Market. I can be your salesman .

ErnDog