I had a friend go out last week who caught a dandy 12 lb. blackmouth up north here on Freshwater Bay. I now believe blackmouth fishing is closed.
I sure hope they have a chinook season although I don't agree with just keeping hatchery. Just think about all the native chinook that will get netted and probably killed.

One way to find screaming deals on ebay is to run the search engine with every combination of misspelling and funky names you can think of, A lot of the time folks will misspell simple words, or put things in the wrong catagory.
For example if you want to find downriggers search for winch, winches, outrigger, *rigger, down* etc. Use the wild card any way you can and learn to use the advanced search to exclude keywords for items that have no relationship to what you are looking for. We buy a lot of stuff on ebay, and always ,always, always pay with a credit card that has a buyer protection plan on it and pay thru ebay or paypal or some other reputable service. If you mail off a money order you have little or no recourse if the sh1t hits the fan. And remember if you pay with a service NO ONE will ever email you and ask for your card #, We get these now and then and we forward them straight to ebay, Its like catalog shopping on the phone, If someone called you out of the blue and wanted your card # you would not give it to them, but if you called them to make an order its a little different. Other than that you have the general idea.

BTW the ones I got were listed as cannon digitrol fishing winches, I found them by running a search for can* digitr*
use your imagination, it takes some time but can be worth it.

As far as canon vs scotty, look at the ads on all the websites, everybody is being paid by scotty, and some guys will flat out lie about other brands, look around for what you want, and what has the features you would like and as long as its a major brand I think you will be fine. Penn, scotty, canon adn there are a couple others, I think most of the guides I know of ( and thats not really very many) use canon, with a few penns. One the other side of the coin scotty is very popular so parts and accessories are easy to find... And Downriggin will probably have more good info for ya than I could ever comeup with



Good luck

thanks to some of the reports that were listed off of this website, I tried Camano Head and had the best blackmouth day ever in the sound. Me and the boys came home with (3) 12 lb'ers.

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Nice BM Jeff! Bet that was a blast!! What a way to end the season.

Here you go Jeff:



Nice fish! Did either of the twins reel one of them in?

Way to go jeff Now thats the kind of stinkers I've been chasing! Glad to here you closed out the season with a bang. What did you use?

Chaser / P-Martin--it was your reports that got me over there, thanks again. I got the 1st one on a green / blue plug. The second 2 were on cop car coyotes behind a flasher. That is the best place to fish. No one there, lots of bait on the bottom. Got em between 90 and 130' down. I also noticed a lot of suspended fish around Mission bar, out in the middle of the channel, by that tower. Got a 22" er that Monday out in the middle. Also saw a pod of whales, looked like gray whales, that was a 1st too, wish I had my camera with me that day.

4-Salt, the twins are reeling in fish now. They did need a some help on that big boy though. But you can't imagine how interested my kids are in fishing now after that day.

I also had a little excitement on my second fish, as I lost the top to my net trying to land the second one, it got tangled in the downrigger and I had to reach down and grab it by the gill plate and pull it in.

Man, those are some nice B-mouth! I wish I could get a trio like that.