Just got back from sekiu. Fished it saturday from 11am-1pm with one little king. then from 4pm-7pm with 2 silvers. One was 4 pounds and unclipped and the other was 8 pounds also unclipped. So back in the water they went. I heard from other boats that it was slower that day than usual. I fished out in front of the rock jetty about 500yrds out.

Thursday they were so thick out a couple miles in 400 to 500 feet of water than I limited 8 people in two shifts before noon - mostly humpies but we caught about a dozen keeper coho. You have to head out, find a rip, and stay on it - 500 yards from the jetty is way too far in.

humps, humps and more humps on saturday...

I was in a small boat with a small motor so i didnt want to head to far out. Next time i will bring a bigger boat.

Sullie,

From past experience, I'd say you were pretty fortunate to get 2 silvers in so close to the jetty. The rips that yield most of the silvers do come in a bit closer to Slip Pt than off the Caves however. In any case, for best results you probably want to be out 1-3 miles for the best action. I fish a small boat and motor too and often go out to the 2nd & 3rd rips with no difficulty. But if tide, wind or fog are a problem I'll bag it and fish in close and work out to the 1st rip off Slip when I can. Even though it takes longer to get places I haven't found the size of my boat to be that much of a limiting factor in catching fish up there. If your concerned about your boat though, rent a kicker from one of the resorts and use your own motor. The rate is reasonable and those kickers are real safe. And if you get stranded, they'll be more likely to tow you in if it is one of their own boats. Aren't cell phones great.

By the way, that jetty reminds me of a time we caught and released well over a hundred mackerel one day in a El Nino year a while back there. Almost one on every cast & 3-on at a time for hours. Long enough to go back in, rest up and come back out with fly rods and trout gear for more action. The school was immense and they hung off that point and along the kelp for the entire incoming tide. What a blast!

See you up there. I'll be the one with a smaller boat than yours.

You really where not fishing where the fish were. We fished Saturday beyond the 200' line and caught 2 hatchery coho, 3 wild coho released, and 12 humpies (two released). We started at 6:30 and had our limits buy 11:00. Then we fished this morning, Sunday, a little more selectively. We took 2 hatchery coho , 4 wild coho released, 1 humpy kept and one humpy released. We semed to stay out of the humpies this time.

Our boat is a small 14' aluminum and we had 3 people in it and did just fine. The GPS did help in the fog though...

We used silver dodgers/flashers with cut-plugged herring set at 35' on the riggers and one off the back with a Deep Six. Depth didn't matter though since we caught one at 60' and had 2 take the bait while hooking up the line on the downrigger. There's nothing like seeing a salmon taking something off the surface!!!!


[Edit] On Saturday two guys came in with two hallibut from the area 4 one day opener. The small one was about 25 pounds and the large one was an monster 80-90 pounder!!!