"Salamat, po!" to my host and captain for the day, FishNg1:


We made a late crossing over the bar at 7:30 am to avoid max ebb on a very low tide. After a sloppy first few miles, it was fairly smooth sailing out to 260 ft.

Even before I can wet a line, FishNg1 is onto a salmon on the first drop. In a few minutes a feisty 6# coho is brought to the boat, and with a quick twist of the de-hooker, I set him free for FishNg1. I had the foresight to break his trailer hook off with that maneuver so as to keep him out of the water a few more minutes to give somebody else a chance to catch one.


The action is pretty steady, and by the time we decide to find greener pastures a couple hours later, three rods have already brought nine salmon to the boat.... 4 for FishNg1, 3 for his lifelong buddy Dennis, and 2 for me. Why leave fish to find fish? Can any one say S-H-A-K-E-R?


Between the wild coho and the immature kings, we had yet to put a fish in the box.

We motor out a little farther, and true to form FishNg1 nails another fish on the first drop in the new spot. A decent sized silver of 8# or so cartwheels over my line (which is still fishing) and the fish is granted a premature LDR (long distance release). You know, that one just may have been missing a fin, too.
:p

Finally, after several more fish that could hardly pop the release clip, Fishing1 latches on to the biggest fish of the day.... by golly, what's this? Could it be? Yes, finally... a real live king:


Just as the fish is nearing the boat, it lunges straight for the trolling motor, and POP! Gonzo!

That would prove to be the only real king of the 8-hr trip. We moved to one more spot where FishNg1 repeated his "fish-on-the-first-drop" trick... AGAIN. We ended with 21 fish to the boat, but only one clip-fin coho in the box (mine, baby, mine)... too embarassing to post a photo of a 3 pound hatchery runt, so you won't see it here, folks.

In all, great weather, great company, great action, but not much to show for in the fishbox. Very few charters limited from what we could tell. I got to fish with some great guys, and even learned a thing or two about fresh whole herring... which is saying a lot for a dyed-in-the-wool brined plug cut guy.

way up north, pretty far out & slow slow slow
except uncut coho ....

Thanks for the report. I plan to try it there next Sunday. Hopefully things will improve enough so we wil not have to run north 25 miles.

Went out yesterday with Capt. Jerry Olsen on the Steeler with Advantage Charters. Only had 7 people on the boat including the skipper and the deckhand who got to fish too. We had a good time.

Jerry, next time we go out I'll try not to get blood on the side of your boat. (He has a new and a beautiful boat and wants to keep it that way. I can't blame him)

Fishing was good and bad. The boat caught 20 Coho and 1 small king (about 10lbs). We released 19 native Coho. Fishing was good, but we had to throw back almost everything we caught. My party included myself, my wife and a buddy. I thought for sure that we were going to bring home 6 fish. Turns out that between the 3 of us we caught 10 fish and threw back 9. The good news is that it is barbeque time tonight.

I didn't stick around too long after fishing, but did note that on Sunday a 34 lb king that came in. That is the new leader in that Charter Derby so far this season. The biggest one I saw come in yesterday was 22 lbs.

Thanks for the photo takes FishNphysician, it was alot of fun having experienced deckhands and fishermen. I am hoping that those big tides were a factor in our success, heard of some bigger fish that were caught both south and north up by Pt. Grenville in about 240 feet of water. Hopefully in two weeks things will have changed for the better.
Just have put the time in and those fishies will be there.

Btw, that date of September 21st looks good on my agenda, so save me a seat!

Remember, Sundays are Westport day, just let me know and your seat is available.

Steve

Between the two of you guys its the best reading on the board. Thanks for the cool reports and pictures you post. However, I have to tell you that some of the shots make me a little sea sick...