Rook was right, the halibut are deep. My buddy pulled one in from 300+feet today, around slack. Put up the best fight he's had from a halibut with multiple runs back to the bottom and lots of headshakes.
Lots of debris in the water with the hightides we've been having. Trolled around the harbour mouth for a bit later in the day and didn't see much for large targets or bait, nothing hit the gear.
Rook was right, the halibut are deep. My buddy pulled one in from 300+feet today, around slack. Put up the best fight he's had from a halibut with multiple runs back to the bottom and lots of headshakes.
Lots of debris in the water with the hightides we've been having. Trolled around the harbour mouth for a bit later in the day and didn't see much for large targets or bait, nothing hit the gear.
Dabel, nice skate. That's a better catch than we made.
Put some meat down to 300' for halibut yesterday but returned empty. We managed to successfully release the two rock fish we pulled up as bycatch, sending them down to depth so their swim bladder could adjust and they could swim away. Seeing a nice 5lb rockfish struggle at the surface from barotrauma is reason enough to look into those rockfish release gadgets one can buy. We also caught and released a good size dogfish.
Trolled for salmon on the way in to Sooke and had a nice hit but it didn't stay hooked up for long. Caught and released two smaller chinook.