Loghauler
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The story started as most do with an idea taken from a previous story “ the sacred story of a salmon caught from a paddle boat in front of Campbell river most would ask is there a river there the answer is no and yes at the same time but I digress
After reading about the size of fish a paddle boater can catch surely in my motor boat I can be a salmon factory compared to a lowly canoe ! So the two week trip is planned and game on homework is done gear is bought even a pretrip and a rental is done to learn a bit about the enemy!
Then the big trip off to salmon pointe for two weeks trip of a life time !
Fishing begins nothing the first day so a few sight seeing side trips second day same so third day change it up try jigging and am rewarded with few small rock fish ugliest things seen ever so off to tackle shop for some info and maybe a change of attack find out about fish types and regs and am told based of recent info that a large Hali was caught just out where I had come from !!! Oh wow hadn’t considered that after all I had come for the fabled Salmon so a new rod and reel some tuff line and a round of new rigging and I was off to see if I too could pull up a sheet of plywood off the bottom
Next morning I was out early and jigging up a storm lol but only small ish rockfish and the odd ling nothing one could keep
Then around noon another small bite and a small one to real up and clean off the jig when this time something grabs the line and I’m thinking this is it my halibut ! So I set the hook but whatever it was is gone ! Damm so I bring up the lure and huh there’s the head of a small fish but no body ! After a supper at the trailer I’m renting of to town for a strategy session I decide on a real big halibut jig with large treble hook I’m hunting big game now lol
In the morning off I go and sure enough same as the day before I’m surprised the smaller fish can get their mouth around the lure but same procedure and same result and sure enough the big guy shows up after several hours and fight is on !! Whatever is on the line is refusing to leave the bottom so im afraid of breaking something and im freaking out because I’ve finally done it im gonna slay a sea monster and fill my freezer
I am so excited this is much bigger than the twenty something salmon from lakelse river in terrace and I’ve never caught a halibut before !
Well the battle went on for ten mins and I got ten or twenty feet and all of a sudden it goes for a run I’ve got no chance except to let it I’m about to get spooled so I start the boat and off I go chasing it and after figuring out how to make all work as I’m by myself I start to gain some line phew crisis averted I can do this !
After another half hour or more of back and forth losing line and gaining it back I’m starting to tire of the game so I start working a bit harder to reel this fish in I’m sure it has to tire out soon! So off it goes again the battle continues after what seems like forever but maybe another hour at best I’ve still yet to see anything and feel like I’m not winning and am actually the one getting beat up the rod end had bruised me in numerous places and it’s getting uncomfortable to keep going so I up the pressure and another round begins this time I’m going for broke driving faster to gain more line and I’m getting it done should be able to see something soon and Ohhh my god is that fn seal in that rip tide gonna steal my halibut that I’m gonna land
No fn way am I gonna let that bag of fat and flippers gonna take my fish also had that happen up in the river by terrace
So I redouble my efforts to bring home the bacon that the last round starts well as I start to real in to keep my fish from getting too close to the seal the seal starts to come my way and I’m think noooo
I start to real faster and the seal comes faster!
I had caught myself a seal !!! I had been fighting an epic battle with a seal !!!!
Tired and pissed off I cut the line
What a battle! What a feeling
I could see my freezer empty still damn
every one at the resort had yet to catch a salmon they just were late that year !
Left cambell river dejected and skunked as my wife and me left the resort the manager ran over and told me the salmon are here first boat to come in with fish had three just caught I had to restrain myself from a few choice words lol as it wasn’t his fault
Beautiful area and interesting boating
And a story of the monster that got away with a twenty dollar jig
Ps I hope it hurt lol
After reading about the size of fish a paddle boater can catch surely in my motor boat I can be a salmon factory compared to a lowly canoe ! So the two week trip is planned and game on homework is done gear is bought even a pretrip and a rental is done to learn a bit about the enemy!
Then the big trip off to salmon pointe for two weeks trip of a life time !
Fishing begins nothing the first day so a few sight seeing side trips second day same so third day change it up try jigging and am rewarded with few small rock fish ugliest things seen ever so off to tackle shop for some info and maybe a change of attack find out about fish types and regs and am told based of recent info that a large Hali was caught just out where I had come from !!! Oh wow hadn’t considered that after all I had come for the fabled Salmon so a new rod and reel some tuff line and a round of new rigging and I was off to see if I too could pull up a sheet of plywood off the bottom
Next morning I was out early and jigging up a storm lol but only small ish rockfish and the odd ling nothing one could keep
Then around noon another small bite and a small one to real up and clean off the jig when this time something grabs the line and I’m thinking this is it my halibut ! So I set the hook but whatever it was is gone ! Damm so I bring up the lure and huh there’s the head of a small fish but no body ! After a supper at the trailer I’m renting of to town for a strategy session I decide on a real big halibut jig with large treble hook I’m hunting big game now lol
In the morning off I go and sure enough same as the day before I’m surprised the smaller fish can get their mouth around the lure but same procedure and same result and sure enough the big guy shows up after several hours and fight is on !! Whatever is on the line is refusing to leave the bottom so im afraid of breaking something and im freaking out because I’ve finally done it im gonna slay a sea monster and fill my freezer
I am so excited this is much bigger than the twenty something salmon from lakelse river in terrace and I’ve never caught a halibut before !
Well the battle went on for ten mins and I got ten or twenty feet and all of a sudden it goes for a run I’ve got no chance except to let it I’m about to get spooled so I start the boat and off I go chasing it and after figuring out how to make all work as I’m by myself I start to gain some line phew crisis averted I can do this !
After another half hour or more of back and forth losing line and gaining it back I’m starting to tire of the game so I start working a bit harder to reel this fish in I’m sure it has to tire out soon! So off it goes again the battle continues after what seems like forever but maybe another hour at best I’ve still yet to see anything and feel like I’m not winning and am actually the one getting beat up the rod end had bruised me in numerous places and it’s getting uncomfortable to keep going so I up the pressure and another round begins this time I’m going for broke driving faster to gain more line and I’m getting it done should be able to see something soon and Ohhh my god is that fn seal in that rip tide gonna steal my halibut that I’m gonna land
No fn way am I gonna let that bag of fat and flippers gonna take my fish also had that happen up in the river by terrace
So I redouble my efforts to bring home the bacon that the last round starts well as I start to real in to keep my fish from getting too close to the seal the seal starts to come my way and I’m think noooo
I start to real faster and the seal comes faster!
I had caught myself a seal !!! I had been fighting an epic battle with a seal !!!!
Tired and pissed off I cut the line
What a battle! What a feeling
I could see my freezer empty still damn
every one at the resort had yet to catch a salmon they just were late that year !
Left cambell river dejected and skunked as my wife and me left the resort the manager ran over and told me the salmon are here first boat to come in with fish had three just caught I had to restrain myself from a few choice words lol as it wasn’t his fault
Beautiful area and interesting boating
And a story of the monster that got away with a twenty dollar jig
Ps I hope it hurt lol
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