Fished Pender about a month ago, zero, it's been a bad year for me so far, skunked more times than ever in the narrows too. So this Tuesday and Wednesday I thought I would give Pender another go, tied up in Bedwell overnight.
Anyway I was at the south end of the bluffs where the water churns and landed a 20 lber at 6.30pm Tuesday, nothing at all for the rest of the time. This was a suicidal fish.
I had tried most things in my box, so I put on a 3 inch pink hootchie with a 1/o hook for Pinks at 120ft just in case and as an alternative to the other line down at 140ft. Then I got a hit on the pink hootchie rod, the thing took of, this was no Pink, I had the drag too tight and in a mental fog let the clutch off and ended up with a huge birds nest on my reel, the fish was still on, then things went slack, oh @#%^# so I sorted out the birds nest that seemed like hours, but probably only a minute, feeding all the slack line from the reel on to the deck whilst unpicking the mess. I wound up all the slack line on the deck and then the slack line in the water, ............tension, then it took off again, this time I had the drag right so in the meantime retrieved both down riggers and with my left hand wound up the other line whilst keeping tension on the fish, Yes I fish on my own quite often, near the boat it made one more half hearted run, brought it to the boat, two circles and straight into the net.
Not sure I deserved this fish with all my shenanigans. Sorry about the poor picture but the light was poor and my 10 year old phone well that says a lot really...................