Big Green Machine
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When people are saying ‘easy limits’ or ‘Chinook galore’ in Area 123-5, are they meaning retention? Where is the boundary for retention at Wya and or the trench shown in the photo previously in this thread.
Perfect was trying to find that on the DFO site but of course it was not easy to find! Thank you!There's a 1 mile buffer running down the outside shoreline.
Too bad the springs are closed offshoreYou can always go offshore and troll the bottom. Have done quite well doing it. You will also pick up some nice Springs while your at it.
ha ha ha....good one...well the La Perouse 500 starts on July 15...gentlemen start your engines.Too bad the springs are closed offshore
Good thing we don’t have to drive that far right nowha ha ha....good one...well the La Perouse 500 starts on July 15...gentlemen start your engines.
Can anyone give me tips of what type of areas to try for Halibut thats not too far out. Is it a certain depth or bottom is a plateau beside a deep valley etc? Seems like the type of fishing the wife and kid could handle. Only caught one small one by accident jigging for Lings.
Those things don't work
Beauty fish. CongratsMy family and I cruised out to the Rats nose (Big Bank) today in search of Halibut. We were trolling the larger 6 inch Brown Turds 60 inches behind a UV Black flasher and had to move as we couldn’t get out of the Springers. After 45 minutes we released at least a dozen Springs, all in the 20 pound plus category. We hate sitting on the hook and using spreader bars with heavy weights and or heavy jigs so we figured trolling the 220 Foot depths with such large bait would keep the salmon away, boy were we wrong. We did catch our 4 Halibut a little further west in deeper water.
I know we are not supposed to talk about Lingers however we made a stop at one of our favorite deep water panicles on the way back to port where we released a huge Ling at least 50 inches long. It was hanging onto a rockfish that was unfortunate enough to bite our jig.
It was a nice trip, we will be sitting on Rats Nose Monday morning before sunrise.
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The Springers shown below were caught last night at the Way Trench...
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My family and I cruised out to the Rats nose (Big Bank) today in search of Halibut. We were trolling the larger 6 inch Brown Turds 60 inches behind a UV Black flasher and had to move as we couldn’t get out of the Springers. After 45 minutes we released at least a dozen Springs, all in the 20 pound plus category. We hate sitting on the hook and using spreader bars with heavy weights and or heavy jigs so we figured trolling the 220 Foot depths with such large bait would keep the salmon away, boy were we wrong. We did catch our 4 Halibut a little further west in deeper water.
I know we are not supposed to talk about Lingers however we made a stop at one of our favorite deep water panicles on the way back to port where we released a huge Ling at least 50 inches long. It was hanging onto a rockfish that was unfortunate enough to bite our jig.
It was a nice trip, we will be sitting on Rats Nose Monday morning before sunrise.
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The Springers shown below were caught last night at the Way Trench...
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My family and I cruised out to the Rats nose (Big Bank) today in search of Halibut. We were trolling the larger 6 inch Brown Turds 60 inches behind a UV Black flasher and had to move as we couldn’t get out of the Springers. After 45 minutes we released at least a dozen Springs, all in the 20 pound plus category. We hate sitting on the hook and using spreader bars with heavy weights and or heavy jigs so we figured trolling the 220 Foot depths with such large bait would keep the salmon away, boy were we wrong. We did catch our 4 Halibut a little further west in deeper water.
I know we are not supposed to talk about Lingers however we made a stop at one of our favorite deep water panicles on the way back to port where we released a huge Ling at least 50 inches long. It was hanging onto a rockfish that was unfortunate enough to bite our jig.
It was a nice trip, we will be sitting on Rats Nose Monday morning before sunrise.
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The Springers shown below were caught last night at the Way Trench...
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Starfish was on fire early Monday morning, 6 of us landed 12 Springs in about an hour. Sad to say we had to release 2 wild Chinook that were close to or over the 80 cm max. Released a few nice size Pinks and a (wild) Coho. All the Springs were caught on either 4 inch Green / Nickel Coyote spoons and green stryper hot spot flashers or 4 inch Blue / Nickel Coyote spoons and blue stryper flashers. We tied the spoons 54 inches behind the flashers, seemed to be the hot combo early this morning.
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