Well I planned to fish yesterday after work which meant everything has to be ready the night before because I'd only have a couple hours on the water. So I stayed up and tied two new teasers, loaded the boat, good to go.
It was flat calm when we got out, just a perfect evening for a fish. I baited my new anchovy head clipped the flasher on the rod and tossed it all into the water. Wait... wasn't the teaser attached to the flasher? Guess not... good thing I put extra effort in last night to get that ready.
Got the second one down a little smoother but then the boat driver promptly ran over some kelp. Great start.
So after much messing around we finally have two rods down and are fishing. First pass off the wall and Bing! Bing! Bing! three boats including us all hook up!
One guy lost his, ours was about 3 pounds and then we all got to watch the last boat have an excellent battle and net a nice fish.
The other boats all swooped in and we did a couple more passes ourselves without any results. As the sun went down it was time to troll for home.
This was probably the last after work fish for me this year and I reflected on what a great season it has been even though I didn't get out once before August. The boat smelled of skunk and I was looking forward to not having to clean a fish in the dark but the fish gods had other ideas.
My rod popped off the clip and I reeled down onto some big head shakes. Then a ways behind the boat my fish erupted out of the water and then decided to rush me. I managed to keep up and once the fish got a closer look at the boat it decided on a different plan and went on a couple nice runs. I don't think it mattered what tactic this fish chose, it had swallowed the hooks deep and soon found itself in the net.
Not sure if it was my biggest of the year but judging by the huge piles of roe I pulled out of her I think it was the heaviest.
What a great year and I didn't even bother driving to Sooke once.
It was flat calm when we got out, just a perfect evening for a fish. I baited my new anchovy head clipped the flasher on the rod and tossed it all into the water. Wait... wasn't the teaser attached to the flasher? Guess not... good thing I put extra effort in last night to get that ready.
Got the second one down a little smoother but then the boat driver promptly ran over some kelp. Great start.
So after much messing around we finally have two rods down and are fishing. First pass off the wall and Bing! Bing! Bing! three boats including us all hook up!
One guy lost his, ours was about 3 pounds and then we all got to watch the last boat have an excellent battle and net a nice fish.
The other boats all swooped in and we did a couple more passes ourselves without any results. As the sun went down it was time to troll for home.
This was probably the last after work fish for me this year and I reflected on what a great season it has been even though I didn't get out once before August. The boat smelled of skunk and I was looking forward to not having to clean a fish in the dark but the fish gods had other ideas.
My rod popped off the clip and I reeled down onto some big head shakes. Then a ways behind the boat my fish erupted out of the water and then decided to rush me. I managed to keep up and once the fish got a closer look at the boat it decided on a different plan and went on a couple nice runs. I don't think it mattered what tactic this fish chose, it had swallowed the hooks deep and soon found itself in the net.
Not sure if it was my biggest of the year but judging by the huge piles of roe I pulled out of her I think it was the heaviest.
What a great year and I didn't even bother driving to Sooke once.