MadJigga
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I’d be inWe should have a pub night for us Victoria guys.
I’d be inWe should have a pub night for us Victoria guys.
The Clover Point Anglers' Association has their "tin boat" salmonIn for sure. I'd like to have a tin boat fishing derby in August. Ten mile point to Albert head. 15 foot max open aluminum boats. Would be fun.
Some nice eats there Irish....I hope to get into a couple similar or nicer tomorrow but going out of Becher so will report back in Sooke thread. Weather looks enjoyable finally o'er next couple/few daysGot out this morning from about 8-1. Quite a few boats out and super calm. Albeit chilly out of gate, it warmed up nicely.
Did the sax to Macaulay tac but nothing doing so we headed for deeper water and the ledge. On the way over I got into one just undersized at 155 on the rigger. No sooner did we throw that one back and my buddies line went off. Nice 7pounder at 162 on the rigger right in front of Brotchie. From that point on, I was merely the guide watching my buddy miss 2 and pull in 2 more. One about 3 pounds and a shaker. For my efforts though I was awarded a monster... fry! About 12cm
All our fish were caught more or less between brotchie and the flag pole at between the 150 and 160 contours.
Not huge fish by any means but nice to see lots of boats out there enjoying a beauty day.
Did I mention I upgraded my tub?
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Seemed pretty slow off Oak Bay flats. Foe me anyways. I only passed over a couple of bait clouds and landed one slightly undersize, which was bleeding, but still had to go back. Crabbing was slow, probably due to currents and kelp rafts moving stuff around.
Crabbing usually not so good on a big ebb tide.
yesterday was such.
While we were over on the Albert side before we packed up we noticed a large somewhat unusual boat coming from the east towards our general direction . A displacement hull painted dark blueish and with a lot of orange on the sides and some large white letters which I could not read at the distance and what I think looked like could have been a large drum on the back deck like what you would see on a Commie net boat. I was thinking it look like a Govt. Boat of some type but not sure. It slowly went in toward Esquimalt Harbour and then when we went up on plane to go over to Broachie it kicked in the after burners and it was fast, very fast for what look like a displacement hull or semi displacement hull and came across and went into Victoria Harbour. One can only imagine what kind of fuel burn it was doing at that point. It was not close to us at all but put up a huge series of wake waves which caught up to us when it was already well into Vic harbour and we ended up riding them out by staying on the back side of one in our little 16 footer, not wanting to go into the short trough between the waves. I am curious, - anyone know what this boat is? By comparison we later had a large Al boat (30 feet or so) go by us much closer on fast plane and it made what seemed like about a tenth of the wake the orange monster did and was much closer to us.