RiverBoy
Well-Known Member
Fished Cowan Point for pinks and chum on the high slack on an overcast day earlier this week. A green spatter back hoochie at 140 on one rigger and a big eye avocado dream at 50ft on the other while I was getting ready to double stack . Just before I reached over to do the double stack clip the pin popped and the line zinged out with a 10-12lb hatchery spring safely released. Brought the hoochie up to 65ft and the pin popped with a slightly smaller safely released spring. Eventually caught and released 5 fish at 50-70ft in the space of an hour. My thoughts are: slack tide so fish coming up to feed or move to find feed, and overcast with no sun early in the morning so fish coming up higher in the water column.
Later in the day, fished just south of Hutt Island for pinks and chum on a warm bright late afternoon with the same gear and safely released two 6-8lb in the space of 30 minutes one on each lure all at 190ft on the rigger. My thoughts on this one: bright sunny day with tide changing so those lazy butt fish are sitting down low on the bottom and need to have the lure in their face in order to bite.
Hope this helps the newby fishermen out there.
Tight lines
Thankfully we can still fish for all those pinks and chum!
