Another late night post work run out to Sandheads for me. With evening meetings the next two evenings I'm not sure I'd make it out... they are Zoom meetings though, hehe...
So looked at the forecast and decided to buzz out in my tinner solo again. Couldn't sell the kids on a bouncy ride.
So ripped out and turned to the north to avoid the seine nets and guys trolling the can line. 200 feet of water, marking fish so dropped the lines... well actually I dropped the same spoon that I posted yesterday to 80' and turned around to grab the second rod... when I turned back the first rod was bouncing and released. I grabbed it. Big heavy head shakes but no run. Eventually came up behind the boat rolling. I figure it was a big wild coho... so he released himself.
Dropped the lines back down and after a short troll in the 200 foot range to 250 I had my first line peeler. Spunky 12 pound white male. BONK.
Back down we go. Switched up the other side to same spoon different color. It had a couple hits and farmed a couple pinks. At about 80 feet.
Things were a little slow so I rigged the third rod with a large herring on a glow head and dropped it down on top at 60 feet. It went off... nice little fat undersized Jack chinook probably 6 pounds. Then another hit on the herring but came off. Hooked a pink that came off on the herring... why... then as light faded the herring got a big hit.
The fight was on and soon after a mess of a solo net job somehow I got the 16 pound white male in. Super fat male.
In the fiasco of netting the boat slowed and spun around. Remaining lines down went into epic tangle mode.
By that time I was drifting towards a net... so I just cut my flashers and line so I could get all my gear in before I ended up an even bigger tangle mess in a seine net.
Of course took longer than expected so getting back it was a wee bit dim to say the least.
Beautiful evening. Fish at 99, 79, and 60.
Got some cool pink flopping pics as well.
Thanks jcon12 for making that website that's great stuff!!! BOOKMARKED.