Rain City
Crew Member
Close your doors and turn your heater on. Duh.We will be at Sand Heads early tomorrow morning. Stats all look good, but a tad chilly at first light.
Close your doors and turn your heater on. Duh.We will be at Sand Heads early tomorrow morning. Stats all look good, but a tad chilly at first light.
A sablefish at SH, wow, I am amazed and optimistic. I know we have some deep areas in the Strait but havnt heard of anyone actually catching one. Well done.We did fish SH this aft, got 3 springs, 71, 77, 83. The 83 (which looked very deep and thick) scaled at 16# 7 ounces. All on chovies at between 40 and 60’. I’ll do better at photos in the future.Pushed off this morning at 7am looking for a quick hit and run before an afternoon in the office. Emerged from the very light fog of the Sound and had a nice ride on glass across the bay on the way to SH. Dropped lines at 7:45 with a herring on 1 side and anchovy on the other fishing depths between 70 and 100 in 100-200 FOW. Trolled around with the more predictable boats for a bit but then couldn't resist poking our nose towards the green can. When we hit the point of having 8 boats in our forward 180 view with every bow pointed in a different direction we aborted and turned back to where we were. When all said and done we released 3 wild coho and an undersized feeder spring and boxed 3 white Chinook. 12, 14, and 21 lbs. Popped off the rods at 9:45 to bring in the gear and when the flasher was almost to the surface started pumping like a fish and ended the day swinging a sablefish over the rail. Decent size. Easily 5-6 portions the size you get at the Japanese sushi bar. Way more productive and successful than going into the office this morning.
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Does a bear sh** in the woods? LolWould he have kept the 25+?
Clearly, I paid for my gas and time, especially since mine were both the highly sought after wild ivory artisanal subspecies. Better go warn the neighbours to close the windows since I'm about to open the ice chest for processing.
Almost identical report, except the herring is also working good. The hatch Coho are surprising that they are here in such numbers. Only one pink to the boat so far.Sandheads since 7ish. 3 springs in the boat and released 6-8 big wild coho. Plus 3 clipped coho kept
White hoochies have been doing the damage and herring have been struggling
47-77’
Light chop, nice and fishable. Doing a 1 hour power fish stopover on my way back across.Hows the water out there