RedneckDale
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Got a 79cm white Saturday by the bluffs
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The Green Bastard
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Great night bite at the East end of the Trap yesterday. Got there around 4:45 and while setting the gear there was some chatter on the radio how it had been lights out for the past couple hours so I thought I'd missed the bite but it was non stop action until around 7:30. Every tack was picking up a fish with a few double headers as well. Decent size they all looked around 80ish everyone on that tack was nailing them. I was at 37 and 43 with a couple green/yellow/chrome spoons. You could hear the guy with the bells on his rods hooking up the whole time I was there. What a fantastic evening fishy calm seas and not windy cant beat that!
So, based on a recommendation from Scott Craven, I contacted Roy Carver at Blue Wolf charters. He had a free day today so we went out for the morning. My wife caught three Chinook and kept the largest which was 80 cm. She also caught a nice sized Pink. I caught a 74 cm Chinook. Despite this blatant favoritism
we both had a great time and learned a lot. This was money well spent and we're planning on trying to schedule a halibut trip with him when that season rolls around.
OldShoreFisherman
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It has been a couple of years since I've done any kayak fishing but my son recently bought a used Ocean Kayak Trident 13 and expressed some interest in giving it a try. So yesterday, three days shy of my 72nd birthday, we headed out to launch at Gordons. Among other things, I had forgotten how long it takes to get the kayaks and gear loaded for a day of fishing so we didn't hit the water until the crack of noon--not that I'm much of a crack-of-dawn guy anymore anyway.
We were jigging and trying to stay out of the way of the boaters doing the usual tack and I hooked into what felt like a decent fish in about 85 feet of water off Third Rock. It didn't make much of a run, but it hugged the bottom and would head straight back down whenever it felt like I was making any headway. It took about 15 minutes before I even got a look at it, a lot of that time spent with the top third of my rod buried in the water, and by that time we had drifted well past Second Rock. The fish finally tired but I couldn't twist around enough to reach my net in the rod-holder on my fishing crate so I asked my son to come along side and try to net it. Of course the fish didn't make it easy and kept summoning the energy for another dive and it was my son's first time kayak fishing so it was about six or seven attempts that required a great deal of circling around before he managed to get it into what was admittedly an under-sized net. He taped it quickly in the catch-and-release net and made sure it was in the slot. It was 78 centimetres.
I expect we provided some amusement for nearby boaters; I know I would have been having a chuckle!
We were jigging and trying to stay out of the way of the boaters doing the usual tack and I hooked into what felt like a decent fish in about 85 feet of water off Third Rock. It didn't make much of a run, but it hugged the bottom and would head straight back down whenever it felt like I was making any headway. It took about 15 minutes before I even got a look at it, a lot of that time spent with the top third of my rod buried in the water, and by that time we had drifted well past Second Rock. The fish finally tired but I couldn't twist around enough to reach my net in the rod-holder on my fishing crate so I asked my son to come along side and try to net it. Of course the fish didn't make it easy and kept summoning the energy for another dive and it was my son's first time kayak fishing so it was about six or seven attempts that required a great deal of circling around before he managed to get it into what was admittedly an under-sized net. He taped it quickly in the catch-and-release net and made sure it was in the slot. It was 78 centimetres.
I expect we provided some amusement for nearby boaters; I know I would have been having a chuckle!
wolf
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LOL LOL it was a great day indeed the look on your wifes face catching her first ever spring and I said I think we should throw it back.. (about 68cm) as it was really early in the trip then another smaller one about the same... ahhh but it paid off she got the biggest fish!!!!! I think you have a new fishing partner for life now Dennis... until next timeSo, based on a recommendation from Scott Craven, I contacted Roy Carver at Blue Wolf charters. He had a free day today so we went out for the morning. My wife caught three Chinook and kept the largest which was 80 cm. She also caught a nice sized Pink. I caught a 74 cm Chinook. Despite this blatant favoritism
And yes fishng is still great out there as you know I am finding them a bit deeper dont be afraid to zip a line down to 100 feet
