Saturday slow off Oak Bay. Some doggies and undersize lings for the short lull in the tide out to and in the purple zone. Crabbing was amazingly poor as well?
Sunday, out to Constance after Rayvon's report. Kind of unfamiliar with the area and arrived way to early as the tide was still blasting. Back trolled for a while, losing my Dollar Mart musky lure. A Ling killer no doubt had it been given a chance.
Tide finally slowed down and we were joined by a few charter boats. Jigged for a couple of hours and enjoyed some fantastic fishing, releasing a couple of chunky clipped chinooks, my daughters largest, pushing 20#. Lost half dozen or so more, plus three good sized flounder and a bunch of other bottom fish. She counted 15 fish to the boat for herself.
The other boats headed in so we did one last drop on what is probably the shallowest spot out there and boom! Ended up with a thick 102cm, measure thrice hali. 31lbs on my cheapo scale. Big enough for her light spinning rod.
Bulk, cheapo Gibbs minnows were the lure of the day, out fishing my more refined and expensive Darts, among others. 3:1.