Sitkaspruce
Well-Known Member
A couple of weeks ago I was invited by a good friend of mine to go fishing on his new boat. You might remeber him as the "Concerned Angler" who has changed his name to match his new boat "Cuba Libre"
I met him and his fishing partner, Chuck, at the wharf at 6 am for a day of fishing. We headed out and went to where he had caught some hali's before. We had not been fishing 10 minutes when Chuck hit the first fish. As I was reeling up, I hit fish number two and then CL hit a fish and then lost it. Would have been cool to get a tripple header on hali's. With two in the boat we fished another 45 minutes or so before we pulled our lines and headed for salmon. After fishing for and losing two springs (that would be me who lost both, one just got off and the other straightned the hook, but it was only my rod and bait that got the strikes
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), we pulled the gear and went back looking for lings and what have you. The first spot we hit produced a couple of quillbacks, a nice 7-8 lbs ling and a nice yelloweye, along with you know who loosing another fish, this time one that started pulling and only quite when it got off. I could feel the dirty looks from across the boat.
When the wind came up and was blowing us off the "spot" we decided to pull the gear and head back to the hali hole from this morning. We were no sooner there when we hit and boated another hali. After fishing for about another 20 minutes, we hit and boated our 4th hali of the day, a beauty of 97 lbs (taken from the IPHC Length/weight chart). We fished for a bit longer, than decided to call it a day and headed home.
In total we caught a 97 lbs, a couple of 23 lbs and a 18 lbs hali, a big Yellow Eye, a few rock fish and a nice eating ling. It was great day on the water and even better spending it with good friends.
Thanks Bryan aka "Cuba Libre"
Cheers
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Oh by the way the "Cuba Libre" is a great boat to fish out of, it just needs some salmon blood in it to make it a "real" fishing boat.[
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I met him and his fishing partner, Chuck, at the wharf at 6 am for a day of fishing. We headed out and went to where he had caught some hali's before. We had not been fishing 10 minutes when Chuck hit the first fish. As I was reeling up, I hit fish number two and then CL hit a fish and then lost it. Would have been cool to get a tripple header on hali's. With two in the boat we fished another 45 minutes or so before we pulled our lines and headed for salmon. After fishing for and losing two springs (that would be me who lost both, one just got off and the other straightned the hook, but it was only my rod and bait that got the strikes




When the wind came up and was blowing us off the "spot" we decided to pull the gear and head back to the hali hole from this morning. We were no sooner there when we hit and boated another hali. After fishing for about another 20 minutes, we hit and boated our 4th hali of the day, a beauty of 97 lbs (taken from the IPHC Length/weight chart). We fished for a bit longer, than decided to call it a day and headed home.
In total we caught a 97 lbs, a couple of 23 lbs and a 18 lbs hali, a big Yellow Eye, a few rock fish and a nice eating ling. It was great day on the water and even better spending it with good friends.

Thanks Bryan aka "Cuba Libre"
Cheers
SS
Oh by the way the "Cuba Libre" is a great boat to fish out of, it just needs some salmon blood in it to make it a "real" fishing boat.[


