Was at the mile markers today and caught the tail end of what was a pretty good bite, went 2 for six on sockeye with a friend who is new to fishing , I landed 2 he lost 4 . Was mainly looking for a good spring so moved over to the cap around 1:30 and had a good fish on in the the first pass off the marker. Ended up losing the fish as I had my line looped around the last eye on the rod , my stupid mistake. Trolled for a few more hours ,with fish being taken on other boats, mostly coho which I saw many jumpers. Was going to call it day when I saw one of the guide boats bang off a double and decided to hit another pass, bang a double of springs. Landed an 18 which took awhile to get in , what a gong show with my friend new to fishing trying to control the boat in the current with the boats at the cap and pull up all the other gear. Just as he nets it the one last rod down is just getting slammed , by this time we have drifted in towards the totem pole and the crab trap and still have riggers half down, line and flashers all over the place and this fish is just doing circles around the boat, pretty funny if you were there me running around my non walk around and my friend thinking he should follow not once but twice. Amazingly we got it in at 15lbs. Fun times ,all hits were between 70 and 60 with herring and anchovy with green glo set ups. Stoked to get some good action at the cap, don t have much time left to fish this season and I feel the cap is like the playoffs.
