But the fishing is ok! I think I lot of fish moved your way! I just released a 15 lb wild while writing this! Got a 9&1/2 lbs. a half hour ago and now hoping for my silver and my sea bass! It’s been a tough morning starting at 5 am fighting kelp and shakers but noon seems to be the ticket! Lots of silvers this morning but all unclipped!
Brandon thinks Kings will be open here til the 15th.
Then an hour later…There is my silver I have to quit! Oh well I’m out of beer
Fished the south east side of Marrowstone yesterday afternoon and fishing was great .
Hook and released 5 kings and kept this fatty for table fair !
80 feet of water , Hotspot flasher and coho killer !
Get out will you still can
Fish on ,
Chris Moyer
I forgot to add my long arm shot of Wednesdays fish! This morning I landed a nice maybe 15 lb. What May have been a partial clip but only being in 5 to 10 minutes of fishing I didn’t look real close, regretting that decision for four or 5 hours I finally caught an 11lb. we’ll clipped fish plus my Silver! Now I am after my one Sea Bass!
Fishing continues to be stellar out of Westport. The 300' contour due west is where folks are getting their fish, fishing 225'-250' of wire for Kings and 100'-110' for Coho. The silver bite is strong and the fish are getting a little bigger, you'll have to filter through about 4:1 un-marked to find your keeper factory fish.
Best action is seen using the typical green flashers from Gibbs and ProTroll: Green dragon and No Bananas seeing a fair amount of action with old school white hootchies with tinsel or sparkle inserts.
Nice grade of fish we're catching, with all mid teen fish with the largest being 17.6# so far on a certified scale. Hoping to find that 20#+ Up River Bright soon!
Fish ON!
CPK
So, Dave got outed during the NKPSA Member meeting that he was fishing without a hook. Then he sent me this, with a title Won’t get fooled again!
And a few days later…..Got fooled again! :(
Small Kingfisher spoon, herring aide pattern 50’ of water and 30’ on the wire (Joe in photo)
18lb. On the Purple Spackle Back Tailwagger!
14 Beautiful Coho in 4 days at area 10!
Beautiful tasty Jeff Head coho! Bellies filled with krill! All fish caught with Purple Haze flasher, white skirt red eye hoochie, with a little flashy tinsel skirt insert. 18-24” leader. DR Clip less than 20’ off ball. 50-60’ feet of cable. Red hooks!!! Martin forget to put his hoochie on before sending his gear down without knowing! Then bam rod goes crazy and Martin is acting like he’s got Moby Dick on his line. We netted the fish and to my surprise it wasn’t Moby Dick but a beautiful chinook caught on red hooks alone! 130-260’ of water running north, south and every direction in between. Just look for the big bait balls and herring boils in Jeff head area, regardless of tide. Bite continued till late morning. Top water bite anyone? David K caught a really nice Coho on the surface before he could even get his gear down!
Cheers!
Well the seas were calm and the fish gods blessed Ye Ol Grinder this morning. Took a local pro out to show this young spry feller how to do it and Ted put on a show. After a few drifts of me catching nothin but rockfish n sharks Mr The Ted hooked into a very feisty 30” linger that went into the the net, jumped out then jumped back into the net. He was hooked like a half hitch, coulda fought this thing to Canada and it wasn’t coming unhooked. A few drifts later and me missing several take downs his line desires to go down and south, very opposite the drift. After several runs this leviathan surfaces enough for the net job and honestly I yoked it…. Luckily it’s still on but dives 46’ on the line counter. Next time, in the bag! Named this one Buttons, cause it was 36” on the nose. Best part it was Ted 2 the Tin Can 0 out there for once
Most of us enjoyed calm waters on the run to and from our favorite shrimp areas with a south 10 making it a little more challenging to pick our pots for about an hour or so. Limits were more difficult this year but those that worked it found larger than average sizes.
Cheers, Mike Duncan.
Goldingay asked me to fish the noon tide today so off we went at the early hour of 9:00 AM, caught some sand dabs, keeping only the small ones. Started at 10:30 east of the FW Bluff can in 70' and drifted west to 120' keeping the bait near the bottom. On the third John caught a 34 incher and on the sixth drift l caught a 30". Mine dove for the rocks and got stuck. After back tracking 130' or so it broke loose, l was lucky!
Don Williams
So, having forgotten my boat keys, and finding my kicker gas tank near empty this morning, Marty Antrim and I got a late start to the fishing day. By the time we got out, Rockwell and Shaughnessy already had one in the boat. You read Colin’s report…so you know that as we got to visiting with them boat to boat Marty let them know they had fish number two on Paul’s rod!!! Those young guys are not only good fisherman, but lucky as well. They were done.
Shortly thereafter, Marty tied into a beauty, THE FIGHT WAS FANTASTIC! Marty literally handed me the rod mid fight to take his jacket off! I reluctantly gave him the rod back. Fun! We got it to the boat and in the net, but you guessed it, too big! Measuring in at 40 inches it got released, and happily swam away to chase more dabs.
Then Marty hooked another! a keeper at 26”.
Meanwhile, the tide started ripping and I did absolutely nothing! For 3 hours, I did absolutely nothing! I could not even hook the bottom….Marty did though, twice! Eventually the tide got so ridiculous that a sailboat that had headed West gave up, and headed back to the East. You get the picture.
Normally I would have called it a day, but Marty is one of these optimistic guys that points out THERE IS NO WIND OR RAIN, THIS IS GREAT!!! (I wanted to point out there were no fish either, but I kept it to myself). And on we fished…….
But, with so much tide, it became obvious we needed to change up location and technique, so we went prospecting a bit. Running the boat in forward, I found I could counter the tide, but the dabs where still spinning against the current. Not a good look! Last year Paul Rockwell had talked me into purchasing some lancer jigs, so I figured I could not do any worse and put one on. In about 100 ft of water, running against the tide, I found I could find bottom. Better than that, a 36” ling found my jig!! I could not believe it!! First ling I’ve ever caught NOT on bait! Old guys can learn new stuff!! And it was only FOUR SHORT HOURS after we saw Colin and Paul limit!!!
Many thanks to Marty, who convinced me to keep on trying, in spite of the tide and my lack of success. I’m crazy pleased that I’ve caught one on a jig now. So if you get a chance, try some jigging!! And take Marty with you, the guy is just plain good luck!
Bob Dean
Had the privilege to see Rockwell put a clinic on the sand dabs today. Fished 110 fow on a beautiful rainy day, and btw he does know how to put you on some lings. 🙂
Thanks
Denny
Great time to visit Neah bay. No crowds, great bottomfishing. My jigging arm was twitching so I had to go.
Went out with fellow NKPSA member, Realtor, Fishing Extraordinaire and good friend Mr. Chris 'Hot Rod' Moyer to Sekiu. Best action was from the Caves to the Yellow House on the 130' line dragging bottom with Ace-Hi FLY patterns.
Nice cookie cutter Winter Blackmouth 6-7# with a respectable 29" fish for the BBQ. Released a few un-marked fish and witnessed a couple of old timers on the Salty Fox (Arima) released a 18-19# Unclipped Springer, Beautiful fish!!!
Fishing should remain good through the end of the month, so be sure to get out there while the crowds are low and the fishing is hot. Dont forget to get your new licenses too, no joke!
Fish ON!!!
CPK
Well, having put in my hours at Jeff Head and Kingston this March, with the help of a few fishing buddies, we finally started to dial it in a bit, quit donating gear to the depths, and boated a few.
What we have noted is the fish have green label herring (or larger) in them, so large spoons, smaller spoons, and hoochies have all been effective. The color of choice has varied, but something with white in it has worked, along with the old traditional green splatter back hoochie. Yesterday we got a nice one on this hoochie behind a red racer flasher, 140 ft of water, 140 feet of cable, having just lowered and bounced the bottom when the fish hit. Marty Antrim gets the credit, he switched to the hoochie! Thanks Marty.
Good luck, give it a try, one day left! Bob Dean
After reading Terry Kelly’s recent report, I decided it was time to get on the water a few times.
I talked Terry into giving me a hand, and we spent last Thursday chasing the elusive black mouth. We almost immediately had a double on, both undersized. Little did we know that undersized double would be the high point of the day. I personally donated 3 flashers and lures to the area, doing a very effective job of finding the bottom. Then I followed that up by hooking a nice fish, only to have the line part! Terry and I were laughing about “conversations with Dad” at moments like that. Yes Dad, I did screw that up!!! Very humbling day!
Friday and Saturday, I talked Martin Antrim into return trips. While I stopped donating gear, fishing was less than stellar. We did manage one keeper, perhaps five pounds on Friday, followed by zero on Saturday.
All in all, not much to show for three days of dragging hardware, but it felt fabulous to be on the water fishing again. There were far fewer boats out than I expected, which would suggest perhaps they will leave it open through month end.
If you get a chance, give it a try. You can’t do any worse than I did, and you might hook up some of the brand new gear I donated.
Good Luck, Bob Dean
We got out to Kingston Thursday around 10 to fish the outgoing tide. Caught several shakers and picked up this 24”er about 45 minutes after the tide change. Fishing right on the bottom in 130 feet of water.
Bill Snell
I started fishing at Kingston two hours before low slack tide amongst about 15 other boats. Not much happened until an hour later when I had a decent take down and got him up to the boat. The fish measured 21 and seven eights of an inch, and I figured if I stepped on it just a little bit I’d make up the other 1/8 inch. Then I heard my dear departed father‘s voice saying “ character is who you are when no one‘s looking“. So after cussing out my dad a couple times, I slipped the black mouth back into the water and he took off like a hot torpedo straight to the bottom.
A couple more shakers then a one hour lull until I hooked up this beauty in 110 feet of water using a skinny G lure on a 25 inch leader. I guessed it’s weight to be over 8 pounds, but since my electronic scale wasn’t working as usual, I broke out the rusty analog spring loaded instrument from the late 1700s in it read 7 1/2 pounds. Who are you gonna believe? Terry Kelly.
