Cameron joined me for an evening trip and caught this 12 pound halibut, our only bite. Gage and his friend Mason ended up with two halibut (6 and 8 pounds) and several shorties and missed bites. I heard that this morning someone in a kayak caught a white sea bass by Hog Island among about 40 boats. FYI, there's halibut all up and down the bay so you don't need to fish the scrum in order to catch. The area around Hog is prolific because of all the edges (of channels and eelgrass beds). Those edges exist in other places, too. I guess that if fishing in the middle of a fleet of other boats is your happy place then good on you. Enjoy. But if accidental bumper boats and being pushed off of your drift is not your idea of a good time then go look around.
Eddie Kim sent me a picture of what my fish would have looked like if they had a chance to grow up. I assume that he caught them in among the fleet of vessels at Hog but I don't know that for a fact.
The guy on the kayack who caught the white sea bass also limited on halibut, not sure about 40 boats more like 20 all together including kayacks and 2/3 of that fleet caught at least one fish, the bite was hot for about an hour then died as cold water came and bait left, I ended up with a 19.25 Hali that day as well
ReplyDeletemost boats catching live bait or trolling frozen? if live where is a good place to look? thanks
ReplyDeleteMost any weed bed edge has jack smelt, usually at the bottom of deeper holes the shinners, watch for large bait balls going down the main channels for anchovies and sardines and other bait fish...use sabiki to pull up bait into live well hopefully that helped @sucka-fish
ReplyDeletegot 8 smelt in 20-25 mins north side of hog. drifted 2 hours west side and south side of hog with not even a bite. didnt see any action from the hand full of boats out in the wind mid day (sunday)
Delete16 and 8 50ft. On the wire RSK
ReplyDelete3 salmon yesterday for two rods. We fished between bird an elephant 200' of water 75' down. Two bigger fish were 15# and 13# small one was 8#
ReplyDeleteRough day on Sunday with those south winds! Still scratched up a 13lb
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