Tim Woerner and his nephew Matthew caught these fish today. The big one weighed 36 pounds. The little one we won't discuss, but it was there, and today any keeper salmon was a damn good one. Salmon catch numbers dropped from "some" to "almost none". On the increase was jellyfish. Tomorrow could be different, and it kind of needs to be, as today was, for most, disappointing at best. The good news, if you want to call it that, is that fish are fickle and tomorrow could be a fantastic day. Or, not. Hey, let's roll them dice. That's fishing, and the random aspect is what we love and hate about it.
On the halibut front, more of the same. Slow, slow, slow. But, also more of the same, the guys that caught nine yesterday caught one today. The guys that hadn't caught anything for three days prior caught two today. Fricking fishing, right? God, I love it. Fishing is odds modified by your skill and knowledge. Those odds and the value of the modifiers can change day to day and hour to hour. Doing everything "right" can net you no fish while a guy doing it "wrong" can catch. Probably it will go the other way, because statistics, but not always. Random numbers will keep even the crappy fishermen among us happy, sometimes. And we'll never really know who's who (I have a feeling that I'm a thinking crappy fisherman, but hey, odds are I'm not?). By the way, sorry guys in the (let's face it) ugly aluminum boat with the two halibut today, I wish I got your photo. You guys ground them out in proper "determined" fashion. They will bite for you, eventually, and you guys waited them out. Good on ya'.
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Deep Willy, very deep. Philosophically speaking.
yes deep. Saturday i was catching at 144' otw. sunday i went deeper to 155' to find a couple. empty stomach fish vs the week before when they were pooping all over the boat when you bring them on board. hopefully the bait and whales come back...
Tim, Good luck tomorrow buddy. RJ.
RJ, preliminary reports are good. I heard that things went well.
Great news Willie...Thanks for the update!
Hi Willie! Thanks for the props to the crew of the "work-in-progress" ugly aluminum boat. We had a great 5 days at Lawson's and I am so proud of my crew for being persistent (and taking advice from those who are much more successful in hunting halibut). In return, I want to give credit where credit is due- A big THANK YOU to the 9 fish crew of the blue Alumaweld boat that noticed our sad faces at the launch each of the first three days out. The blue boats’ captain, whom we now refer to as Dr. Halibut, was so helpful in providing our gang tips and pointing us in the right direction as far as bait getting spots and thoroughly explaining his methods and locations he was using to successfully catch fish. I have always heard that you can judge someone’s character by how they treat those that can do nothing for them, and Dr. Halibut is an exemplary example of a true ambassador for the sport. He seen us rookies struggle and nudged us in the right direction (two halibut!).
No problems on the missed photo op, we will be back at Lawson’s in a few weeks to give it another go. Have your camera ready, as you have stated before on the blog, the more fish you catch the easier catching will get. Fingers crossed!
The SS Minnow crew.
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