WCVI June 16 &17 Wet Weekend!!!

[Johnnybear]

Well we finally made it out West on the weekend. Friday afternoon chipstealer and myself headed up to Salmon Beach for the weekend. I was a little disorganized as usual for the first trip of the year lol.

The rig parked at the Tseshaht Market.

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Setting up camp in the pissing rain.

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Late dinner of champions lol. Canned ham and hashbrowns!

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My buddy and his son met us up there early the next morning and we ventured offshore on the lighthouse bank to try some hali fishing and salmon fishing. No love in the halibut department but we caught a couple of small springs in the rough stuff and monsoon rains. I'm sure if we stuck it out we would have caught more and bigger. The wee ones were caught in pretty short order.

A short vid of the conditions that were to be all day long! "Am I supposed to smile for this?" LOL!!!!

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[Johnnybear]

It was getting pretty snotty out there and we caught a couple of small springs before deciding to head for the barn. Heres one for the barbeque caught by my buddies son.

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I got to drive in off the banks with the pissing rain, southeast wind blowing, and waves splashing with no windshield wipers!!!!

We headed in closer to land and tried a spot I have been wanting to try for a couple of years now for ling cod.

Lings all around. Everyone hooked up multiple lings and we had a blast on these humps. Non stop action pretty much.

Bart (chipstealer) with one.

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My buddy with one.

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This one gave me quite the battle and was really fun reeling it in.

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We were all completely soaked but we trolled around Great Bear for a little bit to end the day with no love. Bart and myself stayed up Saturday night as well and tried fishing this morning around Mearse. We saw a ton of forum members out and I briefly got to yell hello to OBH and him back at me lol. No luck for us and my rear HDS10 blew a fuse or something so we headed in. We took the long way home and saw lot's of boats fishing Swale Rock. We cruised around to Toquart Bay to check out the new development going in there. Interesting place with a new marina and the works. Marked lot's of bait balls inside of Lyle Pt. and Toquart Bay.

Anyways will be back up next weekend in hopefully drier weather lol. See you on the water.
Cheers,
John

[Johnnybear]

I posted this on the fishing forums a week or so ago and for some reason I can't edit my posts on here.

Cheers,
John

[The Silent Stalker]

Weather can't stop us from being us. Sounds like you guys had a great time, awesome.

[Bisonfirst]

Nice Linger! I like your off shore accommodation!

[yama49]

looked a little ugly, but some nice lings were caught.. thx for sharing..

[Johnnybear]

It wasn't that bad sea wise just the damn monsoon rain all fricken day long. On the Sunday while heading towards Toquart I decided to stop in the channel and check under the floor boards in the cabin and there was 4 inches of water under there just from the rain on the day before leaving the door open while offshore!

Sorry for the late post folks. I will try to keep posting future trips on here for sure. Been away from the forum for a bit but still like it a lot. Just reading these day's with much interest as alway's.

Cheers,
John

[MB_Boy]

Nice John!! Reports like yours, rain or shine help those of us counting down our days til the WCVI!!


18 days to go!!!

[Johnnybear]

Weather can't stop us from being us. Sounds like you guys had a great time, awesome.

You got that part right TSS! Thanks man we did have a great time regardless of being soaked to the bone!

[Johnnybear]

Nice John!! Reports like yours, rain or shine help those of us counting down our days til the WCVI!!


18 days to go!!!

Thanks MB_Boy. I know you will have a great trip. Tofino Ospray Lodge had 20 spring hook up's today and were releasing 20 lber's!!!!

I subscribed to Terrafin this year and have been looking at the charts like a hawk for tuna this year. It might happen early buddy!

Cheers,
John

[MB_Boy]

Ya....I saw Shawn's post!

Definitely making the tuna run in August out of Kyuquot this year!


Cheers!!

[Johnnybear]

Ya....I saw Shawn's post!

Definitely making the tuna run in August out of Kyuquot this year!


Cheers!!

In a 30' Pursuit? Did you do the dead?

[5 spike]

Great time had by all by the sounds of it. congrats nice lings.