Yesterday on the chuck
We hit the local "hump" yesterday a couple hours before high slack.
Only 4 other boats out there and according to 2 guys we knew, it was very slow.
Well 10 mins after we dropped our gear, fish on lol ! Nice 12lb to the boat followed by a "bonk!"
Uh oh, downrigger won't come up. So after filing all the corrosion off the contacts, still no juice. Fuse was fine. Tried the other battery, Hmmmm. Half hour later we had the male and female end of the DR connector apart and the positive conductor on the male end was completely corroded with minimal contact to the terminal. By passed the plug-in and hard wired it to the battery and we were trolling again ! Can never have too many spare parts on a boat. All that time of swinging around and taking bow splash had just taken its toll on that cord.
10 mins later another hit, on my buddys side, again, and after swimming right at the boat, threw the hook. I could feel the glares in the back of our heads from the other boats.
White hootchie fellas, there's a plankton bloom, visibility is minimal 
Bang! Another fish, for him, but just a shaker. Time to change my presentation as I was down 3-0. Uncommon for this guy (ok ok I'm being coc*y)
I threw on my ol faithful for late may/early june on this local hole of ours, just a green/white glow hootchie with blue specs.
Last time it accounted for a 27.5 and 22lb spring (only because I had no net that time and had to tail them ) Sometimes Murphy is a good guy to have on your shoulder.
An hour later I was into a fish, just a shaker though. And another.
then almost instantly after shaking that 4lber off, my buddy hit what we thought was a good one on his mother of pearl coyote spoon on the top rod, but was released long line fashion 100 feet from the boat!
Wham Wham wham!! "That looks good!" I said as I sent the hook home. My rod started pumping with the tell tale head shake of a good spring, neither coming up or taking line at first. Then the MR3 started to sing, briefly and gone. Just like that.
I couldnt explain that one, just part of fishing maybe.
That's why it's not called "catching"
A couple more shakers and we had enough, as we had a couple strings of prawn traps to pull and a 20 min ride home.
All in all nice day on the water.
Now of course today he had a charter and called me at noon saying they had already hit 10 fish and several were in the 15lb range, including a 30lb hali they picked up over the hump. The 4th hali we have caught bewteen us on the inside, yes, Georgia strait.
Today they were being hit at 130', and yesterday we were at our lucky 187'. Of course making sense now, is the fact that the plankton bloom makes for low light conditions deeper and the fish are up a bit higher looking for food.
Only a matter of time til we have a good hali popuilation 360 degrees around the wonderful Island we live on.
Get out there, it's only getting better!
Don't forget those big tides often put the fish off for a while, usually just because they travel or get pushed around more. Now with the tides not as extreme, it should put us into the more productive times with the start of summer.
Last edited by BlacktailStalker; 06-03-2007 at 09:00 PM.
Originally Posted by averagejoe
thats pretty cool. i bet you get close to those cats some time when there low in the tree hey. when do they have kittens?? do you ever see baby cougars in the tree or do they hide in her pouch?
Originally Posted by wideopenthrottle
....I guess some peeps think a mother griz is like a crack whore ready to drop her baby at the first church door she sees...funny
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