Guess I should have braved the cold today and gone. Found this report from today on the place we were two weeks ago.
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Finally got out for a while today. The fish were concentrated in "large schools" (I'll say! About an acre big and thick like a school of huge herring!) in between Pat Bay and Mill Bay. Took a while, but once the bite came on we slayed for about 3 hours. Only two of us in the boat (and not a single other boat around!!) and we got in to three quadriple headers! Total of probably 30 fish hooked and maybe 20 landed. Only a guess, we stopped counting. What a blast! Most of the fish were were pretty colored up, but still fought like hell. Didn't bother to keep any (I need more salmon in the freezer like I need a hole in the head)but some looked like they would have been OK.
All fish caught on Pink & Blue squirts 36 - 42" behind a flasher. The type of flasher didn't seem to matter. We tried putting spin & glows in front of the hoochie but once the bite came on, that didn't seem to make any difference either.
Perhaps it was just time for the bite to come on anyway, but it seemed we really started to slay fish once we speeded up a bit. Talk about hits! Holy crap I've never seen a rod get slammed so hard. Very cool!
Depths were 20 - 80 feet right in the middle of the channel almost all the way in to Pat Bay.
I'll definitely have a go at this again!! Sure beats the micros you tend to hit for winters at this time of year, or the "living dead" you tend to get on the flow....
I'm still stoked. God I hate having to work for a living. Oh well, maybe next weekend they'll still be there....
Gooey.
AI
