Harvest time with Crusty!

[Mr. Fisherman]

Well webmates,
I took ol' Crusty's invitation to join him on the magnificent Insider. We set out last Friday for a fantastic action packed day of Coast Guard Hole harvesting.
Wind, what wind http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif. Turn the boat around to troll the other way, Oh, that wind.... What wind.
Rain, Oh yippy! This will get the fish goin'. Can't wait to rip some lips.
Didn’t have to wait very long! 1st cast, nice sculpin! Almost as large as the herring I was using for bait http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif!
And then….. Harvest Time! We landed salad after salad, vegetarian fishing at it’s best. If you trolled through the Coast Guard hole without having to clear grass from your rig thank Crusty and company for dredging it all out. We had to throw all that salad back cause we were environmentally friendly and wanted to let them have the opportunity to spawn. Some of those salads were taking out line!
Then all of the sudden, ZZzzziIIINnnngggg! Fish on! Crusty showed me his gun the boat land a fish technique! Line was screaming off the reel and Crusty just grinned and gunned it! That fish was as heavy as a buoy! I think it was even shaped like a buoy! Then things got exciting…. The line bound in the spool and SNAP! Crusty’s catapult fish flinging technique was foiled by the shear bulk of the tank shapped fish coupled with the bound up spool http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. No wonder he asked me to use that pole http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif.
I showed him. He had another rod. I got it strung up and then…. Thump, thump thump! Fish ON!
Crusty put the boat in neutral and the line went slack http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif. When he started It forward again, Thump, thump thump! I had hooked the elusive Sea Sport! A 22 footer, WOW! Had to release it though because I didn’t have the proper license and tag!
In all it was the best time I have ever had being miserable! Crusty is a first rate guy and he didn’t even make me swim back to the dock. I made sure that we didn’t remove the Sea Sport from the water and I’m sure it will live to fight another avid angler some other day.
On the serious side we only saw about four fish netted for a total of a billion and one boats. Three of those fish were caught by the same boat. One of them after my long line release in the same area. I think it looked a lot like a buoy http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif! No problem handeling a hook up though. Just run across the boats and play your fish! Fun!

Tight lines and have fun out there. By the way, I think I know where Crusty got his name…. He told me that he had three women that liked to party coming to stay the night with him on his boat and that he didn’t know what to do with them… You do the math and consider the look on my face http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif It is spawning season Crusty!

I had a great time, Hope to have the chance again reel soon……


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[Deleted User]

As has been said on here before, you don't have to catch fish to have fun. Especially if you have 3 women to party with on your boat; you sly ol' dog JR http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif . As for all that salad, I've mentioned to the ODFW to no avail that it would be great if they would have a seaweed/grass bounty thru T-Bay every fall (similar to the Col. ********* bounty), so as to clean much of that crap out of the way! They could feed it too .... something. - Good story MF http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif .

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Know fish or no fish. - RT

[Steve]

I've known Crusty a long, long, long, long, and one more long time. Put him to work on harvesting the seaweek and shipping it to Japan they have hundred of uses for it, high sorce of iodine, food supplemnents, cattle feed etc. sure would beat fighting a ton of weeds to catch a 50# Sculpin? Oh' thats Salmon

[Pilar]

Hey Crusty! Saw you on Sunday out on the Tbay bar. Nice looking boat. I missed the all female crew, though, since all hands had their raingear on.

Did you do any good? We got one hesistant take down and bungled it, reeled in 1/2 a herring! The crab pots are absent outside so I doubt it was a bouy.

Best part was leaving just in time to avoid the boat ramp rodeo. That and not having to deal with fish cleaning, crab cooking or other annoying post fishing activities. I even got home early enough to cook my family a nice (storebought) salmon dinner.

I'm trying to see the bright side of not catching a fall Chinook at TBay. Or maybe I'm delusional. Any day on the big blue lake is a good day!

The bend is your friend!

[Crusty]

Hi all,

My wife scored on Sunday. A small (12 1/2#) hatchery buck. It had an electronic implant so the fish checker de-snouted it. She was thrilled, except that she said she thought she was fgoing to have a heart attack.

After we had seen Pilar, one of my female guests started to get sea sick, (I don't think there was any connection Pilar) so we went back in and I fished them through the area adjacent to the dock that the Eland uses just below the Coast Guard facility. I had seen several (2) fish caught there during the week. On the second pass my wife hooked up.

Actually, even though there was a 7+ foot difference between low and high, there seemed to be less grass On Sunday than there was when Ray (Mr. Fisherman) and I fished on Friday. I think we cleaned it out.

Wonderful time was had by all. The three ladies are crazy. I was complaining about the extra trouble it was having women on board since men could just use a bucket. The next thing I heard was "Where's that damn bucket?" Have you ever tried to steer a boat with your eyes shut?

Crusty

[Pilar]

No problem Crusty! Actually I've heard this before......... 'You make me sick', usually after I hook up on a keeper sturgeon.

I always hear it when I hook up 5 minutes after I join the hog line and then leave with my toothless prize. One bait, one cast, one lucky and happy dude! Glad to hear someone got lucky Sunday.

Maybe there's a nookie for me in T Bay next weekend. At least that's the rationalization for going again.... and again... and again...

The bend is your friend!