The best Summer trip?

[Phish_on]

uhhhhh

My best trip sucked compared to all that.

I give up.

[CHUMSALMON]

the very best day in my mind was fishing the mouth of the cowlitz about 6 or 7 years ago. we were anchored up and letting out kwikfish. between the three of us we had 27 fish on that day, this is no bull****, we limited on steelhead, kept two kings, and one silver. Hands down the best day i've ever had out there. to this day the three of us still talk about that trip!! images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/smile.gif

[Jigman]

2 summers ago bank fishing a local puget sound river hooked 14 summer Steelhead and landed 13 from the same hole. Next day landed 10 more, all on jigs.

[Stz ll]

Best day on a river had to be last year in October. It was on the N. Fork Lewis River. We had 3 people in the boat. 18 silvers. about 10 nice jacks and 8 adults. The best thing is that the potential for this year is even better. Hopefully all adults.

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[Pilar]

Many of us have been blessed by the fish gods this summer. Personally this has been the most awesome summer of fishing and boating I've ever had.

Tell us about your favorite boat ride and fish stacking festival.

For me it's a tie. The two days that stand out are the 1st halibut day in May and the more recent 39 Tuna slaughter on 'Puffin' with big Jon Arndorfer.

The May Halibut trip was all about a wild and ****** off Ocean. A boat went down at the Chicken Ranch shortly after we arrived and the pucker factor was extremely high. We are truly lucky to have survived that trip. The fishing was incredible too. The first drift resulted in a fish on. The second in a triple. Mr. Fisherman took all this in and despite being a little green was eating it up with a stick and a spoon. I think he is now permanently bent, muttering 'Bad Halibut' at times in his sleep. I've never seen anyone do such a complete conversion to any religion before. He is now a charter member of the Blue water chapter of the church of the bent rod and team 'Pilar'.

The Tuna trip speaks for itself. Knee deep in tuna spanking the deck with their tails in unison, spattered with hot blood from head to foot, we 3 crazy MoFos looked at each other and roared with laughter. It was one of those moments like when your ball club just kicks the other teams @$$ and you laugh all the way home after the game. The only reason we quit fishing was because there was literally no where to put another fish. It was intoxicating and a high I hope to experience again soon.

So ..... tell us about your best trip and include a link to your original post if you can find it. Let's remember and enjoy. I'll edit my links in after I find them.

May Flatties http://www.ifish.net/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=004617

Tuna Slaughter http://www.ifish.net/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006571

Ciao,

Johnboy

[ 09-06-2001: Message edited by: Pilar ]

[Mr. Fisherman]

Where do I start?

I can't believe the year I've had.

Fishing with Capin Dan! and Pilar and everybody else. I just can't imagine it getting much better than this year.

The highlight days....

The Halibut opener with Pilar... We will never forget that trip...

Bad Halibut day with Capin Dan!, Bait Boy and Drifty... 246# of flattie with the biggest being 78# and caught on a Salmon rod with 30# line. I'll be telling the grandkids about that trip for sure.

Here's the link...
Bad Halibut, Mess with my daddy's net! (http://www.ifish.net/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006150)

Then there was the last Halibut day with Pilar and a couple of other Ifishers...

Day two and another triple. Top it off with a boat load of Kings and a bonus Yellow eye that fought like a 25# Salmon and three guys cruising home through the fog dogs smiling and laughing like the Kock of the walk.

Hey, I can't find the link images/icons/confused.gif

Oh well,
Incredible. I went from no fish on the tag to only two spots left for Salmon and two spots left for Halibut, a full freezer and memories and friends that will last my lifetime.

Thanks Jen. This year just wouldn't have happened without you and all you have done to put up with all of us and maintain this BB.

At the risk of the rolling pin... "I love you Jen" images/icons/shocked.gif And I think you deserve the house on the coast... On the river... With fish in it.... That you can catch regularly...

Thank you thank you thank you... images/icons/grin.gif

And thanks for the guys that have put up with me and offered to take me fishing. Maybe I have brought a little luck. I hope so, but it wouldn't have happened at all without Jen and an invitation from you.

Well, this is getting pretty long and mushy. I gotta go.

Tight lines,

Ray

[ 09-26-2001: Message edited by: Mr. Fisherman ]

[Mr. Fisherman]

Hey,

I can't find the post with pics from our last trip. What's up with that?
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[Snapset]

I had a couple of good Halibut days, a couple of double digit steelhead days, and even some good salmon days, but the one I will remember most sweetly is Kokanee fishing with my daughter and a couple of buddies. Anna is only 12, shy, very tall, and sometimes she feels so awkward that she can't percieve her natural grace and beauty.

We were hooking Kokanee so fast, all she had time to do was net. She was nettng fish after fish, not missing a single swipe, and with every fish netted, one of my pals would say: "Great job, Anna, or "You the man, Anna Banana". By the end of the day she was glowing. 12 years old is sometimes a cruel age, but that day she felt the love and support of friends, and all was well in her world. Those buddies of mine have a lifetime ticket in my boat.

[fishchaser]

STZ II Says his best fishing trip was up on the Lewis last October. Pete, how soon you forget. What about all those fish you put in your boat this August, at the Coast? 50 fish brought to your boat. So what if you could only catch a couple and the rest of us did what we could to keep you streak alive and running. You know it's hard to keep putting fish in your boat and not getting recognition for it.
Remeber the story about you and Rick out at Buoy 10 that year you have how many nets full and the boat just swimming with fish and you had limited the boat out in an hour and a half? Is that how the story went.
I mean don't get me wrong, I loved being up on the Lewis catching Slivers on a beautiful day, watching the Bald Eagles out soaring around. But you have to admit the week at the beach was tops. images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif

[Robert]

We did pritty good for springers. I caught two in two trips. My dad caught a wild one inon one of those trips. We lost like 10 fish a day. It was on th bank plunking on Sauvies Island. If someone had tips on how to make sure those bites are hooked good and landed it would be great? We used single hooks, and two spin glows. We caught a keeper on the bottom one as well as the top. We jerked really hard and ran up the bank like what the other people were doing. Any suggestions would be great.

Best sturgeon fishing ever was this spring. I was fishing with my dad and 9 year old sister. We landed over 50 shakers in two days. It was the weekend of Memorial day. We brought home 4 fat keepers. We also broke off 4 oversized fish. This was all from the bank in the Bonneville pool.We tried a new recipe that is great for sturgeon. Sear it in a pan, then bake it or bbq it on foil with some apricot marmilade sauce. It is awesome.

The best salmon or steelhead was 5 years ago at cascade locks. I landed two 14 pound hatchery steelhead, and realeased a wild one that was even bigger. My younger sister caugth a 12 and 8 pind hatchery steelhead. She also through back a wild steelhead. My dad only caught one fish, he to could have limited if I did not have football conditioning at 6pm. His fish was the largest, a 35 pound up river bright with awesome eggs. The fishing was awesome and it was cool showing tourists who took pictures of our fish.

[Stz ll]

Fishchaser, actually it was 29 minutes, but who was counting. images/icons/grin.gif images/icons/grin.gif

[Snake9t9]

Myself, MetalHead, His son and a friend, 20 min. 8 fish in the boat. Took us three times longer to go out and back than it did to limit. 50 - 60 lbs. of crab that weekend didn't hurt either. We just wished we'd gone out a day or two earlier.... images/icons/wink.gif images/icons/tongue.gif

[Pilar]

Ok, update on this thread. I'm adding the last Halibut day as the all time bent rod worship service this summer. Never filled the box with flat ones before. A 70# and 2 50's did it clear full. We managed to pack in the five Kings in the gaps between the flat ones and then had to stand on the lid to get it shut.

What a perfect weekend. Two flat Ocean days in a row. The boat ran like a clock with no problems at all. The fishing partners were skilled and lucky. The tackle gets lighter and lighter and the fish bigger and bigger. 20# kings on a steelhead rod with 12# test line. It doesn't get any better.

The only place to go from here is to Mexico or the Florida straight to chase Marlin.

Y'ont to?

[AngleThis]

John you have us all beat; and why not, you've done the homework in every way. But beware, this winter the California Kid is getting new scuba gear complete with self designed ripple breakaway harpoon cannon complete with U/W reel housing 200lb dacron. The bend is my friend but when Adrianna gets to the San Juans next summer, the predator shall decend on the hepless and you are going to have some serious dead fish competition there bud. Minimum Hali blast qualification size: 72 lbs.

Any other certified U/W Hunters out there? Even when the fish don't bite, we do!!

DC

[bait boy]

I have to say that there were so many days this summer that will go down in my record books.

My first trip to Tillamook when the ocean was still open catching a full limit and crabbing in the bay.

My first legit private boat Hali trip resulting in a fish box that would hold no more. We had to leave the 78 Lber on the deck because the other 150Lbs of fish were in there. Ray Thanks for the memories I'll never forget "Bad Halibut" and 80 crabs wasn't too shabby for the bunch of guys that were there. John thanks for giving us a head start on the fish and where to look and the crab pointers.

My first ocean caught 30Lber a slab of a king and good eats.

This year the trips weren't complete or good unless the boat limited out. I had to use both the Washington and Oregon tags this year because one was almost full.

A special thanks to Capin' Dan who without his support and boat payment none of this would have been possible. images/icons/grin.gif