David Johnson
07-13-2009, 01:16 PM
We had an outstanding combo trip yesterday!
Jimmy and Harold from Tigard and Jerry from Texas joined me on a quest for a grand slam.
First we met before daylight in Hammond for Jimmy to bait his crab pots with some fresh tuna heads I picked up the day before.
After a quick detour to drop the pots we headed out to sea. In less than two hours we hooked about twenty fish, landed about 15 and headed in with our 8 hatchery silvers.
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Then it was back to pull the pots. I wondered if they had been in long enough since we caught our fish so fast but found out there should have been no worries. Fresh tuna is hard to beat for crab bait.
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14 nice keepers to add to the fish box!
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Then it was back up river to try our hand at sturgeon.
Unfortunately the sturgeon bite was a little off but we did get a handful of them, no keepers but some good fighters that fooled us. It was good to see Jerry catch his first sturgeon (after he caught his first salmon earlier in the morning)
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/00720.JPG
Since these guys dug their limit of razor clams the day before they are going to have one heck of a sea food platter.
Jimmy and Harold from Tigard and Jerry from Texas joined me on a quest for a grand slam.
First we met before daylight in Hammond for Jimmy to bait his crab pots with some fresh tuna heads I picked up the day before.
After a quick detour to drop the pots we headed out to sea. In less than two hours we hooked about twenty fish, landed about 15 and headed in with our 8 hatchery silvers.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/00919.JPG
Then it was back to pull the pots. I wondered if they had been in long enough since we caught our fish so fast but found out there should have been no worries. Fresh tuna is hard to beat for crab bait.
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/00425.JPG
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/006-1.JPG
14 nice keepers to add to the fish box!
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/01016.JPG
Then it was back up river to try our hand at sturgeon.
Unfortunately the sturgeon bite was a little off but we did get a handful of them, no keepers but some good fighters that fooled us. It was good to see Jerry catch his first sturgeon (after he caught his first salmon earlier in the morning)
http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/00720.JPG
Since these guys dug their limit of razor clams the day before they are going to have one heck of a sea food platter.