Rockpile report for Sat
It was a nice day no wind, not even a ripple till 1pm and the swell was about 4' and wide open. I went out with wishntobefishn and his son. I brought the bait and some gear, he brought the boat. Us both, being fairly green offshore, found it a perfect and comfortable day.
Pilar gave me a few starting points to find fish and a "Salmon" hole was the closest so we started there. We dropped down in 180' of water with mooching lead and Dave gets a bite after less than 5 min at arround 60'. He decides to check bait and we all see the Chinook circle the aft Starbord side. Cool the fish are here. After an uneventful 30 min we, antsy chinook fishermen, decide to pick up. Dave takes no less than 1 crank and BOOM fish on. Did I say no wind. In the resulting, lets get our lines out of the water flurry, I wind to the surface 3 times and BOOM fish on. Dave lands a nice 20+lb nook as I reel up the largest mouth with teeth I have ever seen. We end up loosing that lifetime ling something about a rod holder! Unperturbed we are happy about having something slimy, shiny and our fish box totally bloody.
After another drift we head for Ling Land. We fished several long drifts and landed some orange fish and ling after ling on mooched herring and a shrimp with a 8oz jig head on one rig. The one rig with the flies and twin tail took 60% of the lings.
So, time to move South in search of other fun and end up drifting out to 200' off the W side. We were still hitting lings and I wanted one to top the 26" we through back (I should have kept it but you never know). I was using cut plug all day and decided to reel up 30' since we we so deep and was holding my rod. After a few min the reel screems and my line rips about 20 degrees sideways. So we are thinking huge king. Wrong after 20 min of bulldogging on 30 lb leader and a Salmon rod we are thinking huge halibut. I got it to the boat after about 30 min. it was a nice one with a mouth you could stick 2 softballs down 60+lbs. It was killer how it slammed that cut plug. Back to the depths of the ocean it went. It wasn't a full fish box day but fun fish, company and weather. That's livin.
I almost forgot to add Sundays activity. Razor clamming and herring jigging with the 7 yr old nephew. What a blast I anchored off the green can in my drift boat and rig him up. Drop him down and set the reel in his hands. I say you will know when it start wiggling. Seconds later Uncle Kevin!!! I got one. D) Reel! :smile: and the fun is on. We got there late and fished till the tide ran slow and bagged 140 or so in 1.5 hrs. It is good fishing down there for herring.
[ 05-28-2002, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: BUGLEMAN ]
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