Her first salmon!!!!

[Sitkaspruce]

Hi

I am pretty pumped after this weekend as I took out the wife for some spring fishing around home. Home is Port McNeill on Vancouver Island.

We did not get on the water until 10:30 as someone was. I stuck with a couple of old favorites, green anchovie special and red hot spot flasher on one rod and a white hootchie and green hot spot on the other.

First fish to hit the anchovie was a beauty 18 lbs white spring that hit like a train and took off, peeling line like it was no tomorrow. I handed the rod to her and she played it like a pro. Interesting to note was it had been hooked a couple of days before as it had 18" of line and a hook embedded in its jaw. This is her first salmon and biggest fish ever. She was so excitedI think I am finished with reeling in a fish with her in the boat



Next to come up was a nice 10-12 chicken hali that she let me playIt was caught on the white hootchie.

Then about 30 minutes later another fish hit the white hootchie, this time she played it and it ended up being a 25 lbs chicken hali. This was her second hali and is now the biggest fish in her life!!!

That ended Saturdays fishing. She was hooked on spring fishing and could not wait for Sunday.



Sunday morning came and went as again, someone was very . We had been up most of the night before, walking for the Cancer society's RELAY FOR LIFE.

The fishing was a lot slower until this beast hit. She was busy suntanning up front, so I got to play it. It hit a 5" Green Glow Bait Buster , one of the last lures in my box that I had not washed that day. At first, I thought it was a cod as it did not pull out any line and just tugged until it it the surface, then it took about 100 yards of line in about 0.5 seconds, then turned arouind and headed straight to the boat. It eneded up weighting 32 lbs and was my first tyee in 14 years as I had been living in the interior after leaving the island. It was also the first tyee for the new boat. (sorry for the crappy pictures)



Wife with the fish


All in all it was a great weekend and the wife is now hooked on salt water fishing.

Look out next weekend

Cheers

SS

[iwanttofish]

Wow nice fish and pics great to have that calm water to fish in. Congrats

[id. painter]

Nice work .

Looks farmiliar ,,and,,make sme want to visit !

Next time Im up there we will have to get together ....
id. p.

[bassettmama]

WOW, great pics and fish. We haven't had any luck, but keep trying.

[tomictime]

good stuff - only way I can see to improve that relationship is with...a PAIR of Hardy's..

ha.

NICE flat-water report, I will have another west side report for you..soon.

Jim

[Sea Fox]

I love the way you hoosers calm em springs aay! Nice pictures with your new deckhand in the new boat.

[Sitkaspruce]

Originally Posted by tomictime

good stuff - only way I can see to improve that relationship is with...a PAIR of Hardy's..

ha.

NICE flat-water report, I will have another west side report for you..soon.

Jim

Jim

I am still working on her. She is really into hali fishing and would rather have a couple of Penn GTI 320's. Until last weekend, now she is having second thoughts about just fishing hali's.

The guys just got back from Steamer Point Lodge (one of my co-workers's parents own it) and it was the slowest it has been in years. approx 250 rod hours for 9 salmon, 6 caught way to the north. Lots of hali's and ling, but very slow on the salmon.

Look forward to your report as we are thinking of taking a little trip out there in early Aug.

SS

[Reel Creel]

[PapaHog]

Very nice report. Great pictures. Keep them coming.

[BalouSC]

Awesome!! Thanks for posting!!! Balou

[fishbait]

Hey, nice catch, what a beauty.

Oh, and those couple salmon and Halibut are nice too

Congrats on the Tyee......

Thanks for sharing and consider your one lucky fisherman in more ways than one.