Newbie Halibut Trip 8/1
After 3 successful trips in the ocean for salmon in my boat, my brother in law talked me into a halibut trip. The plan was weather permitting on Friday to make the run to the Rockpile in my 19' Duckworth. The weather wasn't great, but we decided to make the run anyway. Took us about 1 hour to get to the rockpile, and started fishing for halibut. We got our first fish in 5 minutes, a 65lb Halibut. Got another about 10 minutes later, looked a little too small, measured it and it was close. Let it go, and then we could only find smaller fish from there.
Decided to try for salmon as the bite had died, and took us 7 tries to get the downriggers down without the coho stripping the bait.
First fish on the downrigger was a 15 lb ling, 2nd, 32 lb Chinook, 3rd 34 lb chinook... we were wondering why we kept the first 2 fin clipped coho...
Back to Halibut, but never found another keeper.
Ended the day with a full 150 qt cooler, halibut, chinook, coho, ling cod, sea bass...
Not bad for the rookie voyage.. Sent a friend out to the rockpile with GPS numbers, they got 4 chinook with one over 40 and 2 coho on Sunday...
Good luck, may try it again on Friday if the weather permits.
Rip'N'Lips
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