Zane
09-22-2006, 02:15 PM
:( It is time for the last major fishing report of the Salmon (read Tahsis, BC) fishing season. My good friend batman breath bailed out on going up with me. He had some phony excuse about moving his mother-in-law. I took Mike (my fire chief), John (Mike’s friend from Palm Springs, Calif.) and my oldest son. Mike and John are both from the California desert and I am sure that they have not seen 8-10’ ocean swells before:rolleyes: . My son was an Alaska king crabber and is probably tougher than I am. Needless to say, the first three days of fishing were inside as the wind was howling and the seas were quite rough. Each morning we would make the twenty mile run to the ocean and get turned back to fish the protected waters. Fishing inside of Esperanza inlet was slow and we were scratching to get a few fish. The first salmon of the trip was about a 14# Coho that had barely made it halfway towards the boat :( when a seal stole it off the line. That resulted in a few choice words such as darn, isn’t he cute, and where is my .357 when I need it? Over the first three days we were able to land four Coho, a 20 + king and a whopper 34# king.
The last day of the trip on Friday, we made our run out the inlet and the ocean was fairly flat and we were able to get out about ten miles. The desert guys got to see whales, dolphin, sea otters and a few bent rods. Friday count was four kings to 20#, one Coho 15# and four ling cod to 20#. The Bradley smoker has been working overtime. There are some new pictures on the spaces site.
The last day of the trip on Friday, we made our run out the inlet and the ocean was fairly flat and we were able to get out about ten miles. The desert guys got to see whales, dolphin, sea otters and a few bent rods. Friday count was four kings to 20#, one Coho 15# and four ling cod to 20#. The Bradley smoker has been working overtime. There are some new pictures on the spaces site.