We headed down to Westport Saturday afternoon to meet Wayne and Brenda, the former owners of Marks boat. They planned to fish with us on Sunday. They brought some nice crab they caught at Pt. Townsend, where they live, and we feasted both Saturday night and Sunday.
The big flag was at full attention when we arrived around 7PM on Saturday and the weather reports were shaky. Small swell but the forecast called for 3-5 foot wind waves. We fooled around for a bit and hit the rack by 10 PM. Up at 4 and the wind was still cooking pretty good. After a while we decided to head out and give it a go.
Overall it wasn't too bad. The bar was mild and the swell was short with some lumpy choppy stuff but nothing too serious.
We started South in about 50 feet after talking to Russell (Buzz2401). During the course of the day we fishes an area that was just inside the GH buoy and was probably about a 2 mile square. It took us a bit but we started getting a strike here and there. 2 riggers and 2 divers. We started with all bait and eventually switched to all spoons. Average 25ft. on the rigger, and 27 pulls on the divers. We had 3 fish in the boat before 9AM and released a few until we put a 20 pounder in the box to complete the mission around 11AM.
We could tell that the weather wasn't improving so there was no real effort to find any coho. We made it back to the dock before noon, which is a first for us, as we normally won't tag out until late because we love it so much out there.
Here's a couple of pics:
Jacob and his nice king:
Wayne, AKA PonyTail, with his nice King:
The crew at the dock:
Thanks as always Mark, Jacob, and Wayne for a rough but outstanding day.
Til the next tide....
Beee
