Eating well this year

[lokidog]

Good job Loki, you are killin it this year. I'm going out on Sat, I hope to nail a halibut and a ling.

Good Luck.   

[rover758]

Nice loki!!!!  I'm jelous.  I was skunked on both hali's and ling's Saturday.  Lucky my fishing buddies share.  I was able to put a few fillets in the freezer. 

[lokidog]

Yum!  That makes me want to get out and try for some halibut.

[rover758]

I still love the ling when I can get them.  :::::::: Using what a lot of people use ..... A motor oil colored 9 1/2" Kajiki Squid and a chunk of horse herring trailing.  Put two 35's and a 25 in the boat.  In 180 feet of water off McClurdy point.  I'd say we were about {{{{ OUCH OUCH OUCH ...... MY FISHING BUDDY IS BREAKING MY FINGERS!!!!!!! }}}}   

[lokidog]

I still love the ling when I can get them.  :::::::: Using what a lot of people use ..... A motor oil colored 9 1/2" Kajiki Squid and a chunk of horse herring trailing.  Put two 35's and a 25 in the boat.  In 180 feet of water off McClurdy point.  I'd say we were about {{{{ OUCH OUCH OUCH ...... MY FISHING BUDDY IS BREAKING MY FINGERS!!!!!!! }}}}   

 

[Buckmark]

Looks great Loki, speaking of eating well i am almost out of seasalt....

[lokidog]

Looks great Loki, speaking of eating well i am almost out of seasalt....

Me too I have to get to making more for the summer market season.  Last year at this time I had about 10 pounds ready to go.

[lokidog]

Well, it's been a while now....  My son had a half day today so we headed out in the rain to try for some more shrimp, and fish while the pots soaked.  We hit the south end of Lopez at high tide as the rain quit for the rest of the day.  The wind was calm as we dropped our pots in 320 feet of water.  Given the conditions, I decided to run down toward Smith Island as I had done well on lings a few years ago in the shallows.  We found a nice rock, I think the same one I fished two years ago, and promptly caught three rockfish on three drifts.  Landed a 24 1/2 inch ling, released it, and the next drift I landed a 27 1/2 incher that was 7 1/2 pounds.  We fished for a while more enjoying the slow drift and sunny weather.  My son was eyeing a Coke and I told him he had to real in a fish first.  He asked if it could be any fish, small or large so I said sure.  I just wanted him to get his hands on a fight.

A couple of drifts later, we were talking about heading back to our pots when WHAM, I got hit.  I could tell it was a keeper so I handed my son the rod.  He struggled to reel it up as it made a couple of good runs, finally I could see it, WOW!  Now, I'm more nervous.  He reeled, got it close and then lifted the rod tip like I told him to and WOOHOO, into the boat the 34 1/2 inch 13 pounder came.  He said he was thinking about that Coke, until the fish hit the deck and he saw how big it was, it made his day.

This trip may also have hooked him a bit more as he has always been a bit ambivalent about fishing/shrimping/crabbing even though he enjoys eating them.

It also didn't hurt that the weather was perfect and we pulled over 400 shrimp to get our two limits.  Enjoy the pics.  Another first today was him actually holding a fish by touching it, not just on a stringer.   

[lokidog]

The shrimp are nice and big this year.  And, for those of you that haven't gone shrimping "because 300 to 400 feet of line is too much to pull by hand and I can't afford a puller..."  All of these pots were pulled by hand, the longest time taking 10 minutes and that being for the last pot with thinner nylon line than lead line.

Don't let it stop you, just get out there and go shrimping.

[Kola16]

I'm jealous. That is sweet!

[hrd2fnd]

I agree that is awesome

[RadSav]

Oh man!  Too bad the anchor-in-law moved in or I'd be knocking.  I sure do love lingcod - eating and fishing. Those shrimps look huge!!!  And tasty   Pictures from the boat look like it's a bout perfect water out there too.  I'm very jealous

[pjb3]

Hmmm, where did U see a cabezon?

 

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful....     Number three, 29 inches and a few ounces shy of 10 pounds.  Shrimping was a tough one today though.

nice cabezon! Almost looks like its smiling for the camera.  Not a bad lingcod either

[RadSav]

    I had to jump up and grab that one as it went sailing over my head too

Hint:

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful....    

[lokidog]

It took me a minute the first time as well, so don't feel too bad.

Here is a plate from the other day, this is one pound of tails (19), the small size canning ring is there for a size reference as that is a salad plate not a dinner plate.   

Heading out this evening for another go at them, thanks WDFW for scheduling days during negative tides....