Ling run, Monday (18th) open seat with conditions.

[h20hunter]

Goofy looking, great fighting, big ol headed stubnorn fish.....like catching but I find the meat not great. Plenty good for a fish fry but I put em back personally.

[Camo]

One tip is head out to the possesion ferry....don't fish ON it as you will lose gear nearly every drop. Fish all around it. When i scuba dived....dove?.....hmhave dived?.....I would drop down and drift along near it. Ling love to lay along the bottom in depressions near it and hunt. Shot many a dandy on the bottom near the main structure vs righ on it.

Appreciate the tip. I purposely avoided that as I assumed it was over fished? Shows what I know.

[h20hunter]

The ferry is loaded....and full of line, lures, snags. During the short season its a hot spot for spearing so give divers the room to get out there. Plenty of fishing nearby.

[Camo]

Copy that.

[Stein]

Any report?  We went out Friday but ended up just flatty fishing as the wind was steady with decent gusts and I didn't want to fight that trying to keep the boat where I want it while trying to fish at the same time.  We did smack 25 nice dabs with a few grillers in there.

[lokidog]

Goofy looking, great fighting, big ol headed stubnorn fish.....like catching but I find the meat not great. Plenty good for a fish fry but I put em back personally.

Good, leave them out there for me!

I caught two yesterday. A big ling would have been great, but I was more than happy withing bringing a Cabezon home.

[Skyvalhunter]

 

[C-Money]

How'd the fishing go?

[h20hunter]

Good trip, good company.  I love love having boat people on the boat. Makes it simple. Did great getting bait and had some jumbo flounder for upcoming crabbing put away. Fishing was tough. Really one man needed to run the boat to combat a goofy combo of wind and current. We foshed the grounds pretty solid and had some c&r on rockfish and had one good ling bite on whole flounder. All we ended up with was a tooth marred and mauled flounder! Really good water in the am running and easily managed chop heading in. Really enjoyed the trip and covid was barely discussed!

[lokidog]

Good trip, good company.  I love love having boat people on the boat. Makes it simple. Did great getting bait and had some jumbo flounder for upcoming crabbing put away. Fishing was tough. Really one man needed to run the boat to combat a goofy combo of wind and current. We foshed the grounds pretty solid and had some c&r on rockfish and had one good ling bite on whole flounder. All we ended up with was a tooth marred and mauled flounder! Really good water in the am running and easily managed chop heading in. Really enjoyed the trip and covid was barely discussed!

I find I have to "back troll" frequently in the areas I fish as the currents mostly seem to run opposite to the wind. I love my extended transom for this.

[KP-Skagit]

I for one love cabezon, though they tend to be a bit wormy when they are bigger. We picked up a couple of those ugly boys in BC last year. Look what I found in one of them! Juvenile Puget Sound King crab, about 4 inches across.

 

[jennabug]

very cool! 

[lokidog]

I for one love cabezon, though they tend to be a bit wormy when they are bigger. We picked up a couple of those ugly boys in BC last year. Look what I found in one of them! Juvenile Puget Sound King crab, about 4 inches across.

 

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That's cool. I got one with 12 crabs in it, but none as cool as that. I've had less (none?) worms in my 14,16, and 18 pound Cabs than in almost any Lingcod....

[Stein]

I caught some king of weird spider crab in a shrimp pot once.  As for worms, if it swims in the ocean chances are pretty good it has at least some.

[KP-Skagit]

We found some other weird crabs in the them as well but that was definitely the coolest. Some were spider crabs, others small dungies, the weirdest was a crab with a triangular body and a single massive claw, twice the size of the body. Very interesting to see what they eat. Mostly crab, shrimp, but one was absolutely packed with clam necks, just the neck, thinking it was cruising the bottom and putting a hurting on the butter clams that were poking up.