Fishing out of Sekiu????

[GoldTip]

Hey guys, just wondered if anyone had any experience fishing out of Sekiu?  Will heading over to a resort over there the weekend of the 10th and looking to rent one of the resort boats and do some fishing, any advice or suggestions?

[Sneaky]

Kings troll close to shore around 80-150 feet of water, the area out in front of slip point has always been a producer for me. Silvers, go straight out from the resort in around 250-500 feet of water some years they're closer some years they're deeper. I've always had luck trolling with hot spot blue or green flashers followed by a blue/green/white hoochie with 5/0 black gamakatsu octopus hooks. 25lb leader around 16-25 inches for silvers and around 4-6 feet for kings. Coyote spoons are also king killers, in green/white or cop-car colors, avoid the goofy looking pink/green/yellow spotted ones but most colors will work equally well. Cut plug herring is always effective but its a hassle checking your bait all the time and later in the year the silvers won't leave it alone and it can get pricey paying for bait to sort through hatchery fish. I don't know if the rentals have downriggers or fishfinders but ideally you would want to see what depth the fish are at and key in on them

IF you don't have a downrigger you'd be better off working all depths with a pt. wilson dart in black/chrome or all white for kings in 80-150 feet of water. You can also mooch herring and do well for kings. In area 4 in may I hooked a 25 pounder in 35 feet of water on a green and white 89 cent e-chip jig while fishing for seabass. It's gonna be a good year GOOD LUCK hope this helps take a kid!

[Caseyd]

Havnt been there in years. Always fun though and if i remember correct we always did well. Use to go with my dad and a bunch of his friends...I was that kid Sneaky is talking about  Always nice to be able to catch more

[MuleySniper]

Hope your not staying at Olsens! We stayed there a few years ago, and when we went in our cabin the first time it was disgusting. Not to mention the previous tenant decided to use a white bath towel to brutally wipe their ass and leave it displayed on the floor. I guess they don't clean them often. I didn't sleep under the covers and I slept in my clothes. The fishing was good though!
MS

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Not to dampen your parade, but that's true about Olson's, you are better off tent camping, their upkeep is non-existent. If you rent their boats, I would stay with a partner boat, they take care of them as well as their rooms . I've seen many a guy being towed back in with those rentals. Coho are usually a sure thing up there, just a cut plug and dodger work really well, you just have to find the right depth and this is the year of the Stinks, so you've got a bonus limit of those buggers too. Kings have been spotty for the last several years, if you look at the catch rates.

[bow4elk]

Kings troll close to shore around 80-150 feet of water, the area out in front of slip point has always been a producer for me. Silvers, go straight out from the resort in around 250-500 feet of water some years they're closer some years they're deeper. I've always had luck trolling with hot spot blue or green flashers followed by a blue/green/white hoochie with 5/0 black gamakatsu octopus hooks. 25lb leader around 16-25 inches for silvers and around 4-6 feet for kings. Coyote spoons are also king killers, in green/white or cop-car colors, avoid the goofy looking pink/green/yellow spotted ones but most colors will work equally well. Cut plug herring is always effective but its a hassle checking your bait all the time and later in the year the silvers won't leave it alone and it can get pricey paying for bait to sort through hatchery fish. I don't know if the rentals have downriggers or fishfinders but ideally you would want to see what depth the fish are at and key in on them

IF you don't have a downrigger you'd be better off working all depths with a pt. wilson dart in black/chrome or all white for kings in 80-150 feet of water. You can also mooch herring and do well for kings. In area 4 in may I hooked a 25 pounder in 35 feet of water on a green and white 89 cent e-chip jig while fishing for seabass. It's gonna be a good year GOOD LUCK hope this helps take a kid!

Not much to add here - Sneaky knows the ropes well.  I've been fishing Sekiu since childhood.  Stay in close for kings (Pillar Pt. or "the caves") head out to the shipping lanes and fish shallow for silvers.  Good luck!!

[tmike]

The nice thing about that weekend is the Fireworks display will also be going on. It's a great show. I'll be up there too!

[Alchase]

We stayed at the coho RV park between Clalum bay and Sekiu or Van Ripers. When I was a kid we rented the Olson's cabins. Rented our boats from van Ripers or Olsen's. Sucks to here Olsen's has degraded so bad. I use to clean fish with one of the Olsen boys on the dock when I was a teen. At $2.00 a fish we could make $100.00 in just a few hours work.
If you are renting a boat and do not have downriggers or fishfinder do not worry, this is what we did.
For kings we would troll from Sekiu point West past the cave towards Eagle bay and back keeping the cave as the center point. Staggering our lines between 35 and 60 pulls, using flashers and cut plugs or hoochie. We would come in for lunch and back out for silvers or kings trolling from Sekiu point to the East to the bellboy.
If you really want some fun, troll a silver fly on the surface (no weight) at a very fast troll with light gear (any stealhead setup will do) and watch them hit it like a freight train and your in for a fight. Silver flys were especially fun the last week in August when the big silver came through.
We always had better king luck in front of the caves (not very far out) but we also caught fish all over that area. You can catch fish all times of day, but for us the morning bite always produced more kings. My Dad use to record all the fish we caught. Over 75% of all the kings my family caught we within a 1/2 mile either side of the cave between 5:30 and 7:30am. Silver it did not matter.
My Mother was sound asleep in the bow and hooked up a 35 lb king as we were coming in for lunch and were already inside the breakwater by Olsen's marina. It took us 45 minutes to boat that slab, and we were almost to the bellboy by the time we had it in the net.
As a kid I caught fish every year casting a buzzbomb or kastmaster right from the jetty. My point is everyone has their favorite hole, but you can catch fish through out the whole area so I would not worry to much. I even caught a 47 lb halibut on a pinkladie diver with a cut plug in front of eagle harbor while fishing for kings.
If you go farther out for silvers make sure you take a compass or GPS. If the fog rolls in you will not be able to see land, and it is very easy to get confused which way south is (Sekiu) and which way Canada is, and believe me it gets thick, lol.

[Dmanmastertracker]

 LOL, it gets foggy and the current can run like a damn river. We were out in the shipping lane fishing pinks and silvers four years ago and I shortly realized I had the kicker full throttle and we had still drifted five miles towards the ocean -Neah Bay. When I realized how far we'd been pushed I was a little unnerved, we had been pushed down and out a total of 7 miles trolling against the current, it is very hard to tell when your 3-4 miles out there. Any foggy day I stay close, period. I've never trusted my GPS very much, I've had them go out before and only want to have to use them when all options our out.

[Alchase]

Being near the shipping lanes in the fog is like a horror movie. The fog plays tricks on sounds, and you can hear the ships screw beats and fog horns but can't see them or tell which side of you they are on as they go by.
That gets pretty freaky.