Post by: lokidog on May 07, 2014, 03:46:10 PM
Post by: Becky on May 07, 2014, 03:48:49 PM
Post by: lokidog on May 07, 2014, 03:52:05 PM
We then pulled the shrimp pots and got 287, a tiny bit short of our four limits. Unfortunately we had a deadline so could not drop the pots again on this gorgeous Wednesday afternoon.
This ling is 29 1/2 inches and 11 pounds.
Post by: gasman on May 07, 2014, 03:59:55 PM
Post by: MarkyMark on May 07, 2014, 04:03:24 PM
Post by: Mfowl on May 07, 2014, 05:18:02 PM
Post by: Jason on May 07, 2014, 06:10:55 PM
Post by: ICEMAN on May 07, 2014, 07:13:12 PM
You are making us all real jealous Loki and weathergirl! :EAT:
Post by: rasbo on May 07, 2014, 07:30:59 PM
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on May 07, 2014, 07:36:44 PM
Post by: pd on May 07, 2014, 07:45:31 PM
Post by: lokidog on May 07, 2014, 09:45:16 PM
I'll be out for dinner tomorrow night, just need to get my 10' Livingston going tomorrow. :chuckle:
That's great, though you'll have to deal with the small craft advisory tomorrow through Friday.
:o
That's it. I am leaving this island, and moving to Decatur. Move over, Padner. I want some of them fish!
No problem, though you are only allowed to move here if you have kids between the ages of 4 and 13. ;)
Thanks everyone. I had a Turkish friend and his stepdaughter along today. It was both of their first times to go shrimping and the little girl got to reel in the first fish of the day, a short ling. She was pretty happy as it was her first fish ever. I'll post up a pic when I get it. I made him work for his supper though as we had to pull the pots by hand since my puller died opening day. :sry: :chuckle:
Post by: Fishstiq on May 07, 2014, 10:10:40 PM
Post by: lokidog on May 07, 2014, 10:21:57 PM
You are the only person I know who is excited to bring home/eat ling cod puke!
Huh? I'm not eating it's puke.... Oh wait, I think you are referring to the greenling? He never had it in his belly, not puke. :chuckle: Plus, they are in my top 5 favorite ocean fish.
Post by: _TONY_ on May 07, 2014, 11:11:01 PM
Heading out early Sat morning for my first ling/shrimp trip of the season!
Post by: billythekidrock on May 08, 2014, 05:34:51 AM
Post by: singleshot12 on May 08, 2014, 05:51:43 AM
That's it. I am leaving this island, and moving to Decatur. Move over, Padner. I want some of them fish!
:yeah: Have you noticed an increase of new nieghbors Loki? :)
Post by: seth30 on May 08, 2014, 06:39:25 AM
Post by: lokidog on May 08, 2014, 07:24:35 AM
Great job Loki :tup: I have never fished for lingcod, are they a good fight?
Yes, you can usually tell right away when you hook a ling versus a rockfish, though I caught a 24" copper rockfish a couple years ago that I would have swore was a ling and the small lings will often just give up like the rockfish tend to do.
Post by: quadrafire on May 08, 2014, 08:42:17 AM
Post by: wafisherman on May 08, 2014, 10:18:38 AM
Post by: lokidog on May 10, 2014, 09:59:17 PM
Post by: D-Rock425 on May 11, 2014, 09:22:22 AM
Post by: kisfish on May 11, 2014, 09:26:44 AM
Post by: wafisherman on May 11, 2014, 03:53:49 PM
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.... :chuckle: 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 ;)
Post by: Maligator on May 11, 2014, 04:46:02 PM
Post by: JJB11B on May 11, 2014, 04:51:23 PM
Post by: weathergirl on May 11, 2014, 05:54:16 PM
That's it. I am leaving this island, and moving to Decatur. Move over, Padner. I want some of them fish!
:yeah: Have you noticed an increase of new nieghbors Loki? :)
If you have kids, PLEASE move to Decatur Island! Attend the smallest public school in the country and get an amazing education! We need more kids in our little one-room school since my son only has three more years now... :(
Post by: lokidog on May 11, 2014, 06:27:32 PM
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.... :chuckle: 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 ;)
;)
Post by: Ripper on May 12, 2014, 09:24:26 AM
Post by: lokidog on May 12, 2014, 01:27:20 PM
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. :tup:
Post by: rover758 on May 12, 2014, 01:47:19 PM
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Post by: lokidog on May 12, 2014, 02:00:13 PM
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!!!!!!! }}}} :chuckle:
:o
Post by: Buckmark on May 12, 2014, 02:51:27 PM
Post by: lokidog on May 12, 2014, 09:51:20 PM
Looks great Loki, speaking of eating well i am almost out of seasalt.... :hello:
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.
Post by: lokidog on May 23, 2014, 11:49:09 PM
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. :chuckle:
Post by: lokidog on May 23, 2014, 11:52:31 PM
Don't let it stop you, just get out there and go shrimping.
Post by: Kola16 on May 23, 2014, 11:58:03 PM
Post by: hrd2fnd on May 24, 2014, 12:56:34 AM
Post by: RadSav on May 24, 2014, 06:35:26 AM
Post by: pjb3 on May 28, 2014, 10:50:35 PM
:dunno:
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.... :chuckle: 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 ;)
Post by: RadSav on May 28, 2014, 11:07:38 PM
Hint:
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.... :chuckle:
Post by: lokidog on May 29, 2014, 08:30:29 AM
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.... >:(
Post by: lokidog on May 31, 2014, 11:06:55 PM
Today, my son just wanted to go out with the two of us. A beautiful day on the water, almost no wind, but that damnable current was sure strong. We dropped when the local tide chart said low tide (tide was still flowing out) and we pulled when the local current chart said slack current (it was already coming in strong). Thanks WDFW for "giving" us such optimal current days to shrimp.... :(
Anyways, while we soaked the pots, we headed in to a ling spot. I brought some salmon bellies along and put a half of one on my jig. First drop down and BAM! fish on. I knew it was a keeper and had my son ready to hand me the net, I need to get him on some rockfish for practice. :chuckle: Anyways, landed the fish and blugh, out comes a bunch of goo. Well, it turns out that it is three hunks of octopus including an arm piece that had suckers over two inches across. The goo weighed almost three pounds and the fish, without its stomach contents, was a little over twelve pounds and 32 1/2 inches long.
We caught one Quillback rockfish about 18 inches long and tossed it. I asked my son if he was ready to reel in the next fish and he said no because it looked like I forgot to bring a can of coke to bribe/reward him with. It turns out that I had one in the cooler, just in case this ocasion arose. ;) Pretty soon, BAM! another big ling on, it fought better than the first one and my son was a bit leary of taking the rod, though he did. Well, he slowly pumped and reeled o perfection and we soon landed the 23 inch ling that was hooked... in the middle of its side. :'( I thought we had another really nice one for him.
Then, we went out to pull our pots and talked a nice older gentleman, whom we had spoken to earlier, into having his grandaughter use their puller to pull our pots (haven't got mine back from Ace yet). He and his granddaughter had just pulled their second pot for their limits so I had high expectations for us. We pulled three limits and tossed back a limit of the smaller ones. We ended up a few ounces shy of eight pounds for 160 tails. :tup:
Enjoy the photos, the large suction cup is 2 1/4 inch by 2 inches. I wonder how big an octopus has to be to grow those. :yike:
Post by: Mfowl on June 01, 2014, 09:47:39 AM
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Post by: hrd2fnd on June 16, 2014, 01:01:39 AM
Post by: lokidog on June 16, 2014, 09:46:00 AM
:dunno: but I see some resemblance with your mug :chuckle: I've enjoyed you sharing your families season so far and looking forward to experiencing it myself vicariously through your posts. :tup:
We need to dust off the old Dreamsicle in your yard and hit something near you or you can come on out here sometime this summer. Spot shrimp is open in 7W all summer.
Post by: lokidog on June 16, 2014, 10:39:05 AM
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