Finally
- Thread starter Nick Clayton
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Less than a month and a half till my Westport season gets going and I'll be a scum bag taking people out to fish live flounder for lingcod.
The opener is my favorite. Lingcod bite like they haven't seen a flounder all winter. Savage grabs and fast action. I love it!
The opener is my favorite. Lingcod bite like they haven't seen a flounder all winter. Savage grabs and fast action. I love it!
I'm jonesing to get to Garibaldi with my boat for a bottom fish sesh. Last one was September and I am having withdrawals.
A good buddy just bought a boat out of Girabaldi. I almost got to go down and assist him with driving it up to Westport. 40' Dorado...Tuna Time. You may have seen it around, was a charter down there.
I fished down there some as a kid. We fished the Ghost Hole for kings for a number of years, but its been a long time.
I'm jealous that Oregon gets to fish lings year round.
I fished down there some as a kid. We fished the Ghost Hole for kings for a number of years, but its been a long time.
I'm jealous that Oregon gets to fish lings year round.
Yeah I've seen that boat!
"Year round" means we get like 1-2 fishable days through the winter months. I think the sport boats have maybe gone out once since October. not many opportunities for the little guys this time of year.
It's a cool boat! Pretty sure it will have a bracket and triple outboards this time next year. As it is its a bit slow for a Westport tuna boat, but man it's a cool ass boat.
Definitely not a ton of fishable days, even for larger boats. As much as I look forward to our season starting in March, we don't get a ton of days then either. Weather is so unpredictable that time of year.
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bennysbuddy
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come on Kerry, we prefer Wells spoons for those of us that are traditionalist gear swingers
kerrys
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I try to keep talk about Wells spoons low. I still have some and don’t need any desperate gearheads breaking in trying to steal them.
I just ordered some fly lipps to work on trolling flies for this year. Now I won't have to feel guilty!!!
HOG
GOTY’s mum’s favorite ghillie
when I was a party boat skipper during the 70's, running a 65' Ed Monk designed steel sportsfisher out of Pillar Point harbor south of SF, ran Tuesday and Thursday ling cod specials. During a scouting day had found a reef 12 miles offshore that rose from the 280' to 180', just crawling with lings.
Would stop on the sand flats en route and have the customers load up on small flounder (sand dabs), irresistible to lings.
While my deckhand worked his ass off gaffing, I'd be at the bow pitching and bouncing chrome bars with soft bonze trebles I could straighten if hung up using the drift...self gaff the pigs as they came up...would pile them up, have the deck hand distribute among the passengers who didn't catch their fair share, guaranteed him some tips.
There are few things in life better than going offshore in a boat, or more satisfying than watching your customers exit back at the dock with fat burlap sacks of fish over their shoulder.
Lingcod is probably my favorite overall fish. There is just something about those toothy bastards that appeals to me. Their aggression and willingness to just murder pretty much anything they come across is just so awesome.
I got into my first big lingcod ever this last year. It was really fun figuring out how to set up drifts, identify structure, and actually find the fish! I've learned so much from all you guys on this forum (well the same people that are here already). My favorite was catching a 36 inch lingcod hitchhiker after hooking a 28 inch. That momma just broadsided that poor dude and hung on until we netted both of them.
Then I took my wife to Orcas Island for Mother's day, and we fished our way back home. Seeing my wife's expression when I pulled up a 42 was just something that I'm not going to forget.
Only a month and a half away from the opener!
Then I took my wife to Orcas Island for Mother's day, and we fished our way back home. Seeing my wife's expression when I pulled up a 42 was just something that I'm not going to forget.
Only a month and a half away from the opener!
Probably my favorite thing we pulled up from the bottom last year on my boat (by my buddy Jason, pictured). First tiger I'd ever seen, and not a small one. Never will keep one again though. Pain in the ass to filet. No idea how or why they can be so much more difficult than the other rockfish.
