Saturday the 23rd...Bell Buoy

Started fishing on a strange vibe. We passed a car on the way to the water with a guy passed out, hopefully only passed out, in the middle of an intersection engine on and brake lights on high. Called 911 but didn't wait around for the cops.

Hit the water a little before sun rise and were putting our lines out with two other early risers. With in sort time there were as many boat as bait and bairt was everywhere. Even saw swirl and heard the gulp of a shaker eating a sand lance. Latter we so some porpises, I was not sure if they were dalls or habour. Caught a dog fish. And decided it was stupid to stay in the ever groing pack. Didn't have enough gas to go where I wanted - Tofino - so we trolled over to the North Arm. A hit from something submerged was all we got. We got un-hooked from it without loosing anything. Decided to give Spanish Bank between the two marker and in to the freighters a try on the way in an got two shakers. Gave up and watch the start of the race.

Fished Anchovies with and without flashers between 20 and 80 feet from 6:15am to 10:30am.

Back at the dock I was told that killer whale had be in over night.

Have fun, Jason

Well..got out yesterday (Saturday) for some more fishing.....thought I'd see exactly what people meant by "slow" fishing over the last two days. So on the basis of local area knowledge I went to my favorite fishing "spot" at this time of year. Lo and behold, I had just a handful of other boats around me which was definitely a welcome change from the GONG SHOW at Thursday night's location. Dropped in the lines and started trolling. Water was calm, a couple of seals over the area so we began to wander. Then it happened....a quick series of heavy jerks and it was "FISH ON!". After about 10 minutes, we slipped what looked to be a FAT 35 lb Red Spring into the net--sure enough..on the spring scale...35 lbs of prime RED SPRING! . Look around...no other boats saw us get it. Still trolling along with the other rods in the water........so we put the other lines back down. About a half hour to 45 minutes later.....WHAM! Fish on. We didn't even see the fish hit and I ran to the rod as the fish was already taking it's first run. After a few minutes, BONK BONK BONK...a 23 lb Marble was whacked. Got to love it!

I'm not quite sure what everyone was talking about... "Slow fishing?!" WHAT Slow fishing?!

So..what led me to fish an area where few others were fishing? Hmmm...let's see....call it 100% opportunity. I'd much rather fish a spot which has just as good a chance of producing a few fish as opposed to a spot with 40 boats criss crossing all over eachother.

So that extends my "big fish in the box" streak to 6 trips! ;D

Looking forward to a reprieve in this weather so I can get out again! :thumbup:

Put in today around noon @ McDonald... down & out to T10 - Seemed like we were the only ones out there for a few hours.... with good reason. ZIPPO. At least i pealed off a few layers & worked on my suntan.

Coming back with some big swells out there, in around 5:30pm closer to the Breakwater in @ about 55feet - fish on ... Beautiful ~25lb-er Spring on my Dad's line... he pulled it up close, we all got a good look at it, but it wasn't ready to come in... it ran with the line (not Dad's usual rod, tension was high... but the fish was running - hard.) I motored over - while he realed in the tension... everything looking good. Could taste it on the grill. OOps.. big mistake to think that far ahead. Other lines were up... downrigger up... Dad was smiling - it was sensational... until, fish ran towards & under the boat. i had cut the motor by this point... but somehow... the line well, got cut. SO SO SAD. :'(

My reportfor the day: More blips on the hummingbird closer to the mouth than @ T10.

Hope you have better luck out there,
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