spring fever
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Nootka report-launched Fr1 at 11 am-fished san carlos and strange-Nada-out to Beano -single 18 on a chovie at 43 ft-fished Macquinna and wash-single 16 on a cop car coyote at 80ft. Very little bait showing at the monument. Even old fishermen make bad decisions-I elected to go south for lings and Hali's very early sat morning trying to duplicate what we did 3 weeks ago. No dice same numbers--must have caught them all. Trolled back for awhile-not too many of the pink Pyrosomes but a few-gave up and put the pedal to the metal and got to a cluster of tight boats outer Bajo-gear down and 5 minutes later about a 10lber on a chovie at 110 ft. That was it--the boats started to disperse so I think there could have been a good bite at dawn and we just caught the tail end. Had some great fun with Aussie knife jigs for 1/2 hour or so around some rock out crops(find your ownLOL) Fish seemed kind of scarce and on the smallish size. Had a huge afternoon nap and hit Burdwood-tried various techniques and depths and finally started hitting fish-chovie worked and out quite a bit farther from the rocks than I usually fish. Cop car iced a couple. Sun morning based on what I had seen decided Burdwood was the plan-first light we were the only boat-Hate to admit it but I was chased from using chovies-went through 10 in about 15 min-and no salmon hits-switched to cop car coloured AP needlefish and a copcar colored coho killer--- again farther away from the rocks then normal--80 to 120 ft of wire in 140 to 225 ft of water. Couple of decent coho and a limit of springs for 3 guys-nothing over 16 lb-lots of under size-pretty fine mornings fishing. Army truck Coho killer worked as well. Ramp was crowded-still a zoo-wish guys would sort their trailers before using a crowded ramp to make adjustments and expect to keep relaunching while guys are waiting in the river!! Great trip-really hot sunny weather-fish are a little thin(scarce) and smaller than usual but if you put in the time there are some there. Good luck!!