Just got back from three days fishing at Esperanza.
Thursday- fished Ferrer first thing in the morning. Hooked and lost a fish on the first pass and then hooked and landed a 10# fish the second pass. Saw a couple other fish caught for about a dozen boats. No action for the next few hours so went and fished Pin rock. No action there for a couple hours and the weather was great so headed out to 8 mile reef. Pretty dead out there but did manage a nice hatchery coho. Stopped at Rosa on the way in and got another 12# fish on the first pass then nothing.
Friday- Fished Black rock first thing and picked up a fish in the teens then no action for the next couple hours. Headed out to Tachu and fished for a couple hours and no action. Headed back yo 8 mile reef and picked up several lings. Also got a high teen chum that already had huge teeth showing which seemed weird for how early it is. Picked up another teen spring. End of the day ended up hooking a halibut while trolling. It was a decent sized halibut and of course we didn't have a gaff or harpoon on the boat. We were a little concerned about it being close to the upper limit so ended up netting it from the tail first which was not easy. Quick lift into the boat and measurement was 132 cm so bonk bonk.
Saturday- ran to 8 mile reef first thing. Had no action for several hours so headed out to the Pins. Got one fish in the teens and a few smalls. Also a couple pinks. Headed back to 8 mile and picked up another low teen fish. Stopped by Black rock on the way in and made a few passes with no luck. Stopped by Pin rock and managed two more fish in the low teens. Stopped at Rosa for a few passes and no luck.
Overall very spotty fishing. Spring Fever not sure who your sources are but I didn't see another boat fishing Rosa the last three days. Had some others I know fish the last three days at Ferrer and it was slow. Best place that seemed to produce from others has been Pin rock. The Shawzy boats and other charters were bringing in nice fish and limits from the highway into Westview. Most non charters seemed to average 2-3 fish.
By the way the weather and ocean conditions were unreal. Great all days offshore. The darn pyrosomes were in thick though.
Side note we did catch a lot of species of fish: lingcod, vermillion, canary, black sea bass, chum salmon, coho, pink salmon, chinook, halibut, and a bird down 105' on the rigger. That was the most impressive thing was the bird down that deep. How the heck does that happen.
It was a great day offshore today. There was a little morning slop but after about 0900 it laid right down. 
Just back from Nootka-fri to sun Salmon fishing is not Slooow it is painful!! Fri-3 passes san carlos-no bait-Nada-over to Strange and Tahsis inlet -some bait 'felt dead-down to the monument and Wash-Nada!! Talked to several boats--Nada. Had supper-pushed out to Beano -quite a few boats-looked encouraging--marking a few and getting some stacking. My friend from So cal has his 18yr old grandson with him so he has never done a Knucklebuster or a rigger.20 minute tutorial in the boat shop is it. Pretty breezy ,tight to the kelp and away we go. In all honesty even a blind squirrel gets the odd nut and this proved to be the case here. Beautiful mid-twenties Spring-I know there were other boats getting some but I really saw no nets. We managed another 2 but God it was slow-still we knew the lures-AP needlefish, coho killers jughead needlefish and a flashfly---mostly the glow or UV whites or copcar-anchovy-- not so much. We were stoked for Sat morning--first boat there--no bait-SLOOW then lots of boats--no fish-waited for tide change and had a good one on a chovy-saw him--nice fish but Booted by a little over eagerness! Hooked up again after 1/2 hour and landed the smallest of the trip 12 lbs. Pedal to the metal out to the moaning buoy-talked to guys-nada for bites even-went out a couple of miles-dead!!! Back to Beano-nothing-tried wash, monument(nobody even trying) called it a very unproductive morning/afternoon. Discussed options-all looked bad really! so out to Beano at 6pm-only one boat which confirms the mornings lack of fish-I worked it hard for 2 hours and finally at 8 pm had a monster hit at 41 feet in the keyhole-The kid handled it like a pro-very good fight and another mid twenties fish but that was it--only hit--no bait-rain--pretty boring evening except for the one hit. This morning was a major bore at Burdwood-we released 2 smalles (not undersized)- no nets-no drama at the ramp. It was a good trip-very nice young man said it was the thrill of a lifetime and I enjoyed that aspect of it but probably the slowest I have ever seen Nootka at this time of year. My sources tell me the fish are now at Rosa Island and all through Esperanza-I'll give it a rest for a week. Bottom fishing has to be rated "good " for any that have an interest! Tight lines
