xavier
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Back last night. Fished Thursday night bite through Monday am. Great for those who went to fish offshore. Inshore was a grind, though you could scrape them up. Some did great, some regulars were getting skunked. Each morning got slightly better with yesterday from 0500 to 0545 being the first real sustained bite I saw inside. Also heard it was even better today of course. Looks good for those going up this week.
My tip, which is hardly a tip for Nootka unless you are a first timer...be on the water with lines in as early as you possibly can. Night bite was more of a grind than usual for us. Looks good for those still heading up there, but they are either late or not quite the numbers predicted. Still worth it of course!
Fished hoochies but wound up running large spoons, no flasher at the end. Green seemed to be the ticket for spoons and flashers. White glow hoochies as well. Bait was working too. The fish were cartwheeling on the surface like crazy for us, so we switched to something with larger hooks and we had better success getting them to the boat. They all sulked on me last year, go figure...
Jelly fish were everywhere. Dejellying (is that a term?) large spoons was much easier than the amount of jelly fish the flashers were wrapping themselves in.
Biggest surprise...the Lighthouse, Wash Rock and Beano were dead for us, I mean absolutely dead. They are traditionally very fishy right now. Though I did hear Beano was great the day before we went out...of course.
I wouldn't go quite so far to call them the daily hot spots, but the best spots inside moved. The Wall, Camel Rock, Hoiss and San Carlos each had their day while I was there.
Final thought as it is getting really busy, we all need to pay attention to the boats around us. Saw too many fish get broken off by oblivious people in a crowd. If someone passionately shouts at you because their fish is heading straight for your boat, don't just stand there in awe mouth breathing and shrug your shoulders. Turn out and/or go hit the green button on your rigger! It takes little time to get your lines back down. A broken off fish is heartbreaking for those waiting hours between strikes. Nootka is also not a good place to ride peoples you know whats. Springs that hit shallow will run like crazy.
My tip, which is hardly a tip for Nootka unless you are a first timer...be on the water with lines in as early as you possibly can. Night bite was more of a grind than usual for us. Looks good for those still heading up there, but they are either late or not quite the numbers predicted. Still worth it of course!
Fished hoochies but wound up running large spoons, no flasher at the end. Green seemed to be the ticket for spoons and flashers. White glow hoochies as well. Bait was working too. The fish were cartwheeling on the surface like crazy for us, so we switched to something with larger hooks and we had better success getting them to the boat. They all sulked on me last year, go figure...
Jelly fish were everywhere. Dejellying (is that a term?) large spoons was much easier than the amount of jelly fish the flashers were wrapping themselves in.
Biggest surprise...the Lighthouse, Wash Rock and Beano were dead for us, I mean absolutely dead. They are traditionally very fishy right now. Though I did hear Beano was great the day before we went out...of course.
I wouldn't go quite so far to call them the daily hot spots, but the best spots inside moved. The Wall, Camel Rock, Hoiss and San Carlos each had their day while I was there.
Final thought as it is getting really busy, we all need to pay attention to the boats around us. Saw too many fish get broken off by oblivious people in a crowd. If someone passionately shouts at you because their fish is heading straight for your boat, don't just stand there in awe mouth breathing and shrug your shoulders. Turn out and/or go hit the green button on your rigger! It takes little time to get your lines back down. A broken off fish is heartbreaking for those waiting hours between strikes. Nootka is also not a good place to ride peoples you know whats. Springs that hit shallow will run like crazy.
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