Oly1
Well-Known Member
I guess I could have put this in the fishing reports section, but I don't think that many people are going to use this technique to try and catch a salmon, let alone a tyee.
So my fishing buddy was fishing yesterday with his son. They launched out of Comox and we're heading towards Kitty Coleman. As they left the harbour the wind picked up and they didn't want to chance the rough ride over to their intended spot. Instead the cut the big engine and started trolling around Holmes Point. My buddies son got his flasher and hootchie set up and onto the downrigger and sent it down. My buddy got his son to run the boat as he got his rod ready.
He put his flasher and army truck hootchie on. He then pulled out 12 to 14 pulls, with the flasher and hootchie skipping along behind on the surface and reached for the release. He heard a big splash behind the boat and turned around as his rod almost jerked out of his hands. Fish on, as the salmon took off and peeled line out of the mooching reel. A little while later a tired spring was brought along side the boat, where my buddy's son slipped the net under the fish and they brought it aboard. That's when I got the frantic phone call, saying that he had just caught a huge salmon.
My buddy is just beginning to fish for salmon and this is only the third time he has been out in his new boat. He has not caught a legal salmon yet as the ones that he has caught have been all undersize by an inch or so. I asked him to give me the length and girth of the salmon which he did. 40 inches long with a girth if 25 inches. My calculator put the fish at just over 32 pounds.
He later weighed the fish on a certified scale and it weighed in at exactly 30 pounds. A tyee for his first salmon that he caught all by himself in his own boat. Pretty good fish for being only 25 feet behind the boat and on the surface.
This leads to the next question. What is the weirdest circumstances that you have been involved in and caught a good fish.
So my fishing buddy was fishing yesterday with his son. They launched out of Comox and we're heading towards Kitty Coleman. As they left the harbour the wind picked up and they didn't want to chance the rough ride over to their intended spot. Instead the cut the big engine and started trolling around Holmes Point. My buddies son got his flasher and hootchie set up and onto the downrigger and sent it down. My buddy got his son to run the boat as he got his rod ready.
He put his flasher and army truck hootchie on. He then pulled out 12 to 14 pulls, with the flasher and hootchie skipping along behind on the surface and reached for the release. He heard a big splash behind the boat and turned around as his rod almost jerked out of his hands. Fish on, as the salmon took off and peeled line out of the mooching reel. A little while later a tired spring was brought along side the boat, where my buddy's son slipped the net under the fish and they brought it aboard. That's when I got the frantic phone call, saying that he had just caught a huge salmon.
My buddy is just beginning to fish for salmon and this is only the third time he has been out in his new boat. He has not caught a legal salmon yet as the ones that he has caught have been all undersize by an inch or so. I asked him to give me the length and girth of the salmon which he did. 40 inches long with a girth if 25 inches. My calculator put the fish at just over 32 pounds.
He later weighed the fish on a certified scale and it weighed in at exactly 30 pounds. A tyee for his first salmon that he caught all by himself in his own boat. Pretty good fish for being only 25 feet behind the boat and on the surface.
This leads to the next question. What is the weirdest circumstances that you have been involved in and caught a good fish.