Whirlbay was the places to be today lots of teen burgers and wild to 30 lb
Lots of Nadas for Springs yesterday for a few top rods. The whales on Saturday were amazing, but I suspect they pushed those fish East.
A decent hali day for us, but there sure is a gauntlet of Commercial skates down off the Race for those fish to get through!
Some Half Witt left a anchor setup with scotchman down in no mans land right in the track to West Conny with 100+ feet of poly hanging off it floating all over to a dinky white bumper. Sooke # on the Scotchman. Almost got it in the duoprops. Hit the brakes just in time...Boat following me ran it over, lol
I can't belive someone would do that. It wouldn't last long out there, not with the price of an anchor setup.....
I can believe it, after all you guides keep on promoting that anchoring is the best way to catch Halibut, and then you get some newbie out there who has been told that it is easy, and is only fishing for them that way. Come on, wake up and realize that there are poeple who want to catch these fish, and everyone who is guiding is anchored up.
I know of a new fisherman who has gone to Island Outfitters and to Trotac to only be told that anchoring is the only way to get hali's. Its also that the guides keep going out to the same spots. Plus the guides keep charging a huge amount to go fishing for the one hali that there only going to get.
I have nothing against the fishing guides, but it seems like its a problem that you have created....... it's going to happen more often now.
its just like comming back to port and no seeing a crab trap line floating with 30ft of floating slack. Usually I just tie it up and throw it back, but have been tempted to just cut it off...... but that would be mean.