Found this in our teenager spring today....perch/shiner or ? Never thought this was in their diet.
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Here's one from last summer.
Fishing report: Headed west this weekend and caught two small halibut at about 100ft depth. One of them had a fist sized piece of rubbery flesh with a beak embedded in it, I'm guessing octopus but I don't know how to tell the difference between squid and octopus beaks. Put in a short attempt for salmon but came up empty.
This does look like a Pacific Pomano/Pacific Butterfish. What was the location of capture for the fish that had this in its stomach?
Hey Bugs, that pompano came out of a salmon I caught last summer off Sooke. I can't recall if it was from a coho or a chinook stomach. That's all the detail I can recall.
Well done Discus! Was your story from Sunday as the time would seem, or Saturday? Reason I ask is we passed a boat with three guys on Saturday that were fighting something deep, might have been you if it was on Saturday.
Not too many reports given the number of boats that were out for the derby this weekend! So here's mine. Saturday was a great day, fished 4:30-11, the bite was definitely on from about 5-8. Lots of shakers, but managed two Spring at 10 and 13lbs. Sunday, there was an early bite but only shakers for us, and then it went dead quiet and we didn't see anything other than small ones being released. We left the water at 10:30, perhaps the bite came on after that. We were in the Trap and Beechy area, perhaps the fish on Sunday had moved further East???