Just back from Nootka tonight-Lings and bottom fish were good to excellent-Salmon to say spotty would give spotty a bad name!! It was slow and I worked at it! All the way out a couple of miles beyond the moaning buoy at Bajo this morning and Beano Creek-lots of Lings but no salmon. Only place I could connect with salmon was off the monument late in the evening and really working shallow and deep around wash rock. Managed 4 -best was 22. I'm going to give a tentative plug to Lighthouse lures nano squirt and jughead needle fish rigs-don't usually do this because the fishing was so slow it is not fair to test them. So I gave one to an older friend of mine who was along for the trip. I wanted him to use my islander, or amundson or even a trophy-no he insisted on using and old Penn Level wind-said it was good enough when he fished in the Sun fishing derby and it was fine now. I work in tight around the monument rocks in 51ft of water-930pm-he has on a jughead needlefish purple Haze-you guessed it-tremendous strike-runs like a freight train-his reel is howling but you and I know how this story ends-it's an old star drag and it is not slipping smoothly-30lb test on the needlefish. Fish of a lifetime--I doubt it knowing Nootka this time of year but probably high 20's possibly 30 ish. Break -off!!! Told you that story so you'd know why I gave the army truck version a shot the next night when I had washed bait for an hour or more. Made the switch and 5 minutes later-22lber. Never got another on it but it was interesting- enough that they deserve a serious try again. Bajo is strangely
View attachment 28228 dead and man there is tons of crap in the water-damn near everywhere. I did not fish inside at all with the exception of Burdwood. Little fish ****