Anyone been checking what's in the stomach of their Nootka fish??
Headed that way in a week. Excited for the 100K that will be showing up at the same time as us.
We split ours open the second they hit the deck. One was empty, the other was filled with a small baitfish I didn't recognize. was no more than two inches long with a dominant yellow eye. Someone mentioned shad. I googled the images for shad. Not quite, but has the same large eye. Smelt maybe? Not an expert on pelagic forage fish.
yes it rained hard on Saturday. Still drying out my gear
Those are the same bait fish as we found stuffed in our fish out of Ukee. Started using a small white/ glow/ silver back coyote spoon that matched pretty close in size and did well with it.This is some what we have been finding this year? Guess we should start a thread?View attachment 28951
This is some what we have been finding this year? Guess we should start a thread?View attachment 28951
Those were in the springs we got in Hardy in early July too. All fish stuffed with themThis is some what we have been finding this year? Guess we should start a thread?View attachment 28951
This is some what we have been finding this year? Guess we should start a thread?View attachment 28951