Last weekend, especially Saturday when a pod of coho showed up, was pretty good for me at cliffe point. Green body flasher with the glow tape, 6ft leader and a no bananas spoon, or a 3” cop car with the glow seemed to be what our crew settled on for consistent action all day. Small bait in the stomachs.
First light bite was key, as was fishing the flood to high slack and through for about an hour. Had a few days where it was a little slow, and one day we got about two dozen shakers a day plus 6-8 shots at real fish. Would have sucked to go through 3 trays of bait lol.
The whole beach down to Harvey and into Harvey was good enough for me. Saw some boats at gooding, but I got scared by the swell/ wind and turned back.
Most fish were 12-20lb. Lost two fish to the seal that hangs around the pebble beach at cliffe. And had a few long line releases.
Struck out on Hali on the near shore water. Got a double header of 5ft dog fish instead.
but In 3 days we got salmon limits of coho and Chinook for our crew of 6 between two boats, and managed to troll up a couple lucky lings. Had no luck jigging the inside water. Seemed cleaned out.
sounded like if you went outside, there was good action for everything.
I may have to do the day trip run out there again one day this month until the regs change on the east side of the island.
