The third day of the Accurate Sitka Adventure comes to an end with a lot of fish caught but the wiley big Halibut still not cooperating as hoped. Today we woke up to the best weather so far, no rain, slight overcast, and dead flat conditions. After a really good Damian (Lodge chef) breakfast this morning we got to the boat at 6 am and headed right to the cape with the best conditions I have seen in a couple years of fishing here. We looked the salmon grounds over with very little potential, no bait and no fish to speak of on the fish locator.
Next stop was the rock fish hole where we proceeded to limit out on the Black Bombers and catch a few oversize lings on relatively light tackle that included the single speed B-197 / ACCCR 7020 7' Xnergy rod and the B-870N coupled with the ACCCR 6630 6'6" Xnergy rod. The smaller tackle makes the whole bottom fish experience a lot more fun; feeling like its a decent fish on the 30 and 40 lb spectra we are using.
After the rock fish focus we moved onto the ling thing where we caught our limits of lings in the 30 - 35" slot plus some really big yellow eyes which are the best eating fish, in my opinion, of all the ones we catch up here.
The rest of the day was at least 4 to 5 hours of Halibut fishing in the deep water spots for the 100 too 200 lb fish which saw us hook one nice fish that came unbuttoned at the boat. We focused on these spots knowing from previous history that a big fish is very probable but as mentioned earlier not always possible.
My wife Theresa has joined us up here today for the next few days of fishing hoping that the luck will change for that elusive heavy weight Halibut.
I will keep you posted to tomorrows activities and with the right luck have a picture of a trophy fish to share with the crew.
Till tomorrows log.
Ben
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