Today we woke up to clear skies, warmer weather, and dead flat conditions which had fish written all over them. We were able to run right out to the cape and fish the outside spots which had relatively slow bomber fishing with a few bigger ones taken including a couple good yelloweyes. Today was different, we found salmon that wanted to bite and while trying to catch the rockfish, Rich decided to mooch a bait which resulted in a clean ten pound silver salmon followed by Theresa's fish that burned around the boat but ended up in the net. We dumped a couple others before we set out for the Halibut hole.
We showed up on the fifty fathom line in the sound with Summer Wind( Mac's other boat) on the alpha spot with a couple already in the boat. We set up the lines and started our patient wait. During the process we caught some legal lings and some mondo ones that could have been 40 to 50 pounds.
After a good hour and a half the first chicken ( smaller Halibut) showed for Rich which was matched by another fish that was the same size for Theresa. The chickens continued until probably an hour before we picked up when Rich caught a fish around 60 lbs and another one about 30 lbs. Of course there has to be the one that got away story and I had a toad hooked with one good run and ended up with a bare hook returned. Fishing is looking up with the Summer Wind crew getting two fish over a hundred pounds for the day.
With the action looking up I think tomorrow will really be good. We have given that B2-30 a real work out with a lot of smaller fish but look forward to hooking a fish over a deuce tomorrow.
Look forward to telling you about the big one.
Till then.
Ben
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