August 13th
As we are now approaching mid August we are getting into typical August fishing with fog and wind making getting out on the water a bit of a challenge and now "Waves" of Salmon are coming and going quickly the last few days it has been smaller "Jack" chinooks the week before it was nice just keeper sized 18lbs and under salmon. There should be several more waves of big fish for the next 3 to 5 weeks until the rains come and wash them away to the rivers.
But Halibut have finally started to show up a bit more. Some really big fish like the ones caught and released by the CW Rugby Auction winners that I donated last year. Chris Spicer and his sons and Nephew caught and released an approx 85lb halibut and a 100lb halibut and also got a nice 41lb keeper halibut as well as their limit of of salmon.
some salmon are in the mid water depths now and not just sticking to the bottom like most of the year. Halibut are from 275 to 520 feet deep. Lots of Dogfish so make sure you got lots of big bait. I still have a few days left in August open and September and October will be filling up soon as well.
For Halibut they announced that if you catch 2 fish under 90cm (about a 30lb fish) you can keep 2 per day. I don't catch many that small but at least it is a bit of an incentive.
Hope to hear from you all soon and good luck fishing.
Stay safe and Healthy.
Here David Spicer gives the thumbs up after they landed their limit of Chinooks by 9:00am
Above Chris, David and Tye Spicer along with Jon Semper hold up a 100lb hali that was quickly released unharmed.
Captain King.
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