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Went out 6am Saturday morning to fish the flood tide for pinks. Switched all the tackle to lightweight and went with the tradition 11" white flasher and a 17" leader to the 2" mini pink squid. We were marking quite a few fish around 50' in 80' of water and trolled 1.5 mph. We started off with a small shaker, then shortly after that came the first big surprise of the day. We hooked up with a nice king that new salvation was waiting for him if he could just reach the crab pot bouys nearby. Luckly we were able to avoid them and pull him out to deeper water where we netted all 17 pounds of him. Thought we had hit the lotto! Went back to the top of our run and 20 minutes later hooked into another big king. Had to chase this buck down but ended with him at the side of the boat but with one more fin then we wanted. He was throughly exhausted as were we, but we took solice in watching him swim off to hopefully spawn in the near future. He was quite dark as was probably waiting for some rain to lift the level of his river. We estimated around 25 pounds. In all there were about a half dozen boats and a few shore fishers. Didn't see a single net raised. The next day we didn't mark a think on the same tide.

LastCast

8/10/2015 7:06:00 PM

Jackpot. Well done.

Cozmo4196

8/10/2015 9:00:00 PM

Nice work! Which area of the Canal were you in? Down near the mouth of the Skok?

baldeaglebaby

8/10/2015 9:13:00 PM

Sorry about that. We were fishing Misery Point at Seabeck

AceII

8/10/2015 10:13:00 PM

Just trying to make sure I'm reading the regs right but I see it says King retention closed North of Ayock Point? Am I missing something? I just recently started fishing the canal again and want to make sure I'm not missing out on open area, thx.

the doc

8/11/2015 5:53:00 AM

nice fish for the barby! the wild one is not that dark. i have seen em in salt, or tidewater, much darker. and still red meat. but, he was unclipped. so the rules are the rules. notice i saw "unclipped" rather then "wild". only 6100, of 101,000 hatchery coho, were clipped on the cowliz last year. they sound generous, giving people a six adult hatchey coho limit. but, the odds of getting one legal one, are small. the state continues to break the law, as it is LAW that they clip all hatchery fish. we need to get after them on this. our license fees pay for this work. and for the 92% commerical harvest. tight lines.

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