Fishing Updates

August 14 - 20, 2005

This time of year you can almost determine the weather by looking at the catches on the various days.  Basically, our weather is staying slightly warmer than usual and we have one or two days each week that the water is too rough to fish in the open areas.  An example: the first three days of last week our guests average about 150 total halibut each day.  On Thursday the catch for the day dropped to 26 halibut.  The previous week the catch on Monday was 57 halibut and the average of each of the next three days was about 150 halibut.  Which days were windy?

The halibut catch is staying quite level and for the second week in a row we are finding more fish in the 50-80 pound range.  We had three fish over 100 pounds.  Based on the reports of missed fish, fish that were lost along the side of the boat, there are lots of nice sized fish in the area now.

The Pink salmon harvest dropped about 50% from the previous week.  The fish are still stacked up in the saltwater in front of the lodge and providing great after dinner fun.  Most of the fish caught in open saltwater are bright and the meat is still very edible.  The pink run should end this coming week except for a few stragglers.

We had one legal king and 7 chums for the week.

Later in the week we had a surge in the number of silver salmon being caught.  The number of silvers jumped from 370 a week ago to 628 this past week.  We gave trophy pins for 2 18-pound fish.  One of our staff caught a 19 pounder on Saturday so the bigger fish seem to be coming.  Hopefully the runs will stay steady for the rest of the season and we'll all have lots of thrills from the strikes, fighting, and landing of plenty of silvers.

A reminder that first payments for the 2006 season are due next week on September 1. 

If you haven't register for either 2006 or 2007 you should do so now.  Many weeks are already at capacity.

Doc

Previous Reports:

• May 29 - June 3
• June 5 - 11
• June 12 - 17
• June 20-24
• June 27-July 1
• July 4 - 8
• July 11-15
• July 18-22
• July 24-30
• August 1-5
• August 8-12