Fishing Updates

August 21-27, 2005

Two things stand out for this past weeks' fishing. When the wind blows hard the halibut catch goes down. Our guests only averaged catching 3.2 halibut for the week and that was because the water was rough, not because the halibut were not there. The waves were just the right height to allow you to still fish, but the bouncing motion kept pulling your anchor loose. Early in the week we had large tides which compounded the halibut fishing problem. Still, when you did get your anchor to hold, the fishing was good and the size of the fish were nice.

No kings, but the chum catch jumped to 13 fish which was double the previous week.

There were still lots of pink being caught but most of them were released. Near the mouth of the local area streams most of the pink salmon have colored up and their meat has begun to deteriorate so these fish were not harvested.

Silver fishing was the bright spot for the week. While the water was too rough to allow good halibut fishing several days during the week, that was not the case with the silver fishing. The catch jumped from 628 the previous week to 909 this past week. The fish were obviously in large migrating schools and fishing would be great one day, then be slow the next. That is quite typical for silver fishing. The average size of the fish was larger than the previous week, but there are not as many big fish as in the last few years.

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
• August 14-20