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[JustinG]

Will post a couple photos later - but what an amazing weekend  . I have never experienced fishing as hot, ever. We fished Friday afternoon and Saturday morning and between the three of us we had our limit of Chinook, Coho and Pinks. We intended to stay until Monday but with no limit room left we left early Sunday morning (instead of today).

The action was pretty much non-stop with several double headers. The pinks on the surface (and this is crazy) were going after the neon yellow portion of our down rigger clips on the surface?!?! The average size of our springs was 30lbs with the largest being 36lbs. My brother in law C&R a 15 to 16lb northern coho which took us a minute to ID because it was SO early! Our last fish of the trip was a 11lb pink which fought like a champ. It took us a minute to actually ID it because it was so abnormally large.

In all that we kept and C&R we only played one sockeye (not good) which we C&R quickly. We usually run into a lot more out there this time of year.

I couldn't tell you how many fish we played, I just couldn't keep track. It was a fire drill on deck the majority of the time.

Get out there if you can!

[plisskin]

wow. sounds great. i am up there thurs - monday, where were you fishing.

[kellya]

offshore right? what bank?

[JustinG]

Off shore, Big Bank.

[plisskin]

any halis?

[JustinG]

We couldn't find them - nothing but dogfish. We stayed at Poet's Nook and didn't see anyone bringing in any there either. Truthfully, we really didn't try that hard for halibut because our two coolers were pretty full of salmon. We kind of looked at each other on Sunday morning floated the idea of a day of halibut fishing then just packed it in.

Just one suggestion, get yourself some purple haze hoochies and flashers, fish them 50 to 60ft and you will have your hands full with the coho. We fished about double that for the springs with anchovies.

If you can get offshore, do it. 

[plisskin]

a little off topic, do you camp at poets nook? or is there lodge or house accomodations? any websites you can point me to? we have accomodations lined up but always good to know about more...

thanks for any other info you have...surprised there werent halis...

[JustinG]

http://www.poettnook.com

It's a well outfitted campground and marina with bunkhouse accommodations available. We usually stay on the boat but if we have more than 2 people we book a bunkhouse room (which is pretty reasonable).

With the new ownership, they have made some pretty nice upgrades.

Check out the fishing report section on the site before you go, they keep it quite up-to-date.

Good luck!

[plisskin]

thanks Justin, I will let you know how it went, im back monday.

[JustinG]

FYI - added a pic at the top... all the springs were around that size. Go get'em.