While my wife was playing in her band at the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival today I jaunted down to Stevenston.
I always enjoy Steveston if it isn't a good meal of fish and chips it is looking at the vendors and buyers selling and purchasing their week supply of fish at the dock. Thankfully another successful week with the rod and reel provided our fish so I had money to buy a couple of items at the two tackle shops.
Boy what a wonderful array of tackle at Steveston Marine and at Nikka and very friendly staff as well. I had to inform one clerk about FWR as he had not heard about it.
I spent a fair amount of time at Nikka looking at all the Commercial gear and all the different spoons they have these days.
I asked one clerk if he had every heard of a knobby wobbler, a strange name I know
but it was dynamite on cutthroat and coho. It was made by Luhr Jensen way back in the middle of the last century, of course he had not. I still have a few that I treasure and the cutthroat these days still enjoy chasing them.
Anyway, I nearly forgot the reason for this post was to mention that anyone looking for roe they are selling sockeye and pink roe at the docks for $6 to $5 per pound if anyone is looking for some. I would recommend the pink and make sure you get the brightest orange you can as it shows the fish was bled or bled in the net when caught. If you get the dark colored skiens it will have blood in it and it will tend to go dark when you prepare it.
Also saw fresh sockeye, 7 days old, that I overheard from one vendor came from boats fishing the Skenna area.
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