After a bit of success in the salt last weekend Ive been eager to get back on the water, well this morning when I found out that I didn't have to work I knew right away where I'd be spending the day.
Arrived at the spot around 7 am "later than I normally start" and proceeded to launch the kayak. For the first hour I fished hard but paddled even harder as the tide was coming in pretty good. Before too long my arms were sore so I beached the kayak and started casting from shore.
After casting awhile from shore I hooked into a decent hatchery coho which came undone as I was trying to yard it up onto the rocks, this was a tragic loss but enough to keep there for at least another 1000 casts.
No more action from shore but as the tide started to slow down I decided to put the kayak back in the water for one last kick at the coho. Before long I was into a fish but it turned out to be a lingcod.
A short time later my rod bends and I know its a salmon this time, after some screaming runs I ease the larger fish into the small net, then I reach over the side and blindly stick my hand into the net feeling for a fin.
When I don't feel an adipose I start to smile thinking I have just landed a decent coho, but after dropping the fish into the bottom of the kayak I realized its not a coho but a hatchery chinook that is just over the legal size, bonus!
My line goes back down and a short while later I hook into a pink which makes it into the net, after that the fishing died down and I headed for home content that I was almost able to get a salmon hat trick.
Sure hope I don't have to work tomorrow!
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Topic: West Vancouver, August 13th 2009: Mixed bag at the beach (Read 5644 times)