I went back to Neah Bay Thursday afternoon, and tried to get out to my halibut hole in my 14-footer, without luck. Around Tatoosh the water was just a little too nasty, so plan 2 was to try and pick up some other bottom dwellers. I got a nice cod to round out the day. The sunset was beautiful!

I was able to leave my boat moored at Big Salmon gas dock for the night so I could try and pick up a salmon. Most boats fished right off Wada Island. I only picked up a few scattered salmon on my finder. I used an 8 inch green e-chip flasher and Coho killer with a green squid skirt. I picked up 2 shakers.

No luck on salmon, so I trolled around and headed out toward Tatoosh. I trolled through what I though was a school of salmon, and picked up a Black sea bass (BSB). Odd. Turns out that the huge ball of fish were BSB.

Well, got out to Tatoosh and fished on the north side. There were about 5 or 6 boats fishing very close to the island. I drifted a black label herring soaked in halibut nector and was able to nail a 25" ling. I marked the spot, went back and got another ling about the same spot. Since I didn't want to go over limit on ling cod, so re-hooked the Coho killer and gave another shot at a King.

I noticed a large school of fish in about 140 feet of water, so I trolled about 2.8 mph thru about about 90 feet on my down rigger. POW! It was a very large BSB. I marked it, got resettled and went thru the ball of fish again. POW! and POW! and POW! I picked up my second limit-this time BSB. It took about an hour to get a very nice limit of BSB.

I motored back to Wada island and tried again for Kings. No luck. I talked to a couple of folks that had some Kings, but most guys said the fish were so scattered that it was a hard day for Kings.

Anyway, I'm very happy to get two limits in one day. When the day ended at home, I had about 20 pounds of ling cod and BSB filets last night. A very Blessed day.