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07/17/2014
Chinook Salmon
All Day
08/04/2014
4
2217

OK a few days late, but I just joined. Here is the report for my charter trip out of Westport, a combo bottom fish and salmon excursion on a 6 man boat.
We motored out about 5:45 crossed the bar and headed north in the fog somewhere, stopped at the first bottom fishing location and we were pretty consistently hooking up with one or two fish at a time. the bite slowed a bit, with 19 sea bass in the hold. We then motored up to the next location and things got crazy, it was constant action with a couple lines brining in two fish at once (on the upper fly and lower anchovy). We were using a live anchovy with a fly (hootchie sort of thing) up the line a couple feet. that quickly got us to our limit of 50.
We then switched over to whole herring (green label I think) and it was "fish on" as a soon as the lines hit the water (same spot we were bottom fishing). All five lines had fish within a couple minutes, a couple were sea bass that were sent back. The one king that made it to the boat was small by about 1/4"! The other got loose right at the boat.
The bite did not slow down and the boat limited by 1:00. We hit a few areas for lings on the way back, but no takers.
I only gave it a 4 since we did not get any kings in the boat, but the fishing could not have been any hotter. So I am still waiting for the first chinook ever. Maybe later this week at Buoy 10.


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Whatcom Angler
8/6/2014 11:30:00 AM
What was the name of the charter?
4n6fisher
8/6/2014 11:44:00 AM
I sent you a PM since they do not advertise here. Just one more note the captain (Jeremy if I recall) was great, somehow a rumor got started that I was some sort of fish cop going out on the charter and the deck hand never showed up (must have been my last minute booking), but he managed to keep everyone's lines baited and get all the fish in, even when we all hooked up at one time.
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