Mike Carey
4/8/2016 12:27:00 PMfishing magician
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After seeing that the strait and the sound only gets an 8 day halibut season this year in Washington, decided to get some annual Canadian licenses to give us more opportunities. This fishery was relatively new to us. We had fished Washington in past years for halibut but never in B.C. before. After reading some reports and looking at some charts we decided to hit up Coyote Bank. Got kind of later start (8:00 launch from Cornet Bay) and had lines in the water by 9:40. First couple hours or so went slow with no hits, bites, nibbles, or anything. Then out of nowhere, WHAM!!! A fish absolutely smashed our bait and started peeling off line. After a fairly short but fun fight got the fish to the surface and speared him. A nice 36'', 22 pound halibut. Nothing huge but I'll take it! The next few hours or so went by slowly also, then again a fish slammed our bait just as we were starting to pack up gear. I could immediately tell it was a better fish than the first fish. After carefully playing him, we got him to the boat and speared 'em. Measured it, looked on the size chart and it was nice 50 pounder! It was the biggest halibut that had ever been in our boat. Packed up and headed back home after that. I was pretty happy with bagging 2 pretty nice, quality fish on our first trip out there in B.C. waters. We were anchored in 107 FOW. Fish caught on glow and glow/white hoochies with salmon bellies as bait. Pro-cure's herring scent was what got both fish.
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