Sekiu and Neah Bay reports

Any news?

Fished Sekiu the last 3 days. 1 keeper king about 14 # very slow fishing. Talked to the checker one day she had 6 fish for 32 boats.

Wow. Sounds like slim pickins. Thanks

Salty,
I was there 7/1-7/3 got a handful of keepers in the 14#-15# range. Lots of shakers around, and barely legal size fish around also. Heard PA was the place to be this past weekend.

Winterun

thanks winterrun. I'm usually there this week, but had to delay my trip for 2 weeks. Hopefully things will be good.

PA was a lot better for numbers of fish but most caught and kept were just blackmouth.... also lots of not legal shakers. I fished it Saturday and sunday..there were few mature fish caught. We put 4 fish in the boat in two days and lost quite a few and each day had one mature size fish lost at the boat. I saw quite a few fish caught but about 10 pounds was the biggest. Talked with both Checkers and they were surprised at the low numbers of mature kings. They each did see fish in the 20 pound range...but few of them. Lots of bait in the area keeping the blackmouth around. It has the chance to be pretty good if that bait stays in the area when the bigger fish start coming. Its actually still pretty early at PA for what I have seen fishing the area for 35+ years................Les

Salty, Les,
Your idea of going later just might be the ticket. I'm hoping it's a bit early also.
Here's a little guy that I ended up taking home with me last weekend! Maybe I'll see you too out there in a couple of weeks!!!
Winterun

I'm usually there the first week of July, but I'm babysitting a real estate deal. I'll most likely be there towards the end of the month.

I know you can't keep them but and reports of c & r coho?
Just curious how this years class may have or not survived the warm water blob last year.

Nice fish Joe.

Thanks,
SF

Salty...I will be there....plan on fishing at least every weekend until it closes...hopefully there will be more guys like that one your holding....looks like the lower end of the winter hole toward Freshwater? 16' Hewescraft probably jigging on the flat by the #2 bouy..I like the looks of things if that bait stays around...good luck...Les

Les, I'll be mostly fishing Sekiu, but if things are happening at Neah it's just a short ride. Olsons has new owners and they're doing a great job.

I'm hearing encouraging reports from west side Vancouver Island, of decent silver showings already. I don't know if they'll be sustained, or if the fish will keep growing at their usual summer pace, but it's a start,

fb

A buddy of mine is fishing Swiftsure today, running all of the same plugs we were this time last year. They are catching a number of small kings, but nothing big. Lots of fish in the 24"-28" range. Even Jambo is only catching the small ones.

Thanks fb,
I have a friend working a westport charter this summer and they are releasing a fair number of coho with the biggest being up to 8 lbs so far.
SF

Kings were good to us Sunday-Tuesday at Westport. 14-22#'s, with (3) over 20# out of 6 fish kept.

anyone else?

We hit Swiftsure last Sunday till noonish. The big ones were down low for us, 180-250ft on the wire. Was slow for us but we managed a few keepers. Had to leave early. Our friends boat limited and was also going deep.

FWIW...heard of a 50+ outta WP today. Several 30 - 35's in the mix as well.

I heard from a couple people that plenty of clipped coho are being caught and released out of westport. To bad most of them will die.

New owners? This has got be an improvement. Hopefully they will sink some money into that dump.

Sol Duc. How can you call it a dump when you haven't been there for a couple years? Maybe you should try engaging your brain before you throw your mouth in gear. Got nothing better to do than spew your negativity on this thread? Just go away and be a good boy.

"New owners? This has got be an improvement. Hopefully they will sink some money into that dump."


Not much done, still a dump, you should stay away.

I fished Neah Bay from Sun - Thurs this last week. It was the slowest I've seen it in the 13 or so years I've fished there. On a normal year, I may fish there 20-30 times. I usually limit everyone on the boat every day except maybe one or two. This last week, we limited on only 2 days out of 5. The first day we fished down by Shark Fin. There were a number of commercial/native trollers in the area but we only managed one fish around 14#. Other than rockfish, that was the only bite we had. We fished bait behind flashers, spoons behind flashers, tomic plugs and hootchies at depth ranging from 120' -400' of cable and the area was basically a desert. Monday, we fished little prairie (the plateau just west of Tabletop) based on good reports there. The story was similar to the day before so we moved to Swiftsure after 2-3 hours. At Swiftsure, it was black mouth shaker after black mouth shaker. We went through dozens and by 6PM eventually limited on 6-10# chinook. In a normal year, the fish we kept would have been released. We hit Blue dot on Tues - it was also a desert and I think we got one 14# fish there.

Wed and Thurs we were resigned to just fishing Swiftsure. The shakers were far less abundant on those two day and we got 2 6-10# fish on Wed. and on Thurs a 6#, a 10# and 2 14# fish. Thurs was the only day we tagged out early - we were limited by 9:30 that day and had we not kept the two smaller ones we could have probably (?) found a couple more in the 14# range. All other days were full 8-12 hour days with very little to show for it other than a nice fuel bill. Once we had Swiftsure dialed is as best we could, by far the best producer was a Funky Chicken coyote spoon behind a green glow flasher fished at about 150' on the cable. Deeper and shallower were both attempted but the bite seemed best around 150' +/- 30'. The spoon outfished choked herring behind the flasher by a factor of 4-5. We had bites on everything we tried - plugs, other spoons, hootchies, bait - but the most effective by far was the coyote spoon.

We left with a reasonable amount of fillets of tasty chinook but far less than a normal year. Reports from the trollers indicate that the bigger chinook (most likely the Columbia run) are 45 miles offshore at the 90 fathom line. That's a long run for a couple of recreational chinook but I wish we had gone the extra 10-15 miles once we were already at Blue Dot.