Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Westport salmon

We had a four man crew at Westport this weekend,  Don C, Phelan M, Justin L, and myself.
The overall weather and water conditions were good while fishing, but the bar was closed at times due to a large swell and a heavy ebb.
On  Saturday the overall fishing was very good we had hot action on midsized kings with some bigger ones mixed in. We had many doubles and even a few triples on Saturday.  our best king action came in 300 feet of water and down 245 feet on the riggers. Flashers and hoochies were  working best for us . Although the King fishing was hot  out at  300 feet  we had to run in to 160 feet  to find our silvers.  The Silver fishing was also very good. we had good action trolling herring  with helmets on 5oz red leads. The clipped rate was very good for us on the Coho with about 80% of our fish clipped. We even found some time at the end of the day to catch some lings and bass.
On Sunday we started on the Coho in 160 feet and caught quick limits before heading  out to 300 feet for our kings.  The king action started off very good but we were being a little picky on what we were keeping due to the great fishing the day before and we paid for it, the bite died at 10 am. We ending up working hard to scratching out what should have been an easy limit of kings.

The overall feel for this weekend was that there were lots of salmon out there and fishing should continue to be good for the next several weeks.



 
 
 






 

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