Westport halibut, lings, & rock fish

We fished Westport may 10,11 & 12  the overall weather was very good and the fishing was great we caught a bunch of huge lingcod and mid-grade halibut on the deep water days and had fast action on bass and smaller lings on the near shore day. We had our best result using a combination or jigs and bait. Salmon fishing will be opening at the end of May  and the bottom fishing should continue to be good for the next several weeks.

 

 

 

 

ilwaco halibut and sable fish

We fished ilwaco may 8^th and 9^th  the overall weather was very good and so was the fishing.   We were able to catch easy limits of mid-sized halibut and lots of small sable fish with a few bigger ones mixed in. we had our best results on fresh bait. I expect both the halibut and sable fishing to continue the be very good for the next several weeks.

I still have a few spots open at ilwaco may 29^th for halibut 3 spots and June 21 halibut & salmon  combo  4 spots

 

 

Halibut, Lings, & bottom fish

We fished ilwaco Friday , Saturday and Westport Sunday and Monday

The overall fishing this weekend was very good but the weather was poor most of the weekend.

We had great halibut fishing on Friday at ilwaco.  The fish were biting very good and we were able to get our limits very easily but the weather came in later in the day which made for a poor bar crossing on the way in.  on Saturday we had to wait a while for the bar to open due to rough conditions and a strong ebb  but when it did we had just enough time to run out and get our fish and get back in before the ebb. The overall ocean conditions on Saturday were poor windy and choppy but the  fishing was very good our biggest halibut of the day was 51 pounds.

Sunday we fished Westport for lingcod and halibut the lingcod fishing was fantastic! We had very fast action on giant lings. Our biggest Lingcod of the day was 41 pounds and we did not have a small ling in the box. The halibut fishing was also very fast we caught easy limits but were not able to find any monsters. The weather conditions were not perfect on Sunday a stiff breeze from the north made getting to our fishing holes a bit slower then I would have liked. Monday we fished the near shore area out of Westport  we had very fast action on black rock fish and were able to get limits very fast. We had to work a bit harder for our lings but we stuck with it and were able to come in with limits of lings and we even landed a bonus halibut that we were able to keep. The wind blew hard from the south late in the day which made for a slow ride in. We had to cancel Tuesdays trip because of weather but I expect the bottom fishing to continue to be good for the next several weeks.  I sill have some halibut spots open for  this Saturday may 9th 253-208-9142

 

 

 

 

Neay bay monster April lings!

We had great lingcod and bottoming fishing at Neah bay over the last two weekends.

we caught  limits of  lingcod and rock fish each day and had some very big ones mixed in.

both jigs and bait have been working great for the lings, We even caught a large ling on a smaller one that we had hooked. the fishing was so good that we caught three fish with only two hooks, that's right two lings on the same hook! The bass seem to be really grouped up right now there not everywhere but when we find them they are hitting everything we drop down, including bare hooks!

We saw a wide range of weather over the last week one day it was flat and glassy the next it was downright nasty  I expect fishing to continue to be very good for the next few weeks.

I still have some open halibut  and bottoms fish days in the next few weeks.

todd@qualstamp.com    253-208-9142  Todd Girtz

and check out this months Nothwest Sportsman ( I made the cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wide open October albacore !

We had  a five man crew at ilwaco this weekend. The overall weather was very good, it felt like the middle of August but it did get pretty choppy when the wind came up  Sunday after noon. The water temp  was great 63 – 64F  and color was great also but no jumpers and not many birds to be seen. On Saturday the fishing was outstanding it took a bit to get the fish  going on the live bait but once we got them to go it was game on! and they were very willing to stay with us.

The sharks shut us down at around 3pm and we could not get another bait bite going, we continued to get  some singles on the troll but no matter how hard we tried we could not them to hit the live bait again. We ended Saturday with 80 albacore in the boat!

Sunday started much slower. A few singles on the troll but not much else, around  11 am we got our first bait stop going but just as we got things really started rolling a large group of porpoises came in and crashed our bait stop, that was the first time I had ever seen that happen! It took us a while to find another batch of fish and we had a good stop to end the day before heading in. The wind had come up and it was pretty choppy on the way in but I spotted a large group of feeding birds in the  distance we dropped in on them and it was fish on only problem is they were all mackerel. We ended the day with 27 albacore. We caught 107 tuna for the weekend. Although most of our fish came on life bait we did our best on the troll using x raps and cedar plugs. My overall feeling for the weekend is there are still a lot of tuna out there and fishing will continue to be good if the weather holds but our weather window is starting to close. Better get them while we can!