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Yeah, that one 11" flasher and either a skinny g or hoochie. I feel like I could have done better with smaller stuff like coho killers or wee g's. Everything they are eating right now is small. trap shack for the skinny g and 039r hoochie.
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I will get a pic next time I am down at the boat.
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Black lips for the win! Love those Kings! They are known in some locales as Blackmouths . . . Yep, Puget Sound lingo for winter fish. We have Springers coming in now....Spring Chinook. Columbia, Willamette and their tributaries. Nice fish and boat OP !
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Wrapped up 6 long days of herring pounding. Everything happened fast. Just need to harvest later this week. The wife joined me this year. Embrace the misery..grin
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I hit a 30 pound feeder white king out at the mouth of prince william sound with the large version of the O39R behind a plain jane red/mylar hotspot flasher. 60# leader, and that fish nearly straightened a 6/0 eagle claw stainless siwash dragging that flasher though the water on that first looooong run. That fish was a live wire. I've tried that color down south off vancouver island: nothing.
Green back with a little chartreuse and maybe blending to almost blue on top, with a glitter belly. https://www.englundmarine.com/products/octopus-hoochie-o39r-5pk%7CGDS-O39R.html
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That’s the variation I like. Lots of belly options in 39
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Calvin, you selling those or fishing for fun and family eats?..mb
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Thanks C. We get the Gold Stars locally, but I've never seen that color. Looks close to the Radiant Lures "Oil Slick" pattern which I like. They will open up the terminal area for hatchery kings on June 1 for us. That’s the variation I like. Lots of belly options in 39
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Can't figure out what the seiner (with its net out) had to do with (filling?) the smolt pens
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Can't figure out what the seiner (with its net out) had to do with (filling?) the smolt pens Catching herring to put into pens for roe on kelp. They have a net inside the pens and transfer the herring from the seine into those nets. We do pretty much the same process to pass our brood stock past the barrier net here at the hatchery.
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The one I tried was the 4.25 size...B&Js in Anchorage sold them, along with 4.25 size OAL12R (I think) "purple haze" white ones with pearly effect. That color works offshore down here. Been in a bit of a hoochie rut lately. Did some good inshore up near the top of vancouver island with a UV/glow version of the one they call the "turd", made by yo-zuri. Squid-shaped, over 5" long. Otherwise getting them up there on WCVI with small spoons inshore, and ancient #7 superiors offshore. A while back inshore the 3.5 size "army truck" pattern except with a uv-white belly instead of glow-white was white-hot, made by North Pacific. That’s the variation I like. Lots of belly options in 39
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I saw they pretty much shut down all king fishing from California up into oregon. Not looking good. I wish I had the answer.
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Becoming threatened in Oregon. Ocean fishery has been shut down here and in Ca. Closure link
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Sounds like water issues in CA/OR? Sounds like there is a pile of kings around right now. Probably go put a hurt on them after this weather systems moves through. Kelp/Roe fishery done. OK product. Won't find out how we did until sept
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Looked like corn-mealed flounders at first
Ski season is over now, hooters next, then kings
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Looked like corn-mealed flounders at first
Ski season is over now, hooters next, then kings What do you shoot your hooters with? 22?
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How many Leaves were you allowed? Oil spill finished our pounding in the Sound.
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How many Leaves were you allowed? Oil spill finished our pounding in the Sound. This year, 900 a permit, with 2 permits per pound. 600 for a single permit per pound.
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Once we dialed into what was going on, we did well today sport fishing. Me and the ‘horn had 8 keeps, lost 2 keeps, and two shakes. Had 3 keeps, doubled, shook 1 for our limit of 4 for the two of us. Decided to troll bottom for a dinner Hali and doubled and shook 2 keeps. Dropped down again and shook another keep. Gave up on Hali and came home. Had some nice snow to pack the stomach cavity.
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