Season Updates Saltwater Fishing
July 12th, 2008
Halibut fishing has been good and we have a lot of fish in the freezers right now. Our biggest Halibut
of the last few weeks was 180 pounds. That's a lot of meat to put in the freezer. That fish will yield
about 120 pounds of filleted meat. If you were to buy that at your local fish market it would cost you
$1,800 @ $15 per pound. WOW!! That doesn't even count all the other fish they caught that week.
The halibut are still spread out feeding on assorted things. We had a good batch of Coho Salmon
move through last week. That made for some good fishing. It is especially fun when you are
mooching for them. Using just herring and a weight you get to feel the strike and set the hook direct tot
the fish. It's a great way to target aggressive Salmon. The Pink Salmon are filling up the waters
around Prince of Wales Island and will soon be making their way into the streams. When we were
out fishing in the saltwater the other day you could see a few Pink Salmon jumping way out in the
middle of nowhere. Soon you will be able to see 100 Pink Salmon jumping in any one direction. It is
impressive to see that many fish all flopping around. The Coho Fishing will just get better from now
until September. As you read this they are feeding and growing. It will be a fun season. Soon we
will see a lot of fish flushing into the streams of the island.
As you can see from the picture below the fawns are getting big and summer is moving along. The
Salmon Berries are almost ripe and the Huckleberries and Blueberries won't be far behind. The
"alpine" areas up high still have a lot of snow covering the fresh growth so many of the deer are still
in lower elevations. Some of these areas won't melt off before the fall so the deer may be more
accessible this fall. You never know how things will turn out. The bears should be feeding well with
all the berries growing now. It's a good time of year to be a bear, or a fisherman.
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