08-02-2011, 05:30 PM
[quote TheCarDoctor]Two questions:
Did you take and use any of your RC killers?
How do you preserve the fish during the flight home?[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]No custom lures were harmed in the completion of this trip. But a lot of guys did use a wide variety of lures with great success. In fact, it was almost obscene. The salmon were so thick and so aggressive you couldn't NOT catch them. We would try to get our baits of lures down past 100 feet to fish for the larger chinooks, only to have the 20 pound cannonballs on the downriggers stopped by cohos intercepting us on the way down. And then when we finally limited on chinooks and decided to top off our coho limits we fished shallower...and caught some of our largest kings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TopH20 keeps a light spinning outfit at the lodge to play with cohos. He had a ball throwing a small spoon or Freshwater Basics tube jigs. Besides the frisky silvers he also did epic battle with a hefty king salmon...close to 30 pounds. They are tough even on stout salmon gear.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The rockfish were just as eager. Dropping the bait on a 10 ounce sinker to the bottom...in about a hundred feet of water...it was not uncommon to have a fish before you got to the bottom...and even some salmon out in the rockfish grounds. My prize story is catching a black rockfish on the tandem hook rig...with no bait...while the rod was in the holder and the sinker and hooks barely in the water while taking care of another fish I had just caught. I looked over and saw the rod tip pulling down and wondered if I had accidently hit the freespool. Nope. A silly fish had come all the way up in the water column to hit two bare nickle hooks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were joking that we probably could have caught fish on an old tennis shoe...at least with the right colored laces.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Edit: Forgot to answer the second part. The lodge freezes the fillets and packs them in insulated cardboard boxes. They will remain frozen even outside the freezer for quite a long time. But the boxes go into a special fisherman's freezer at the hotel in Vancouver for the night we stay there. Then they are all packed closely together in the charter bus luggage compartment and again in the Southwest plane from Seattle to Salt Lake. As might be expected, there is some thawing but if you get them right into a waiting freezer they are soon hard again. And they last for over two years, according to reports from some of the regulars.[/#0000ff]
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Did you take and use any of your RC killers?
How do you preserve the fish during the flight home?[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]No custom lures were harmed in the completion of this trip. But a lot of guys did use a wide variety of lures with great success. In fact, it was almost obscene. The salmon were so thick and so aggressive you couldn't NOT catch them. We would try to get our baits of lures down past 100 feet to fish for the larger chinooks, only to have the 20 pound cannonballs on the downriggers stopped by cohos intercepting us on the way down. And then when we finally limited on chinooks and decided to top off our coho limits we fished shallower...and caught some of our largest kings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TopH20 keeps a light spinning outfit at the lodge to play with cohos. He had a ball throwing a small spoon or Freshwater Basics tube jigs. Besides the frisky silvers he also did epic battle with a hefty king salmon...close to 30 pounds. They are tough even on stout salmon gear.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The rockfish were just as eager. Dropping the bait on a 10 ounce sinker to the bottom...in about a hundred feet of water...it was not uncommon to have a fish before you got to the bottom...and even some salmon out in the rockfish grounds. My prize story is catching a black rockfish on the tandem hook rig...with no bait...while the rod was in the holder and the sinker and hooks barely in the water while taking care of another fish I had just caught. I looked over and saw the rod tip pulling down and wondered if I had accidently hit the freespool. Nope. A silly fish had come all the way up in the water column to hit two bare nickle hooks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were joking that we probably could have caught fish on an old tennis shoe...at least with the right colored laces.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Edit: Forgot to answer the second part. The lodge freezes the fillets and packs them in insulated cardboard boxes. They will remain frozen even outside the freezer for quite a long time. But the boxes go into a special fisherman's freezer at the hotel in Vancouver for the night we stay there. Then they are all packed closely together in the charter bus luggage compartment and again in the Southwest plane from Seattle to Salt Lake. As might be expected, there is some thawing but if you get them right into a waiting freezer they are soon hard again. And they last for over two years, according to reports from some of the regulars.[/#0000ff]
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