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You know things are going to start tough when you ask your wife “do you have your license?” and she says “no” and is not joking. Next time I’ll remember to ask that question before we leave home, not when we are on the water.
So JoAnn got a pleasant boat ride today and I got handicapped into fishing just one rod.
We launched out of Shilshole and had (rod – single) fishing at 6:50am. HT was 6:37, LT 12:19, not ideal tides, but hey, you fish when you can.
The morning was deader than dead, none seen caught, but I did mark good fish and bait, as well as saw a lot of herring swirling today. We went from Meadow Pt to West Point, to the Mid-Channel Buoy and over to Four Mile Rock. Even saw the Coast Guard trolling two rods off their 50 ft patrol boat. Nothing, nada, zip. I ran my flashers/hoochies from 55 to 95 ft on the DR with herring strip. We did have to deal with a lot of shakers today, caught at least a half dozen.
At 11:50 we were back at Meadow Point to fish the LT slack and within ten minutes I hooked into a pig at 55 ft on the DR, trolling 3.2mph. Fish hit hard and looked to be a solid hook set. Came to the surface, thrash, jumped, threw the hook. Are you kidding me? We fished until 1pm and called it a day.
Back at the ramp the fish checker reported about a fish per boat. They must have had two rods.
Go Pro image is of the quality fish that hit at LT. Fish came and slammed the hoochie, didn't hook up, and came back and did it again. It was the only quality fish in all the footage I took. Tons of shakers though, little squirts.
BTW, the new Ugly Stick rods worked great, much better than the Shimano TDRs.
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