2015-05-23 Salmon Trolling

I usually get my load of salmon in late August and into September when the Silvers come in strong.  This year I will be running the boat to Seattle in mid August so I won't get to do my Silver fishing, so I thought I'd do some King Salmon trolling early in the summer.  My friend Len and I went out for the long Memorial Day weekend and spent a good portion of it trolling 2 lines for Kings.

Memorial Day weekend is the start of the annual King Salmon Derby that runs here every summer.  I read in the paper on the following Tuesday that over 400 Kings were turned in over the 3 days, so someone was catching them, just not us.

We logged about 140 miles, and did not get even a single bump.  So this blog will be short, but not so sweet.

I did take a few pictures along the way so maybe I'll just post those and call it good for this trip.

This is the small USFS dock in Neets Bay, which is the bay just north of Naha Bay in Behm Canal.
We spent Saturday night here.
I had never been in here before but Len had.
This is the smallest USFS dock I have seen in our area.
It was empty when we pulled in but then that small metal boat came in and tied along the end.

Up in the very end of Neets Bay there is a salmon hatchery run by SSRAA (Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association.)  This is a facility that is manned year round.

 

This is the main dock for the facility at the head of the bay.

These are some of the pens in which they rear the salmon before they are released into the wild.

If you want more information about the hatchery go to http://ssraa.org/neets-bay/

We spent Sunday night in Moser Bay on a mooring buoy.  Had a great sunset and enjoyed a good dinner and a movie.

We trolled in the Clover Pass area on Monday morning but again, not even a bump.
I was starting to wonder if Len was actually putting bait on those lines.
Maybe I should have supervised that a little more closely.

The only additional excitement we had was when we were approached by the Coast Guard (lots of guys and gals with guns) on our way to the fuel dock.  It was a little breezy in the narrows so they didn't seem too motivated to actually come on board.  I had my boarding report from October which is good for a year.  They couldn't actually see it, but they accepted it anyway and let us pass by.

We logged about 140 miles on this trip, and not a fish to show for it.
But we still had a good time out on the water.