# 51577: Subject: Pacific,

Submitted by Captain Smitty (ip 63.202.173.105)

• Fished on 5/1/2004

• Report received: 5/1/04

Water Temperature: .
Water Clarity: .
Seas: calm
Weather: slight overcast and flat calm
Fishing_for: Salmon
Boat: Riptide
captain: Capt. Smitty

Report:
Ahoy there one and all!

We went salmon fishing today with an exclusive charter of ten people on board the RIPTIDE. Man these people brought enough food and drinks to take care of half the harbor!!

Upon pulling out this morning I could tell it was going to be one of those special kinds of days. The sunrise was grand and the seas, well what seas?? Was flat calm for our trip west of the harbor. When we reached about 13 miles west of the buoys I started to see the bait. This is the same area where we had been fishing earlier in the week. Slowing the boat down, the deckhands had the rods rigged and ready for the drop in. Deckhand Chris got the first line in the water for a customer and he barely had time to put the safety lanyard on it before it was pumping with a fish. First the one - then three. As fast as Zack and Chris could get the lines in they were getting bites!

I love total pandemonium! Controlled pandemonium, that is with people going over under around and through. The action was steady and it was difficult to keep a line in the water. We had our limits by about 8:30 for the customers. So we pulled all but three rods for the crew and started to tack towards the harbor. We kind of got out of the fish. But, that was ok as I was just giving them some time to eat the ton of food on board. We picked up the lines around 9:30 and started to head in with just a little breeze starting to come up out of the west which was fine as we were heading east, making for a great, fun-filled ride back to the harbor with 11 & 1/2 limits of salmon up to 23 pounds.

All in all, this was defiantly one of those special kind of days where everyone went from anticipation to thrilling rod bending, reel screeming and then joking eating and swapping a good yarn or two on the way back to the dock.

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