Washington outdoors
This BLOG was created to relate my experiences Fishing and hunting in Washington state.
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Fort Casey day two
Fished the beach again today, not as good. Only hit two fish for five hours of fishing. The water got really rough last night and I think it caused allot of junk to float up to the surface, we couldn't keep our bait clean longer than three minutes. I landed one fish and lost the other. Grant landed the only one he hit but we both sew a really big one follow his bait to the shore. I'll give it another try next week.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Fort Casey
08/10/2004
I spent the day fishing again at Fort Casey on Whidbey island. We started at around 3:00 to catch the 3:59 tide change. On his third cast grant hooked a nice silver with a one ounce white Krockadile spoon. He lost it right away. Half an hour later I landed a 6lb. silver on a fresh herring under a float. I hooked two more in the next hour and a half and lost both due to broken leaders. Both where nice fish to. Grant switched to herring and immediately landed a beautifully 10lb silver. It had a hook nose already! On his very next cast Grant had a great take down that striped his herring off the hook. I looked over and asked if it felt like a good strike. I looked back at my float and I was getting hit. I set the hook into a good fish, I knew this was a different fish right away and I was right. It was a 7lb summer run steelhead! Great fight and it was a hatchery fish to. Grant landed one more smaller silver for his limit and the surf was getting worse so we called it a day. Not bad for early August!
I'm going back to see if I can do as good tomorrow.