Strippers...

[M. Paul Gery]

Ok, no strippers, but since everyone seems to misspell that word, and it gets everyone's attention... hehehe (I know, false advertising).

Had some SERIOUS whackage on the stripers lately. Small schoolies, but fun to catch. We started tying on different lures for the sole purpose of seeing what they'd hit. We hit 'em on: cordell spot (silver/black, silver/blue), rat-l-trap (silver/black, silver/blue, chartreuse with black head), broken back rebel, hair raiser (2 colors), rapala x-rap...

Then we found out why they were here. In the DFG's infinite wisdom, they plant salmon smolt (not to be confused with
migratory rainbow trout in the great lakes) in the middle of the day, and it happened to be low tide.

We had caught about 15 prior to the fish trucks showing up, and then the terns, pelicans, and seagulls teamed up with the stripers to herd the salmon into the shallows for annihilation.

We had single hookups, double hookups, and here's one where I was caught with camera in hand, so Justin had to perform the "Praying mantis" pose.

Here's my dad from the first day:

A couple schoolies from a double-up:

Final tally:

thursday: 2 boats, 30 & 35
friday: 3 boats, 27, 27, and 14 for my dad by himself (Justin & I had to run up to Tacoma to pick up a '40 Ford).

Tides are a bit strong this week, so we may try for halibut.

 

[Lee Harker]

When I see "strippers" in one of your posts..I'm afraid to open it fearing some hairy guy with leather chaps and Brando cap. Nice fish.

 

[Scott Gentry]

am i the only one who noticed the trucks dumping into the water? or am i missing sumthin that dont fly in washington real satrict about rivers what are they dumping?????

 

[TimJ]

I believe they are salmon stocking trucks. So paul is more or less fishing over an automatic feeder. Real sporting....*

Tim

*(Do not take this barb seriously even though paul might deserve it)

 

[M. Paul Gery]

While Tim is correct about the salmon being stocked, he is incorrect in the method of delivery.

It is most definitely *NOT* an automatic feeder. It's clearly obvious that the trucks are dumped MANUALLY.

Sporting or not, it's more fish than Tim has caught in a lifetime... hehehe

Caught a halibut on the troll yesterday at the same spot, now they're dumping into holding pens. The FOUR party boats and about a dozen sport boats didn't figured that one out for quite some time... My buddy is out there today and they had one bass and a short white sea bass (another rarity, especially for there).