Trinidad - Late August Salmon Season Got Hot - Got All My Vids Up

Of course I have to sell my Yak's for next years preparations and new arrivals, oh this week is going to hurt!!!

Awesome catches guys! Missed the action up there this season, hopeful for the next!

After the bite got spottier over the past 10 days, there was still hope for today's season closer, as Notaseal hooked three and landed one silver yesterday.  Today started out looking very promising with 55 degree water (!), but bait concentration was lacking, and no one - powerboat or kayak - was catching any salmon according to the radio.  A few of us launched at daybreak and tried for the early bite, but there was nothing doing.  By just after 9AM I took a break to eat my bowl of cereal at my tailgate, and then I proceeded with another round past the CG buoy, down by Camel, up through the inner washrocks and kelp paddies and back up to the Thumb area where Matt had seen a salmon follow his bait and Cam had seen at least one jump out of the water.  I worked the area for a while, but not even many rockfish or lingcod were biting.  I was on my Hail Mary, last pass of the day by the seaward side of the Thumb when I got a nice tap-tap bite.  I fed it line, it kept tapping, I fed more, and then it was on!  I had a chinook at the last minute!  Spent a little time seeing if another one would bite, but 5.5 to 6 hours worth was enough.  Hit the beach, fileted my catch, enjoyed a beer and hit the road for home.  Another season in the books at T-dad, and 9 kings bagged on the hot bite in the harbor over the past 18 days.  Rockfish Wars next week - we'll see if there are many salmon bycatches...

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Way to get it done. Theres still the cove...

Way to go Eric! Very few can match your enthusiasm and hard work. You gotta lot of bull dog in you! I was that way when I was younger. Enjoy the great eating!

Steve

Congrats on the t-dad season closer salmon.  Thank you for all of your posts the past eighteen days. I will see you this weekend at Rockfish Wars.

Congrats all, sure wish the season had stayed open until after TRW...

Thanks for all the great reports, pictures, and videos Eric.

A few more vids coming...

 

One more still coming...

Awesome videos thanks for the great report. I was able to get out and land my first kayak salmon.

Thanks, Dan!  Glad to hear you got on it.   

Here's the last vid of mine from the awesomeness that was the Trinidad Late August Hot Bite in 2015.

Wow what an epic bite to wrap up the season with!

You've had a great year Eric!

-Eliot