Sekie 9/4 non yak slaying the pink

Yesterday and the day before I paddled my ass off for a little taste of what this place has to offer and Shawn and Ron invite me to do the "PB" thing today...got up early again like everyday out here "just can't sleep" and we head out on the Fishin Fool and people are picking up fish...lots of fish...some silvers, some kings to day but not on out boat got 16 hits 11 fish to the net and 10 were pinks with one silver.......meat hunt...got some fish to smoke up for the BARN for the bros...I took pics of everything even the sea lice!!!

reports on the radio say 100 FOW drop down and doubles on and off...for these guys it was a slow day...and their so used to catching fish that at one point I said "man u don't even get excited anymore" their comment was "when it's a big Silver or King...HELL YES"

So after 3 days of fishing the area I think tomorrow my chances from my yak will improve...few corrections and going to hit a different area tomorrow... the "caves" it's where the big kings hang...going to go deep...supposed to socked in with fog and cloudy with calm winds N NW in afternoon.....the hunt continues for the big one....

Shawn and Chrissy and Ron and Judy have been incredibly gracious and generous with intell, mothershiping me, putting me on fish, FEEDING ME!!!   many thanks to them I've promised them Abs from Norhtern Cali next yr...I will feast them...   There's a lot of great people out there and I run into them everywhere I go...  life's a ride...u need to go out and "Get Some"

Hopefully tomorrows post will be Sekiu Sleigh Ride!!!  HELL YES!!!

Sledge, you are the man!!  I really appreciate the time you're putting in to write these reports while you are up there having fun  Tbh, I woulda been too busy fishing to write reports; it woulda been done after I got back from my trip lol.

I'm so stoked that you are having a great time, doing some awesome fishing as well as meeting some great people out there. Thanks again for the reports, can't wait to fish with ya and tell me some of the entertaining stories from up north. Hope you;re having a great Labor Day weekend!

Man Sledge, you're bringing back some memories for me.  Thanks for that!  When I was a kid, my Dad would take us to Sekiu every Labor Day weekend.  Good to see some fish from there!

The Caves ... it's the tail end of the chinook season, but there are usually a few stragglers coming through.  Get out for the gray light bite.  Start in tight to the kelp and work your way deeper as the sun comes up.

-Allen

Thanks for the report, good to see you take a day off from the paddling, I'm still looking at you as the iron man for the stuff you do in the pelican......

Good Luck on the quest for the King!!!

Sledge, you are the man!!  I really appreciate the time you're putting in to write these reports while you are up there having fun  Tbh, I woulda been too busy fishing to write reports; it woulda been done after I got back from my trip lol.

I'm so stoked that you are having a great time, doing some awesome fishing as well as meeting some great people out there. Thanks again for the reports, can't wait to fish with ya and tell me some of the entertaining stories from up north. Hope you;re having a great Labor Day weekend!

Thanks bro...There's months at a time were you guys don't here from me...free wifi @ Sekiu campground/harbor.........so when I get a chance with connect I bring what I can.....

Man Sledge, you're bringing back some memories for me.  Thanks for that!  When I was a kid, my Dad would take us to Sekiu every Labor Day weekend.  Good to see some fish from there!

The Caves ... it's the tail end of the chinook season, but there are usually a few stragglers coming through.  Get out for the gray light bite.  Start in tight to the kelp and work your way deeper as the sun comes up.

-Allen

I was talking to an older gentelman in his 80's I'm gussing this morning he used to fish this as a kid...was telling a story of hand line fishing a king off a little 12' boat and landing a freaking monster King...said it pulled him all over and it was @ the "CAVES"  I'm pumped to have the chance to possibly hook a pig...have been hitting the water as the sun is just a warm glow on the horizon...moterhshipped two days off of slip point 5.5 miles out "little mousse/big mousse" if u know where I"m talking...winds from the east...but today for the caves it was howling from the N NW and unfishable...nofish...lots of wind...but tomorrow is my last shot............ for some  going to get some love tomorrow...and Congrats again on your Alby trip...that was F#ckin AWESOME!!! 

Thanks for the report, good to see you take a day off from the paddling, I'm still looking at you as the iron man for the stuff you do in the pelican......

Good Luck on the quest for the King!!!

Man I feel like Iron man after the paddles I've been putting in lately...and the guts been desending...might even post up a muscle shot!!!   Thanks Dale pelican is to be retired @ the redbarn come Oct 1 she's been really good to me...can u say Revo/Evolve/Fullsail/outriggers will be able to keep up with the homies...maybe even do laps... cant wait for the Barn...been a lot of lonely paddles up here in WA, but when your fishing here it's sort of Zin........ and my heart keeps pumping thinking any moment there's a Big Chinook ready to take me for a "Sleigh Ride"    Get Some!!!

Man Sledge, you're bringing back some memories for me.  Thanks for that!  When I was a kid, my Dad would take us to Sekiu every Labor Day weekend.  Good to see some fish from there!

The Caves ... it's the tail end of the chinook season, but there are usually a few stragglers coming through.  Get out for the gray light bite.  Start in tight to the kelp and work your way deeper as the sun comes up.

-Allen

I was talking to an older gentelman in his 80's I'm gussing this morning he used to fish this as a kid...was telling a story of hand line fishing a king off a little 12' boat and landing a freaking monster King...said it pulled him all over and it was @ the "CAVES"  I'm pumped to have the chance to possibly hook a pig...have been hitting the water as the sun is just a warm glow on the horizon...moterhshipped two days off of slip point 5.5 miles out "little mousse/big mousse" if u know where I"m talking...winds from the east...but today for the caves it was howling from the N NW and unfishable...nofish...lots of wind...but tomorrow is my last shot............ for some  going to get some love tomorrow...and Congrats again on your Alby trip...that was F#ckin AWESOME!!!

I know Slip Point.  We always started out silver hunting there, from the point to 2-3 miles offshore "in the shipping lanes".  I remember times you couldn't get your downrigger down before a silver was on.  Lights out fishing.  Resorted to just hopping bucktails at the edge of the wake.  Reminds me of blue water trolling.

Sekiu used to be a busy town in the summer.   There used to be a lot of rental skiffs.  The docks were lined with them.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were over 100 available, not just in the main Sekiu town, but also in the other breakwater just down the road (closed last time I drove through).  Sekiu is almost a ghost town these days.  We used to rent a skiff and bring our own motor when it was time to go offshore for silvers.  Sometimes we'd fish a  12' cartopper if we were just going to the Caves.  There was this one time, I must have been younger than 10.  We rented a skiff and me, my Dad, and my Uncle went fishing off the caves.  We caught a large "flounder".  Well that's what it was to us.  It turns out it was a 12# halibut.  But to me, it was the largest fricken flounder I'd ever seen.  That thing beat the hell out of the skiff too.

-Allen

Man Sledge, you're bringing back some memories for me.  Thanks for that!  When I was a kid, my Dad would take us to Sekiu every Labor Day weekend.  Good to see some fish from there!

The Caves ... it's the tail end of the chinook season, but there are usually a few stragglers coming through.  Get out for the gray light bite.  Start in tight to the kelp and work your way deeper as the sun comes up.

-Allen

I was talking to an older gentelman in his 80's I'm gussing this morning he used to fish this as a kid...was telling a story of hand line fishing a king off a little 12' boat and landing a freaking monster King...said it pulled him all over and it was @ the "CAVES"  I'm pumped to have the chance to possibly hook a pig...have been hitting the water as the sun is just a warm glow on the horizon...moterhshipped two days off of slip point 5.5 miles out "little mousse/big mousse" if u know where I"m talking...winds from the east...but today for the caves it was howling from the N NW and unfishable...nofish...lots of wind...but tomorrow is my last shot............ for some  going to get some love tomorrow...and Congrats again on your Alby trip...that was F#ckin AWESOME!!!

I know Slip Point.  We always started out silver hunting there, from the point to 2-3 miles offshore "in the shipping lanes".  I remember times you couldn't get your downrigger down before a silver was on.  Lights out fishing.  Resorted to just hopping bucktails at the edge of the wake.  Reminds me of blue water trolling.

Sekiu used to be a busy town in the summer.   There used to be a lot of rental skiffs.  The docks were lined with them.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were over 100 available, not just in the main Sekiu town, but also in the other breakwater just down the road (closed last time I drove through).  Sekiu is almost a ghost town these days.  We used to rent a skiff and bring our own motor when it was time to go offshore for silvers.  Sometimes we'd fish a  12' cartopper if we were just going to the Caves.  There was this one time, I must have been younger than 10.  We rented a skiff and me, my Dad, and my Uncle went fishing off the caves.  We caught a large "flounder".  Well that's what it was to us.  It turns out it was a 12# halibut.  But to me, it was the largest fricken flounder I'd ever seen.  That thing beat the hell out of the skiff too.

-Allen

There might be about 20 skiffs tied to this dock...130.00 a day guy was trying to get me to rent one...I'd rather paddle... was cleaning the pinks from the other day last nite and a group that are renting a skiff today were asking me all kinds of questions...I got um pumped up!!!  one of the pics I posted is the state record caught on a rental few yrs  back 25# silver...Fatty huge got up at 4;30  took a long ass shower and I'm getting ready to head out there now.....my hearts pumping...theres NO WIND Game On Baby!!! Todays the day I can FEEL IT!!!