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

Thanks, Terry, for helping me get a "Day 7 Update" for this marathon bite post!

See you tomorrow.   

Not only is there a sustained awesome bite, but it coincided with an incredible weather window. Magic man.

Todays bite was great in the morning, had a limit by 7:30! A nice 25" and a larger 34-35" king sealed the day, until my buddy Matt D got somethings huge on, ended up with an over 8' Thresher over 1 hour and 45 minutes later!! went 100lbs easy! Going back at it tomorrow.

You guys are killing me!!!!     Glad you're getting them.

Man this is too much!! I'm getting a serious itch.

Life is not fair. The ocean is like your backyard lol!! sigh..

Congrats on those catch!!!

Went out around 6:30 this morning. Lots of bait around but I only had an hour and a half to fish. Ended up with one fat coho about 8 or 10 lbs

It will be my first time at Trinidad...where do you guys park and launch here?

It will be my first time at Trinidad...where do you guys park and launch here?

There is a parking lot next to the launch, depends on how early you guys are going and of course the tide, you can park right on the beach.

Four wheel drive only on the beach launch.  If you wheel the yak down there you have to park all the way to the west by the ocean side beach due to the restaurant.  It's not far.

Bite was slower today with only one yak salmon that I heard of.

I took one of NCKA's finest ab diving.  Success was had.   

His bro tagged along and bagged that only yak salmon I heard of.  Hanging with the Saufferers is as good as it gets.  Thanks, Ron and Terry for the support and friendship.  You guys rule.   

What a great day for you guY's. Super.

I better give Ft Bragg another try.  Maybe they are biting here also.  Or not

Nothing significant to report as of last weekend.

May be trying again tomorrow or the next

I better give Ft Bragg another try.  Maybe they are biting here also.  Or not

Nothing significant to report as of last weekend.

May be trying again tomorrow or the next

The bite did pick up in Ft Bragg.  Hooked a few yesterday close to shore out of noyo.  I will be out of town a couple days so let me know how it goes. 

Thank you again Eric of "Loleta Eric's Guide Service" for taking my brother and I on another fantastic journey.  My brother are looking forward to our next salmon/rockfish adventure with you.

I'm a little behind and just found this thread. 

looks epic, especially with such a short paddle.

Stuart

The pattern lately has been all about an early bite.  After yesterday's paddle and dive marathon I was still pretty torched this morning, so getting there at 615 and launching 20 minutes later wasn't good enough.  I got outside the harbor and saw a salmon jump right off the bat, but the fleet was calling me from a mile to the Southeast.  I trolled my way there and was joined by Jason Self in his SIK, towing a Little Cleo on his handline.  He had a buddy with him on a SOT - Todd.  We could see Rob a couple hundred yards away just inside the fleet, and it looked like he had a fish on.  Just then I got a good bite, so I peeled off a couple handfuls of line and hoped it would return.  It didn't happen, but Rob soon announced one in the box, so hopes were high again for this early bite happening.  All the yaks (maybe 8 or 10) joined the powerboat fleet where there was lots of bait and some birds.  Some of the boats were jigging, some were mooching, and some were trolling.  No nets were flying around me, but you could hear fish being announced here and there.  A guy in a SIK caught one, and hopes were still high, but then a couple hours went by with nothing going on.  I veered away from the fleet trying to find my own baitball, and while I had a couple of stripped baits, I never did get a fish on today.  I joined up with Wizz for a while - he'd gotten there a little later and managed to bag one between the fleet and the CG buoy, and Jason Self had announced that he had one on at the CG buoy when he left for work, so, damnit, I should've stayed where I got that first bite!   

I bailed at noon with those three I mentioned being the only yak salmon I know of for the day, but Rob and Matt/Wizz were still out there trying for a limit fish.

My advice:  get there REALLY early and launch when there's enough light to see.

It's still one of the best bites we've seen this year, and the fact that it's only a mile or so from launch and fishing in 40 FOW makes it that much sweeter.

I plan to be back out Sunday.  Tomorrow is couch coma day.