Batman and I went with Capt Guy Hickman. It started out nice a calm a little overcast but overall it promised to be a decent day fishing. We trolled all morning with only a couple small rock fish and 1 small flounder which all went back to grow up a little bit.
The we broke for lunch and decided to pound the bottom for some halibut and larger rock fish. We managed 3 nice yelloweyes right off then moved to some deeper water for a halibut. One messed with our baits for a few minutes and Batman thought he had it hooked once, but it got off. A few minutes later, Guy hollered Fish ON and the struggle began, we were in close to 400 feet of water at this point, we had drifted off the ledge. Guy managed to bring up a real nice 45 pound halibut.
Capt Guy with his first decent sized halibut!
While we were out fishing the dock guys set a line on the dock in front of the Lodge and lo and behold, there must be a million of them around because old Dewey and Johnson reeled in a real nice 33 pound halibut and lost another bigger one!
Dewey - "Cutter" with the 33 pounder!!
Professor and Crew with the days catch!
When we hit the dock we were the only boat with anything photo worthy besides the dock guys, the rest of the boats spent their whole time trolling for salmon and only managed a few rock fish at the end of the day!!
Another fine day of fishing in beautiful SE Alaska at Yes Bay Lodge
Capt Jim
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