And there were some real nice halibut brought in as well....
Here are the pictures from today's catch!!
We are all looking forward to another fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska tomorrow....
Capt Jim
Friday, June 18, 2010
June 18th - Great Day at Yes Bay!!
The weather was perfect, nice overcast day with no wind, calm seas and no rain. Most boats managed some Kings and they were spread out over our entire area, so the Kings are coming!!
And there were some real nice halibut brought in as well....
Here are the pictures from today's catch!!
We are all looking forward to another fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska tomorrow....
Capt Jim
And there were some real nice halibut brought in as well....
Here are the pictures from today's catch!!
We are all looking forward to another fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska tomorrow....
Capt Jim
Thursday, June 17, 2010
June 17th - More fish on the way!!
The King salmon catch was spread out a little more today which tells us there are more fish moving this way, which is good news. The bite was pretty short today with the majority of the bite centered around lunch time, the King bite was a little slower this afternoon.
Another Great Day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Another Great Day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
June 16th - A Fabulous Fishing Day at Yes Bay!!
It was a fantastic day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge today with all boats having a fantastic catching day!! A bunch of halibut hit the dock today as well as several nice King salmon!!
Crew Boat's Catch
The Biggest Halibut of the Day!! 141 Pounds!
Another nice Butt!!
Slammer and Guest with a nice King Salmon!!
And a nice Halibut as well!!
Another nice Halibut!!
Two more nice "Butts"!!
Two Halibut - 2 Kings - Looks like a limit to me!!
Nice King Salmon and a rock fish!!
Good weather, very little rain or wind and GREAT Fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
"Professor"
Crew Boat's Catch
The Biggest Halibut of the Day!! 141 Pounds!
Another nice Butt!!
Slammer and Guest with a nice King Salmon!!
And a nice Halibut as well!!
Another nice Halibut!!
Two more nice "Butts"!!
Two Halibut - 2 Kings - Looks like a limit to me!!
Nice King Salmon and a rock fish!!
Good weather, very little rain or wind and GREAT Fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
"Professor"
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
June 15th - Much better Day - Kings arrived!
It started out slow this morning with several boats bottom fishing and landing a few halibut, then about noon or so several boats started to get into some Kings, it was fast and furious for a while with several double hookups on the Kings!! Most boats had a great day of fishing...
Crew Fishing!!
And last but certainly not least the little one around the Lodge managed to catch a real nice bull frog!! It was her happy day!!
All in all it was a very good day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Crew Fishing!!
And last but certainly not least the little one around the Lodge managed to catch a real nice bull frog!! It was her happy day!!
All in all it was a very good day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Monday, June 14, 2010
June 14th - Much better weather day today!
More guests arrived today and again all guide crew was out fishing regardless. Still searching for Kings!!
Axman went on the hunt for halibut and managed two nice ones...
The Williams party with 2 nice halibut!
The rest of the guides fishing with guests only fished in the afternoon after the guests arrived and had some lunch they were ready to head out and fish!
One group mainly went bottom fishing and managed a small halibut and some nice rock fish!
My guys wanted some Kings so we trolled most of the afternoon, then hit one of my favorite rock fish holes so we could come in with a fish. We managed a real nice yellow eye snapper.
The other guest boat spent the time going for Kings and released 2 undersized shakers!
Another great day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!
Capt Jim
Axman went on the hunt for halibut and managed two nice ones...
The Williams party with 2 nice halibut!
The rest of the guides fishing with guests only fished in the afternoon after the guests arrived and had some lunch they were ready to head out and fish!
One group mainly went bottom fishing and managed a small halibut and some nice rock fish!
My guys wanted some Kings so we trolled most of the afternoon, then hit one of my favorite rock fish holes so we could come in with a fish. We managed a real nice yellow eye snapper.
The other guest boat spent the time going for Kings and released 2 undersized shakers!
Another great day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!
Capt Jim
Sunday, June 13, 2010
June 13th - A cold, windy, rainy with hail fishing day!
It was a cold day today and the fishing was pretty slow for our first guests. Axman was up to the task though and spent a full day out there battling the elements!!
All the guides went out fishing today as well, new group of guests arrive tomorrow and pretty much everyone will be fishing from now through the middle of July!
Trolling for salmon today was pretty much the norm for everyone, with only a couple of undersized shakers released...and of course a couple rock fish which managed to track our baits down.
Most boats pounded the bottom during the tide change and only Axman's guests managed to pull one out of the deep. A real nice 27 pounder.
The Williams party with their halibut!!
Some good news late in the day - Black Fly decided to go out and see if there were any Kings around and he had one on! (The same old story about the one that got away!!) And he assured us that he also had a couple other knockdowns! But nothing hanging on the bragging board, but hopefully this rain will bring the fish in and start them moving towards the rivers....
It was a cold, windy, rainy and beautiful day at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
All the guides went out fishing today as well, new group of guests arrive tomorrow and pretty much everyone will be fishing from now through the middle of July!
Trolling for salmon today was pretty much the norm for everyone, with only a couple of undersized shakers released...and of course a couple rock fish which managed to track our baits down.
Most boats pounded the bottom during the tide change and only Axman's guests managed to pull one out of the deep. A real nice 27 pounder.
The Williams party with their halibut!!
Some good news late in the day - Black Fly decided to go out and see if there were any Kings around and he had one on! (The same old story about the one that got away!!) And he assured us that he also had a couple other knockdowns! But nothing hanging on the bragging board, but hopefully this rain will bring the fish in and start them moving towards the rivers....
It was a cold, windy, rainy and beautiful day at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Friday, June 11, 2010
June 11th - Training Day
WOW - What an exciting day today was, especially for the new crew! The weather turned today, cold windy and rainy most of the day. Hunting for King Salmon was still the order of the day with 3 boats out fishing! All Day!
Kicker with new crew; Capt Guy Hickman and Capt Al Bermitz lead the way in with the only fish worthy of some pictures. Guy Hickman at the end of the day stopped at the mouth and landed an early season record halibut of 106 pounds, with Capt Al and old Kicker cheering him on!!
Guy and his 106.7 pound halibut!!
Another one of Guy and his 106 pound halibut!!
Capt Al Bermitz with a nice yellow eye!
Capt Al with one of his "bigger" rock fish!!
The rest of the boats brought in some very nice rock fish and some stories of cold, windy and rainy fishing weather.
Guy also managed to get some real nice pictures of the killer whales, Old Crooked fin and his pod of killers made their appearance again and Guy was lucky enough to actually get one of a killer breaching, so a good time was had by all!!
Crooked Fin!
Killer Whale Breaching!
Killer Right by the boat!!
So in Yes Bay tradition, Guy got to hit the water after all the cleaning was done. Over a hundred pounds and you go for a swim!!
Guy Making the leap!!
The cold swim back!!
All in all a fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Kicker with new crew; Capt Guy Hickman and Capt Al Bermitz lead the way in with the only fish worthy of some pictures. Guy Hickman at the end of the day stopped at the mouth and landed an early season record halibut of 106 pounds, with Capt Al and old Kicker cheering him on!!
Guy and his 106.7 pound halibut!!
Another one of Guy and his 106 pound halibut!!
Capt Al Bermitz with a nice yellow eye!
Capt Al with one of his "bigger" rock fish!!
The rest of the boats brought in some very nice rock fish and some stories of cold, windy and rainy fishing weather.
Guy also managed to get some real nice pictures of the killer whales, Old Crooked fin and his pod of killers made their appearance again and Guy was lucky enough to actually get one of a killer breaching, so a good time was had by all!!
Crooked Fin!
Killer Whale Breaching!
Killer Right by the boat!!
So in Yes Bay tradition, Guy got to hit the water after all the cleaning was done. Over a hundred pounds and you go for a swim!!
Guy Making the leap!!
The cold swim back!!
All in all a fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Thursday, June 10, 2010
June 9th - Training Day 4
4 boats left today in search of some King Salmon. Today was the first day the new guides took their own boats out with some seasoned guides as guests and trainers. The goal was to try and locate some incoming Kings salmon and try for a halibut or two and some rock fish at the tide turn.
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
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
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
June 8th - Training Day 3
Three boats fished today in search of Kings and Axman landed another one - a nice 20 pounder which happened to be a white King, beautiful fish! Plus a real nice yelloweye snapper and a decent rockfish...good day of fishing guys!!
L-R - Capt John Mills - Axman, Capt Al Bermitz and Capt Guy Hickman
The other two boats managed a few rockfish but struck out on the Kings and Halibut, although several layed claim to the ones that got away, halibut at least!!
My day was spent running one bailed out crew member to town and spent the day in town working on computers in the office and returning with our last crew member. Except the one we now have to replace for the office.
Calm seas and overcast all day but warm and pretty decent overall, temperature around 61 degrees....
Another fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in beautiful SE Alaska!
Capt Jim
L-R - Capt John Mills - Axman, Capt Al Bermitz and Capt Guy Hickman
The other two boats managed a few rockfish but struck out on the Kings and Halibut, although several layed claim to the ones that got away, halibut at least!!
My day was spent running one bailed out crew member to town and spent the day in town working on computers in the office and returning with our last crew member. Except the one we now have to replace for the office.
Calm seas and overcast all day but warm and pretty decent overall, temperature around 61 degrees....
Another fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in beautiful SE Alaska!
Capt Jim
Monday, June 7, 2010
June 7th - Training Day 2
Most of the rest of the crew arrived today, including Slice and Slammer, they spent the afternoon getting their bags unpacked and gear stowed away! While most everyone else went out fishing...
Batman took Phil Chieco and Al Bermitz and Axman and Kicker took out Guy Hickman. Both boats went for the full day with packed lunches determined to find some Kings and take some time to fish for some halibut.
Axman's boat strikes again!!
Captain Guy Hickman the boats catch for the day!!
1 real nice 20 pound King reeled in by Kicker and a nice small halibut and a couple rock fish, they had a fairly slow day but were somewhat productive!
Batman's boat worked Bell Island area and trolled and trolled and trolled and also pounded the bottom, with only one knockdown.
Beautiful weather day with blue skies and sunshine and pretty warm - 65 degrees. Downright hot in the sun!! Little bumpy with some afternoon wind on the way in, but all in all a beautiful day in SE Alaska!
Better luck tomorrow...
Still a good day fishing at Yes bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Batman took Phil Chieco and Al Bermitz and Axman and Kicker took out Guy Hickman. Both boats went for the full day with packed lunches determined to find some Kings and take some time to fish for some halibut.
Axman's boat strikes again!!
Captain Guy Hickman the boats catch for the day!!
1 real nice 20 pound King reeled in by Kicker and a nice small halibut and a couple rock fish, they had a fairly slow day but were somewhat productive!
Batman's boat worked Bell Island area and trolled and trolled and trolled and also pounded the bottom, with only one knockdown.
Beautiful weather day with blue skies and sunshine and pretty warm - 65 degrees. Downright hot in the sun!! Little bumpy with some afternoon wind on the way in, but all in all a beautiful day in SE Alaska!
Better luck tomorrow...
Still a good day fishing at Yes bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
Sunday, June 6, 2010
June 6th - Crew Guide Training Day 1
A host of new guides for Yes Bay arrived yesterday and today was their first day out fishing with the seasoned guides!
Ans what a perfect day for it...fog in the morning and clear blue skies behind it, bright very calm and warm sunny day, not our normal style of weather, but a great day to be out on the water and fishing.
Batman and Kicker took one boat with one of the new guides, Capt Guy Hickman. They managed to get a small chicken halibut, a real nice yelloweye snapper and a nice sea bass. Oh and Kicker managed to haul in a very big skate off the main! I only wish I would have been on the boat to laugh as he realized all his effort was for naught!
I took out a couple new guides and we trolled for King Salmon for and hour or so, then did a little bottom fishing on my secret yelloweye hole and brought up two decent yelloweyes. Then we picked up to join Kicker and Batman on the main for some halibut. We pulled up and within 5 minutes of arriving we had a double on. One small chicken and a very decent 33 pounder! All in all a very good morning.
L-R - Capt Jim Lucas - Capt Al Bermitz - Capt Phil Cheico
After lunch we headed back out for some serious trolling time to land a King. Another guide had arrived, Capt Greg Walters so Kicker stayed in to get his boat set up and Batman took two and I took two...trolled for a steady four hours with only one small sea bass to show for it. We did manage to catch a couple shakers in the morning but nothing going in the afternoon. We stopped on the way in and caught a nice keeper rock fish and had to put back a small Ling Cod!
All in all a great day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge and a super group of new guides.
Capt Jim
Ans what a perfect day for it...fog in the morning and clear blue skies behind it, bright very calm and warm sunny day, not our normal style of weather, but a great day to be out on the water and fishing.
Batman and Kicker took one boat with one of the new guides, Capt Guy Hickman. They managed to get a small chicken halibut, a real nice yelloweye snapper and a nice sea bass. Oh and Kicker managed to haul in a very big skate off the main! I only wish I would have been on the boat to laugh as he realized all his effort was for naught!
I took out a couple new guides and we trolled for King Salmon for and hour or so, then did a little bottom fishing on my secret yelloweye hole and brought up two decent yelloweyes. Then we picked up to join Kicker and Batman on the main for some halibut. We pulled up and within 5 minutes of arriving we had a double on. One small chicken and a very decent 33 pounder! All in all a very good morning.
L-R - Capt Jim Lucas - Capt Al Bermitz - Capt Phil Cheico
After lunch we headed back out for some serious trolling time to land a King. Another guide had arrived, Capt Greg Walters so Kicker stayed in to get his boat set up and Batman took two and I took two...trolled for a steady four hours with only one small sea bass to show for it. We did manage to catch a couple shakers in the morning but nothing going in the afternoon. We stopped on the way in and caught a nice keeper rock fish and had to put back a small Ling Cod!
All in all a great day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge and a super group of new guides.
Capt Jim
Friday, June 4, 2010
Pirate Flies Again!!
Exciting day around the Lodge today as our new plane arrived up yesterday from Seattle and was out to the Lodge this morning on it's way to Juneau for certification. Passed with flying colors, so we are all set for the season. Nice almost like new Beaver, beautiful interior and nice paint job. Just have to do a little work on the tail with the famous Pirate Logo and it is ready for guests!!
Join us at Yes Bay for a wonderful fishing vacation or book a tour on the new airplane with Pirate Airworks - Ketchikan, Alaska!
Capt Jim
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
First Guest - First Fish
We had some visiting people around the Lodge today they were on a yacht anchored in the back bay and Axman took them fishing. Managed a nice 24 pound king and three beautiful rockfish. The season starts at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska.
Make plans to join us!!
Capt Jim
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