June 10th - Fishing Report

Well today the weather turned towards better fishing, but the King bite was still a little spotty with plenty of time put in for those that were caught, but the fish that were caught were nice ones...rained most of the day and a little cooler, but fairly calm so the fishing was nice. The rain was mostly a light mist, so not troublesome at all.

On with today's pictures!























Another fine day at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!
Capt Jim
(Professor)

June 9th - Yes Bay Lodge Fishing Report

Blue skies and sunshine today and the fishing got tougher...still plenty of kings around, but the bite was slower and you had to work for them. The bottom fishing was pretty good with some decent halibut hitting the dock and most were caught in short order.

On with today's pictures:





















Always a good day of fishing at Yes bay Lodge in SE Alaska!

Capt. Jim
Professor

June 8th - Season Begins with a Bang!!

First Guest day was a tremendous Fishing Day...Limits virtually all around of most species.... Rain in the morning, never hard rain and then it calmed down to flat calm and cloudy but very little rain from about 10:00 am on.
It was a great day with good fishing by our guests...mostly catching!

On with the Pics!

Slice and Two New guides on the Last training day





















A great day of Fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!!

Captain Jim
Professor

June 7th - Yes Bay Lodge Fishing Report

Last day of Crew Only fishing and it was a pretty good one. First Guests arrived this afternoon and so there will be guest fishing tomorrow. On with the pictures:

Professor, Batman and Kicker had a great day hooking up 5 nice salmon - 1 was released as a touch too small and I (The Professor) managed to loose 2 real nice Kings...I was very disappointed.



Slice and Snowman and new guides Blake McDonald (Woody) and Dan White got a real nice King and a nice halibut!



Slammer and new Guide Jim Green got a real nice King and a couple decent halibut!



All in all a great day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska.

Capt Jim
Professor

June 6th - First Guests Arrive Tomorrow!

Three boats fished today on a beautiful sunny and nice calm day...it was slow on the Kings, but all three boats managed to catch a nice keeper and all released a few short ones, so even though it was a little sunny and bright, we managed to put some nice fish on the dock.

On with the pictures...

Just to prove that Kicker actually knows how to fight a fish and hold the rod properly!



Slammer, Slice and new guide Jim Green with a nice King and two halibut.



Big John, Snapper Al and New Guide Woody (Blake McDonald) with a nice king a nice yelloweye and a couple rockfish



Professor and Kicker with new Guide Dan White with the King Kicker managed to reel in (Kicker Won't get in picture)



Capt Jim

(Professor)

OOP's missed a post - May 31st!

This evening trip was from a few days ago, Dewey complained that I forgot to post on the blog our first trip out with crew of the season. It was a short evening trip with two boats going out. Dewey took the new dock guys out and Snowman and I took the new guide - Blake McDonald (Woody) out for a short two hour evening fishing trip. We fished in Yes Bay and managed a nice assortment of Kings - a total of 5 Kings caught - two were just short and released, but we kept 3 real nice kings.

Here is the pic of the crew on our first fishing evening the 31st of May.



Sorry Dewey you were left out...

Captain Jim

(Professor)

June 6th - Crew Fishing!

Three boats hit the water today and the fishing was good. Weather was decent with calm winds and a little light rain. Even Kicker said it was a nice day! Kicker's boat landed a nice fat King.
 



Big John, Snapper Al and Batman fished the Whaler today and had a grand day! Two nice Kings - one about 30 pounds and 2 big Yelloweye Snapper and a small halibut.



Slammer, Slice and Woody managed a real nice big King - about a 32 pounder and a nice 18 pounder




A fine day of fishing at Yes bay Lodge in SE Alaska.

Capt Jim (Professor)

Bust Out the Work Day Today!

Beautiful weather day today at Yes Bay and it was welcome, today was bust out all the work on the dock day....fix engines, downriggers, set up boat, clean up the boat shed, make any electrical repairs to boats, make sure every boat was ready to fish with guests....safety gear, radios, windshield wipers....kickers, and scrub and clean everything.

Only one boat fished late this afternoon. Another boat drove in to town to bring out the last guide boat...everything is here, including over a thousand pounds of nice fresh bait! We are ready, tomorrow will be another train the guides fishing day.

But Slammer and Slice went out to check out Slammers boat and make sure it was ready to fish...

They did good! Two nice Kings and a small halibut in just a few hours of fishing!



Look at that beautiful weather!

A very fine day today at Yes bay Lodge in SE Alaska....a bunch accomplished today!

Capt Jim Professor

Day 2 guide Training and River Fishing

4 boats fished today...and the fishing was great, not only in the salt water but also there was a girl trip up the river and you will see they had a great day as well. The bar has been set high.

We always like to give first billing to someone's "first fish" Saylor has been fishing up here since she could walk, but today was her first all by herself trout!! And was she happy!!
Saylor and her first trout!! By the way Saylor is 5!



Then Heidi managed a beautiful steelhead!! By the way - this was on fly!



Michaela got in the action to help Heidi with her steelhead!



Now on to the Guides....

Kickers boat managed three nice Kings - but Kicker refused to get in the picture...



Later in the afternoon Kicker and crew managed some nice halibut and rockfish! Again Kicker refused to be in the picture (we don't care because he is ugly!)



Snapper Al and Big John and Crew with a nice assortment of halibut and bottom fish!
 


All in all it was a good day with some tasty fish hitting the freezer!!

A fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska

Captain Jim (Professor)

Crew Training for 2012 Season Begins

Boat Crew Training started in earnest today with 3 boats fishing and all the new guides got a little experience and orientation....a total of 5 kings, 4 halibut and an assortment of nice rockfish. It was a very nice productive day of learning and catching....

This is going to be a great season folks....

Here are the pictures:
















 



A fine day of fishing at Yes Bay Lodge in SE Alaska!



Captain Jim
(Professor)