I hope you are happy CederQ.
I didn’t get home until late and had to go to bed so I could get up at the butt crack of dawn to go back to work and now I have to do that so this is going to be brief.
Beautiful weather, beautiful brand new boat, great people.
We did hook into at least 5 fish Saturday. You have to use barbless hooks.
We got 3 of them to the boat.
2 spit the hook as we were trying to get the net, the other was a nice bright fish but we had to unhook it in the net and let it go because it was a native.
Yesterday started out fine but ten minutes after we left the dock disaster struck as we hit a half submerged log at forty knots and bent a brand new prop.
We were going to head across to the Washington side but didn’t even get two miles from the dock. We still had the 9.9 horse trolling motor so we dropped the lines in and went at it.
The wind kicked up and the incoming tide was ripping and the combination kept pushing us back up the river.
Long story short, one bite, ten minutes before we packed it in.
I had a great time anyway, saw tons of wildlife, including little dolphins, got to relax and just kick back for a couple of days. I also met up with Steve, a reader who is just an awesomely nice guy and that is going to be a separate post later when I get home from work.
I never go fishing to catch fish, I go to get away from it all, so it sounds like mission accomplished from here.
It wasn’t my intent or wish that you didn’t catch fish. I just remember my experience fishing the Columbia by Astoria and know on weekends it is almost impossible to catch, it is if the fish know people are out fishing and are not predisposed to to be out and bite…My feeling it is still a great time just being fishing, even if a bite never happens.
My guess is that is that will be about a $500 to $600 replacement prop.
It can be trued up.
Yeah… take it to a good prop shop. I had worse on my lip and never quit whistlin’.
A hit like that has probably damaged the shaft bushing as well.
Caught a limit of silvers in the ocean a few weeks ago.
Buoy 10 picks up late august/sept.
That being said, it’s better fishing this year than it has been for a long time.
Seeing that prop brings back a couple bad memories.