Barview Jetty Wednesday

Open invite. It’s going to be a nice day tomorrow so I am taking a PB friend out to Barview Jetty.  There may be at least 2 kayakers joining.  Low tide is 9:39am.

Look forward to the report! if I wasn't drinking some coffee getting ready to go to work in an hour or so I'd be there

Weather wasnt sunny like forecasted, stayed socked-in all day. pretty light winds. There was quite a few PB out there today. Coast guard was doing some training exercises, throwing out a big wake for a couple of hours, and they had a huge loud helo doing exercises with them. Made it a little tough to bait fish in a paddle yak. Fishing wasnt super hot, but was decent for striped perch. Rf was really slow, and greenling a little slow. But we all caught some fish. Reed got a couple keeper crabs in his yak, and Rudys group got 9 in their PB.  I came home with a limit of perch, a few real toads. And 1 shy of a bottom fish limit. So, 20 fish to fillet in the morning. And 20 fish tacos to eat tomorrow night! Sorry no pics. My hands were to cold and wet to try using my phone. 

Haha no worries! Sounds like a good time

I was targeting perch with live sand shrimp or pieces of raw shrimp.  Caught over 20, kept a few. Caught 5 greenling, including one large one, pictured on top of a cooler, and subsequently dropped in the water while putting a perch on my game clip My impression was that greenling liked the sand shrimp we were presenting as that is the most greenling I ever caught.  Bottom of my crappie jig had a jig with 3 inch Berkeley Gulp minnow.  This caught 4 coppers and one black. It was on small side but kept it. The last picture is what 2 of us took home.

Live sand shrimp vs shrimp pieces: sand crab seemed to catch more faster, shrimp stayed on a little longer and cheaper. Just the one days comparison so not ready to draw conclusions.

WOW,   those perch are beauties.  Good job!