Caines Head this weekend

Heading out to Caines Head from Lowell Pt on Sunday. Anyone willing to offer up some good advice? From a friend, I got the advice that salmon may be out there just out a ways, and to head a little Southeast from Caines Head and drop down low for halibut.

I don't have any kind of good intel to provide in exchange, but if I get anything, I promise to provide a good post-trip breakdown!

Jeff

If you're comfortable rounding Caines Head, the waters between South Beach and Callisto Head are good bets. I talked to two friends who were out that way just yesterday, and they report silvers now entering the bay in large numbers. Keep scanning the horizon -- orcas and humpbacks are enjoying the bounty out there too.

I've had good luck trolling blue or green label herring behind a 6oz diver, maintaining a trolling speed between 2 and 2.5 mph. When/if you tire of trolling, switch out to a buzz bomb and mooch.  I've had bad luck netting silvers this year. Hope you have better luck bringing 'em home.

If you can't get out beyond Caines Head, try off North Beach past the old Army dock, and also Derby Cove.

My habit is to blast strait out to Caines Head while my strength and stamina are greatest, and then fish my way back to Lowell Pt, letting hook-ups stoke my energy on the way in. Bigger tides this weekend, so when the wind is out of the south it will stack the waves on the ebb (winds out of the north makes for bigger waves on the flood tide).

Look forward to the report; enjoy!


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You are awesome! Thank you. Hopefully I'll have something to report!

Jeff

We plan to get off Lowell's pt as early as we can and get down to Caines head. I'm working on my wife to stay out there until after the tide begins to go out...low at 3-ish. I think we could fish for silvers throughout the morning/early afternoon, and then begin to head North as the tide starts pulling back out. I'd love to hook up on anything: silver, halibut, lingcod....anything bigger than a rogue rock bass.

How far off shore are you trolling during high-tide?

In coves along that western side of Resurrection Bay, I normally just set a course from head to head and then work my way toward the beach on successive long zig-zagging transects. Normally I don't start more than a quarter mile from the starting headland -- and that depends mostly if/when winds are out of the south on top of the swell from the Gulf.

That sounds all systematic but really I am most often just lost in my thoughts as I'm peddling along once I get started on a line.